A little report from the talk I gave in Zürich at the ED-Conference. The ED-Conference, part of the European Design Festival 2009 which also includes the ED-Awards. Continue reading ‘Talk at the European Design Festival 2009′
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Thursday October 9th I’m giving a talk at the Design+Music event initiated by Tank. Design+Music is a part of the Insomnia festival in Tromsø. Yokoland who, made the poster for the event, are also speaking.
Previous speakers are Martin Kvamme, Halvor Bodin, Marius Watz, Grandpeople, Kjell Ekhorn (Non Format) and Håkon Kornstad. More info here
Diogo and I are in Stockholm for the ED-conference. The program looks promising and I’m really looking forward to it.
Day two was also great with Fred Deakin and Nat Hunter from Airside, Erik Kessels from KesselsKramer, Kjell Ekhorn from Non-Format and Adam Burke from Pixar. The animated movie Peter and the Wolf was shown in Roberto Bagatti’s slot, and while I would have preferred Roberto, the movie was a great piece of animation. All in all a great couple of days. I was asked to name a favourite from the lectures by someone, but I must say that it’s really hard as it was a really good program.
First day of Visuelt 08 is over. The lectures were great, as was the Visuelt Screening curated by Rune Spaans and Franck Aubry. The first lecture was by Jonathan Harris, giving some insight into his various projects. Next up was Arnt from Øyafestivalen. He talked about the festival’s focus on environment and how they’d always focused on design. I actually managed to come in late and miss the part where he talked about me and the era when I did the design for them, but I’ve been told he said nice things. Maira Kalman, who I’d already seen at the AIGA Next conference in Denver last October, was great once again. She has an incredible humour and wit, and such great work. Check out one of her speeches at Ted. Finally Rick Poynor offered some words of wisdom. I wish they’d put him on a little earlier when the energy level was higher though. Tomorrow looks great too, even though my friend and ex-colleague from MTV Roberto Bagatti had to cancel.