The live chat is now over but you can still catch all of the action by clicking the links above.
The Chat Chain is a series of linked conversations, where someone chooses someone else to chat with, and that person chooses the next person, who in turn chooses... you've got the idea. It launched on Thursday 15th as part of Internet Week Europe and will be continuing soon...
To kick off Nik Roope chatted with Mark Cridge. Then Mark had a tête-à-tête with Nicola Mendelsohn, who then had a chinwag with Andrew Shoben who passed the time of day with Lynda Relph-Knight who then chewed the fat with Tom Roope who ended the chain by having a natter with Malcolm Garrett.
Nik Roope...
Founder and ECD
Poke
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Industrial and digital media designer and entrepreneur, Founder and ECD of Poke, Founder and Chair of Internet Week Europe and The Lovie Awards and Founder of Hulger, Nik is one of the UK's most exciting and progressive creative thinkers, and is the perfect person to kickstart The Chat Chain.
Mark Cridge...
Director of Consulting
BERG
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Director of Consulting
BERG
Mark is Director of Consulting at BERG. He has worked in digital since 1995 after leaving the world of architecture realising that it just wasn’t his cup of tea. After stints as an art director in Birmingham and London, he founded glue in 1999 before becoming Global Managing Director of Isobar.
Nicola Mendelsohn...
President
IPA
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With a career that began in advertising with BBH, Nicola’s trajectory has brought her to the IPA, where she is President. She successfully juggles this with roles as Chairman of ad agency Karmarama, charity work including the White Ribbon Campaign and her most important role as Mum to Gabi, Dani, Sam and Zac.
Andrew Shoben...
Founder
Greyworld
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From a sun in Trafalgar Square to clockwork trees in the Lakes, Greyworld creates intelligent, immersive, accessible public art. Its Founder Andrew Shoben is also Professor of Public Art at Goldsmiths and a Fellow of the RSA. He inspires people all around the world with lectures and broadcasts, but mostly through Greyworld’s art.
Anyone working in or following UK design over the last three decades will have felt Lynda's passion, insight and influence. She was the Editor of Design Week for 22 years, and is now working to unify the design community, raise creative standards within the industry and elevate design's standing in the wider world.
Tom Roope...
Creative Director
The Rumpus Room
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Creative Director
The Rumpus Room
Tomas Roope is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of The Rumpus Room, a company that works with agencies and clients designing and building technology to create social entertainment. Tom has also co-founded such influential projects as Antirom and Tomato Interactive, winning major design and advertising awards across 3 decades.
Graphic designer Malcolm Garrett has worked with music artists such as Simple Minds, Magazine, Duran Duran and Peter Gabriel. He was an early convert to exploring the opportunities and challenges of design with digital technology, and his London studio was the first amongst its peers to go totally digital in 1990.