Holly Burgess and Lucy Logan are a creative team at Leo Burnett, Melbourne. Take a spin of their wheel of feedback for an insight into the emotional rollercoaster of creative reviews and client feedback.
Beware the Feedback Loop
When feedback is not specific, it can be left wide open to interpretation - as JWT Melbourne Senior Creative, Nick Sellars, illustrates with this animated exploration via Google Translate.
Feedback: The Single
Ellie Dunn (of Dark Fair and Clemenger BBDO fame) delves deep into her internal mind to deliver feedback in the form of a love song.
Sadvertising
Sadvertising is a short fiction series by writer, Ennis Cehic which explores the existential dramas of working in the creative industry. Formerly, Ennis worked as a copywriter at CHE Proximity.
Killer Feedback
Sometimes feedback can be a killer, says Josie Burns, ACD at Host/Havas.
Team Talk
Honesty is the best policy for feedback within a creative team, according to Leo Burnett Melbourne CD’s, Jess Lilley and Jim Walsh.
Is Your Feedback Hitting The Right Note?
Composer Alison Cole of Groove Q talks us through the ABCs of music feedback.
How to Make a Fizzer
Maurice Moynihan is a Senior Art Director at Isobar. Here he illustrates how watering down a concept turns a good idea into a fizzer.
Gabberissue #4: Competition
Compete to get a job. Compete to win a client. Compete to get work made, compete to win awards and compete against competitors who may well be sociopaths, as Jess Lilley, CD at Leo Burnett Melbourne, reveals.
Gift of the Gabberer: Ant White
Ant White is CCO at CHE Proxomity, an agency that has leapt onto the international creative stage seemingly out of nowhere in the past year. He talks to us about his journey, and what competition means at CHE.
What The Nature Channel Taught Me About Competition
Sarah Vincenzini is Associate Creative Director at Marmalade. Close studies of The Nature Channel have given her great insight into competitive behaviour in the advertising industry.
You might be a star...
Nadia Ahmad is an art director at BMF and the creator of Handvas, the handy way to display your prints (Awesome. Google. Buy.). She’s here to give us a reality check.
A flick of the switch
Ryan Clayton is a senior art director at Ogilvy Melbourne—and he’s found the light.
A force to be reckoned with: Fiona McGee
As a director with Goodoil, FIona McGee constantly competes for jobs, and more often than not comes up trumps. She talks to us about how she got her foot through a very competitive door, and how important it is to feel supported in a competitive environment.
From art director to artist: Josh Robbins
Josh Robbins is an artist. A former Clemenger BBDO Melbourne Creative Director, he said goodbye to the industry he love-hated to eat less chips, see more of his family, and create beauty.
The Best Article About Competition On Gabberish
Alex Wadelton is freelance creative and creative director, and he’s the best.
The Battle for Balance
Eric Franken and Marijke Spain are a creative team at The Works. Working with Insta-famous illustrator Struthless, they’ve depicted a fearsome and familiar competition.
First thought wins
Pat Langton is Creative Director at Mo & Partners—now he wonders, if you’re intuition is right, should you disregard first thoughts?
Competing for space in the bottom drawer
Moira Cotnoir is a copywriter at McCann Melbourne. She is mid-way through writing her first novel, is looking to publish her first children's book, and writes for Gabberish about competitive forces impeding the creative process.
Competition and Creativity: a complicated romance
Raphael Elisha is a director and student of Psychology. Now he’s looking at what happens when creativity and competition get it on—and it’s complicated.