Idea for December 2022: regenerative
Midwinter is a good time to think about regeneration - can we imagine regenerative brands?
Idea for November 2022: squircle
The squircle - which provides that the square can be circled.
Idea for October 2022: merchants’ marks
This month’s idea is medieval logos, using the ancient symbolism of runes.
Idea for September 2022: social imagination
Why lighting candles needs social imagination.
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?