Jacquill G. Basdew is a creative director, researcher and brand thinker whose work sits at the intersection of identity, memory and self-authorship. Through Living+, Jacquill has been exploring how personal history, aesthetic language and cultural intention can be brought together into something that feels both expressive and grounded.

His work isn’t defined by a particular medium or discipline. It moves between visual research, storytelling, fashion, publishing and brand - but always starts from the same place: the emotional and intellectual weight of lived experience.

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This conversation was a quiet and thoughtful one, and well timed at the end of a pivotal year for all of us. We talked about how creative language can emerge not from the need to produce, but from the need to process - to give form to ideas and memories that haven’t always had space to surface. Living+ emerged from that space - not a commercial brand in the traditional sense, but a working structure that offers enough definition to give direction, while still allowing for growth, exploration and change.

We spent some time talking about Memories in Motion, a research project that looks at how stories travel across generations - visually, emotionally, sometimes invisibly. Drawing on family photography and oral histories, it’s a piece of work that doesn’t just document, but refreshes and reorganises meaning to bring new energy to what might otherwise stay archived or unspoken.

The conversation moved between ideas of cultural responsibility, intuition, design rhythm and how to find your own tempo in a world that encourages speed and performance. What came through clearly was Jacquill’s ability to hold space - to make work that’s careful without being cautious, and emotional without being over-explained.

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Some people create for attention, while others create to understand. Jacquill’s work feels much more like the latter - less about the show and more about the process, and if you’re prepared to join him for the journey yo'u’ll learn and grow along the way. There’s an honesty to how he speaks about authorship, and a kind of quiet refusal to rush things that don’t want to be rushed.

He reminded us that creative platforms don’t always need to be large or loud - they can be precise, local, personal and even subjective. Meaningful work doesn’t always need to be positioned, explained or wrapped in narrative. Sometimes it just needs to exist and to hold for people to relate to it in their own personal way.

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