Hi. I’m Katy Lindemann, I’m the founder of Seemingly Unconnected Ltd, my freelance communications strategy business, and this is my online home for things that interest me, which I hope may also interest you – bits ‘n’ pieces from on and off the web, and my own thoughts about planning, communications, media, music, art, geeky stuff and so on.
You might also have first come across this site in its previous incarnation at kitschbitch.com, which was the blog’s home from May 2000 until July 2009. It had been my personal domain for so long I was quite loathe to move the blog, but as it had become much more professional-focused it seemed appropriate to move it to a more work-friendly domain. (Also, you wouldn’t believe the amount of spam I was getting after 9 years of that domain. Ahem).
Stuff I do
I’m a communications strategist & creative problem solver – I provide strategic planning services & consultancy for agencies, brands, design studios and other very smart people through my company Seemingly Unconnected Ltd – you can find out more about my work here.
Before going freelance, I spent 6 years working as a strategist at two very fine agencies, Naked Communications and PHD, and many years before that, during my gap year before I went to university, I also spent 6 months working at the Guardian in their Ad Planning department, which is how I first found out about this thing called planning.
I’m a fairly regular speaker about planning, social communications and a variety of other bits and bobs – you can find out more about my past talks & any upcoming events here.
Stuff I Like
I like gigs, chocolate, clubbing, gin and tonics, sunshine, the muppets, most stuff made by Apple, geeky stuff, the delicious combination of duvet+sofa, football (for my sins I’m a Man Utd fan, but in my defence I am a manc!), gadgets, nintendo wii, street art, taking photos, drooling over sexy japanese import trainers and eating & drinking things that are bad for me.
Disclosure – I’m a member of the Open Rights Group, who I wholeheartedly endorse and would recommend as a fantastic bunch of people. I’m also a member of Liberty, if that’s relevant.
I live in London, but also spend a fair bit of time splashing around on the south coast with my Brighton-born other half, where I can usually be found dodging dive-bombing seagulls trying to nick my chips.
I can be found in various other places online, including:
»tumblr
»flickr
»linked in
»twitter
»facebook
»dopplr
»delicious
»upcoming
»slideshare
I also keep a separate Twitter feed for blog posts if you like to use Twitter as an RSS reader:
»blog posts on twitter
About the Site
My business, Seemingly Unconnected, is so-called because of a great quote from William Plomer: “Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.”
Finding interesting connections amongst the seemingly unconnected is how I believe we can find creative solutions to tricky problems, and it’s what I try to do in my work.
The branding was developed by the very talented David Lowbridge, who took this quote and turned it into something playful. The icon above for example, is formed of seemingly unconnected letters taken from the initials of the company’s name, but together they make a smiling face. This is also a tribute to my favourite Flickr groups, Hello Little Fella! and Faces In Places, which encourage you to notice hidden patterns by finding cheeky faces hidden in the in the world around you – finding creativity in the seemingly unconnected.
This site was chopped together on a Macbook Pro and runs on WordPress. The author runs on Diet Coke and chocolate biscuits. Additional credit should be extended to Tarpan Patel for his assistance in helping me not break my HTML & CSS coding completely.
About the Site – Previously
In a past life – before I went on a rather extended blogging hiatus – in its past incarnation as ‘kitschbitch’, this blog was actually one of the first british blogs, and was the subject of a few articles (guardian, evening standard, CMJ) about this strange new phenomenon. Those of us who were amongst the first ever UK bloggers – or webloggers (as this was back when it still began with a ‘W’) – were considered really pretty weird for publishing stuff about our lives online (and even weirder for meeting up in real life!) and this weblogging thing was probably just a fad and would never take off…how times have changed! This blog was also one of the nominees for ‘Best European Weblog’ in the First Annual Weblog Awards in 2001, (now known as the Bloggies). And one of my proudest moments, was being one of the bloggers featured in ‘blogtrumps’, alongside other early bloggers like Meg Pickard (now head of Social Media at the Guardian) and Ev Williams (who founded some little startup called Twitter).
I finally got around to importing the old blogger archives and it’s frankly quite terrifying to read the postings of my 18 year-old-self. But hey, that’s technology for you…
Contact
If you’d like to say hello, you can email me, or find me on Twitter or on Skype.