{"id":29,"date":"2018-06-19T12:41:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T12:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2018-06-20T05:49:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T05:49:50","slug":"meet-arrikod-real-groups-suave-art-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/meet-arrikod-real-groups-suave-art-director\/","title":{"rendered":"MEET ARRIKOD, REAL GROUP\u2019S SUAVE ART DIRECTOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arrikod Ken, a graduate from the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art, is a \u201cless bark, more bite\u201d creative.<br \/>\nName a brand in Uganda that Ken hasn\u2019t worked on and I will show you one that is not worth its salt (yep, let that sink). With over ten years of experience in the communication business, Ken has worked for some of the top ad agencies in Uganda, served as creative director for European Business Forum under the EU on top of being a consultant for top brands through his own Magnetic Concepts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/images-03.jpg\" alt=\"Real Group Art Director- Ken Arrikord\" width=\"600\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/images-03.jpg 600w, https:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/images-03-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had a chat with him on various topics,so keep calm and read on\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a creative, your work is exposed to a lot of criticism, How do you handle yourself in such times?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I listen to people\u2019s views first because I believe every\u00a0 human being has an idea and I don\u2019t take that for granted<\/p>\n<p>, that way it all comes back to me positively to add onto what I have.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You have been in the communications business for some time now, what is the most memorable campaign you have ever worked on? Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t Drink and Drive campaign\u201d for EABL, because we had to imagine scary and real life features like losing a loved one to over drinking. It was like creating a movie where you\u2019re both the villain and superhero. The best thing is that we won the pitch afterwards.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/images-01.jpg\" alt=\"Real Group Art Director- Ken Arrikod\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/images-01.jpg 600w, https:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/images-01-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are pitted against any of your fellow workmates, in a 100 meters\u00a0race. Who would definitely lose to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All of them, especially the fat ones, (hahahaha) because I was once an athlete and made it to preliminaries for the National Team in 2004<\/p>\n<p><strong>If your life was a movie, what would the title be? (Why?)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wakanda, hahaha, something African in that line would do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What other talent would earn you a living, if you weren\u2019t in this business?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oil painting on canvas for a cause. (I have a mural hidden somewhere, best art composition in my class back in 2008)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Don&#8217;t Drink and Drive&#8221; campaign for EABL felt like we were creating a movie where you are both the villain and superhero&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/real-group.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}