Breed Presents – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Hugo Rifkind is a journalist and broadcaster, including as a presenter on Times Radio. He’s also the author of Rabbits, a new novel set in an all-boys boarding school that steps into the darker undercurrents of that environment. It’s been described by crime writer Val McDermid as "Saltburn, but with kilts."

Host Olivia Triggs chats with Hugo about his creative process on Rabbits, constructing fictional characters, as well as personal experiences that influenced the book.

Breed London is a creative agency for visual artists. We represent a small roster of diverse creative talent. Included on that roster is photographer and filmmaker Cat Garcia. Cat uses images to tell stories without pretension. She likes shooting in black and white and using natural light. Her work is stripped back, simple and real. 

When she works with moving image, she’s often accompanied by her husband, Carlos Garcia, who provides evocative soundtracks to her visuals. Carlos is a professional songwriter and musician, and he joins Cat in conversation with Breed.

In all her work, Cat tells intimate, positive stories, focusing in on the little details of life to provide that genuine sense of empathy. In recent years, she's worked with Tate Britain, Soho House, MATCHESFASHION.com, Leica, Hole & Corner, MR PORTER, and the V&A, among many others. Cat has made films for Make Hauser & Wirth, Frescobol Carioca, and Sunspel with David Shrigley.

Special thanks to Hauser & Wirth and Sunspel for giving us permission to use the music Carlos created for them.

Breed London is a creative agency for visual artists. We represent a small roster of diverse talent in the UK, Europe, and across the pond.

On our pilot, host Olivia Triggs chats with Steven Wilson, an artist who's been with Breed since the beginning. Steve constantly tries new styles and techniques to create his work. Whether it's collage and printmaking or the latest in digital technology, Steve's openness to new ideas is his great strength. 

The work he produces from his studio in Brighton has turned up in the New Yorker and Wired, on posters for California music venues, and in packaging and animations for Calvin Klein, Coca-Cola, and Nike, among many others.

Check out Steve's work here.

Breed London is a creative agency for visual artists. We represent a small roster of diverse talent in the UK, Europe, and the US. 

In our latest podcast, Breed Director Olivia Triggs talks to architect John Pawson. John has worked on everything, from private homes and monasteries to bridges and yacht interiors. And whether he's working on buildings, interiors, or furniture, John's designs are always simple, functional, and beautiful. 

His aesthetic partly derives from time he spent in Japan as a young man, which he outlines in his book, 'Anatomy of Minimum'. John is also an accomplished photographer whose book of chromatically ordered images, 'Spectrum', was turned into an immersive exhibition at 180 The Strand. In 2019, his continued influence and dedication to his craft was recognized when he was awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours. 

Check out John's work at johnpawson.com

Today's episode features someone we’re already familiar with — Quentin Jones.

The daughter of architects, Quentin studied Philosophy at Cambridge, before taking an M.A. in Illustration at Central Saint Martins. Straight out of college, she began building a career as an artist, photographer, and filmmaker, taking in clients like Louis Vuitton, Chanel, and Vogue. 

We’ve been working with Quentin at Breed since 2018, and the main focus of our chat is on our area of interest – her art. Though we also touch on her creative heritage, her love affair with fashion, the difference between living and working in New York vs. London, and more.

Matthew Freud is probably best known as the founder and guiding light of PR agency Freud Communications. He’s also an Oscar and BAFTA winner for his role as producer of the animated short film The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse.

But what Breed London’s Olivia Triggs really wanted to talk to him about was his carefully curated and incredibly diverse art collection, including works by Banksy, Damien Hirst, and Keith Haring, as well as objects like an Enigma coding machine, a piece of Concorde, and dinosaur bones. We also found out about his new hotel/cultural retreat: Bull – A Coaching Inn.

Art director and graphic designer, David McKendrick, is the founder of David McKendrick Studio and biannual creative magazine Paperboy.

Earlier in his career, he worked for Wallpaper* and Esquire magazines and set up creative agency B.A.M., working with clients like White Cube, Christie’s, and The Times. 

Breed London’s Olivia Triggs talks to David about his career in design, his love for magazines, and what he intends to do next. 

Graphic designer Michael Bierut has been a partner at design consultancy Pentagram since 1990. He's behind the logo for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, the brand refresh of Mastercard, and many other projects.

He’s also a commentator, writer, and lecturer on design and co-founder of the online journal Design Observer. 

Breed London’s Olivia Triggs talks to Michael about how he fell in love with design and New York City. And we hear about the types of design projects that excite him today.

This edition of Breed presents… The Podcast sees us in conversation with Kuchar Swara. Kuchar is the Creative Director of the Telegraph Media Group, where he leads a design team across branding, editorial design, marketing, and whatever else is thrown at them. 

Originally from Iran, Kuchar arrived in London as a boy in the 1990s, going on to study typography at the London College of Printing. He started to attract attention while at Winkreative after working on the redesign for Italian art and architecture magazine Case da Abitare. magCulture’s Jeremy Leslie, who we’ve talked to previously for Breed presents, described his work as "an almost idealised version of early Modernist graphic design."

Working under Tyler Brûlé — the man behind Wallpaper* and Monocle — seems to have had an influence on Kuchar, as he co-founded the biannual men’s style magazine Port in 2011. 

As if that wasn't enough, Kuchar wanted to translate his graphic design skills into a 3D format. So, he started British watch company, Sekford, where his ability to fit things together in intricate detail was put to the test. The company name is inspired by Sekforde Street in Clerkenwell, where many British watches were once made.

Kuchar has won awards from D&AD, the Society of Publication Designers, the Society of News Design, and the Type Directors Club. And he occasionally judges on international design panels.

Writer and journalist Clover Stroud is the author of books which tap directly into her life experiences, including The Wild Other, which was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize; My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother’s Story; and The Red of My Blood: A Death and Life Story. Her fourth book, The Giant on the Skyline: On Home, Belonging and Learning To Let Go, is due to publish in May.

Breed London's Olivia Triggs, a long-time admirer of Clover’s work, talks to her about her books, family, loss and grief, and her podcast, Tiny Acts of Bravery.