Breed Presents
Creativity and the way it shapes lives and success is the theme of Breed Presents hosted by Breed London’s Olivia Triggs. Her guests, including artists, creative directors, designers, fiction and travel writers, and curators, all have one thing in common – an exceptionally creative mind. breedlondon.com @breedlondon
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Breed Presents: Suzanne Dean
08/21/2026
Breed Presents: Suzanne Dean
The final guest for series four of Breed Presents is Suzanne Dean, Creative Director of Vintage, . Impressive as it is, that title doesn’t really reveal just how much cultural influence Suzanne has, as it means she’s behind many of the cover designs for books found on our bookshelves. Among the covers she personally designed are The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Sapiens, and Entangled Life, while authors she’s worked with include Haruki Murakami, Toni Morrison, and Margaret Atwood. During her career her work has often been recognised, winning at the ABCD Awards, The British Book Design and Production Awards, and the V&A Illustration Awards. Plus, in 2023, she was named Designer of the Year at the British Book Awards. Of the many book covers designed by Suzanne and her team, we touched on a few specifically during our conversation, including James Fox’s Craftland, Margaret Atwood’s Paper Boat, Charlotte Higgins’ Ukrainian Lessons, and What Did the Deep Sea Say? by Marion Coutts freelanced to designer Jon Gray, as well as many works by Haruki Murakami including After Dark, Sputnik Sweetheart, A Wild Sheep Chase, Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland. Instagram: @vintagebooks and @penguinrandomhouse
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Breed Presents: Hugh Miller
07/14/2026
Breed Presents: Hugh Miller
Our guest for this episode is Hugh Miller – art director, graphic designer and partner. We discuss Hugh's passion for typefaces and how they have been a theme running throughout his career, from those he designed when working inhouse for both Nokia and Microsoft, to his work with Type Directors Club New York after co-founding BOND London. As well as also being a university lecturer, he maintains his own extensive design archive. We talk about the latter at length and go into detail discussing several pieces that are in his collection. We also talk about Hugh's love of music, from his own personal musical tastes to discussing music packaging and design in general. @neue_miller
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Breed Presents: David Rager
07/07/2026
Breed Presents: David Rager
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 . 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. David arrived at NASA from a role with the . Prior to that, he worked for Disney, the New Museum in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. He’s also the co-founder, with wife Cheri Messerli, of US/French design studio . And, if he has any spare time, he plays in a band, Massage. Instagram: @davidrager @nasa
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Breed Presents: Ruthie Rogers
06/23/2026
Breed Presents: Ruthie Rogers
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 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 We discuss her recent books, , collecting interviews from the podcast, and Squeeze Me: Lemon Recipes and Art, a collaboration with artist Ed Ruscha. Recorded at her home, designed by her late husband architect Richard Rogers, we also touch on her art collection, its meaning and importance.
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Breed Presents: Ramdane Touhami
06/16/2026
Breed Presents: Ramdane Touhami
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 , which is described as a context rather than concept store in central Paris and he’s also the owner of the in a spectacular spot in the Swiss Alps. Those two form part of our conversation, along with his creative agency , his ongoing fascination with the history and design of the counterculture, and the recently opened . @
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Breed Presents: Will Hudson
06/09/2026
Breed Presents: Will Hudson
In this episode, we talk to Will Hudson, who co-founded in 2007. It’s Nice That subsequently span off in a number of different directions, including , creative agency Anyways, , which helps newcomers to the industry, and . All have had one aim in mind – the promotion and opening up of the creative industries and the ideas they produce. In our conversation, we touch on the original vision Will and his friend and business partner Alex Bec had, when they set up It’s Nice That while still at university in Brighton. And whether they could ever have foreseen how influential it’s become in the years since.
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Breed Presents: Yorgo Tloupas
06/02/2026
Breed Presents: Yorgo Tloupas
For this episode of Breed Presents our guest is the Yorgo Tloupas. Not only is he Creative Director of his own design studio 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 Intersection with photographer Rankin. Recently, he’s creative directed Les Inrockuptibles. We talk about all of this, plus his involvement in ski brand Black Crows.
