Ricky Richards Represents

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Synopsis

Ricky Richards Represents is the show where I talk tips for success with the leading figures of business creativity and innovation.

Episodes

  • Richard Norton: Creative A.I, Cultural Provocation and the Future of the Creative Industry

    03/09/2018 Duration: 01h20min

    Richard Norton is a senior Creative Director who recently decided to leave his job to enter the freelance market place and become a creative A.I specialist. In this episode we discuss everything creativity as well as debating what the future of the creative industy may hold.

  • Andy Knell: How to tackle diversity in the creative industries.

    28/08/2018 Duration: 01h22min

    Andy Knell is the founder of JOLT diversity program, which every year, helps 30+ students from a variety of backgrounds onto an extensive paid work placement program and professional training initiative intended to help diversify the industry. In this episode, we discuss a number of topics regarding the hurdles to creating this change and suggest ways that companies and individuals may change so to work towards a better and fairer future for the creative industry.

  • Peter Dench: Photojournalism, British Culture & Politics

    27/06/2018 Duration: 01h08min

    Peter Dench, Peter is a videographer, presented, writer, author and creator. But is best known for his insightful photojournalism of culture, here in the UK and abroad. He’s the author of several solo books that contain both his commentary and pictures, those books include, The Dench Dozen, Dench does Dallas, The British abroad, A&E alcohol and England, and finally, England uncensored. His work has been commissioned by countless publications including the likes of The New Yorker and the Telegraph to name just a few.

  • Thomas Kolster: Goodvertising - Using creativity to do good in the world.

    06/06/2018 Duration: 01h15min

    In this episode myself and Thomas talk about how you can use creativity to do good in the world, and we also discuss many of the challenges that face creatives whose aspiration is to do good. We also discuss how to create lasting change in people.

  • Rory Sutherland: Applying Behavioural Science To Advertising And The Art Of Persuasion

    22/05/2018 Duration: 01h22min

    In this episode Rory shares countless examples where behavioural science affects our behaviours and how we may question our assumptions to be more persuasive and affect our own personal decisions.

  • Zoe Miller - Founder of Double Trouble Gang - Womenswear fashion brand.

    26/04/2018 Duration: 01h01min

    Zoe Miller is the founder and director of Double Trouble Gang, a womenswear label that started in October 2015 as a direct to consumer brand, that has since gone on to have over 100 stockists worldwide. With such success, the brand has been part of a number of prestigious collaborations, as well as being featured in many publications including The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, Vouge, Who What Wear, Harpers Bazaar and Cosmopolitan to name just a few. To share with us the origin story, and the secret behind the brands incredible growth, we welcome Zoe to the show.

  • Show Highlights of 2017 - Podcast Of The Year - Awards Submission

    16/04/2018 Duration: 16min

    In this episode I share my submission to the British podcasting awards, which contains 5 snippets from episodes from throughout last year.

  • 3 Simple Principles To Apply In Life

    09/04/2018 Duration: 10min

    In this episode, I share three short principles that, if applied, could really help with career progression and getting your creative endeavours made.

  • Naomi Games: The work & philosophies of Abram Games, wartime poster artist.

    19/03/2018 Duration: 48min

    Abram Games, who was born in Whitechapel in London, on the 29th of July 1914, and passed away in 1996. He was most well known for his huge body of iconic posters. Most notable of which, were created when Abram was appointed by the British government as the ‘official war poster artist of WW2’ where he created over 100 posters, with many going down in design history. On top of this, he also worked for some the biggest brands in the world, as well as creating many uncommission pieces that looked to provoke and inform the masses about meaningful causes. His work has inspired people like me, and no doubt many others to pursue the art of design and aspire to the principles to which legends like Abram upheld. To talk us through her father’s amazing story and to answer many of the questions I have about this great man, I welcome his daughter Naomi Games.

  • Imran Amed MBE: How a loyal following can be turned into a thriving subscription based business.

    05/03/2018 Duration: 01h01min

    I talk to Imran Amed MBE about how he turned the Business of Fashion (BOF) from a blog on his couch, into a thriving business sustaining over 70 employees and attracting some of the biggest names in the fashion industry.

  • Jack Du Rose: On the state of cryptocurrency, ethereum and decentralised networks with co-founder of Colony.io and decentralisation expert.

    19/02/2018 Duration: 01h19min

    I talk with Jack du Rose about the digital currency landscape and what we can expect from this disruptive technology. We also talk about the benefits of decentralised systems and how we can use these new technologies to facilitate innovation. Jack du Rose is a creative polymath like no other. From studying a degree in English literature, he went on to become a world class jeweller including the making of notable projects like 'For The Love of God' by Damien Hirst, as well as his own Danger collection inspired by his hobby of collecting exotic animals. Jack has subsequently gone on to found two Ethereum based starts ups, Colony.io, a platform for setting up internet based organisations and Ownage.io which aids in the distribution, collection and trading of digital game content.

