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Advice, insight and first-hand accounts of creative career journeys, aimed at helping you find your way in the industry.

Parts of the Process
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Photographic duo Metz + Racine take us behind their shoot for Living magazine’s design special
Creative Lives
“Don’t let inexperience hold you back; go for opportunities that excite you” – Halo’s client partner Hannah Williams
Creative Lives
Developing skill sets: Meet Halo’s UX designer and senior developer at Halo, Tim Banks
Creative Lives
“Working with people is everything” – art director and senior designer at Halo, Andy German
Creative Lives
Halo’s visual director Hamish McWhirter on going from freelancer to full-timer and the unlikely benefits of partying
First Hand

12 months out of uni, Brighton graduate George Hatton talks misconceptions and moving to New York

Written by George Hatton
In the Studio With
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Rainbow rooms and radical rebrands: Meet Bristol-based brand agency, Halo
Creative Lives
Translator, detective or producer? Meet Lauren Doughty, producer to artist Ryan Gander
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Director Akinola Davies: “People don’t tell you it’s going to take a while – you won’t be great to begin with”
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We talk concepts, characters and comedy with freelance illustrator and cartoonist Leon Edler
Creative Lives
Photographic director Rebecca McClelland discusses jumping into the deep end
Parts of the Process
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How The Partners updated the London Symphony Orchestra’s branding using the conductor’s gestures
Creative Lives
ustwo senior product designer Joyce Li: “It’s okay to not know everything”
Creative Lives
Why being a team player trumps technical ability for ustwo’s product designer Dem Gerolemou
Creative Lives
Daniel Demmel, full-stack web developer at ustwo, uses technology to make people’s lives easier
Creative Lives
ustwo’s Cara Bermingham on what it means to be a delivery coach, teamwork and the importance of empathy
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Product designer at ustwo, Kota Kobayashi: “Stay humble. Stay hungry. Take risks. Be seen”
In the Studio With
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Digital design studio ustwo: “It doesn’t look like any other agency from the outside because it doesn’t from the inside either”
First Hand

Bath School of Art and Design graduate Charlie Newhouse on his first 12 months out of uni

Written by Charlie Newhouse
Creative Lives
“I get to colour in pictures for a living. That’s pretty good!” Meet Film and TV Colourist, Scott Ferguson
Creative Lives
From Gardeners’ World to going it alone: Freelance director and filmmaker Will Dohrn
Parts of the Process
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How filmmaker Elliott Arndt made the most of his network, and Facebook, to create his latest music video for City Slang
Creative Lives
Artist and sound designer Karl Sadler on how he went from graphic design to founding his own ‘sonic experience’ studio, Obelisk
Creative Lives
“Photography is a gateway to so many different people and subjects” – photographic art director and writer, Gem Fletcher