“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” Maya Angelou In…
The well off and wealthy may not take up much bandwidth as you dash out another digital banner on two-for-one sun cream but the plain…
If there is one defining philosophy of my approach to planning and strategic development it is the mantra that it is vital to be interesting…
Nothing, I repeat nothing connects a planner and therefore an agency to the people that its is trying to understand better than qualitative research. Instinct…
Colossus was the World’s first electronic digital computer. Built from Post Office spare parts, it was operational from February 1944 at Bletchley Park, the British…
In the 1990s Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse performed an appallingly misogynist sketch series called ‘women know your limits’ in which mock mid-century public information…
The first recorded use of the acronym OMG doesn’t appear in a text from an over enthusiastic adolescent but in a letter from a…
In 1964 the new headquarters of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) opened its doors, the fifth building the venerable organisation had inhabited since its…
When people ask me what I am looking for in a planner the list of important attributes has traditionally been exhaustive. So in an attempt…
The passage in Songlines in which Bruce Chatwin names the Moleskine. Image courtesy of Songlines. The biggest cliché in advertising is not lunching at the…
The original Forward thinking motherfucker. I gave a little talk at an APG (Account Planning Group) event recently. It’s a regular series of talks…
My style of presentation is rather frustrating. Not only is there a lot of dancing around, swearing and nonsense at the time. But the slides…
