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My Life in Design with Spencer Buck - Taxi Studio
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My Life in Design with Debbie Millman
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Why do some agencies become famous? The role of PR in success
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Is LinkedIn still a useful platform for creatives? (as seen in Creative Boom)
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My Life in Design with Jonathan Sands OBE
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My Life in Design with Vuokko Aro Chief Design Officer at Monzo
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My life in Design with Kwame Taylor-Hayford - D&AD President
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Words we love… moments (the currency of culture)
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Brand Design PR Spotlight on Rebecca Kesteven
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D&AD & My Life in Design LIVE with Kwame Taylor-Hayford in NYC 12 March
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Set the Agenda - Spring 2025
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How creatives can raise their profiles without social media (as seen in Creative Boom)
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5 Reasons Your Creative Agency Needs PR to Grow
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MEETING ROOM presents: Jim Sutherland, Sutherl& Studio & Kate Dawkins – XS to XXL
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Level Up Your Creative Agency: How to Use PR for Growth (LIVE WORKSHOP IN NYC)
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Words we love: zinger (& the importance of finding PR zingers)
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Brand Design PR Spotlight on Hollie Martin
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The D&AD x Red Setter Design Social is back - February 6 2025
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Thinking About PR? Why Your Business Strategy Needs PR More Than Ever
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Advice for your design business in 2025 from the DBA Experts Register
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Words we love - pareidolia (am I seeing things?)
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Five ideas from this year's Web Summit
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Set the agenda - Winter 2024
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D&AD x Red Setter - our first 'Design Social'
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My Life in Design with Henry Steiner - father of graphic design in Hong Kong
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My Life in Design with the co-founders of Wiedemann Lampe
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Words we love: sonder - the complex lives of others
My Life in Design with Julia Beardwood of Beardwood&Co
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Brand Design PR Spotlight on Hayley Hayes - Senior Editorial Consultant
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Join us at The Design Social with the D&AD
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My Life in Design with Dick Powell, co-founder of Seymour Powell
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My Life in Design with Fe Amarante, founder and principal Experimenta
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Our first Meeting Room Presents in Brighton with Supermundane and Rejane Dal Bello
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My Life in Design with Ian Richie co-founder of JKR
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A (design) night at the museum: 3 learnings from ‘The Design Effect’ 2024
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My Life in Design with Jolene Delisle of The Working Assembly
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New event aims to put design in the spotlight in Brighton - Meeting Room Presents...
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My Life in Design with Fred Gelli co-founder and CEO of Tátil
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Words we love: Noodle as in ‘having a noodle’
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My Life in Design with Joanne Chan CEO of Turner Duckworth
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My Life in Design with Domenic Lippa, Pentagram partner (& chair)
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Set the agenda - Autumn 2024
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London Design Festival LIVE 'My Life in Design' event with Pentagram's Domenic Lippa
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Brand Design Spotlight on Ellie Harbinson - Account Executive
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Two Months at Red Setter: what I’ve learned!
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Brandspiration: Hiut Denim
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Claire Blyth speaking at HOW Design Live - September 2024
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Brand Design Spotlight on Emily Gosling - Editorial Consultant
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Five things we learned from July's Nicer Tuesdays
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Words we love: Pebbling – a new love language
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Brand Design Spotlight on Cher Keane - Associate Director
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Brandspiration: Pot Gang
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Set the agenda – Summer 2024
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Five things we learnt at D&AD 2024
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My Life in Design LIVE at Birmingham Design Festival
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What makes a good talk at OFFF?
