IE joins the podcast revolution

Ok – we realise we’re probably a bit late to the party – but we’ve decided to launch our own podcast for charity, health and education clients. And you can watch episode one (which is all about brand messaging) below.

The plan is to discuss all things brand and digital, with a different topic each show. We’ll periodically drop new episodes that we hope will be interesting background listening for our clients, people in a marcomms or technical role at a non-profit, or anyone who's interested in brand and digital.

This comes off the back of our book: Not-for-profits: why, when, and how to rebrand which has been enormously popular and gave us the encouragement we needed to get behind the mic and continue to share our insights in a new format.

The IE Podcast is presented by IE’s Managing Director, Ollie Leggett and Creative Director, Dave Crichton, who – between them – bring over 50 years’ agency experience to the table. And we’ll be inviting other members of the IE team as guests in future episodes.

Hit ‘subscribe’ if you want to be notified when new episodes land and let us know if there are any topics you’d like us to cover in future shows. Happy listening.

Dave Crichton

Creative Director and Brand Strategist

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About Dave

With over 20 years' industry experience under his belt, Dave serves as IE’s Creative Director – leading IE’s brand offering and award winning design team, as well as working as a Brand Consultant.

Beginning his career as a Graphic Designer and making a gentle transition to consultancy, Dave combines his agency experience – which has seen him work with clients across almost every sector – with his love of design, writing and filmmaking.

Dave can often be found knee deep in research for a brand project, locked away in a room writing key messaging, art directing a visual identity project, on location for a campaign film, or bringing clients up to speed and running workshops.

Under Dave's direction, IE Brand won two Golds at the Transform Awards Europe 2017, for Best Visual Identity from the Education sector and for Best Brand Architecture Solution. Dave has spent his life and career obsessed with the power of brand, and helping clients to connect with their audiences by standing out from the crowd, and telling their story to the world.

Over the past decade at IE, he’s been thoroughly immersed in the worlds of charity, health and education – and before that worked with a number of blue chip clients, including investment banks and building societies, record labels, TV production companies and retail.

Dave and his wife are the proud parents of two daughters, who take up the majority of his time outside of work. However, he tries to find time to indulge his passion for playing piano, and creative writing – he is often to be found working on speculative screenplays or novels, and is a published non-fiction author.