Creative Rebels

Alex May Hughes is an artist and sign-painter. Alex's work is typically either beautifully crafted signs, created in a traditional Victorian style, or beautifully crafted signs, created in a Matt Groening, Simpsons style. Through experimenting with various types of sign-painting Alex discovered her love for working with gold leaf and mirrored surfaces and has established a niche in this way of working. To hear more, visit creativerebels.substack.com

John Maeda is the Chief Experience Officer of Publicis Sapient, he is also an artist, designer, and a former president of the Rhode Island School of Design. We got John on the podcast to talk about his new book; How To Speak Machine. The book presents a framework for creatives to expand their knowledge in the digital world where perhaps they feel a little left behind. John argues that by understanding 'computational design', 'classical creatives' we be able to up their game. To hear more, visit creativerebels.substack.com

Oscar Scheller is a musician, a singer, songwriter and producer. He is carving a creative career that fosters collaboration, working with artists like Charli XCX, Ashnikko, Lily Allen and Miraa May. Oscar’s recently launched his latest project HTTP404. Tracks on the album address issues like depression, building confidence and the struggle of when your phone battery is on just 1% To hear more, visit creativerebels.substack.com

Many of us grew up with Reggie Yates on our screens, he has transitioned from kids TV presenter to fearless documentary maker, podcaster and overall; storyteller. Reggie believes that through stories we can learn, grow, change our perspective and ultimately make change in the world. To hear more, visit creativerebels.substack.com

This weeks Creative Rebel is Hilary Gallo; a former lawyer and negotiator turned speaker, writer and coach. He has also done extensive research on fear. In his book ‘Fear Hack’ Hilary explores our self-imposed fears and how limiting they can be. Hilary runs workshops on fear in which participants write their biggest fears on the wall. After a while you begin to realise; most of us are afraid of the same things. To hear more, visit creativerebels.substack.com

Do you need to take a break from social media? Has it all become too much? If you take a break will it all fall apart? To hear more, visit creativerebels.substack.com

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Girli is a singer, songwriter, producer and performer.Girli has built a career from scratch; from performing at open mic nights (to sometimes as few as three people) to sold out gigs and amassing millions of plays and views on YouTube and Spotify. Girli is unapologetically herself. She makes songs about gender, about break ups, about mental health and uses music to empower her audience. To hear more, visit creativerebels.substack.com

Anna Codrea-Rado is a freelance journalist. She has written for the Guardian, the BBC, Vice and many other outlets. Anna writes a weekly newsletter; the ‘Professional Freelancer’ and is founder of FJ&CO, a platform where freelance writers can find essential tools and resources for a career in journalism. We talk quite a bit about money in the show. Anna started the #FairPayForFreelancers movement and is passionate about changing industry standards for freelance workers To hear more, visit creativerebels.substack.com

We sit down with founder of Mylk Plus and the youngest ever finalist of the Apprentice UK; Camilla Ainsworth to answer your questions! To hear more, visit creativerebels.substack.com