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

Creative Lives
Photography producer Laura Galligan talks working with your heroes and growing ‘encyclopaedic’ knowledge
Creative Lives
We chat to Build co-founder and director Nicky Place about running her own business and balancing creativity with strategy
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Copywriter Nick Asbury on the ‘internal SatNav’ that guided him from telesales to writing
In the Studio With
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Leeds-based design studio Build on clients, collaboration and going your own way
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Studio manager Saphira Parry keeps everything running smoothly at London’s NB Studio
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Freelance storyboard artist Gabriel Schucan transforms the director’s ideas into shot-by-shot sketches
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We chat to photographer and artist Luke Evans about getting an agent, his kit and making ends meet
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Freelance film director Tomas Leach on developing ideas and assembling a like-minded team
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Director Abbie Stephens on how she transformed a graphic design degree into a career in film
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Creative Director Jaco Justice: “Clients don't think like you. Have confidence in communicating your ideas to them”
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Playful concepts define the work of Wieden+Kennedy creative and art director Freddy Taylor
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Build’s Marketing Manager, Elena Dransfield on showcasing skills and studio work
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Alex Delaney, creative at 18 Feet & Rising, dreams up new, unexpected ideas every day
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Shelley Wood, lead producer at Music, on budgets, deadlines and “making shit happen”
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Production designer Anna Rhodes on bringing a director’s vision to life
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Set designer Hattie Newman on tools, tricks and making it up as you go along
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Graphic designer Craig Jackson shares his experience of working with some of London’s top design studios
In the Studio With
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Manchester-based design agency Music on maintaining an interactive, hands-on approach
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Ellie Polston, Graphic Designer at Build, on creating dynamic design and meeting deadlines
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Oliver Wigglesworth, associate creative director at Music, on rising up the ranks
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Matt Keers, designer at Manchester studio Music, on his first full-time position
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Photographer Benjamin Swanson talks self-discipline, persistence and unglamorous processes
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Gareth Williams, Photographic First Assistant to Richard Foster: Not all photography shoots are “cool”
First Hand

Alex Ostrowski shares his notes for future founders

Written by Will Hudson