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Breed Presents: Polly Morgan
05/26/2026
Breed Presents: Polly Morgan
We're joined by artist 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 the experiences and inspirations that feed into her work. We also touch on her recent transition into being a curator for exhibitions by other artists. @pollymorganartist
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Breed Presents: Graydon Carter
05/19/2026
Breed Presents: Graydon Carter
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 Alessandra Stanley. Last year, he published an immensely enjoyable autobiography, , which forms the core of our conversation.
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Breed Presents: Neil Wenman
05/12/2026
Breed Presents: Neil Wenman
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 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 took place looking out across the vista of London from the windows of his Mayfair office. That conversation took in Neil’s achievements during 15 years at Hauser & Wirth, working with and for the artistic community it represents, , and how he went from an early fascination with architecture to working at the centre of the artistic world. We also talked about his work with the arts and mental health charity , which commissions art for hospital spaces and provides art workshops for patients and NHS staff.
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Breed Presents: Season 4 - Returns Tuesday 12th May
05/05/2026
Breed Presents: Season 4 - Returns Tuesday 12th May
Breed Presents returns this Tuesday May 12th for Season 4. Olivia Triggs, host & founder of creative agency , 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 creative act. Among the guests we can hint at, without giving any names just yet, are people closely associated with Vanity Fair, It’s Nice That, Hauser & Wirth, Black Crows, and Words, Sounds, Colors & Shapes. New episodes - every Tuesday.
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Breed Presents: Catherine Fairweather
09/02/2025
Breed Presents: Catherine Fairweather
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 Times, Air Mail and The Daily Telegraph. She then began podcasting and now hosts two podcasts: Voices from the Frontline, where she talks to people who work in high-risk combat zones all over the world and The Third Act, a podcast that looks at later life in a positive way through conversations with artists, explorers and actors. Catherine was the last interview we recorded for this season and it was so nice to round things off with a fellow podcaster, the first we've had on the series.
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Breed Presents: Dylan Jones
08/26/2025
Breed Presents: Dylan Jones
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 editor, while also working as a contributing editor at The Face. Post GQ, Dylan has worked for The Observer and The Sunday Times and was editor-in-chief at The Standard, where he also interviewed and reviewed the likes of Van Morrison and the Sex Pistols. On top of that, he has edited and written more than two dozen books, including These Foolish Things: A Memoir which became the main focus of our conversation when we sat down together in London.
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Breed Presents: Justine Simons
08/19/2025
Breed Presents: Justine Simons
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 world under the previous two mayors, since 2002. Some of the projects she's overseen are: Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth, the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, founding the World Cities Culture Forum, establishing the London Borough of Culture and most recently developing the East Bank in Stratford. And that’s just scratching the surface of her achievements and we touched on many more during this conversation. Justine Simons'
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Breed Presents: Fee Greening
08/12/2025
Breed Presents: Fee Greening
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 Fairies which will be published by Octopus on the 11th September 2025. Pre-order Dictionary of Fairies at . Fee's Fee's
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Breed Presents: Yolanda Edwards
08/05/2025
Breed Presents: Yolanda Edwards
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 its founder, publisher and editor as well as a contributor, and is a coming together of much of her previous experience that experience includes two periods working at Condé Nast Traveler, first as photo editor and then as creative director. So, we're delighted to welcome Yolanda back to Breed to speak to us about it. YOLO Journal - YOLO Journal - Yolanda Edwards -
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Breed Presents: Marina Willer
07/29/2025
Breed Presents: Marina Willer
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, has always been film, and she has pursued a parallel career as a filmmaker. Her first feature film was the documentary ‘Red Trees’ which came out in 2017 and used the story of her own family’s escape from the Nazi occupation of Prague to explore today’s refugee crisis I caught up with her at the Pentagram offices in Notting Hill, it’s a conversation I loved. Watch Red Trees: via Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marina_willer/?hl=en Pentagram: https://www.pentagram.com/about/marina-willer
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Breed Presents: David Telfer
07/22/2025
Breed Presents: David Telfer
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 director. Our chat takes us into discussing what goes into leading the creative side of things, and also developing a product of a brand steeped in heritage, craft and tradition.
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Breed Presents: Elizabeth Goodspeed
07/15/2025
Breed Presents: Elizabeth Goodspeed
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 before going to to work at The Whitney Museum of American Art, RoAndCo before rejoining Pentagram in a full time positon. Since 2020 she's been freelance and has collaborated with studios including Interbrand, her old home Pentagram, Gander and Red Antler, and worked directly with clients including Google, Spotify and MAC Cosmetics. Beyond her day-to-day design work, produces her own design history newsletter Casual Archivist, writes as often as she can about trends, design history and design trends aswell as teaches at Rhode Island School of Design and Parsons School of Design in New York.
