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21.04.08
Let's add some potential (and not-so potential) blog names to the mix; feel free to refresh the page...
Hello
21.04.08
It's the second post, I know, but things are still a bit messy round here and need sorting out. In any case, you'll like what you're given. So, in the absence of a better name, here's Talk Talk Talk; named after The Psychedelic Furs' 1981 album. Hopefully I'll come up with a better name for this in the future.
In the meantime, here's a track from said album; enjoy the excellent 'Mr Jones' below.
D&AD President's Lectures: Pecha Kucha – Digital
17.04.08
Having never been to a D&AD President's Lecture before, I – along with about a handful of colleagues – went to the second of this year's Lectures; where the speakers would talk about their work, heroes, or whatever they liked. Sounds like your average lecture, but tonight didn't follow the usual format.
"Pecha Kucha" (derived from the Japanese for the sound of ambient conversation) allows each speaker to show twenty slides, with each slide on screen for twenty seconds only; the idea being that each presentation is concise and the pace is kept flowing.
Below is a highly abridged review of the night:
- Daljit Singh (of Digit) – showing the bizarre but wonderful and simple works of "art" he makes while sleepwalking
- David Streek (of playerthree) – an entertaining look at how videogaming has changed (and returned to its roots)
- Nat Hunter (of Airside) – a talk about our impact on the environment as designers (I assume she was nervous and perhaps not feeling particularly well as her delivery wasn't particularly great)
- Tom Bazeley (of Lean Mean Fighting Machine) – read directly from his slides a long but highly entertaining list of things that he likes, loves and is inspired by This was a bit like speed dating for designers, except you don't go home with anyone; unless you're Liz Sivell from Profero and making a big deal of the fact you're single. Six minutes and forty seconds may not be particularly long (especially when you have charismatic speakers with interesting ideas and work) but it's a good way of quickly seeing what your fellow craftsmen have to show and how they think.
- Daljit Singh (of Digit) – showing the bizarre but wonderful and simple works of "art" he makes while sleepwalking
- David Streek (of playerthree) – an entertaining look at how videogaming has changed (and returned to its roots)
- Nat Hunter (of Airside) – a talk about our impact on the environment as designers (I assume she was nervous and perhaps not feeling particularly well as her delivery wasn't particularly great)
- Tom Bazeley (of Lean Mean Fighting Machine) – read directly from his slides a long but highly entertaining list of things that he likes, loves and is inspired by This was a bit like speed dating for designers, except you don't go home with anyone; unless you're Liz Sivell from Profero and making a big deal of the fact you're single. Six minutes and forty seconds may not be particularly long (especially when you have charismatic speakers with interesting ideas and work) but it's a good way of quickly seeing what your fellow craftsmen have to show and how they think.