Robert Ossant

With extensive experience writing about craft and embroidery, freelancing has enabled me to contribute to academic and industry contexts. I've written for the Fashion Studies Journal, provided academic essays for exhibition catalogues in major fashion events across Europe, spoken at the British Museum, reviewed student work for Parsons School of Design, and participated in events like The Embroide

For the London-based sustainable energy scale-up business, I developed a distinct company Tone of Voice, principles around compliance based language and spearheaded the deployment of multiple customer facing campaigns. As part of the team that led a company-wide rebrand, I worked closely with external agencies, developers, graphic designer and internal stakeholders. My copy innovations and insight

I was headhunted to become a part of the Atomized development team, where I contributed to the preproduction phase of a feature documentary centered around the NFT boom and Damien Hirst’s NFT project ‘The Currency’. Directed by the BAFTA award-winning filmmaker David Shulman, the documentary premiered in London in 2023. Within this role, I provided a wealth of story concepts, conducted comprehensi

Hand & Lock is a small embroidery atelier in central London offering bespoke embroidery services to fashion designers and the general public. The company also operates a host of courses and organises an annual embroidery competition that appeals to embroidery students at design schools around the world.
I have been tasked with managing all communications from the company by social media, print med

Minty/Bit/Stronger was a punchy monthly online magazine covering news, culture, fashion, Interviews and more. Designed for the way people consume news in the 21st century it is optimised for mobile phones and tablets.

Write news articles and comment in an upbeat intelligent way for the 19-24 year old audience. Using SEO and Wordress to maximise article exposure and relevance.

I worked on the UK travel team contributing commercial content for Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Yorkshire and the Midlands.The section was the largest of any national newspapers and I worked with key accounts, agencies and direct advertisers to help keep it the market leader for domestic getaways.

I developed and implemented new commercial feature ideas to help advertisers find new ways to communicate that are still in use by the company now and wrote reviews for the website and magazine

At the Daily Mirror, I worked to weekly deadlines on the two popular entertainment sections. I contributed editorial for advertising features and co-created feature layouts with the design team.