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Unorthodox Blend

Rosie Lee Group

An unorthodox blend of disciplines and undisciplines This is how we used to talk about Rosie Lee. In all honesty, I don’t fully know what it means but I think thats why i love it so much. With our name-heritage in tea, and our non-traditional approach unorthodoxblend.substack.com

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UBC016 Tom Sebright King

Unorthodox Blend ·

2024/08/21

The original test subject for Unorthodox Blend Conversations.Tom is our Operations Director at Rosie Lee, and despite the difficult situations Mark and I always seem to put him in, he is always supportive of our experimental attitude to business. Tom is most excited when talking about humans at work, and how organisations can interact with people compassionately for genuine mutual benefit. Tom was deliberately our last conversationalist at UB Live 2024, so that we could reflect together, discuss our

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UBC015 Lauren Lotka

Unorthodox Blend ·

2024/08/09

Lauren runs LOTKA & Co, a talent partner and consultancy that believes in building culturally aligned teams rather than simply placing people into roles. Her impressive client roster includes The North Face, Blue Bottle Coffee, adidas and ACE Hotel among others. Whenever we meet with Lauren we are always impressed by her holistic understanding of creative businesses and brands. We always share a lot of common ground, whether in people we know or opinions on what’s happening in our industry. Our

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UBC014 Derek Morrison

Unorthodox Blend ·

2024/07/04

We have known Derek since early in his previous role at StockX, where he led their EMEA team. He now heads up UNiDAYS marketplace, the world’s largest Student Affinity Network, as their Global Managing Director. One thing is for sure: wherever he goes, Derek confidently sits firmly at the intersection of creativity, culture and business, determined to create genuine positive impact. We’re looking forward to learning something new from Derek when we speak with him.—When talking with Derek, we went

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UBC013 James Nelson

Unorthodox Blend ·

2024/06/20

James has been with Rosie Lee for over 13 years, working on most of the projects that sits in our portfolio. He heads up the creative team in Amsterdam (along with Toast) and always brings the extra to projects. His meticulous attention to detail and reluctance to let anything leave the studio that isn’t beautifully designed is inspiring to be around. We’ve been looking forward to having James join us for conversation since we started Unorthodox Blend.—In this conversation, we discussed differing

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77:47

UBC011 Mark Gurney

Unorthodox Blend ·

2024/06/07

We met Mark through our work and participation with Run Dem Crew, and he stood out as one of the most welcoming, warm and humble people we’ve ever met. He is well respected and connected in London’s restaurant scene (check out Levan and Bar Levan if you haven’t already), but he is also well known as the founder of 2nd Drop records. Mark is a man of many talents, and isn’t afraid to take on the unknown and pivot to shake things up. It’s genuinely hard not to like Mark, we’re sure you’ll agree after

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UBC010 Mina Kitsos

Unorthodox Blend ·

2024/05/08

Born in Australia, Mina has a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts and Masters in Teaching - Secondary Visual Arts and is truly one of the OG Sneakerheads. She has worked for and with a list of brands and talent that most of us could only dream of. But it hasn’t been straightforward for Mina, being a woman in the historically male dominated cultures of skate and sneakers. Her enjoyment, passion and determination saw her through and now she is heading up partnerships at Alyx & Au Départ.—We talked a lot

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UBC009 - Dean Evans

Unorthodox Blend ·

2024/05/01

Dean Evans is a seasoned veteran of the gaming industry, boasting an impressive career spanning over 25 years. He has worked on some of the industry’s most iconic franchises including Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, Max Payne, Splinter Cell, Far Cry: Blood Dragon and Assassin’s Creed. Dean is the person responsible for introducing us (Mark and Russell) to each other over 20 years ago and the rest is history. (And he is also an NPC in GTA San Andreas!).—Dean didn’t disappoint - a lively

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UBC008 - Mick McConnell

Unorthodox Blend ·

2024/04/24

Mick is well seasoned Chief Creative, ECD, Head of Product, Professor of Design along with some other things. He has 20+ years design experience in our industry both client side and agency side. We worked closely with Mick in his time as VP Marketing (NA) at Samsung and he very quickly became a friend of Rosie Lee. A kindred spirit who, like us, wants to set the world on fire without hurting anyone.—Our conversation covered a lot of ground. We started with a discussion about age, experience and

