Dumbo Feather: Tyler Brûlé

The latest issue of Dumbo Feather is now on newsstands, featuring two interviews of mine. The most notable is a long chat with Monocle and Wallpaper* founder Tyler Brûlé (as seen on the cover). I also spoke to Dr Sammdu Chetri about Bhutan's Gross National Happiness scheme. You can purchase a copy of the mag here. It's a great publication, with a long history of seeking out interesting people doing incredible things. I always enjoy working for them.

You can also still purchase the issue featuring my chat with Simon Amstell, which remains my favourite interview to date. What a lovely, thoughtful and very funny bloke. 

Here's a teaser from the Brûlé piece:

Tyler Brûlé makes Monocle 
“Having gone through what I’ve gone through, somewhere in the back of my mind, I’m always wondering: What are they going to do, shoot you?” 

There’s something almost too good to be true about Tyler Brûlé. Son of a Canadian football legend and a German-born Estonian artist, Brûlé moved to Manchester in the late 80s, where he trained as a journalist. In 1994 while working as a foreign correspondent in Afghanistan, he was shot twice and nearly died. Some soul-searching from his hospital bed led him to abandon the battlefield and launch seminal style magazine Wallpaper*. Since leaving the magazine in 2002, Brûlé has founded leading ad agency Winkreative and launched Monocle, an intelligent print journal that has defied a downward trend for the magazine industry. Alongside his media successes, Brûlé is known for his love of international travel (in business class, naturally) and high living. His weekly Financial Times column paints him as something of a restless, millionaire playboy, obsessed with fine dining, exquisite clothing and ski resorts. Similarly, Monocle feels somewhat like a magazine James Bond might read when jetting out on his latest mission.