  • Mark Hahnel: On how he built Figshare, an online digital depository for scientific research, by scratching his own itch.

    05/02/2018 Duration: 01h01min

    Mark Hahnel is the founder of Fig Share, an online digital repository where researchers can preserve and share their research outputs, including figures, datasheets, images, videos and more. Having just completed his PHD in stem cell biology at Imperial Collage London, Mark started Figshare inorder to promote open science, giving everyone the ability to freely access research papers from academics all over the world, in order to encourage breakthroughs and revolutionize the research community. Mark joins us to us about how he built the company, and some of the challenges he’s faced along the way.

  • Tom Oldham: How celebrity photographer, Tom Oldham, deals with working under challenging constraints.

    29/01/2018 Duration: 01h10min

    Tom Oldham is a London based portrait photographer who’s shot portraits of musicians, sports stars and everyone in between. His work has appeared in the National portrait gallery and to name-drop just a few of his subjects, he’s photographed the likes of The Foo Fighters, Richard Branson, Usain Bolt, Alicia Keys, Mario Balotelli, Bradley Wiggins, Tinie Tempah, Arctic Monkeys, Dizzie Rascal, Professor Green, Gilbert & George, Jose Mourinho, Ed Sheeran, Elizabeth Troy, Henric Larson, Liam Howlett, Ces Fabrigas, Thierry Henry, and King Krule amoung others, as well as occasionally doing self initiated projects which has taken him to the mountains of Africa and beyond.

  • Simon Gosling: Futurist at Unruly, speaking about the future of home technology.

    15/01/2018 Duration: 01h04min

    Simon Gosling is a Futurist at Unruly. In this episode we talk about all the future technologies that are expected to disrupt our world and the next phase of home automation technology.

  • Andy Donohoe: Using natural light to take beautiful portrait photographs.

    08/01/2018 Duration: 46min

    Andy Donohoe is London based portrait photographer who's speciality is the use of natural light. His clients include: Hole and Corner, Telegraph Magazine, The Spaces, Betty Magazine, Another Escape, Oh Comely, Spindle Magazine, Virgin EMI, Urban Walkabout, Tyba, Mr Blacks, Michaelis Boyd Architects among many others.

  • Lessons of 2017 with Ricky Richards & Adam Hallows

    28/12/2017 Duration: 53min

    In this episode producer, Adam Hallows, turns the tables and asks me questions regarding the lessons of 2017 after nearly 50 podcast interviews. We talk the best of business, creativity and technological innovation as well as suggesting some great resources to check out.

  • Factory: Creating iconic sounds and a wildly successful business with Founder and Head of Production at Factory UK.

    24/12/2017 Duration: 58min

    Established in 1997, Factory is a multi award winning sound design and audio facility based in London, whose highly skilled team of sound design specialists have created some of the most revered and award winning commercial work of the last two decades. Their work in commercials, online video, radio, film, Dolby surround, VR and experiential audio, have resulted in a tsunami of awards for seemingly every project that leaves the building. I’m joined by Lisette Nice who is the founding partner and Managing Director who started the company 20 years ago this year, and Lou Allen, who is Head of Production and the executive producer at Factory.

  • Tim Jones & James Cross: Creating a hit Christmas commercial Tim and James, Creative Directors at BBC Creative.

    18/12/2017 Duration: 01h14min

    Tim Jones & James Cross are Creative Directors at BBC Creative, the multi award winning in house creative studio for the BBC. In this episode we talk about the studios hit Christmas commercial, The Supporting Act, as well as their journey from multi award wining creatives to Creative Directors of the UK's most historic and publicly supported TV channel.

  • Jo Wallace: Deep dive on how diversify in the creative industries with Jo Wallace, Creative Director at JWT

    09/12/2017 Duration: 01h24min

    Jo Wallace is a creative director at JWT, in this episode we talk through a piece that Jo has recently released for the drum which addresses a number of things the creative industry could be doing to address the lack of diversity in the workplace.

  • Ben Baily Smith, AKA Doc Brown, on his creative journey from underground rapper to stand up comedian and actor.

    04/12/2017 Duration: 01h23min

    Ben Bailey Smith AKA Doc Brown. Doc’s achievements are vast and varied. Starting out as a British Rapper at the dawn of the British rap and grime scene, Doc went on to do stand up comedy where he performed at world famous venues like Live at The Apollo, as well as appearing in the Inbetweeners and working with Ricky Gervais on classic sketches like Equality street and the film Derek. Doc also has a successful acting career appearing in a number of hit TV shows including Mid Summer Murders, Law and order and Brief encounters among others. As if that wasn’t enough, this polymath of epic proportions has also casually hosted the Bafta’s, written and performed in a number of cult classic children’s shows and has somehow also managed to raise two, no doubt wonderful, girls, which have been the catalyst for a number of Doc’s more charitable endeavors including being the face for ‘Great Men’, a charity which looks to educate young men about the negative effects of gender stereotyping. Finally, in a bid to return to h

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