000042 - no strings attached (part one)
i should have known when i first received my ticket for the agideas design seminar 2004 and didn't contain any string to hang around my neck, that this wasn't going to turn out as good as everyone says it would be...
day one
drove myself into the city and met up with my fellow classmates leanne and andrew in front of the melbourne concert hall. first impression was that there were a lot more people there than i had anticipated. mostly young students. we were ushered into the auditorium and the first thing we heard was this japanese rock band playing on stage. the music reminded me a cross between beattles music and old japanese cartoons i used to watch on tv. they also had these really cool animated & pixelated art projected onto them and the background while they played. very interesting start but little did i know that this band would be the highlight (to me at least) of the whole show thus far (more on them later).
the programme for the day was split into 4 session littered with speakers from all cross of the industry. we started off with a couple from the US, skolos/wendell who made posters, one was a photographer and the other a graphic designer. the guy would literally make 3d models and take photos of the composition and the lady would i guess add all the fonts and photoshop it. sorry for the vague description but you get the idea (i hope). the other highlights for me were: animal logic who mainly does special effects & graphics on movies like matrix, hero, moulin rouge, etc. that showed this cool hudson soft samurai (mobile game, i think) promo; peter schipperheyn, a marble figure sculptor who was humourous and very passionate about his work, which were amazing and beautiful even just to see them on a projection screen! He studied in an italian town called carrrara and the pictures and stories he told were both warm and engaging, i wanted to go there!!; then tom bodkin came on last for the day, he is the design director for the new york times newspaper. he was also very funny and articulate during his presentation and made the whole talk enjoyable about font, typography, pictorials, layouts, etc.
i guess i could go on all about the speakers i found boring and simply uninteresting, but i don't want to start being all negative on my blog. i think it's very important for the speakers to be able to present well and have a sense of humour about it all and although i'm sure most of the speakers are very talented people, unfortunately, most of them aren't very good a presenting in front of a crowd (of around 2000 i might add).
lunch was included but not worth typing about. surffice to say, i was wondering other ways i could have spent both the money and time for most of the afternoon.
better cut this blog entry in half. to be continued...
day one
drove myself into the city and met up with my fellow classmates leanne and andrew in front of the melbourne concert hall. first impression was that there were a lot more people there than i had anticipated. mostly young students. we were ushered into the auditorium and the first thing we heard was this japanese rock band playing on stage. the music reminded me a cross between beattles music and old japanese cartoons i used to watch on tv. they also had these really cool animated & pixelated art projected onto them and the background while they played. very interesting start but little did i know that this band would be the highlight (to me at least) of the whole show thus far (more on them later).
the programme for the day was split into 4 session littered with speakers from all cross of the industry. we started off with a couple from the US, skolos/wendell who made posters, one was a photographer and the other a graphic designer. the guy would literally make 3d models and take photos of the composition and the lady would i guess add all the fonts and photoshop it. sorry for the vague description but you get the idea (i hope). the other highlights for me were: animal logic who mainly does special effects & graphics on movies like matrix, hero, moulin rouge, etc. that showed this cool hudson soft samurai (mobile game, i think) promo; peter schipperheyn, a marble figure sculptor who was humourous and very passionate about his work, which were amazing and beautiful even just to see them on a projection screen! He studied in an italian town called carrrara and the pictures and stories he told were both warm and engaging, i wanted to go there!!; then tom bodkin came on last for the day, he is the design director for the new york times newspaper. he was also very funny and articulate during his presentation and made the whole talk enjoyable about font, typography, pictorials, layouts, etc.
i guess i could go on all about the speakers i found boring and simply uninteresting, but i don't want to start being all negative on my blog. i think it's very important for the speakers to be able to present well and have a sense of humour about it all and although i'm sure most of the speakers are very talented people, unfortunately, most of them aren't very good a presenting in front of a crowd (of around 2000 i might add).
lunch was included but not worth typing about. surffice to say, i was wondering other ways i could have spent both the money and time for most of the afternoon.
better cut this blog entry in half. to be continued...
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