DESIGN MANCHESTER
CONFERENCE
I recently decided to book a last minute ticket to the Design Manchester conference. Researching further in to the speakers i decided there was a couple of people that it would be great to speak/listen to in regards to my dissertation. In particular Rob Lowe of Anorak magazine and the guys from Unit Editions.
Now in its second year the festival seeks to inspire and educate, working alongside key partners: the Manchester School of Art, as well as the Design Council, the RSA Faculty of Royal Designers and APDIG. Design Manchester is curated by a passionate team of creatives, with our Ambassador Malcolm Garrett RDI who will again host the main conference alongside David Crow, the Dean of the School of Art. Design Manchester will take place in some of the city’s most iconic venues, giving you an opportunity to engage in numerous events from lively debates to industry networking.
Out of all the days I have chosen to go to the core festival day which is detail below. One thing I wanted to achieve in my personal practice was to attend more industry professional talks as a source of influence and a way of gaining more contacts and networking. Also I am really inspired by the speakers that are talking at this event, especially Peter Saville as he is known for his iconic designs for factory records and the hacienda which feeds into my interest for design for music.
Cllr Sue Murphy – Deputy Leader, Manchester City Council
Hosts –
Prof David Crow – Dean, Manchester School of Art
Malcolm Garrett RDI
Angus Montgomery – Editor, Design Week
With –
Peter Saville RDI
Speakers –
Adrian Shaughnessy, Tony Brook and Sam Stevenson – Unit Editions
Unit Editions is a progressive publishing venture producing high-quality and good value books on graphic design and visual culture. We combine impeccable design and production standards with insightful texts and informative commentaries on a wide range of subjects. Unit Editions is a collaboration between Tony Brook (Spin) and Adrian Shaughnessy (ShaughnessyWorks) and brings the notion of the book as a highly designed artefact with rich visual and textual content to an international audience of design professionals, design students and followers of visual culture. Unit Editions produces books for designers by designers.
Publishing books on design
Spin
Umberto eco
Ken Garland exhibition — sheffield
Attention to detail with packaging
Epose contemporary design on work
Independant publishers
FHK Henrion — British graphic designer
Walter Landall
Daniel Hirschman – Technology Will Save Us
Daniel Hirschmann is an artist, educator and entrepreneur who uses relationships with technology as the core of his practice.
He has been making interactive installations, spaces and objects for over 10 years and has worked with organisations ranging from Nike, and Google to the Science Museum and the Whitney Museum of Art. He has exhibited work internationally and has taught approaches to creative technology locally and abroad for over 10 years.
He is the founder and Creative Director of Hirsch&Mann, an innovation consultancy specialising in responsive objects, installations and environments.
Daniel is also the the co-founder and Director of Innovation at Technology Will Save Us. TWSU is a business dedicated to helping people become more productive and creative with technology through its beautifully designed educational DIY kits for every day life.
Started in Hackney
Instigating 21st century learning
Eco system
Digital and tangible kits
Sodamino
Rejane Del Bello — Website
Senior Graphic Designer & Illustrator Rejane Dal Bello is since 2012 based in London. Originally from Rio de Janeiro, she began her career working for renowned branding & design companies in Brazil.
Rob Lowe – Supermundane
Rob Lowe, also known as Supermundane, is an artist, graphic designer, typographer, illustrator and writer with over 15 years experience in the creative industry. His signature mesmeric drawings have been published and exhibited worldwide. In 2012 he debut a new direction of pure line and colour, exploring depth, movement and optical effects.
He has be responsible for designing some of the most groundbreaking independent magazines of the last decade including the alternative children’s magazine Anorak and the award-winning food quarterly Fire & Knives.
His practice is defined by an distinctive use of colour, line and simplicity which can be seen through all his different disciplines from typeface design to his personal works.
Handrender artist
Anorak magazine
Fire + Knives magazine
Ross Phillips – Dalziel & Pow
Ross Phillips is head of design at Dalziel and Pow, a London — based agency with over 30 years' experience in brand and retail design. Working holistically and collaboratively across graphic, interiors and digital.
Fabrica
Show Studio
Michael C Place – Build / Angus Montgomery — Design Week
Michael C Place is founder and creative director of renowned London design studio Build. He studied graphic design at Newcastle college from 1988 — 1990 and makes no secret of the fact he left before graduating to follow his dreams of designing record sleeves.
Designers republic
Trevor jackson
Warp records
Less people get excited about record sleeves, hard for business to run.
"Music is about creating a voice or an image for an artist"
Generation press
Ian Anderson
Design Manchester proved greatly beneficial in my research in to my dissertation. I plan to contact bot Unit Editions and Rob Lowe with further questions regarding my dissertation and general research for my design practice. I am glad that i bit the bullet and planned my last minute trip to Manchester. It was also a great opportunity to visit a vibrant, creative city. Whilst in Manchester after the conference i also got to visit another exhibition going on else where in the city.
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