Episode 91 - David Johnston - Brand Frequencies, Together World and the Dark Ages of the Future
My guest on this episode David Johnstone is in my view a beautiful example of a human taking responsibility and using their gifts, experience and influence to cultivate the courage and creativity to face into the uncomfortable questions we are being confronted with
* To speak up to the messy contradictions of this moment
* To raise awareness of the massive changes coming down the line
* To experiment with weirder moves
To keep self examining not just the impacts of business as usual but to imagine and participate in business unusual, where we commit to the messy process of healing, reconnecting, reimagining and liberating.
He is founder, CEO and Executive Creative Director of global design studio, Accept and Proceed , host of the brilliant podcast ~Endless Vital Activity, convener of strange solstice gatherings We don’t know what this is yet on Hackney Marshes.
David is a humble, curious, insightful, creative human, a radical experimenter with a big heart and infections imagination.
This was a wide ranging conversation exploring his work in brand design, his journey working with global corporations, awakening to the impacts of commercial creativity, of taking responsibility for the impacts we are making through these creative human entities we call ‘brands.’
This has led to the Design for the Future mission of Accept and Proceed which he unpacks alongside an exploration of brand power, the ‘dark ages of the future’, ‘Together World’ strategy and the emergence of new relational entanglements between humans, enterprise and this living mysterious Spaceship Earth we call home.
We explore:
The nervous energy of these times
Panpsychism and Consciousness
David's journey into brand
The power and responsibility of brand
Designing for a ‘Together World’
Navigating the Three Horizons Framework
Embracing complexity and uncertainty
Understanding business and systemic cycles - death and endings
The significance of tuning into Earth’s patterns like sunrises
Imagining brand futures
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