Chris Clarke
Editorial Creative Director at The Guardian
Chris Clarke
OCT 01 • 10:30 - 11:15 AM
Meridian Hall — Main Stage
Drawing from over 15 years at the heart of news design and storytelling, Chris weaves together personal projects, editorial campaigns and global design challenges to show how curiosity, experimentation and silliness aren’t distractions from serious work; but the beating heart of it. Chris reveals how embracing play as a strategy has helped drive purpose-driven design at one of the world’s most trusted news brands. It’s about purposeful play: building space for curiosity, risk and experimentation inside complex systems and serious institutions. Because play isn’t childish. It’s radical. And in a world being flattened by algorithms and conformity, it might just be your biggest advantage. This is a talk for anyone trying to lead with creativity, protect originality under pressure or simply remember why they started doing this in the first place.
