28 May 2014
Episode 137
01 hour
A visit to a bustling tech village in downtown Cairo, we enrol at Design Residency in Sydney, serial entrepreneur Doug Richard previews the upcoming Makegood festival, we meet the founder of Miso Tasty, take a crash course in networking, try on a bow tie at Le Noeud Papillon, and give budget airlines a branding overhaul with the Winkreative team.
28 May 2014
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