Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a fantastic film and was one of the first times I remember feeling oddly drawn to the female character Jessica.  Part of that was my age but part of it was the incredible job the animators did – by hand and eye – of creating the illusions, especially the illusion…

In 1979 the legendary French comic book artist Moebius did the conceptual art for Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece Alien. Some things of course weren't used for the film, like the illustration of an orange spacesuit above left.  In 2015, three years after Moebius' death, Ridley Scott made The Martian.  The above drawing sat in Ridley's…

Every time you think something is completely knew, you should remember that nothing is.  From DDB's website: N.M. Ohrbach knew Bill Bernbach when Ohrbach's was a client at Grey Advertising. Mr. Ohrbach, who was not happy with Grey, suggested that Bernbach launch his own agency with Ohrbach's as its first client. Ohrbach even agreed to…

I don't watch horror movies. I don't like them, I don't enjoy being scared. Things get stuck in my head and I'd rather have nice things in there.  So I also wouldn't listen to a horror podcast. However, I found a new podcast in my app. It was called Darkest Night.  I assume I saw…

We love collaborating with nice agencies on cool projects. This is a piece featuring me talking about data we worked on with a lovely agency and production company in South Africa thanks to the awesome Amy who got us involved.  Hope you enjoy it  - do get in touch if you to collaborate on something…

People keep asking us about our travels – so we had an idea. Presenting Episode One of our new Podcard series. "Wherever you go, there you are" A Podcard from Mumbai.  Hope you enjoy it! 

I wrote what appears to be a a year in review essay but is in fact my attempt to explore how toxic nostalgia culture built the foundations for 2016 by hooking society on the Golden Age fallacy. It's over on Medium – for that the place for such thots [thots thots thots] – would love…

We just wrapped the second phase of a content project we've been working on for BOX.COM on the Future of Work.  As part of it, Rosie and I [and other contributors] have written pieces over on their Blueprint publication, several of which were selected for the front page of Medium, which was nice.   To…

Public speaking for agencies, conferences, corporate events (and all sorts of things where the organizer would like their audience not to be bored) is not just a significant part of our business, but one of our favorite types of work at Genius Steals. We've spoken at Google, Mashable, IAB [Spain, Mexico, USA, Norway, Sweden], ADC, SXSW,…