Midwinter is a good time to think about regeneration - can we imagine regenerative brands?

The squircle - which provides that the square can be circled.

This month’s idea is medieval logos, using the ancient symbolism of runes.

Why lighting candles needs social imagination.

August is about seals and the ‘ritual transformation’ of branding, 9000 years ago and today.

Minnie Moll opening our Brandland conference - and the idea of the Global Majority.

Through the garden gate… and a really useful Italian word.

I had a chance last week to talk about ideas and why they fascinate me - here’s what I said.

This lovely piece of hand-made imagination - and the highest tech alternative now hitting the film industry,

Deep blue - and deep history.

My image of the month is by Thomas Heatherwick for Google. And my concept is key to organisational change: complex contagion.

Why this man, and the year 1922, matter so much to me.

A haunting image from the 1940s - and a word that’s waiting to be invented for the 2020s.

A picture of light itself - and a new kind of organisation called a DAO.

Fireworks for November. And the spectacular rise of quick commerce.

The endless sand and sea and sky at Brancaster Beach in Norfolk. If only the metaverse was this empty and quiet.

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.

Our London neighbourhood - and the idea of burnout that’s currently dominating Chinese youth culture.

My image is a beautiful washbasin made by Edmund de Waal, with a quality of otherness that’s the opposite of my idea, homophily.

Why do so many brands come from Norwich? And why is learning like branding?