"Hope is the fuel of progress"
Nicol Wistreich
Slow down & fix stuff.
Marketing & Analysis
Mission & goal-focused development strategy, including user profiles, market analysis & service/system mapping. Conceived & developed the Virtuous Circle model with SDI.
Design, UX & implementation
Analysis-informed user journeys and wireframes, prototypes and designs through to implemented & tested mobile-responsive & accessible themes & layouts
Copy, editing & print
From snappy web copy and content strategy to essays and print publication layout. Five books & hundreds of articles & blogs published both online and off, from The Times to Adbusters.
Video, photos & events
From the launch party for Hewlett Packard's double Cannes Lion winning HyPe Gallery, to YouTube channels & insider docs, we can produce rich creative work, or bring in our world-class network of creative friends.
Writing
Selected essays, articles & blogs
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What might a Coop Uber look like? (or are we thinking about it wrong)?
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Open Source Capitalism: where next for Coops?
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R&D: Commissioners & producers: the Creative Sector in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England
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R&D: Virtuous Circle digital film, financing, CRM & distribution essay series
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R&D: Digital and Live-Generated Media in Public Spaces : the Big Open Playlister evaluation report
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R&D: Methods and models for enhancing the social experience of live film : Evaluation Report
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The Seventh Major: The Internet for Filmmakers
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BBC: How to Fund Your Film, Multi-Party Finance Explained
Article for BBC Online's Film Network -
The Times: 10 Essential Tasks for Making Your Movie
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From Free Film Movement to Cluetrain: the importance of personal filmmaking
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Torrents, piracy and beyond: will the film industry survive?
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Abusters: A Brief History of Mind, "We're Back" Issue
Netribution era interviews with Roy Diseny, Marlene Gorris, Darius Khondji, Christopher Eccleston, Stephen Daldry, Mike Figgis & more.
Books
International Film & TV Rights
Digital Asset Management
Get Your Film Funded, 2003-04
How to Fund Your Film, UK Film Finance Handbook 05-06
How to Fund Your Film, World Film Finance Handbook 07-08
People Over Capital, chapter "Open Source Capitalism"
Film Finance Handbook
Co-author of 492-page book on film finance, with dozens of case studies, and details of over 1,000 funds in 40 countries.
Digital Asset Management
Author of early book on creative strategies to digital opportunities and threats, in music, film, publishing & video games.