Creative Director | Joanna Geary

The report is out! But, I must confess, I haven’t read it yet.

At the moment I’m trapped between writing up my trip to Geneva, preparing two weeks of media & marketing stories, completing the registration for a postgraduate course and preparing to go to Hong Kong on Sunday (I know! I will tell all soon!).

However, Paul Bradshaw picks up on some interesting bits of the NUJ report. Press Gazette also covers it and so does the Guardian. There is a lot I want to say, but I want to hold out until I’ve read the whole report (something for the plane perhaps?!).

Also, I’ve been really interested in the creative director for Birmingham debate that has taken place of late and will have more to say on that very soon. I read the posts by Stef and Paul with interest. There have been a few developments and I’ll fill you in on these soon too.

Sorry for the poor post!

So, following my own advice, I was excited to come across a series of posts by D’Log about an event at the University of Birmingham yesterday.

This paragraph particularly caught my eye:

The city is considering appointing a “Creative Director” for Birmingham. A “Creative Village” area might be designated and signed by 2010; that may be either Moseley or the Jewellery Quarter, or possibly Digbeth. Creatives are providing free input into the proposed 20-year Birmingham City Centre Masterplan (the “Parkinson Report”), especially in relation to the relocation of BIAD to Curzon Street and the branding of the wider Digbeth area.

A creative director for Birmingham?! A creative village?! How positive and exciting!

As some may know, there was a shower of comment in The Birmingham Post after Micheal Wolff called for Birmingham to appoint a creative director, similar to Manchester’s Peter Saville.

He said that the council needed someone to oversee the cultural and creative image of the city. He spoke very passionately about it and had some very interesting points to make.

Personally if someone can help show the world just how innovative, passionate and creative Birmingham is, then I am all for it.

However, I’m a bit confused by D’Log’s linking as that takes you to Creative Republic‘s website. My understanding is that is a very different thing, more an industry lobby group. Am I right?

Joanna Geary

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