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PR Brand Design Spotlight on Claire Blyth - Founder and Managing Partner
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Words we love: glorious
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My Life in Design - Mauro Porcini senior VP and chief design officer at PepsiCo
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Brandspiration: Lidl
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My Life in Design Podcast - Ekaterina Solomeina, co-founder of Future London Academy
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My Life in Design Podcast - Alex Moulton Chief Creative Officer at Trollbäck+Company
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PR Brand Design Spotlight on Lily Clamp - Senior Account Executive
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My Life in Design Podcast - Alex Center, founder of CENTER
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TEDxBrighton 2024: ABBA, highlights & insights
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My Life in Design Podcast - Joshua Breidenbach, founder and ECD of Rice Studios
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Day in the life - Claire Blyth (as featured in Creative Bloq)
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My Life in Design Podcast - Joy Nazzari, Founder DNCO
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My Life in Design Podcast - Hamish Campbell VP/ECD of Pearlfisher New York
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Brand Design Spotlight on Sian Disson - Senior Account Director
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My Life in Design Podcast - Kerry Bolt & Shaun Bowen of B&B studio
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My Life in Design Podcast - Emily Rickard CEO of BUCK
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Brandspiration: Who Gives a Crap
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Making the Case for Investment in Design
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My Life in Design Podcast - Mary Lewis of Lewis Moberly
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Set the agenda - Spring 2024
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Brand Design Spotlight on Kate Selley - Senior Account Manager
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Words we love: pop
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Brand Design Spotlight on Miriam Chumbley - Senior Account Executive
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The Wisdom of Steven Bartlett
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Branding in tech - more vital than ever (in Transform)
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Words we love: home - the more 'homes' we can find, the better
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Brand Design PR Spotlight on Carrie Ellis - Senior Account Manager
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Red Setter Year in Review – Our Top 10 Highlights
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Alternative word of year (we love): ludicrous (because that sums up 2023 perfectly)
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My Life in Design podcast - Dines, Studio Blup
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My Life in Design Podcast - Marina Willer, Pentagram
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Brand Design PR Spotlight on Anna McKie - Editorial Consultant
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Set the Agenda - Winter 2023
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My Life in Design Podcast - Cat How of How&How
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Five takeaways from Wired Impact
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Words we love: verlan – when bonjour becomes jourbon - a celebration of French slang
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How to win a Pentaward – the inside track from the judges
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My Life in Design Podcast - Rejane Dal Bello
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Brand Design Spotlight on Gemma Maxey - Associate Director
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My Life in Design Podcast - Stefan Sagmeister
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Five Things We Learnt at the Pentawards Festival
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My Life in Design Podcast - Alan Dye and Nick Finney, NB Studio
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Words we love: nice - stop hating on nice! It's not nice
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My Life in Design Podcast - Sean Thomas, ECD, JKR
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Five things I've learnt in one year working in brand design PR
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FLOCK - Brighton's Design Gathering
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Designing for Sustainability: five pieces of advice from the experts
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My Life in Design Podcast - Robert Brunner, Ammunition
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My Life in Design Podcast - Ro and Margaret from Denomination
Brand Design Spotlight on Beth Marchant - Senior Account Executive
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My Life in Design Podcast - Jim Sutherland of Studio Sutherl&
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Jeremy Lindley on Neuroscience in Design - 5 things we learnt
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Red Setter x Design - London Design Festival day out
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Words we love: kerfuffles and inconsequential blunders
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Nursery rhymes, goblin hills, and the birth of Venus – two days at Dieline Forum
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Brand Design PR Spotlight on Josh Johnson - Account Executive
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This Tuesday was a nice one – It’s Nice That’s September ‘Nicer Tuesdays’
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Set the Agenda – Autumn 2023
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Words we love: what an absolute banger!