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Breed Presents: Rasha Kahil
07/08/2025
Breed Presents: Rasha Kahil
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 art direction studio Barbara Creative. But it’s her work as an artist that has brought Rasha most attention. It brings together photography, text, video and installation, often exploring perceptions of the human body and their relationship to identity, art history and everyday life & it's something we discuss in today's episode.
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Breed Presents: Sarah Andleman
07/01/2025
Breed Presents: Sarah Andleman
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 which Sarah describes as delivering ‘a high dose of wonder’. So far, a couple of dozen beautifully designed books have been published, including works by photographers Glenjamn and Charles Bébert, and writer Douglas Coupland. Another Just An Idea spin-off, retail pop-up Just a Space, followed in 2022. Our chat encompasses subjects running from the fashion influence of Snoopy, skateboarding and the art of curation.
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Breed Presents: Season 3 - Returns Tuesday 1st July
06/24/2025
Breed Presents: Season 3 - Returns Tuesday 1st July
Breed Presents returns this Tuesday July 1st for Season 3. Olivia Triggs, host & founder of creative agency , 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 HTSI magazine, Just An Idea, It’s Nice That, YOLO Journal, Pentagram, Island Records, and the London Mayor’s Office. New episodes - every Tuesday.
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Breed Presents: Marie-Louise Sciò
12/11/2024
Breed Presents: Marie-Louise Sciò
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 interior designer, Massimo Zompa, in Rome. After overseeing the rebuilding of Il Pellicano, Marie-Louise took over her father’s hotel portfolio in 2011 and has been running them ever since, adding the equally impressive on the island of Ischia in 2019. She also launched lifestyle website, , offering the best of Italian design, fashion, and food, carefully selected by Marie-Louise herself. Host Olivia Triggs of sits down with Marie-Louise to talk about living in Rome, a new hotel project, and how she uses her creativity. Image credit: Stephen Ringer
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Breed Presents: Tony Chambers
11/19/2024
Breed Presents: Tony Chambers
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 . 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 Times Magazine. From there he moved on to become Art Director at British GQ, where he was voted PPA Art Director of the Year twice in 1998 and 2001. Nowadays, Tony is the founder of creative agency . He also started the design and ideas platform with artist Ryan Gander, he’s co-chairman of Fortune Magazine’s Brainstorm Design, and he sits on the board of trustees of the Barbican Arts Centre. Host Olivia Triggs of sits down with Tony to talk about his career, his proudest moments at Wallpaper*, and the inspiration behind TC & Friends.
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Breed Presents: Rafael Oliveira
10/17/2024
Breed Presents: Rafael Oliveira
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 he liked Tracksmith not only because the clothing was effective but also because of the way the brand presented itself. Rafa was so enamored that he got in touch with the company's founder, Matt Taylor. They hit it off, and in 2016 Rafa took over as Tracksmith's Creative Director. Olivia Triggs founder of chats with Rafa about his home city of Porto, how he got into design, and what it's like to combine two of his passions — design and running — at work.
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Breed Presents: Hugo Rifkind
09/20/2024
Breed Presents: Hugo Rifkind
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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Breed Presents: Cat Garcia and Carlos Garcia
08/30/2024
Breed Presents: Cat Garcia and Carlos Garcia
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 intimate, positive stories, focusing in on the little details of life to provide that genuine sense of empathy. In recent years, she's worked with Tate Britain, Soho House, MATCHESFASHION.com, Leica, Hole & Corner, MR PORTER, and the V&A, among many others. Cat has made films for Make Hauser & Wirth, Frescobol Carioca, and Sunspel with David Shrigley. Special thanks to Hauser & Wirth and Sunspel for giving us permission to use the music Carlos created for them.
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Breed Presents: Quentin Jones
05/29/2024
Breed Presents: Quentin Jones
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 living and working in New York vs. London, and more.
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Breed Presents: Matthew Freud
04/04/2024
Breed Presents: Matthew Freud
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 retreat: – A Coaching Inn.
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Breed Presents: David McKendrick
02/15/2024
Breed Presents: David McKendrick
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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