Hello!
Apart from all the words loving composed for TIGS, I also write for other people.
I write for a variety of publications on a variety of topics: creativity, brands, media, ideas, communication, technology, culture, content and that.
I’m the author of Paid Attention: Innovative Advertising For a Digital World [Kogan Page].
I’m a co-author of the book The Digital State: How the Internet Changes Nearly Everything, is available now from Kogan Page, as a tree book from Amazon, and Amazon Kindle Edition.
I’m currently writing a series on the future of travel for FastCompany – I’m the ‘creativity’ contributor of their new ‘braintrust’.
I wrote a monthly column for ADMAP Magazine.
Publications include//
Financial Times, Fast Company, Forbes, Contagious, AdWeek, PSFK, International Journal of Advertising, OneClub Magazine, Media Magazine, Campaign Magazine, Little Black Book, Canvas8, Maxim.
If you’d like me to write something for you – drop me a line.
Here is a selection of some of the more popular published pieces//
2016/
Cyberneurotica = A Sketch of the Future – Campaign Middle East
New Isn’t for Novelties – Ad Age
It’s a new day: the blurring of disciplines put everyone into competition – Campaign UK
Why We Don’t Have an Exit Strategy – Medium
2015/
Advertisers want your attention, but how do they know they have it? – Guardian
How to unify disparate agencies behind marketing campaigns – Guardian
A Poisoned Lemon – Campaign USA
2014/
The Roads More Travelled – Fast Company
Memory Hacking – Fast Company
Travelling Without Moving – Fast Company
Pick Your Platform – Media Canada
Nothing is New Forever – Medium
2013/
Time Travels – Fast Company
Welcome to the Digital State – Huffington Post
The Future isn’t What it Used To be – B&T Magazine
2012/
Huffington Post – Let’s Get Scenius
Ghostwritten – guest editorial – Little Black Book
These Things I Believe – PSFK Magazine
Are you Engaged? – Engager Magazine [Hall&Partners]
Finding New Magic – Blink Magazine [Mediacom]
2011/
What Do Advertising Agencies Do? – OneClub Magazine
The Importance of Being Awesome – Social Fresh
Ex Libris – International Journal of Advertising
Proximity is a Virtue – Canvas8
2010/
A Decade of Digital – 10 Commandments – Marketing Society UK
Digital Changes the Real – Marketing Society UK
Gestures of Faith – Media Magazine
The New Category – Chairman’s Remarks – London International Awards Annual
2009/
Brand Patronage – Defining Sponsorship [published by Redmandarin]
Cultural Latency – Fast Company
Social Begins At Home – Fast Company
Lions and Language and Geeks – Fast Company
Harnessing Web Chatter About Brands – Forbes
2008/
Ways of Seeing – Contagious Magazine
2007/
I Believe the Children Are Our Future – IPA Thesis – President’s Prize Winner – Campaign Magazine
2006/
Stealth Consumers – Financial Times
2004/
Beating The Brandals – Financial Times