http://www.wishfulthinking.co.uk/blog/2006/08/09/interview-with-russell-davies-advertising-planning-maestro/ coaching creative professionals Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:03:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.wishfulthinking.co.uk/blog/2006/08/09/interview-with-russell-davies-advertising-planning-maestro/#comment-19367 Wishful Thinking » Blog Archive » New Year’s Resolution No.1 - Make My Blogging More Like My Coaching Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:27:07 +0000 http://www.wishfulthinking.co.uk/blog/2006/08/09/interview-with-russell-davies-advertising-planning-maestro/#comment-19367 [...] Finding new avenues to explore. I have pretty wide creative interests and deliberately work across the whole spectrum of creativity, artistic and commercial. The non-linear format of the blog means clients frequently stumble across areas they might not have previously considered, which are outside their discipline or frame of reference. An obvious example is ‘artistic’ types being interested in becoming more ‘businesslike’ or (whisper it) ‘commercial’, with agency or studio creatives wanting to ‘fend off the organisation’ (as Russell said to me when I interviewed him) and inject some extra creative passion. But it’s also heartening to hear from technophobes whose curiosity has been aroused by my blogging for creatives page, non-designers who have been inspired by reading about Thomas Heatherwick, and managers who want to know what creative flow and synaesthesia can do for their creative team. [...] [...] Finding new avenues to explore. I have pretty wide creative interests and deliberately work across the whole spectrum of creativity, artistic and commercial. The non-linear format of the blog means clients frequently stumble across areas they might not have previously considered, which are outside their discipline or frame of reference. An obvious example is ‘artistic’ types being interested in becoming more ‘businesslike’ or (whisper it) ‘commercial’, with agency or studio creatives wanting to ‘fend off the organisation’ (as Russell said to me when I interviewed him) and inject some extra creative passion. But it’s also heartening to hear from technophobes whose curiosity has been aroused by my blogging for creatives page, non-designers who have been inspired by reading about Thomas Heatherwick, and managers who want to know what creative flow and synaesthesia can do for their creative team. [...]

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