Goings on with John & Jamie...
The Speechwriter Newsletter
Recently John and Jamie were in the Speechwriter newsletter. Click here to download.
Sunday Hearal Article
Recently John and Jamie were in the Sunday Herald. Click here for more information.
Write Now Conference Reading
Recently the Room 121 book was read for the 'Write Now' conference in Glasgow! If you would like to listen, please click here.
Recent blog from the D&AD, with John Simmons
The fact is, the right to oppose someone else’s point of view is fundamental to our way of living. That makes it very easy to take for granted. When you look through the D&AD archive, including all those inspiring projects beginning with a B – from bath bubbles to bank branches – we should give thanks that we can do this. Underpinning it is the basic freedom to express a point of view, to be ourselves, to use our imagination.
Archive Dive: B is for Burma: To read this intriguing post, please click here.
The angel of the stories: A new book from John Simmons
Julia, a young woman in an Andalusian town, aspires to be a writer. Her writing remains earthbound and self-absorbed until she learns to reach out to the world more. In doing so, in connecting more with others, she becomes a writer – and she becomes an angel of a perfectly non-religious kind.
This is an unashamedly feel-good book of linked stories, a literary gift book with beautiful illustrations. The stories are lyrical and magical but with an edge.
The angel of the stories was first published on the storytelling website Shortbread Stories in a serialisation of twenty episodes in winter/spring 2011.
John Simmons hosts Pads, pens and yellow pencils, an interactive panel event in a pub with Nick Asbury, Ceri Tallett, Jim Davies and Will Awdry.
The days are long gone when writers and writing could be neglected in the creative process. A picture might be worth a thousand words – but it still might not be as good as the one right word. We ask five of the UK’s leading writers in the creative industries for their advice. What makes for good writing? How do you go about it? What writing do you admire? And we’ve asked them to share their views with you, so you can listen to them, quiz them, learn from them, debate with them. They’re all writers who know what ‘writing for design’ is all about and they’ve all earnt their D&AD spurs as well as a little fame by the quality of their writing.
To read more about John's involvement with the D&AD, please click this link to see their blog.
