Ice Cream for Everyone Podcast

For the sixth episode of the podcast I had the pleasure of catching up with George Nimeh while visiting Vienna. We met at the Impact Hub, a co-working space in the centre of Vienna, just a few doors down from George's previous employer, the Austrian newspaper Kurier. I've known George since late 2007 when he hired me to join iris in London, he was the managing director of the Digital arm of the creative agency at the time. George has a wealth of experience in media, publishing, digital technologies,

For the fifth episode of the podcast, I met with James Wallis in London. James is a British designer and publisher of tabletop and roleplaying games. He began roleplaying games with the classic Dungeons & Dragons and Traveller in 1981 and worked on many games since. He also wrote for gaming publications and traditional ones like the Sunday Times. Now he has his own consultancy, Spaaace, A triple "A" company. He also consults with brands to design gaming experiences, leads game design seminars and

In this fourth episode of the Ice Cream for Everyone podcast I meet my brother Björn van der Horst and his business partner Omar Romero on the site of a new bar and restaurant they are building in collaboration with the Hilton Hotel London Metropole. The upcoming bar and restaurant will be called Kojawan and has magnificent panorama views of London from the 23rd floor. Björn and Omar talk about their careers as chefs as well as their new projects, which include Kojawan and Bone Tea broth bar. I

I was invited to speak at the European Planning Conference this year in Prague, I recorded my talk so this is a special episode of the podcast. I'm adding the slides on my blog and Slideshare for reference, though as I also mention in the episode the slides are mostly a few images and not really necessary to understand the talk. I get slightly lost in the section talking about chess and abstract strategy games, listening to the recording I realised I'd made the two points I had in mind and that

For this third episode I caught up with my friend and award winning media professional Hugh Garry in London. I met Hugh on a trip to Tanzania with The Great Football Giveaway a few years ago, and since then he organises a different adventurous and/or purposeful trip every year. He is a director at Storythings, a studio decidated to helping businesses and organisations find new ways to tell stories. Before that he worked at the BBC Radio 1 as a creative producer for a long time, and he was also a DJ

For our second episode I interview one of my favourite game designers, John Wick, and I am joined by my friend Julien with whom I participate in his audio podcast about roleplaying games Les Voix d'Altaride. In this episode we talk about John Wick the movie, John's inspiration and creative process, roleplaying games, principles of game design, cooperative board games, examples of subversive storytelling, live-action roleplaying games (LARPs), the best movie ever made, and the best book ever

For this first episode of the Ice Cream for Everyone podcast, I am joined by my friends Lauren Giblin, Adam Cohen, and James D'Souza to ask them a few questions about their podcast listening habits and uncover information that will help me further define the future of this podcast. In addition to audio podcasts, Adam tells us about his quite extreme high fat diet, we laugh at dangling modifiers, James compares podcast shows to the Hero's Journey, and Lauren shares her appreciation for the heathy