Author Archives: Chris Dodson

About Chris Dodson

Managing Director of Concept Cupboard (www.conceptcupboard.com). The online creative crowdsourcing service matching talented student & graduate creatives with UK businesses. I'm also one of the 2011 Marketing Academy Scholars, from sunny Birmingham & for my sins I support the blue half of the city.

Why Stuart Baggs “the brand” didn’t have it completely wrong

Posted on December 1, 2011

Now admittedly Stuart Baggs “the brand” (from The Apprentice) was a bit of a wally, and that is putting it mildly, but he was right about one thing. He is a brand. As we all are. This was one of … Continue reading →

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Cussing, learning and a bucket load of inspiration by Chris

Posted on September 9, 2011

How time flies! The Albion digital faculty day was over 2 weeks ago now, but despite needing to put everything at Concept Cupboard on pause for a day, it was an incredibly useful & interesting day out of the office. … Continue reading →

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Leadership lessons on Desert Island Discs by Chris

Posted on August 1, 2011

Careers advice at school. It really did fail to inspire, didn’t it? You used to answer a long list of questions & were informed by the “mystic Meg” of computers what profession you should take up. Things have moved on … Continue reading →

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Two juniors, one Senior & a Noho basement by Chris Dodson

Posted on July 15, 2011

Over 150 Concept Cupboard student creatives sent me tweets & emails hoping to win a ticket to the Robert Senior Merlin lecture that took place this week. Sadly I only had two to give away but Alice & Carl (see … Continue reading →

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Reflecting on the first 2011 bootcamp by Chris Dodson et al

Posted on May 23, 2011

Wow! Our first 2011 bootcamp is over and what an action packed 3 days it turned out to be. We had an awesome line-up of speakers, got to know each other better than we know most of our friends/family and … Continue reading →

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