Idea for August 2022: bazaar economy
August is about seals and the ‘ritual transformation’ of branding, 9000 years ago and today.
Idea for July 2022: global majority
Minnie Moll opening our Brandland conference - and the idea of the Global Majority.
Idea for June 2022: dietrologia
Through the garden gate… and a really useful Italian word.
Against the grain
I had a chance last week to talk about ideas and why they fascinate me - here’s what I said.
Idea for May 2022: The Volume
This lovely piece of hand-made imagination - and the highest tech alternative now hitting the film industry,
Idea for March 2022: complex contagion
My image of the month is by Thomas Heatherwick for Google. And my concept is key to organisational change: complex contagion.
Idea for January 2022: metaversity
A haunting image from the 1940s - and a word that’s waiting to be invented for the 2020s.
Idea for December 2021: DAO
A picture of light itself - and a new kind of organisation called a DAO.
Idea for November 2021: quick commerce
Fireworks for November. And the spectacular rise of quick commerce.
Idea for October 2021: metaverse
The endless sand and sea and sky at Brancaster Beach in Norfolk. If only the metaverse was this empty and quiet.
Idea for September 2021: non-fungible token
It’s all digital art this month: a new way to sell digital work, and a piece of public art in London that’s made of binary numbers.
Idea for August 2021: neijuan
Our London neighbourhood - and the idea of burnout that’s currently dominating Chinese youth culture.
Idea for July 2021: homophily
My image is a beautiful washbasin made by Edmund de Waal, with a quality of otherness that’s the opposite of my idea, homophily.
Idea for June 2021: Bildung
Why do so many brands come from Norwich? And why is learning like branding?
‘It’s the most important decade for humanity’
My podcast with Barbara Martin Coppola, IKEA’s Chief Digital Officer.
Idea for May 2021: ubuntu
An image of spring, reminding us of the nature we’re part of - and the African idea that each of us owes our identity to a larger humanity.
Idea for April 2021: mana
My image is this mid-century British abstract - and my idea comes from the other side of the world…