# creative director — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 16 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover creative director. Page: Feed: --- ## ["Very strange" – Jimmy Turrell on AI versions of his work](https://undomag.substack.com/p/very-strange-jimmy-turrell-on-ai) _2026-08-19 · Rob Alderson · Undo_ The graphic artist, designer and director on IRL inspiration, using AI to run his studio, and the problem with Pinterest. ## [every lip balm and spf i bought in japan](https://emilyashpowell.substack.com/p/every-lip-balm-and-suncscreen-i-bought-in-japan) _2026-08-19 · Emily Ash Powell · Hurdling with Emily Ash Powell_ and yes, i bought the shishedo fino hair mask as well... ## [Strands of Genius: Nature Is For Everyone, The Three-Day Effect, Over Here We Are Nature Positive](https://geniussteals.substack.com/p/strands-of-genius-nature-is-for-everyone) _2026-08-18 · Strands of Genius_ Guest curated by Michael Shapiro, Co-Founder & Head of Marketing @ HikeStrong ## [Designing homes for life with Andrew Piva](https://omny.fm/shows/design-your-life-by-vince-frost/designing-homes-for-life-with-andrew-piva) _2026-08-17 · Design Your Life with Vince Frost_ What makes a home feel timeless? In this episode of Design Your Life, Vince Frost sits down with Andrew Piva, Director at B.E. Architecture, to discuss materiality, craftsmanship and the emotional impact of architecture. From growing up in rural New South Wales to shaping some of Australia's most refined contemporary homes, Andrew reflects on the experiences and philosophies that have defined his… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/15292102-61b6-4014-95d4-aafc009a8cb1/932e38a3-7826-4ca3-820a-aafc01759f48/29a8a501-ca0b-498c-817e-b4a900e1da52/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b1c2caf5-70a8-4340-9ca0-aafc01759f56) ## [The Modular Interior](https://ownthefuture.substack.com/p/the-modular-interior) _2026-08-13 · Basic.Space · Own The Future™_ From Harvey Probber to Pierre Paulin, the designers who pulled the sofa apart - and changed the way we live around it. ## [9 books for your summer holiday](https://emilyashpowell.substack.com/p/9-books-for-your-summer-holiday) _2026-08-13 · Emily Ash Powell · Hurdling with Emily Ash Powell_ stories to whip and zip through: preferably on a sunlounger, on a beach or in the company of a glass of €4 pale rosé. ## [Strands of Genius: On Plagiarism, The Cult of the Enhanced Self, Please Return To Your Seat](https://geniussteals.substack.com/p/strands-of-genius-on-plagiarism-the) _2026-08-11 · Strands of Genius_ Plus: Quirk Chungus ## [All in on AI](https://craigjamieson.com/all-in-on-ai/) _2026-08-08 · Craig · Craig Jamieson_ Like many people, I have been experimenting with AI and flip-flopping between loving and hating it. I often find myself blaming it, cursing it and fearing impending doom, waiting for the bubble to burst. While at the same time using it daily to share almost every thought or question on my mind, lazily getting it \[ \] ## [Concrete and Jacaranda](https://ownthefuture.substack.com/p/concrete-and-jacaranda) _2026-08-06 · Basic.Space · Own The Future™_ Brazil's greatest modernist experiment wasn't just a city. It was a way of making that still shapes its design today. ## [Designing optimum health with Mark Britt](https://omny.fm/shows/design-your-life-by-vince-frost/designing-optimum-health-with-mark-britt) _2026-08-04 · Design Your Life with Vince Frost_ Content note: this episode includes a candid discussion of childhood sexual abuse and suicidal ideation. Listener discretion is advised. What if the biggest health data set in human history still can't tell you how to feel better tomorrow? Mark Britt has spent his career inside moments of disruption, as an internet lawyer at 22, in the executive ranks of ninemsn and Microsoft, and building a… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/15292102-61b6-4014-95d4-aafc009a8cb1/932e38a3-7826-4ca3-820a-aafc01759f48/6fd708b7-238d-46fd-9766-b49c0114a2fa/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b1c2caf5-70a8-4340-9ca0-aafc01759f56) ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9Vg3fz8XqkEF) _2026-08-04 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## #050 A Healthy Business Marriage with Directing Duo Bonnie Dennison & Alison Barton (aka Bonabart) _2026-08-04 · Filmmakers In Advertising_ This week’s episode is a fun one, with guests Bonnie Dennison & Alison Barton, or the directing duo known as Bonabart . They are LA-based directors rostered at Tool of North America , and are known for their comedy chops working with brands such as Wendy's, Subway, Amazon, Spotify, and Liquid Death. They also are writers on the upcoming Amazon series “Ride Or Die” starring Hannah Waddingham and… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/928255/episodes/19575607-050-a-healthy-business-marriage-with-directing-duo-bonnie-dennison-alison-barton-aka-bonabart.mp3) ## [Strands of Genius: The Rise of Fraud-Friendly Celebrity Marketing, The Return of Awe, But With More Whizzing Sounds, The Mainstreaming of Unabomber Politics?](https://geniussteals.substack.com/p/strands-of-genius-the-rise-of-fraud) _2026-08-04 · Strands of Genius_ Guest curated by Jon Crowley, Partner & Head of Strategy at FUSE Create ## [Reported! Slop detection ramps up](https://undomag.substack.com/p/reported-slop-detection-ramps-up) _2026-08-02 · Rob Alderson · Undo_ Plus a misleading poster brouhaha, and why agencies need to ask about AI's role in the pitch process. ## [100 Shahd AlShehail on Abadia, Saudi Fashion, and Going Global](https://jessicamichault.com/) _2026-08-01 · jessicamichault@gmail.com (Jessica Michault) · Fashion Your Seatbelt_ I still remember one of the first times I saw an Abadia design up close. It was at that inaugural 100 Saudi Brands exhibition in Riyadh. It stopped me in my tracks. That's the effect designer Shahd AlShehail's work tends to have on people. Shahd is the founder, CEO, and creative director of Abadia, the Saudi label she started back in 2019. And if you've spent any time around the Gulf's fashion… [Listen](https://media.podeo.co/episodes/MTI0MDEx/audio.mp3) ## [Summer Sabbatical](https://thesubtextnewsletter.substack.com/p/summer-sabbatical) _2026-07-31 · The Subtext · The Subtext_ Guest post by Zoe Fishman ## [Latex and Light](https://ownthefuture.substack.com/p/latex-and-light) _2026-07-30 · Basic.Space · Own The Future™_ Production designer-turned-furniture designer Jabez Bartlett on materials, light, and learning through experimentation. ## [A leadership expert's guide to navigating AI](https://undomag.substack.com/p/a-leadership-experts-guide-to-navigating) _2026-07-30 · Rob Alderson · Undo_ Change expert Gillian Davis shares 12 tips for design leaders grappling with the age of AI. ## [Lessons in floriculture](https://dulcifyjournal.substack.com/p/lessons-in-floriculture-failure-politics) _2026-07-29 · Joanna Biggers · Dulcify Journal_ In conversation with florist, grower, campaigner and researcher Roisin Taylor ## [Strands of Genius: Mental Health Literacy, Why We Need Artists, Why So Joyless?](https://geniussteals.substack.com/p/strands-of-genius-mental-health-literacy) _2026-07-28 · Rosie Yakob | GeniusSteals.co · Strands of Genius_ Plus: story structures & the odyssey ## [Restoring the Walker Guest House](https://ownthefuture.substack.com/p/restoring-the-walker-guest-house) _2026-07-27 · Basic.Space · Own The Future™_ Architects Paul Vantieghem and Raha Talebi on cannonball counterweights, cutting a four-inch incision into an architectural icon, and restoring a house that was never meant to sit still. ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/i9CAOWgzrQPB) _2026-07-27 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [Ivo Gormley, GoodGym's Founder on designing for contribution](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creativecapes/episodes/Ivo-Gormley--GoodGyms-Founder-on-designing-for-contribution-e3mji0v) _2026-07-27 · Future London Academy · Creative Capes_ Acts of kindness feel good, but they are rarely profitable. Ivo Gormley has spent nearly twenty years proving it's possible while creating an incredible community around helping people.We sat down with him to find out how. Since starting GoodGym in 2007 with a single newspaper run, Ivo has built it into a movement of 25,000+ volunteers across 60+ cities. He's been awarded an OBE and made GoodGym… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/924feec/podcast/play/123373023/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-27%2F428687597-44100-2-452da10f84f69.mp3) ## [Honestly, AI don't know where to start...](https://undomag.substack.com/p/client-sends-feedback-written-by) _2026-07-26 · Rob Alderson · Undo_ Plus Meta's cuddly new ad and designers riding the AI roller coaster in this week's round-up of things to know, and to think about. ## [Fire and Blossom](https://ownthefuture.substack.com/p/fire-and-blossom) _2026-07-23 · Basic.Space · Own The Future™_ Chef and creative director Imogen Kwok on sugar, restraint, and gatekeeping. ## [hurdling with ryan march: editor of alternative wales, co-founder of teras and musician](https://emilyashpowell.substack.com/p/hurdling-with-ryan-march) _2026-07-22 · Emily Ash Powell · Hurdling with Emily Ash Powell_ on sticking your neck out, backing yourself and finally just making the thing you wished existed. and why you don’t actually need to move to london to ‘make it’ in a creative career. ## [Pixels and Permanence](https://ownthefuture.substack.com/p/pixels-and-permanence) _2026-07-22 · Basic.Space · Own The Future™_ Artist and designer Kleinian on printing screenshots onto stone, wiring rocks for sound, and what future generations might dig up from our digital age. ## [Designing energy in place with Matt Mewburn](https://omny.fm/shows/design-your-life-by-vince-frost/designing-energy-in-place-with-matt-mewburn) _2026-07-21 · Design Your Life with Vince Frost_ What happens when you take a Victorian era locomotive workshop, built in 1887, and turn it into a home for contemporary sculpture? Matt Mewburn has spent the last decade finding out. Matt is a blacksmith and sculptor, and the founder of Eveleigh Works, a working forge inside one of the last remaining industrial blacksmithing workshops in the world, complete with machinery dating back to the 1850s.… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/15292102-61b6-4014-95d4-aafc009a8cb1/932e38a3-7826-4ca3-820a-aafc01759f48/98648230-94eb-4655-a030-b48e00e1e21e/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b1c2caf5-70a8-4340-9ca0-aafc01759f56) ## [Strands of Genius: The Visual Candy Shop For Filmmakers, To Ad or Not To Ad, Redefining Adulthood](https://geniussteals.substack.com/p/strands-of-genius-the-visual-candy) _2026-07-21 · Strands of Genius_ Guest curated by Felipe Franco, Executive Creative Director & Film Director at FF&Co Creative Consulting ## ["Taste doesn't matter if you can't influence people"](https://undomag.substack.com/p/taste-doesnt-matter-if-you-cant-influence) _2026-07-21 · Rob Alderson · Undo_ Craft's Dan Crowder on the state of the design job market, and the positive mood among design leaders. ## [you're invited to: hurdles for dinner (heritage edition)](https://emilyashpowell.substack.com/p/youre-invited-to-hurdles-for-dinner) _2026-07-20 · Emily Ash Powell · Hurdling with Emily Ash Powell_ join us at bara café in peckham on wednesday 29th july for an evening of sharing our food, oversharing our feelings and working out how to get over the things that get in our way. ## [Jony, Ive been expecting you](https://undomag.substack.com/p/jony-ive-been-expecting-you) _2026-07-19 · Rob Alderson · Undo_ OpenAI's first device, the rise of humanised AI brands, and the ghost font AI can't read (or can it?) ## [PixelRift — Platforming with Level Editor (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QgKaAI5JiKD0) _2026-07-19 · **Sponsored**_ Includes a built-in level editor, campaign with elemental heroes, and boss encounters. ## [Sacred and Profane](https://ownthefuture.substack.com/p/sacred-and-profane) _2026-07-17 · Basic.Space · Own The Future™_ LA sculptor Marley White on Tennessee fainting goats, the fetishization of faith, and how belief lives in the body. ## [how do we get over our friendship hurdles?](https://emilyashpowell.substack.com/p/how-do-we-get-over-our-friendship-hurdles) _2026-07-17 · Emily Ash Powell · Hurdling with Emily Ash Powell_ a therapist's advice on getting over financial imbalances, being the only single friend, not liking partners, drifting too far away, envying success and pursuing child-free lives when others aren’t. ## [Chief Design Officer on Turning £1 into £20 Through Design | Cat Drew](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creativecapes/episodes/Chief-Design-Officer-on-Turning-1-into-20-Through-Design--Cat-Drew-e3m4o0k) _2026-07-16 · Future London Academy · Creative Capes_ How can design create impact at a systems level, across business, government and the planet? Cat Drew has spent a large part of her career answering exactly that question. Chief Design Officer at Design Council, the UK's design body, set up nearly 80 years ago to help rebuild the post-war economy. Cat works at the intersection of design, business, policy and sustainability. Cat is also faculty… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/924feec/podcast/play/122887636/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-15%2F428029306-44100-2-b7d7aab36f16f.mp3) ## [Work In Progress](https://ownthefuture.substack.com/p/work-in-progress) _2026-07-15 · Basic.Space · Own The Future™_ YY's Francisco Gaspar and Tawanda Chiweshe on taste as conviction, prototyping as a worldview, and why the unfinished thing holds the most truth. ## [Strands of Genius: M-Theory, Does Anything We Write Matter Anymore, Retro-Futurology](https://geniussteals.substack.com/p/strands-of-genius-m-theory-does-anything) _2026-07-14 · Faris Yakob | GeniusSteals.co · Strands of Genius_ Plus: Self Help from the Middle Ages ## ["Like a frozen risotto" – Special Projects on AI's design skills](https://undomag.substack.com/p/like-a-frozen-risotto-special-projects) _2026-07-14 · Rob Alderson · Undo_ Why the studio wants to create AI experiences that feel more human. ## ["Has AI ever had a colonoscopy?"](https://undomag.substack.com/p/has-ai-ever-had-a-colonoscopy) _2026-07-12 · Rob Alderson · Undo_ This week's things to know, and to think about, from the AI-design front-line. ## [hurdling with naomi walkland: chief marketing officer, investor and advisor](https://emilyashpowell.substack.com/p/hurdling-with-naomi-walkland) _2026-07-10 · Emily Ash Powell · Hurdling with Emily Ash Powell_ on learning the big old lesson that achievement does not create peace, the perils of not listening to your gut during an interview process and and why interviewing needs to be a two-way thing. ## #049 Crafting a Feature Film Career with Director Russell Owen _2026-07-07 · Filmmakers In Advertising_ Today on FIA, Justin sits down with film director Russell Owen to discuss his career from commercials to feature films, and the path that led to his acclaimed psychological horror Shepherd , a New York Times Critic's Pick and BBC critic Mark Kermode's Film of the Week . Russell shares the unconventional route that shaped his career, from making an experimental first feature and directing a zombie… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/928255/episodes/19442280-049-crafting-a-feature-film-career-with-director-russell-owen.mp3) ## [“Agencies, raise your prices” – Joel Pilger shares some tough love](https://undomag.substack.com/p/agencies-raise-your-prices-joel-pilger) _2026-07-07 · Rob Alderson · Undo_ The designer-turned-adviser explains how creative agencies should navigate the AI landscape. ## [Designing the third space with Dr. Caroline Butler-Bowdon](https://omny.fm/shows/design-your-life-by-vince-frost/designing-the-third-space-with-dr-caroline-butler-bowdon) _2026-07-06 · Design Your Life with Vince Frost_ What does an institution built in the 1820s have to teach us about designing for the future? Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon has spent two decades moving through museums, historic houses and public space, and now leads the State Library of NSW into its 200th year. In this episode, Caroline talks with Vince about the library as one of the last true third spaces, somewhere people come to be alone… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/15292102-61b6-4014-95d4-aafc009a8cb1/932e38a3-7826-4ca3-820a-aafc01759f48/2aa7dbd6-f4f1-4b04-9d8d-b47f010188b4/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=b1c2caf5-70a8-4340-9ca0-aafc01759f56) ## [The "Is this AI?" Reddit rabbit hole](https://undomag.substack.com/p/the-is-this-ai-reddit-rabbit-hole) _2026-07-05 · Rob Alderson · Undo_ This week's things to know about, and to think about, from the AI design discourse. ## [Summer Edition: Collaboration](https://thesubtextnewsletter.substack.com/p/summer-edition-collaboration) _2026-07-03 · The Subtext · The Subtext_ When June became July. ## [Designed For Listening](https://ownthefuture.substack.com/p/designed-for-listening) _2026-07-01 · Basic.Space · Own The Future™_ Friendly Pressure’s Shivas Howard Brown on why high fidelity is a discipline, not a product category. ## [Episode 121 - Doron Gild - NY-Based Portrait Photographer](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mark-hanson5/episodes/Episode-121---Doron-Gild---NY-Based-Portrait-Photographer-e3lfk3e) _2026-06-30 · Mark Hanson · Behind the Visual with Mark Hanson_ In this episode, I talk with an amazing Photographer, Doron Gild ( www.dorongild.com ) Doron grew up in Jerusalem and moved to New York City at age 19 and ended up going to school at SVA. We discussed what that was like and he tells me how a meeting with a photo editor completely changed the way he shoots. Doron’s style is very cinematic and we discuss the amount of effort it takes to make his… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/ff81984/podcast/play/122195502/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-30%2F29eb2bb9-0be4-637a-23a4-fe1d19962c56.mp3) ## [Strands of Genius: Imperfections Are Fingerprints, When the Pope Sounds More Secular Than Silicon Valley, We're All Eating From the Same Trash Can](https://geniussteals.substack.com/p/strands-of-genius-imperfections-are) _2026-06-30 · Strands of Genius_ Guest curated by Gustavo Mendes, Creative Director & Brand Strategist ## [hurdling with alex holder: writer, creative director and former bookshop owner](https://emilyashpowell.substack.com/p/hurdling-with-alex-holder-writer) _2026-06-25 · Emily Ash Powell · Hurdling with Emily Ash Powell_ on moving from london to lisbon (and back again), achieving financial fluidity and why no one would ever advise you to open up a bookshop ## [Against The Grain](https://ownthefuture.substack.com/p/against-the-grain) _2026-06-24 · Basic.Space · Own The Future™_ Monument London on treating furniture as art, cultivating taste through research, and building one of London's most distinctive collectible design galleries. ## [Strands of Genius: BK Turnaround, Cult of Enhanced Self, Decline of Deviance](https://geniussteals.substack.com/p/strands-of-genius-bk-turnaround-cult) _2026-06-23 · Faris Yakob | GeniusSteals.co · Strands of Genius_ Plus: IT'S SO HOT & The Artists Way ## [In the neighbourhood — La Cîme Deli](https://dulcifyjournal.substack.com/p/in-the-neighbourhood-la-cime-deli) _2026-06-21 · Joanna Biggers · Dulcify Journal_ In early May, I met with Will and Anne, owners of La Cîme Deli at Lounge 33 on Leith Walk - somewhere new to me - a place full of chatter, gentle clinks of coffee cups and an appreciation for vinyl records.