Careers
From in-house to agency
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My Life in Design Podcast - Brian Collins, co-founder of COLLINS
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Brand Design PR Spotlight on Anna Richardson-Taylor, Editorial Consultant
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My Life in Design Podcast - Caspar Lam and YuJune Park, founders of Synoptic Office
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Is there room in agencies for employees with a chronic health diagnosis? (as featured in PR Week)
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My Life in Design Podcast - David Johnston, founder Accept & Proceed
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Brand Design PR Spotlight on Alex Blyth, Managing Partner
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Hiring a PR agency? How to set it up for success (as featured in Transform)
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My Life in Design Podcast - Paula Scher, partner Pentagram
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My Life in Design Podcast - Craig Black, visual artist
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My Life in Design Podcast - John Glasgow, co-founder Vault49
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My Life in Design Podcast - Sarah Boris, artist & designer
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Unexpected Connections in Bratislava - ByDesign Conference
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Set the Agenda - Summer 2023
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My Life in Design Podcast - Dave Palmer, ECD and Owner of LOVE
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My Life in Design Podcast - Series 3 Launch - Harry Pearce, Pentagram
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My Life in Design Podcast - Series 3 Launch 8th June 2023
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Red Setter Perspectives from D&AD Festival 2023
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An evening with Paula Scher (Typocircle event)
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We’ve got in-house copywriters. Why would we need a journalist to write our PR stories?
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Five things in five years (advice to my younger self)
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What to advise clients and your team about posting on social (as featured in PR Moment)
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Red Setter Selects - Brand Stories
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My Life in Design Podcast - Jack Renwick, Founder & Creative Director, Jack Renwick Studio
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Surprising Stories - Your agency has more stories to tell than you think (as featured in Transform)
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My Life in Design Podcast - Marie-Thérèse Cassidy, VP Design Europe at PepsiCo
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Words we love: the unassuming power of 'malarkey', and an ode to cringe
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My Life in Design Podcast - Astrid Stavro COLLINS
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Set the Agenda - Spring 2023
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My Life in Design Podcast - Craig Oldham founder Office of Craig
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Intern to AE – How getting a PR admin role as a student kick started my career
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My Life in Design Podcast - Tony Brook, Spin
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The one thing that makes a branding agency stand out (as featured in Transform)
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My Life in Design Podcast - Vince Frost, founder, CEO and ECD of Frost*collective
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Starting a career in design? Here's 5 things design leaders want you to know (as featured on Creativepool)
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My Life in Design Podcast - Jeremy Lindley Global Design Director at Diageo
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Words we love: a snippet of serendipity please
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My Life in Design Podcast - Liza Enebeis of Studio Dumbar
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My Life in Design Podcast - Aporva Baxi of DixonBaxi
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My Life in Design Podcast - Baxter & Bailey
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It's back! Season Two - My Life in Design podcast with new partner, the DBA
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How to get over the 'boss complex' - by being one (as featured in We Are the City)
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Red Setter Year in Review – Our Top 10 Highlights
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Words we love: Zeitgeist - spirit of the times and pop culture moments of 2022
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Set the Agenda - Winter 2022
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Tips for the anti-quiet quitter - how to show initiative in your career (as featured in We Are the City)
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Words we love: Eureka! And other 'Aha!' moments
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Tips for staying positive (as featured in PR Moment)
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Red Setter Selects - Brand Collaborations
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BOWIE: what can creatives learn from Moonage Daydream? (as featured in Creativepool)
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Our Red Setter Dutch Design Week Experience
Careers
Day in the Life of Account Manager Jack
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Words we love: ellipsis - the anxious ellipsis and other YA stories
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Is PR a better employer than it used to be? (as featured in PR Moment)
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Set the Agenda - Autumn 2022
News
Designing for Designers - a head-to-head on a rebrand to appeal to designers
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Red Setter Selects - Drinks Brands
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My Life in Design Podcast - Episode 9 (last in series)
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My Life in Design Podcast - Episode 8
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Set the Agenda - Summer 2022
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My Life in Design Podcast - Episode 7
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My Life in Design Podcast - Episode 6
My Life in Design Podcast - Episode 5 PART TWO
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My Life in Design Podcast - Episode 5 - PART ONE
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Words we love: spoonerism - a ‘half-warmed fish’ and other slip ups
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My Life in Design Podcast - Episode 4
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How to double your LinkedIn followers in a year (as featured in Vuelio)
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My Life in Design Podcast - Episode 3
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Words we love: sporadically - a 'Clueless' word
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My Life in Design Podcast - Episode 2
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My Life in Design Podcast - Episode 1
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My Life in Design Podcast Launch
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Red Setter Selects - Nostalgia Brands
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Is Y2K PR making a comeback? (as featured on PR Week)
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The return of in-real-life client meetings - why we need them
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Set the Agenda - Spring's Must-See Design Events
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Words we love: arise – the Wordle-busting blinder
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Red Setter is officially a Great Place to Work
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Top tips for selling in (as featured on PR Moment)
Careers
A Day in the Life of an In-House Journalist at Red Setter
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Words we love: plethora - 'Would you say I have a plethora of piñatas?'
