Reinventing the wheel?
Julia chats with five graphic designers about their strategies when tackling recurring creative briefs.
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Dec 19, 20232 min
69% Gingerbread
Julia chats with artist Joseph Brown, who collaborated on our 31% Wool Christmas card this year.
Dec 15, 20225 min
Christmas Skye
Julia chats with illustrator and educator Skye Baker, who worked with us on the 31% Wool Christmas card this year, about our collaboration.
Jul 21, 202215 min
Flexible and free: the future of fonts?
Julia chats with six creatives who work with type, to find out their thoughts on free fonts, typeface accessibility and variable fonts.
May 12, 202211 min
The colour wheel
Julia seeks out six different design perspectives on brand colour.
Mar 14, 202213 min
A picture is worth a thousand words
Julia chats with six photographers about the influence words have when they take pictures.
Feb 7, 202210 min
The chicken and egg of words and pictures
Julia chats to five writers about the intrinsically linked communication forms of words and pictures that make up a brand identity.
Dec 17, 20214 min
A Festive Line and Wash
Julia chats to illustrator Lis Watkins about this year's 31% Wool Christmas card, clients, sketchbooks, blogging and more.
Sep 16, 202118 min
Practise. Design. Teach.
Julia chats to ten creatives who both practise and teach design, to hear their views on how the two roles influence each other.
Aug 12, 20218 min
Reimagine, Reset, Remix
Julia chats to five musicians who remixed tracks from Bugeye's debut album 'Ready Steady Bang', to create new album 'Ready Steady Remix'.
Jul 1, 20216 min
Celebrating a town’s musical diversity
Julia chats to four of the artists who are part of Croydon's music-themed art trail in Whitgift & Centrale shopping centre.
Apr 9, 20216 min
Ready Steady Sketch
Julia chats to illustrator Kate Marsden about her creative process and how she tackled the merchandise project for disco-punk band Bugeye.
Jan 28, 20218 min
For Love not Money
Julia chats to three creatives about their side projects: Miho Aishima who co-founded Rye Here Rye Now, Jim K Davies who’s one half of BandL
Dec 15, 20205 min
A Woolly Christmas
Julia chats to artist Tina Crawford who collaborated on 31% Wool's Christmas card this year.
Nov 10, 202015 min
An Eye for Music
Interested in the varying perspectives of different creatives, Julia asks 6 designers and 6 musicians what makes a great album cover.
Sep 11, 202010 min
From Dark to Fire
Julia chats to musician and illustrator Bram Johnson from the band Tiger Mimic about his creative influences.
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