Leaders
Branch - Forever Hope Foundation
The Branch consultancy has worked on the development strategy and brand identity for the charity startup Forever Hope Foundation (FHF), which was set up to partner with other charities and run high-end events for...
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Supple Studio - Sex Talk
Supple Studio has designed the identity for a new podcast series aimed at young adults that aims to discuss sex “openly” and without “judgement.” Sex Talk has been started by the producers of the...
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J. Walter Thompson Hong Kong - Nikon
J. Walter Thompson Hong Kong has been reappointed as the regional digital agency-of- record for Japanese camera manufacturer Nikon. As the incumbent, J. Walter Thompson retains its duties encompassing...
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innovision - Pride in London
Pride in London has appointed innovision as its new production partner for 2018. The exciting new partnership follows confirmation from the Mayor of London that Pride in London has been re-appointed to organise The...
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Publicis Media - Molson Coors
Molson Coors, one of the UK’s biggest brewers, has announced Publicis Media as their new media agency for the United States and United Kingdom. Molson Coors launched an RFP last Autumn to assess media agency...
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Cheil London
Cheil London has boosted its creative department with two new hires. Nick Craske joins as Creative Director, working across all the agency's accounts, and Georgia Barretta takes up the new role of Creative Director Design. Craske joins...
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The Neuro virtual tailoring system looks to change the face of fashion forever
French designer Clement Balavoine has developed a workflow process to virtually design and tailor clothes using a total of three different software programmes. Called...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Workshop
There’s an inbuilt need in all good creatives to strive for perfection. It’s a blessing that can help great design but it can also be a curse.
Our house number plaque was always irritatingly tilted. It poked my obsessive brain every time I saw it winking at me in defiance of the existence of spirit levels. It’s fixed now… and furthermore, I moved it to line up with the surrounding brick pattern.
The trouble is that fixing this imperfection simply opened up the top slot to the next irritation, holes from old, long gone doorbells… poke, poke, poke… and so the strive for perfection continues.
OK, so I am a little on the obsessive side.
How do you draw the line on forever creatively tinkering in the never-ending strive for perfection? After all, we all have deadlines to hit.
In our studio, we have a super simple process that allows us to tinker with the worst offenders, tick them off the list and move on. We simply ask…
“What’s the worst thing you can see?” *
Any piece of creative could be amazing but there’s always something at the top of the “worst thing” list. This simple question forces us to spot and sort out the worst offender.
That said, the fix might have knock-on effects but these simply get added to the list.
Rinse and repeat and bit by bit we get closer to a fully rounded, cohesive concept with diminishing issues.
* It's important to note that spotting the worst offenders is a skill that comes with training, and passion and only gets more refined with experience.
Posted by: Andy Gregory