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04.21.10(D&AD) Judgment DayThis year I had the great honour of being a Foreman and juror at the D&AD Student Awards 2010, which was held down in Olympia, London. For those of you who don't know, a D&AD award comes in the shape of a pencil. As a creative, a Yellow Pencil is one of the highest honours bestowed upon you by your peers. It's career defining, and can only be bettered by a Black Pencil… However, I only had a hand in awarding "Baby Pencils", a slightly vertically challenged version of the full professional award, but nonetheless, the honour of being asked to take ...
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01.18.10I’ll be at Speak The WebI'm honoured to have been invited to speak at an upcoming web "gig", by my two mates Rich Clarke and Dan Donald. Speak The Web aims to break down the barriers that prevent a lot of people getting to the bigger conferences. Travel, time off work, hotels and the bar bill can all be quite prohibitive, so the lads have started a grass roots collective of local talent and are hitting four venues in the North. Being a scouser, they asked me if I'd be interested in the Liverpool venue, and of course I said yes. The tickets are all very reasonably priced, ...
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07.10.09What’s in a name?Here's something I've been struggling with for months. What title do I have on my card and email sig? Hell yeah, that seems vain at first read, but let's look a little deeper. When Pete and I started JP74 in 2001, there was just the two of us. He did the heavy coding, and I did front end web work and graphic design. So we took the titles of Technical Director for him and Creative Director for me. In our formative years, these proved to be good titles, as creatives from agencies would take my title at face value and trust that ...