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5 minutes with Claire Blyth (as featured on Transform)
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How to get the most out of your PR internship (as featured on Vuelio)
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What's the prediction for PR in 2022? (as featured on PR Moment)
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Lantern Reveals New Identity for Red Setter ("Designing for Designers") (as featured on PRINT magazine)
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Doing things differently. How Red Setter is tackling the PR recruitment crisis (as featured on Vuelio)
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Red Setter rebrand by Lantern (as featured on Transform)
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The best PR stunts of 2021 (as featured on PR Moment)
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Set the agenda – Red Setter’s Top Design Events December 2021
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Balancing the Grind interview with Claire Blyth (as featured on Balance the Grind)
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Curious, creative and collaborative? Perhaps a career in PR is for you (as featured on We Are the City)
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Set the agenda - Red Setter's Top Design Events November 2021
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Words we (would) love: a word to solve the question ‘heat hot or spicy hot?’
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Considering the 'dark side'? Advice for those looking to switch from journalism to PR (as featured on journalism.co.uk)
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Set the agenda - Red Setter's Top Design Events October 2021
News
What's the best piece of PR advice you've ever been given? (as featured on PR Moment)
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Q&A with Sarah Holland on Red Setter's Walking Map
Careers
A day in the life of a Red Setter Account Manager - Carrie
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Brand shout out to Kappa
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Set the agenda - Red Setter's Top Design Events September 2021
Careers
What I've learnt switching from Art PR to Design PR
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Freelance to employed: What I learnt moving from independent journalist to permanent PR role (as featured on Creativepool)
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Set the agenda - Red Setter's favourite museums and galleries to explore
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Words we love: petrichor - the sweet smell of summer rain
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Why the design industry needs the Design Community Hub right now
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Is having a niche your agency's superpower? (as featured on New Digital Age)
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The Design Community Hub - a New Angle (as featured on It's Nice That)
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What PR pros can actually learn from Harry Kane (as featured on PR Week)
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Set the agenda - Red Setter's Top 5 Design Events in July 2021
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How to get in the top 1% of LinkedIn engagement
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Words we love: portmanteau - a beautiful mash up
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Set the agenda - Red Setter's Top 5 Design Events in June 2021
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Instagram saturation: how design agencies can stand out in a sea of creativity
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Words we love: the case for 'ain't'
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Set the agenda - Our pick of May's design events
Careers
A day in the life of a Red Setter Account Executive
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Words we love: bubble - who doesn't love a bubble?
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What's the real value of TikTok and should your design agency be on it?
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Design Community Hub launches to “keep the industry alive” (as featured on Design Week)
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How, when and if PR is returning to the office post pandemic (as featured on PR Moment)
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Design Community Hub interview on Sky News with DBA Chief Executive Deborah Dawton
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Words we hate: normalcy - the virus within the virus
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How the pandemic changed PR (as featured on PR Moment)
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Words we love: alone but not lonely
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Why webinars work and ceviches destroy good ideas
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How branding agencies get noticed by property firms - 7 steps
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How to grow your creative agency in the Covid-19 downturn
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The agency pivot - when to do it and how to get it right
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You'll never be a fine artist - what Harry Pearce of Pentagram did next
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Words we love: malapropisms and other verbal bloopers
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Guide to Agency Growth through Social Media
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Words we hate: one word never to utilise
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A Guide to Agency Growth through Thought Leadership
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