jane evans

I wrote last week's blog as a quick reaction to the road map Zoe Scaman plotted in her article The Networked World Order   that theorises we’re shifting from empires of land and labour to empires of infrastructure. Zoe's rational (and absolutely terrifying) words were a real 'aha' moment for me, especially since I have been obsessed for the last year with learning as much as I can about the creation of empire. Isabella Wilkerson's brilliant book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents was...

The greatest thing about being an advertising creative is that before you get a brief, a very clever strategist has read white papers, research reports, and academic materials that most people either can’t get access to or glaze over halfway down the first page. The strategist then gives a rational explanation of everything they have learned to a creative brain blessed with the genius of simplicity, and a level of complexity most can’t comprehend. The definition of creativity is combining...

AI generated image of Benjamin Netanyahu at 18 years old When I was ten years old I saw the face of Tutankhamun encased in gold and I was...