The Creative Condition podcast
Welcome to 'The Creative Condition' podcast: an ongoing exploration of human creativity to help you understand and maximise yours. The show is hosted by creativity coach, Founder of The Creative Condition, and The New York Times, Adidas, and Premier League illustrator Ben Tallon. Creativity is an often misunderstood pillar of human happiness, something far bigger than artistic talent and crucial for fulfilling lives and careers. Featuring exclusive interviews with experts and thought leaders, including illustrators, rock stars, artists, sensitivity experts, designers, emergency service workers, Olympic gold medal winners, comedians, microbiologists, photographers, fighters, and many others. Supported by founding sponsor illustrationx.com Also supported by the Ukrainian Institute https://ui.org.ua
Episodes
A moment with The Creative Condition founder Ben Tallon as he shares creativity-led thoughts, insights, lessons, feelings, and observations for the duration of one brew (hot beverage).
Today, thoughts on what's changed after two tough freelancing years and a slightly better start to this year. Talking creative self-efficacy, unpredictability, joy in the unknown, and the need to be out having conversations around passions, attun...
Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
- Designing a career
- Little houses in Mérida, Mexico
- My love of teaching creativity
- Sharing a life through art
As ever supported by Illustration X https://illustrationx.com
Work with me through the 'PIT STOP' one-stop creativity foundational coaching session now at https://thecreativecondition.com
Access creativity resources, i...
A moment with The Creative Condition founder Ben Tallon as he shares creativity-led thoughts, insights, lessons, feelings, and observations for the duration of one brew (hot beverage).
Today, creative self-efficacy and enrichment for sustainable creativity.
As ever supported by Illustration X https://illustrationx.com
Work with me through the 'PIT STOP' one-stop creativity foundational coaching session or my '...
A moment with The Creative Condition founder Ben Tallon as he shares creativity-led thoughts, insights, lessons, feelings, and observations for the duration of one brew (hot beverage).
Today, deepfake Steveb Bartlett and the beginning of the end of the internet, Tala Rae Schlossberg, local wilding, council emails, and getting back to tribal enrichment.
As ever supported by Illustration X https://illustrationx.com
Work with m...
Our cultures and societies are changing at a rate we were not designed to adapt to or comprehend. Our minds can rage from wild optimism to pessimism and nihilism 100s of times a day.
What does this mean for creativity, art, and design?
I'm joined by the VP of Innovation and Strategy at Marks, Jennifer Murtell, fresh off the fantastic work with female healthcare brand MUSA, with an entirely female team. She recently wrote a piec...
Simon Dixon, co-founder of DixonBaxi posted about the importance of designing your own career to avoid someone shaping it in an ill-fitting way.
It blew my mind, succinctly capturing so many universal creativity truths and bringing about a personal revelation that through my coaching, this is exactly what I'm helping my clients to do.
But what does it mean, and why is it so vital to career and life fulfillment?
As ever supported...
I don't know much about video games, but the medium intrigues me, so I'm joined by Oddbug Studio's art director and environment artist Martin Reimann fresh off the hugely successful launch of Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter.
I throw a lot of naive questions Martin's way about the role of a video game art director, the origins of both Oddbug and Tails of Iron, and we get into many aspects of creativity, passio...
Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
- AI rage
- A loss of mental balance
- Tala Schlossberg's wonderful comment on beauty in the dark
- The need for jeopardy remembered
As ever supported by Illustration X https://illustrationx.com
Work with me through the 'PIT STOP' one-stop creativity foundational coaching session now at https://thecreativecondition.com
Access cr...
In our 1000mph lives, it's so hard to listen and be heard, but deep listening is a critical part of the creative process. Being heard makes for unity, healthy relationships, and human value.
I'm joined by the author of the brilliant Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing, Rageshri Dhairyawan. Rageshri felt unheard while suffering extreme endometriosis pain, which planted the seed of the idea that became the book. She ...
Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
- The joy of being lost
- The inaugural Paradiso Festival
- The Burrills at breakfast
- A found book impact
As ever supported by Illustration X https://illustrationx.com
Get your 1/3 off 'PIT STOP' one-stop creativity foundational audit now at https://thecreativecondition.com
Help the Ukrainian Institute's brave creati...
Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
- Managing our 'insurmountables'
- The joy of childish humour and Looney Tunes villains
- 'The heels': common creativity villains
- World book day – magic or consumerist tosh?
As ever supported by Illustration X https://illustrationx.com
Get your 1/3 off 'PIT STOP' one-stop creativity foundational audit now at ht...
Amie McNee is the founder of 'Inspired Collective', where she supports people in becoming their inner artist. Her new book We Need Your Art! Stop Messing Around and Make Something is out on Penguin Books, and she joins The Creative Condition to share her story.
Amie is a huge advocate for artistic expression as a missing pillar of understanding in the human condition, and her work to challenge this tragic oversight is awes...
The Creativity Diary Entry 7: Losing Ken Garland, a time-slip in Preston, and storytelling obsession
Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
- A time-slip in Preston
- Losing Ken Garland and my time with him
- Covering up news headline panels on vulnerable days
- The wonder and imagination in boring church services
- A growing obsession with storytelling
As ever supported by Illustration X https://illustrationx.com
Get your 1/3 off 'PIT STOP' one-stop creativity foundationa...
A bonus shot following the full interview with LOVE founder Dave Palmer in which he offers balanced thoughts on the opportunity and the threat posed by artificial intelligence.
Hear our full conversation on episode 257.
As ever supported by Illustration X https://illustrationx.com
Get your 1/3 off 'PIT STOP' one-stop creativity foundational audit now at https://thecreativecondition.com
Help the Ukrainian I...
LOVE is a 80+ strong agency that specialises in delivering diverse, but complementary design-led solutions for global brands across brand strategy and design, identity design, packaging design, spaces, comms, immersive and activations.
Its founder, Dave Palmer shares not just the story of LOVE's evolution since its 2001 roots, but a lifetime of leading with creativity, the humanity, the chaos, and the euphoria of it all.
As ever...
The Creativity Diary Entry 6: Chinese space bras, fear of a word, and innovation in outdoor drinking
Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
- The unpredictability of a career that leads to drawing on Olympic bras in China
- The persisting intimidation attached to the word 'creativity' at all levels
- Space litter and a Galactic imagination
- A love of antagonists, graphic activism, and Pogus Caesar's photography
- A mucky treasure hunt and the value of the weekend self
As ever...
Pogus Caesar is a national treasure.
His many projects as a photographer, director, artist, and archivist transcend language and defy perfectionism in the way great art should.
The sheer humanity and honesty in his images spoke to me, and I needed to hear his story.
Those iconic images from the 1985 Handsworth riots fired me up through my love of activism through artistic expression. His images of cross-cultural friendships are prof...
Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
- A tough week of financial panic
- The personality clues in the culture we're drawn to
- The human fundamental of listening and being heard for mental wellbeing
- The battle to be trusted with a diverse skillset in a title-based market
- Young life and silent death: a motorbike in the graveyard
- Musings on joining dots and using the world as our art scho...
Content writer Caroline Christie shares her thoughts on the time a research facility funded by America’s largest telecommunications organisation became a studio of some of New York’s most renowned and avant-garde artists.
We're discussing the need for bigger thinking and cross-pollination of artists with other industries to resolve our collective problems and promote broader creativity.
Caroline wrote an arti...
Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
- Lively children fighting and why it's healthy
- An anxiety explosion and what I learned about structures and routines
- Boxing Day 1997 and magic in utter boredom and frustration
- Energy diversity and why it can help creative businesses
- Baby Gorilla: what a silly imaginative character for the kids has done for my own creativity
As ever supporte...
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