Tom Banks

5 days ago | thedrum.com | Tom Banks

For all the hype surrounding former Apple chief design officer Jony Ive joining OpenAI, his position does present a level of personal influence that will likely shape the product development and associated services of the company. The direction these products will take falls tantalizingly beyond speculation, yet when we look at Ive’s career trajectory and, in general, the power of placing a designer at the heart of a business, it’s easy to see why the news amounts to something.

1 week ago | thedrum.com | Tom Banks

“We are so excited to take our programming to India, to Mexico, to Shanghai and many places in Africa including Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana,” says D&AD president Taylor-Hayford. I’m speaking to him at the D&AD Festival. He’s the first US president of the organization, which started in the UK in 1962 to promote excellence in design and art direction.

2 weeks ago | thedrum.com | Tom Banks

If ever there was a metaphor to describe the point that the design and ad industries find themselves at, it is the fight for survival Swiss watchmakers had from 1969. As Collins co-founder Leland Maschmeyer takes to the stage, he reflects on the dawn of the Seiko Quartz Astron watch, which with its quartz crystal oscillator, usurped Swiss watches as the most precise timepiece. To this point, the value upon which watches had been sold was precision.

2 weeks ago | thedrum.com | Tom Banks

If Uncommon founder Nils Leonard were to start an agency today, he wouldn’t make advertising in the way he used to, he says. We are speaking with him at D&AD, where, like many speakers in the advertising and design industries, he’s trying to make sense of challenges faced internally and externally.

3 weeks ago | thedrum.com | Tom Banks

Every other year, La Biennale di Venezia – or the Venice Biennale as you may know it – hosts an international exhibition where countries showcase architectural thinking while touting their national brand as an export. In recent years, the British Pavilion has questioned this traditional format, with, for example, Dancing for the Moon in 2023, which was curated by six UK diaspora artists.