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I love ideas. Some people are inspired and have more creative vision than others. They have the option of keeping them to themselves or sharing them. They are not always the most commercially minded. Some people have less integrity than others – and ‘appropriate’ the ideas that others dream up. Some people share. Others rip off. &nbs...

Whatever happened to taking responsibility for yourself and educating your children in the ways of the world? When did this go out of fashion? I must have missed it. Newspapers on trains are \'considerately\' left for the next commuter - rubbish. Lazy self important blame-dodgers who can\'t be bothered to throw their own rubbish away. We seem to have adopted a monkey see, monkey do mentality. Frie...

So student fees are going through the roof. So much for making further education available to the masses. Like it or not, the perception is that going to University or college is expensive. Result: lots of people will who don’t have the money or support will simply turn their backs on a career option. The powers that be might be telling everybody it’s better or cheaper or that there&rs...

It’s not always easy to congratulate a competitor, and other than the illustrator, I don’t know the names of any of those involved. But hat’s off to the Adnams fabulous advertising, lovely packaging….. great stuff. Oh and great beer! Almost the perfect client it would seem....

It’s oh so easy to be critical of clients. It’s not unknown for them to want something at a fee that is unrealistic, or for the timing to be mad. Or sadly, for them to be happy with a ‘that’ll do’ piece of work. But when a client starts to slog off the colours of my jacket, then I wonder if they have gone a tad too far. Fortunately when delivering this damning view on...

Do you chase the job that pays you the most, or the job you want to do? If I had the choice of a million dollar marketing contract with a manufacturer of nails, or the opportunity to create the brand identity for a football club in the Premiership or Championship – a job that I doubt would be even close in fees, I know which I’d go for. Nothing wrong with nails of course!...