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Hyper Island in London
Last week I took a brief sojourn to Hoxton Hotel to speak to some Hyper Island students about great digital creative. And they were none other than some excellent chaps at W+K. Nice to say “hello” and to read about their course on the entertaining Welcome to Optimism blog. Cheers all, nice to meet you.
D&AD gets down and dirty
I’m speaking tonight at the D&AD event “How the hell did that get in?“.
A brilliant-looking evening, and a chance to show off my favourite new and old digital work. Its aimed mostly at the print/design community (I’m the odd one out coming from an advertising jury) so it should be interesting…
And the winner of the 2008 Slideshare best presentation is…
“Thirst” by Jeff Brenman.
Other winners here.
Talk in Soho – best 20 pieces of advice I’ve been given.
Hot on the heels of the D&AD President’s Lecture, another Petcha Kutcha style event, called “I’ll Show You Mine”, where we all had to speak about the best 20 pieces of advice we’ve been given.
Here’s the slideshow (unfortunately, posted up on Youtube as I can’t upload .movs to WordPress directly, which has thrown the sound out and meant it flicks through quickly – grrrr). See if you can guess what the advice is…
Digital Petcha Kutcha
These are the slides I used for the D&AD Petcha Kutcha talk this week. I based the talk around my best 20 pieces of advice… I hope they were useful to someone! The evening was a great event, with so many other brilliant speakers on stage with me. Probably the proudest evening of my life.
Travel Australia to visit the Big landmarks. The best trip of your life.
Context is everything, and be sensitive to cultural differences.
This represents everything I love most and hate most about the UK. Pbe honest, but not too OTT.
Tell your customers the truth (courtesy Brixton Woolies).
Mash it up, and let the audience participate.
Lucas' pedals after a show
Be vigorously, not blindly, optimistic. Take every good opportunity.
Don't be afraid to be embarrassed if you're doing something you believe in.
Kingpins make it big-style
Album cover in my collection.
The Decapitator
Be wary of stereotypes, and understand your customers as closely as you can.
Put your message in the right places, and people will take notice.
Look for the beautiful and delightful in the everyday.
Detail is everything.
Whatever you do, do it with flair.
Don't be afraid to ask for help.
Treat everyone with respect and support.
Do something that scares you.
And that's the end of the show!
Chinwag: Skills Emergency
Spoke at this event a week or so ago, and really felt like I was on a roll… Listen to my new-baby-no-sleep ranting here.
Design and sustainability
Brilliant presentation by Ben Terrett of Noisy Decent Graphics – at Campaign’s Applied Green conference.
