Author Archives: Jonathan Waring

“While There’s Never Enough Time To Do Something Properly, There’s Always Time To Fix It”

The Bristol Creative Director’s Network met again a few days ago to welcome the Creative Director of St Luke’s, Al Young to a fine eating establishment in the heart of Clifton. A founding member of the famous advertising agency and twice voted one of the UK’s ‘hottest’ Creative Directors by Campaign, Al certainly lived up to all our expectations. Over what was a very early Christmas dinner, Al shared some of his knowledge on how to get the most out of a creative team. Coincidentally, this was all in the week that Claire Beale wrote about ‘nuturing creative teams’ in her leader column.

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Fireworks, Furry Business Cards and Chris Arnold..

I’d like to say the night started off with a bang! Fortunately it was just another night with The Bristol Creative Directors Network. A round table with 10 Bristol creatives enjoying a fabulous meal at Goldbrick House in the company of Chris Arnold.

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A digital blog from Bristol? WTF!

This is supposed to be a blog about digital creative from Bristol. Yet, I’m sitting on a London bound train, about to see one of my design heroes, Jonathan Ive from Apple based in the US of A. Oooh, the ever so slight irony of it!

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