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Creative Director

Previously, Head of Brand Design at Google,
Global Creative Director at Pinterest & Principal at DesignStudio.
2004 — 2008
Graphic Designer @ Cog Design.
Highlights included
Helping friends in their first shop (and my first attempt at publicity).

Print Club
2008 — 2009
Senior Designer @ Emak Mafu
Founder @ Cure Studio
Highlights included
Getting noticed by the inspired team at Ala Champ who interviewed me about our work with DJ Sasha, Busaba and Vans and more! 

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2009 — 2012
Co-Founder @ HiggonsonHurst
Founder @ The Type Foundry
Highlights included
We built HigginsonHurst, an illustration agency representing Chrissie Abbot / Daisy Fletcher / Damien Frost / Esra Røise / Han Lee / Mike Ballard / 
Paul Bommer
Highlights included
We had fun putting on exhibitions & helping build culture.
Highlights included
We launched The Type Foundry, which represented (and designed) a whole number of display typefaces that we used in our designs.
2012 — 2014
Head of Digital @ Figtree
Digital Director @ Prophet
Design Director @ Wednesday
Highlights included
Released two EPs described as discordant, noise and ‘interesting’.

Not for weddings & have not (I hope) been played at a funeral.

Listen here.
2014 — 2019
CD → ECD → Principal @ DesignStudio
Highlights included
Moved from London to  San Francisco!
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Moving from London to San Francisco and helping DesignStudio grow into a global brand agency, was an adventure. I needed people around me who could help me learn and grow.

Now designers meet every 3 months (ish) and we help each other do good with good design.

First Things Club
2019 — 2022
Global Creative Director, Pinterest
Highlights included
I was asked to write a book, fast forward years (and a run-in with mortality) & I asked myself — why hadn't I written that book?

So I did.

Rogue School
2020 — Present
I've been lucky to have joined some inspiring organizations as a brand advisor.  


Hoo Koo E Koo
Re-Origin
Wasted Club
Culture Circle
Highlights included
I'm a strong advocate (and practitioner) of Design Thinking to give brands unfair advantages. Sometimes I flex the Design as Author muscle, so created my own playground.

Bland Land
2022 — 2023
Head of Brand Design @ Google
Highlights included
Creative boom were kind enough let me drone on.

Read it here
2023
It's been a year working with inspiring humans on ambiguous (and ambitious) problems! 

Punk Works
Future Cards
Future Works
Highlights included
Using my book Use Design To Design Change with cohorts of start-ups (and scale-ups). I ask dumb questions that help teams unlock smart answers about people → product → brand.
2024
Highlights included
Having carted my OP1 as I run around the world branding stuff, i've collated quite the library of sound snippets. They tell quite a story. My Story.

Spotify
Apple
YouTube
SoundCloud
Me at work
Typeform
Deliveroo
Treatwell
Drivy