Ricky Richards Represents

Kirk Truman is the founder and editor of Fitzrovia Journal, a beautiful, free, magazine that has built a loyal following for providing insightful journalism about the residents residing in some of Londons bustling regions. In this interview I talk to Kirk about his journey to starting the publication, as well as how he obtained his infectious confidence at such a young age.

Dave Buonaguidi has worked in the advertising industry for over thirty years, in which time he’s cofounded three agencies, St Lukes, Karmarama, and most recently his new venture UN LTD Inc. He’s also worked at several great agencies, been a creative director at Channel Four and continues to this day to be an artist. On top of this, Dave’s also been a powerful voice and has spoken openly about all aspects of the industry from creative excellence, diversity, education and most recently, copyright and originality.

Its Nice That Founder, Will Hudson, joins us to talk about the highly popular creative inspiration and showcase site he created. Born out of a university project, the site went from just 100 views in it’s first month back in 2007 and has since organically grown to a over a million visits per month. This growth has resulted in a number of creative offshoots including the editorial publication, printed pages as well as a creative agency. We welcome will to tell us more about this great journey over the last 10 years.

Join me and 10 prior guests at The Hoxton, Holborn on the 20th of November in London. Connect and be inspired as we talk all things create and technology.

Henry Stuart is the Co-founder and CEO of Visualise VR, a, cutting edge, multi award winning virtual reality production company that has worked with some of the biggest brands in the world. I've got him on to talk about his predictions for the development of VR and what we are to suspect in this technology space, as well fining out how people can start to enter the VR space.

Dom McKenzie is a editorial illustrator who's worked for the likes of The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, WIRED, The Observer, The Sunday Times, Boston Globe and TED among others.

Jacob Hawley started his stand up comedy career at the tender age of 21 and has gone on to perform hundreds of gigs all across the country. Finalist in the BBC New Comedy Awards of 2017, from a field of roughly 700 hopefuls to the final 6, which in the past has been the achievement of many well known British greats such as Peter Kay, Alan Carr and Lee Mack among others. Jacob has also won the King Gong award at The Comedy Store here in London and at just 25, has proven he’s well on his way to establishing himself as a regular face of comedy here in the city.

Edmund Fraser is a self reliant experimental photographer who has worked for the likes of Nowness, Adidas, iD, Dazed, Vice and Google among others. His work is constantly challenging the status quo and questioning the perception of perfectionism that is represented in our culture.

You may have noticed we haven't released any episodes for the last two weeks. And this announcement explains why.

My guest today is Andrew Diprose, the UK Creative director of Wired magazine, a globally distributed magazine that has a monthly distribution of roughly 50,000 issues and a readership of over quarter of a million people worldwide. Andrew has just won the designer of the year award at the Professional Publishers Association, or PPA for short so I wanted to talk to Andrew about his journey into the industry as well as his instrumental role in the shaping of Wired.

Melanie Mercier, CEO, of Loop and prior CEO of Nattr. In this episode we talk about what should be in your start up pitch deck as well as discussing all the insights Mell gained from her prior company.

Charlotte Austin is a behavioural psychologist and executive coach, working with organisations and individuals to design and deliver coaching and training to help clients create and work at their best. she is a practitioner for the Association of Business Psychologists. She's accredited by the International Coach Federation and The Coaching Academy. She's also a certified Cognitive Behavioural Therapist and as such, helps clients to deconstruct thoughts and behaviours and to build more successful ways of thinking and working. Charlotte has worked for a huge roster of clients including AKQA, Boots, BP, EDF, Channel 4, BBC, Innocent Drinks, Marks and Spencer, River Island, JP Morgan Chase & Co, HSBC, We Are Social and many more.

Roundtable discussion with Edward Turner, Digital Marketer @ Lingvist, a simple, addictive and fast way of learning languages.

Alan Kitching

Interview with Colophon Type Foundry

Russell was named in Campaign’s Top 10 Creative leaders for 2015. During his career he’s won more creative awards than you can shake a memory stick at including the coveted Black pencil at D&AD, six yellow pencils and seven Cannes Gold lions.

Rosie Arnold is a creative partner and Head of Art at AMV BBDO. Which for those that don’t know, is a highly respected advertising agency headquartered in London. Prior to that she was at BBH, where she was the 11th ever employee and remained there for 33 years at a time when BBH was considered by many to be the greatest independent ad agency in the world. BBH founder John Hegarty, has been quoted saying’ Rosie has been one of the stars of BBH’s rise to fame, a creative thinker of outstanding qualities.’ Outside of her day job Rosie also became only the second female to become a D&AD president in the organisations history, and is also a figurehead of equality in the workplace, as well as an educator and supporter of emerging creative talent.    

Beri Cheetham is the Executive Creative Director at The Gate World Wide. Previously at Leo Burnett, Beri is the creative mind behind an eclectic mix of creative work that has amassed more than 150 international awards. Beri talks about his rise in the creative industry as well as his philosophies and plans for turning round the reputation of The Gate London.

Tim Lindsay is the CEO of D&AD, the creative educational charity and prestigious advertising awards organisation. In this episode we talk about the state of Advertising and how it is likely to evolve with influences from technology and trends towards freelancing. We talk about the issues surrounding diversity and breaking into the industry among a host of other topics.

In this episode I discuss the five ways in which advertising influences our decisions. I use snippets from well known brands that we're all familiar with the hope that you to can implement these strategies and approaches in building your own brand.