If your daily bread depends upon your creativity then there’s a good chance that times are tough. Budgets are travelling in the wrong direction and you can be fairly sure that sooner or later someone will tell you there’s an algorithm that can do your job just as well as you …

richard holmanNovember 5, 2018Comment

Aretha Franklin & the Magic of Creative Collaboration

In 1967 Aretha Franklin was 25 years old. She was already something of a music industry veteran, having recorded no fewer than nine albums. Yet not one of these records had troubled the top of the charts …

richard holmanAugust 17, 2018creative thinking, arethafranklin, collaboration, inspirationComment

On the Ignorance of Leonardo da Vinci

Do you remember the day you got your first professional job? When the envelope flopped through the letterbox, or the long awaited call finally came, and you knew that this was it, your first step on the ladder …

richard holmanAugust 2, 2018Comment

Ten Tips on How to Take Feedback Like a Pro

Perhaps it’s no coincidence that the word we use to describe receiving notes from a client about a piece of creative work can also be used to describe the ear shattering sound of a howling guitar …

richard holmanJuly 11, 2018Comment