It was three years ago today you left the safety of employment to go freelance. For a long while you’d been wondering when you’d make the leap. To step into the uncomfortable place. To wake up to something new. And now you find yourself in a good space, able to help others and pay it forward for those considering what it’s like to go it alone.
Read MoreThe shape of words.
I'm not talking about typography, (although I'm a big fan of the Jan Middendorp and dutch type form). More so, I'm speaking about how a jumble of words on a page can convey a thought, a story, a communication.
Read MoreI was told by my friend and fellow writer Cor Hospes to get my blog up and running. “You look like a Neanderthal without it,” he said. And he was right. He informed me that I had to start my own blog today. I'd written dozens of blogs for my clients and watched them grow all the more for it. So here I am. At my keyboard. Blogging on.
Read MoreBack when we were lugging folios around Soho, we were all searching for a foot in the door; a way of getting into a good agency with our ideas.
Read MoreAs I await the plop of the padded envelope from the bookshop to hit the floor, I can picture the author of this book back at Hounslow Borough College.
Read MoreOne thing that often comes up in defining why creatives want to be a part of House of Phillips is legacy. Not the Subaru kind…
Read More“It’s like a small obsession. I almost think about them all the time. It’s incredible that these people, who have been so real to me for years, will become real to other people…”
Read MoreOften, at the start of a project, a client will ask for a copy example - something to reassure the faint of heart. The most useful thing for me is to…
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