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“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.” — George Lois

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Why Build A Missile When You Can Build A Rocket Ship?

Why your website will never be finished. Remember the time when people built websites once? Design, build, launch and then stand back with fingers in ears. Then, wait for a...
Tagged: Strategy
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Truth In Ideas: Why Finding What Makes Us Human Is More Important Than Ever

As creatives, the best ideas often come from our immediate surroundings. Tangible experiences with people, environment and things. Numerous moments of design, serendipity and chance that we call “life”. Surely...
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Don’t Obsess About The Destination

Look up, look around and you might just enrich your journey. We plan all the time. Particularly at work. Time is money and planning is perceived to drive every last...
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Pressure And Performance

As an agency we pride ourselves on being a nice place to work. In fact, I just finished a blog tooting about some of the ways in which I’m proud...
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The Trouble With Details

The old idiom, “the devil is in the details”, suggests something ungodly lurks within the finer points of any given thing. Its origins are considered to be from the phrase, “the good god is...
Tagged: Strategy
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Too Much Noise

Can you remember the book Too Much Noise by Ann McGovern? Peter thinks his house is too noisy so goes to a wise man… the wise man (spoiler alert) tells him...
Tagged: Social
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Quality Over Quantity – Work Less, Achieve More

At the end of this last year, we decided going into January 24 that we would trial a 4-day week. It’s based around the 100:80:100™ Method – developed by Charlotte...
Tagged: Culture Nurturing