Breed Presents

Of all the Creative Directors we've spoken to on this podcast, our latest guest on  Breed Presents   David Rager  still manages to stand out. Well, you tend to when you're creative directing  NASA .   Perhaps his most momentous decision has been the reintroduction of the stylized logotype popularly known as the  Worm , which is now used alongside the equally iconic insignia, known as the  Meatball...

We're excited to bring you the next episode of  Breed Presents  because its guest is  Ruthie  Rogers, best known as the founder and owner of  The River Cafe .   It's safe to say she's a creative mind, no matter what she turns her attention to. From co-founding  The River Cafe  alongside Rosie Gray, writing, designing and editing cookbooks, and now hosting her own podcast   Ruthie's Table 4 .   We...

Ramdane  Touhami is the guest in this episode of  Breed Presents .  Ramdane  is not someone to get stuck in one creative silo - perhaps the best way to describe him would be as a creative editor. He is the founder of  Words, Sounds, Colors & Shapes , which is described as a context rather than concept store in central Paris and he's also the owner of the  Drei Berge Hotel  in a spectacular spot in...

In this episode, we talk to  Will Hudson , who co-founded  It's Nice That  in 2007.  It's Nice That  subsequently span off in a number of different directions, including  HudsonBec Group , creative agency  Anyways ,  Creative Lives in Progress , which helps newcomers to the industry, and  If You Could   Jobs .  All have had one aim in mind – the promotion and opening up of the creative industries...

For this episode of Breed Presents our guest is the Yorgo Tloupas. Not only is he Creative Director of his own design studio Yorgo&Co in Paris, but he's also a snowboarder, teacher and proprietor of his own Greek cafe, Yorgaki He started his design career while still a student, creating a line of snowboards for Rossignol. He was soon working on magazines in Paris and London, including founding Int...

We're joined by artist  Polly  Morgan  for this episode of  Breed Presents .  Polly  made her name working with taxidermy in her art, which evolved over the years into the creation of more sculptural pieces involving snakeskins, concrete and polyurethane. Our podcast chat took place at Polly 's home near Stroud, and covered moving away from London, her home for many years, loss and grief, and all...

We're excited to be joined by  Graydon  Carter for the latest episode of  Breed Presents . A legendary figure in the world of magazine publishing and beyond,  Graydon  was editor of  Vanity Fair  for 25 years until 2017. Before that, he was co-founder and editor of the highly influential  Spy  magazine, and in recent years he was co-editor of weekly newsletter  Air Mail , co-founded with Alessandr...

We're kicking off a new series of Breed Presents – our fourth – and what better way to begin than with Neil Wenman, the Global Creative Director of  Hauser  & Wirth .  Hauser  & Wirth  began as a gallery founded by Iwan and Manuela Wirth and Ursula  Hauser  in 1992. It's come quite a way since then and now represents over a hundred artists with gallery locations around the world. Our conversation...

Breed Presents returns this Tuesday May 12th for Season 4. Olivia Triggs, host & founder of creative agency  Breed , talks to people from  all areas of the creative world, from artists to publishers, designers and more… those who've found their own very individual creative vocation. We're interested in what drives them, how they found their way into what they do, and their attitude towards the cre...

In this episode of Breed Presents our guest is Catherine Fairweather, journalist, travel writer, editor and also a podcaster. Much of Catherine's professional life has been forged from her love of travel, of discovering new places and cultures and seeing firsthand how other people live. Over the years, Catherine has been a contributing editor at Condé Nast Traveller, Harper's Bazaar, the Financial...

Our guest for this edition of Breed Presents is Dylan Jones – writer, journalist, editor, and a man with a love of music. In fact, he's just released  1975: The Year the World Forgot .   Dylan is probably best known as the editor of GQ , a position he took on in 1999 and held for 22 years. He began his career in journalism in the early 1980s, joining i-D  Magazine and rapidly rising to become its...

In this edition of Breed Presents we're talking to someone who it could easily be argued has had more influence on the cultural capital of London than any other individual in recent history – London's Deputy Mayor for Culture and the Creative Industries Justine Simons OBE. She was given that title by London Mayor Sadiq Khan in 2016, but she'd already been at the heart of support for the creative w...

