The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has announced the names of the Jury Presidents who will lead juries to award this year’s Lions and set the global benchmark for excellence in creativity.

Tea Uglow, founder of Dark Swan, former CD at Google will represent Australia as jury president of Glass Lions: The Lion for Change. The Glass Lion recognises work that implicitly or explicitly addresses issues of gender inequality or prejudice, through the conscious representation of gender in advertising.

The very strange news that we won a Peabody Award for Editions At Play.

A film about how lucky I am to be able to represent, and why I choose to be a visible part of the lgbtqi movement

Why aren’t we finding ways of building the information that we want into the way we want to experience the environment, rather than the way we’re told to experience the environment?

Tea Uglow is the Creative Director of Google’s Creative Lab in Sydney, although she prefers a Google (mis)Translate version of the title – Experimental Person in Charge.

Tea leads a team exploring “the spaces between contemporary digital technology and traditional forms of creativity and culture. That might be with museums, galleries, working with artists, filmmakers or writers and looking at what happens when those intersect.”

[10 min interview from Feb 2017]
Kojo Baffoe is joined by Creative Director of Google, Tea Uglow.  She is the brains behind Google’s innovative Lab in Sydney, Australia. Her works varies between non-linear narration and the physical web.