Bart Yates is the founder and Executive Producer of Blinkink / Blink Industries, a BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated hybrid entertainment and production studio known for its bold storytelling and innovative use of animation and mixed-media filmmaking. The company bridges the worlds of entertainment and advertising, creating original series, commercials, and music videos for global clients.
Blink’s work includes acclaimed projects for Netflix, Disney, HBO, and Channel 4, campaigns for Nike, Prada, John Lewis, Arsenal, and the BBC, and music videos for Dua Lipa, Gorillaz, Coldplay, Elton John, and Iron Maiden. Its productions have earned Annies, UKMVAs, an Emmy, a Cannes Lions Grand Prix, D&ADs, and British Arrows, cementing its reputation as one of the most creative studios in the world.
At BRIDGE Summit, Bart will share how Blink has built award-winning work across film, advertising, and music; showing what it takes to produce distinctive, culturally resonant stories that cut through. Drawing from projects for Nike, Netflix, and Elton John, he’ll unpack how creative risk, strong craft, and collaboration can turn bold ideas into global success.
In a world increasingly shaped by automation and generative tools, a creative counter-movement is gaining momentum: a return to the tactile, the hand-made, and the unmistakably human. From Blinkink’s clay-animated BBC campaign for the Women’s Euros 2025 to the large-scale mural culture documented and championed by Global Street Art, physical craft is becoming a powerful signal of authenticity in an AI-saturated age. Whether it’s clay, paint, textile, or movement, audiences are gravitating toward work that carries the imprint of real hands, real texture, and real emotion. This session explores why hand-crafted aesthetics, from murals and stop-motion to independent street culture, are resonating across film, fashion, advertising, and public art, and what it means when the most futuristic work is the work that feels the most human.
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