Dave Dye

Feb 8, 2024 | mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Dave Dye |Grace Gollasch |Matt Garbutt |Toby Beresford

An old teacher of mine, Mr Street (anyone remember him?), once spent all lesson telling us how the future was going to roll out. He was prescient on the rise in popularity of twerking and the emergence of the Swifties, I’ll give him that, but his prediction of The Leisure Society were way off. He said that machines were going to do all the heavy lifting, leaving us humans to a life of leisure – drinking cocktails in our jacuzzis. It sounded great. I was really looking forward to it.

Aug 21, 2023 | mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Emily Rich |Toby Beresford |Amy Ramage |Dave Dye

In 1933, a museum in South Africa reported a crow’s nest made from copper, galvanised iron and barbed wire. More recently, magpie nests from trees in Rotterdam and Antwerp were found to be made almost entirely from strips of long metal bird-deterrent spikes. Some might say irony. Some chutzpah. These amazing little birds have at the most extreme, woven incongruous material into their product.

Aug 16, 2023 | mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Dave Dye |David Wethey |Sophie Lewis |Giles Lury

Leading creative company Saatchi & Saatchi has today announced three new partners for Upriser, the free creative schools’ platform it launched last year. Supporting Upriser’s ambition to expand beyond London and reach secondary school students in every corner of the UK, the new partnerships will see the programme roll out in Wales, Scotland and the North of England for the first time.

Jun 25, 2023 | mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Emelina Nyqvist |Becca Shanks |Nick Radley |Dave Dye

It was a Wednesday afternoon, the meeting room was booked for 2pm but I arrived early to make sure everything was perfect. I had thought of all the right things to say to win you over, and how I would win your nearest and dearest stakeholders over too. And as I sat there it dawned on me: it’s less like I’m waiting for a client to arrive, but more like I’m waiting for a date. Suddenly, the parallel between agency-client relationships and the whimsical world of dating became clear.

Apr 24, 2023 | mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Dave Dye |Gigi Rice |Jesper Norgaard |Becca Shanks

Being a creative is a weird job. You can’t just write a list of tasks at the beginning of the day and tick them off at the end of the day. Some days you achieve absolutely nothing, others, ideas come out like a fire hose. And you can’t predict or plan for either. In Hey Whipple, Squeeze This Luke Sullivan gave this advice: ‘Never walk away from a hot keyboard. When ideas finally start coming, stay on it. Don’t break for lunch. Don’t put it off till Monday.