Breed Presents
Back in 2021, we interviewed the CEO and Creative Director of the , 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 , in a beautiful setting overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea, and around the grounds of , sited high above Porto Ercole in Tuscany. Both hotels were owned by her father, Roberto. Marie-Louise studied design and architecture at Rhode Island School of Design before working with...
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This edition of Breed presents . . . The Podcast 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 . 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 City Guides, a website, a creative agency, a retail platform, and an interior design service. After studying at Central Saint Martins, Tony started his career as Art Editor at The Sunday...
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Rafael Oliveira is the Creative Director at , 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 endurance training, and soon got his marathon time down to under two hours and 30 minutes. Throughout Rafa’s training journey, he became particular about his running gear and found Tracksmith. And...
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Hugo Rifkind is a journalist and broadcaster, including as a presenter on Times Radio. He’s also the author of , 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 fictional characters, as well as personal experiences that influenced the book.
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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 her husband, Carlos Garcia, who provides evocative soundtracks to her visuals. Carlos is a professional songwriter and musician, and he joins Cat in conversation with Breed. In all her work, Cat tells...
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Today's episode features someone we’re already familiar with — Quentin Jones. The daughter of architects, Quentin studied Philosophy at Cambridge, before taking an M.A. in Illustration at Central Saint Martins. Straight out of college, she began building a career as an artist, photographer, and filmmaker, taking in clients like Louis Vuitton, Chanel, and Vogue. We’ve been working with Quentin at since 2018, and the main focus of our chat is on our area of interest – her art. Though we also touch on her creative heritage, her love affair with fashion, the difference between...
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Matthew Freud is probably best known as the founder and guiding light of PR agency Freud Communications. He’s also an Oscar and BAFTA winner for his role as producer of the animated short film The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. But what Olivia Triggs really wanted to talk to him about was his carefully curated and incredibly diverse art collection, including works by Banksy, Damien Hirst, and Keith Haring, as well as objects like an Enigma coding machine, a piece of Concorde, and dinosaur bones. We also found out about his new hotel/cultural...
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Art director and graphic designer, David McKendrick, is the founder of and biannual creative magazine . Earlier in his career, he worked for Wallpaper* and Esquire magazines and set up creative agency B.A.M., working with clients like White Cube, Christie’s, and The Times. Olivia Triggs talks to David about his career in design, his love for magazines, and what he intends to do next.
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Graphic designer Michael Bierut has been a partner at design consultancy since 1990. He's behind the logo for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, the brand refresh of Mastercard, and many other projects. He’s also a commentator, writer, and lecturer on design and co-founder of the online journal Design Observer. Olivia Triggs talks to Michael about how he fell in love with design and New York City. And we hear about the types of design projects that excite him today.
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This edition of Breed presents… The Podcast sees us in conversation with Kuchar Swara. Kuchar is the Creative Director of the Telegraph Media Group, where he leads a design team across branding, editorial design, marketing, and whatever else is thrown at them. Originally from Iran, Kuchar arrived in London as a boy in the 1990s, going on to study typography at the London College of Printing. He started to attract attention while at Winkreative after working on the redesign for Italian art and architecture magazine Case da Abitare. magCulture’s Jeremy Leslie, who we’ve talked...
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In our latest podcast, Breed Director Olivia Triggs talks to architect John Pawson. John has worked on everything, from private homes and monasteries to bridges and yacht interiors. And whether he's working on buildings, interiors, or furniture, John's designs are always simple, functional, and beautiful.
His aesthetic partly derives from time he spent in Japan as a young man, which he outlines in his book, 'Anatomy of Minimum'. John is also an accomplished photographer whose book of chromatically ordered images, 'Spectrum', was turned into an immersive exhibition at 180 The Strand. In 2019, his continued influence and dedication to his craft was recognized when he was awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours.
Check out John's work at johnpawson.com