Our guest for this episode is artist and illustrator, Fee Greening. Fee usually works with a dip pen and ink technique to create pieces that look simultaneously contemporary and steeped in the world of illuminated manuscripts, folklore and mythology. I sat down with her in person to discuss her career to date as well as her new book, an illustrated edition of Katharine Briggs' Dictionary of Fairie...

A few years back and the printed version of Breed Presents , we talked to Yolanda Edwards, founder and editor of YOLO Journal. YOLO Journal is a quarterly magazine that revels in the beauty of traveling to new places, focusing first on the photography and then on words in the form of personal stories and tips relating to each location.  The magazine is very much a personal project as Yolanda is it...

For this episode we're very pleased to be talking to Marina Willer, at Pentagram London. Marina was born in Brazil, to artist parents, who encouraged an early interest in design and the visual arts. This eventually led her to move to London, where she studied graphic design at the Royal College of Art.  During her design career, she has been central to brand identity work. Her first love, however,...

Today's guest on Breed Presents has been a designer for British luxury clothes brand Sunspel. After studying fashion and business at the University of Brighton, David embarked on his career as a menswear designer at COS, soon finding his way into his senior role at Sunspel, where he spent four years as creative director. He's recentered his role more on the product side of things as the design dir...

At Breed,  Elizabeth Goodspeed is best known to us as the US editor-at-large for It's Nice That, the global platform run by creatives for creatives. She's also an independent, multidisciplinary designer, art director, writer and educator. After completing a dual degree in neuroscience and graphic design at RISD, Elizabeth  began her career with an internship at Pentagram in New York before going b...

In today's episode of Breed Presents  we're talking to Rasha  Kalil, who is a photographer and Creative Director of the Financial Times' How To Spend It magazine. Born in Beirut Rasha returned to London to study at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2008 with an MA in Communication Art & Design. Since graduating she has worked for Vogue UK, Dazed & Confused, and ES Magazine, and co-founded ar...

For the first episode of Breed Presents we spoke to  Sarah Andelman, the founder of the Parisian store Colette, known for its mix of streetwear, high fashion and lifestyle products, finally closed its doors. Since it closed in 2017 there have been pop-ups, collaborations, and more via her brand consultancy Just An Idea. In 2021, she launched Just An Idea Books, which focuses on publishing works wh...

Breed Presents returns this Tuesday July 1st for Season 3. Olivia Triggs, host & founder of creative agency Breed , talks to people who have made an impact on the creative world, whether that be in art, design, retail, fashion, publishing, writing or their own individual niche. We're not dropping any names just yet, but suffice to say guests include luminaries from Sunspel, The Financial Times  HT...

Back in 2021, we interviewed the CEO and Creative Director of the Pellicano Hotel Group , Marie-Louise Sciò, for the print version of Breed Presents . It was clear we could only skim the surface of what we would like to have asked Marie-Louise. So when we started the podcast, she was at the top of our list. Marie-Louise grew up around La Posta Vecchia , in a beautiful setting overlooking the Tyrrh...

This edition of Breed Presents is a conversation with creative director, editor, and design consultant Tony Chambers.   Tony Chambers is perhaps best known as the longest-serving Editor-in-Chief of Wallpaper* . He joined the magazine as Creative Director in 2003, was appointed Editor-in-Chief in 2007, and Brand and Content Director in 2017. He transformed Wallpaper* into a global brand with pocket...

Rafael Oliveira is the Creative Director at  Tracksmith , a Boston-based maker of performance running gear. He works in Porto, Portugal from his home — a former car parts warehouse that he helped transform into his dream house.  At age 30, he discovered a love for running, and he didn't approach his new-found passion with an occasional jog. He got into interval training, track running, and enduran...

Hugo Rifkind is a journalist and broadcaster, including as a presenter on Times Radio. He's also the author of  Rabbits , a new novel set in an all-boys boarding school that steps into the darker undercurrents of that environment. It's been described by crime writer Val McDermid as "Saltburn, but with kilts." Host Olivia Triggs chats with Hugo about his creative process on Rabbits , constructing f...

Breed London is a creative agency for visual artists. We represent a small roster of diverse creative talent. Included on that roster is photographer and filmmaker Cat Garcia . Cat uses images to tell stories without pretension. She likes shooting in black and white and using natural light. Her work is stripped back, simple and real.  When she works with moving image, she's often accompanied by he...