When I parted company with Hyper Island (after a quarter of a century), I wondered briefly the answers to 3 questions: would I find interesting clients and companies to work with going forward, would I be able to focus on learning design, and would I be pushed in my own Read more…
Every organisation is being affected by digitalisation as technology transforms how work gets done, consumer expectations change and new ways to create value are devised. For more than twenty years I have worked with a wide variety of companies from banking to retail and from pharmaceuticals to luxury wines and Read more…
When we build worlds we populate them with characters, and give those characters challenges to allow stories to emerge. To create interesting stories, the world must fit the characters and the characters must fit the worlds. At the end of this post I will share an activity to help you Read more…
I am still in the South West of France after Monday’s visit to Cognac and Hennessy’s Maison and today we went to Bordeaux’s flagship wine production museum Cité du Vin. It is interesting to compare the visitor experiences. Cité du Vin combines fantastic modern architecture with video, projection and interactive Read more…
Yesterday I had the chance to visit Cognac and went to the Hennessy Maison next to the river in the heart of the town. Flagship stores and well designed factory tours are opportunities for brands to do world building and I took this tour with an explorers mindset and a Read more…