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81:07

UBC007 - Richard Hoare

Unorthodox Blend ·

2024/04/17

Richard Hoare is Russell’s DJ partner with Vintage Mobile Disco, a 10 year long project based on a love of 7” vinyl and eclectic music tastes. He’s the man behind Hoare Associates, a pioneering alternative legal services provider for the UK music industry that favours modern, agile ways of working in contrast to some other dusty corners of his industry. Oh, and he is also an award winning author. He can shift topics from music to discordianism, and from politics to ley lines without coming up for

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UBC006 - Ben Fainlight

Unorthodox Blend ·

2024/03/27

We’ve known Ben since we begun working closely with StockX. He is always willing to make time for us to just check in and talk and holds his ground in just about any topic, particularly if it relates to culture, art or creativity in general design. We always leave our conversations refreshed and inspired and feeling more at ease that there are other people like us in the world!—Ben combines his understanding and enthusiasm for Culture, Community, and Collaboration to create award-winning, impactful,

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UBC005 - Joseph Ng

Unorthodox Blend ·

2024/03/13

Our relationship with Joseph has had many different phases but he has always been a friend. It’s hard to sit in a room with Joseph without getting into some deep conversations about the nature of creativity. And once we hit the record button he became even more animated than usual! I thought I had a clear handle on what we might talk about in this conversation but we really got into our personal opinions about creativity, vulnerability and what it means to be an architect.—Joseph is a cultural

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UBC004 - Nikky Lyle

Unorthodox Blend ·

2024/02/28

Nikky is one of our go to people when Rosie Lee needs to find employees and freelancers. Her network of talent is awesome and aligns with our work ethos, but that isn’t why we wanted to talk with her at Unorthodox Blend. Talking with Nikky is always like a breath of fresh air - her positivity, energy and lateral thinking are truly contagious. We didn’t know exactly where our conversation would go when we started but we knew we’d learn something.—Nikky Lyle is best known as being a 'creative

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UBC003 - Ibby Abutarboush

Unorthodox Blend ·

2024/02/14

Our relationship with Ibby started during his 15 year employment at Nike. He for many years working in different functions. We were working more directly on campaigns, but more recently Ibby worked with some of the world’s leading athletes, connecting brands with their purposes holistically for mutual benefit. With our human-centric approach to creativity we wanted to pick his brains about what goes into this type of work.When talking to Ibby, I was struck by his human-centric, considered approach

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UBC002 - Rob Scotland

Unorthodox Blend ·

2024/01/31

This is our second official podcast with Unorthodox Blend and we’re having a blast. This time we feel very fortunate to be speaking with Rob Scotland, a long time friend of Rosie Lee, and someone who effortlessly gifts us his insights about culture, history and brands.—Rob is a modern cultural anthropologist and ethnographer - observing, analysing and understanding audiences for business purposes. He is currently Head of Brand Communications at the sports tech scale-up Veo. He has previously worked

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UBC001 - Richard Martins

Unorthodox Blend ·

2024/01/17

After some great feedback from our Test Recording with Tom Sebright-King we have decided to launch our first ‘official’ Unorthodox Blend Conversation.—Richard is a product and brand strategist working mostly with sportswear and sneakers. He has recently worked with Camper in Mallorca as men’s footwear lead, and before that worked at Adidas HQ on a diverse mix of innovative lifestyle and performance product as their Running Product Manager.In our conversation we talk about how he transitioned from

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UBC000 - Tom Sebright-King

Unorthodox Blend ·

2023/11/16

Our Substack is 5 months old now and we’ve enjoyed the process of organising our thoughts to get them written down and shared with other people and we’ve had a really positive response……so last week we decided to record a conversation between ourselves and Tom Sebright-King as a technical test to see if we have it in us to start sharing our thoughts in a podcast format. After a little bit of editing, we’ve decided to be brave and release this to the outside world.In this test episode, we discuss

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