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#fail

interesting interview with designer ‘martin venezky’, particularly worth a listen is the later section where he discusses inspiration and the willingness to let something fail…

m / 15-05-2013 08:13 - tags: , ,  

beyonderground

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last week i was honored to be a speaking guest at the all new beyonderground festival in hasselt, belgium

organised by a friendly group of local graphic designers the festival brought together an eclectic mix of international designers and illustrators, of which ‘eike könig’ (hort) was perhaps the most well known, so it was a great chance to meet some new names in the field

on friday i took part in an interview with journalist and blogger stephanie duval who questioned UK blogger and friendly chap cmykern (aka james griffin) and myself on the life of a blogger

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personally i wondered just how interesting such a discussion could be to a live audience but it seemed to go down well enough, also highly interesting for myself to hear james talk about his blog and the surprising number of similarities we share in approach and in our motivation to blog

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on the saturday i saw an interesting talk by paul jenkins and the organisation asked me to do a live interview with the talented mister job wouters in the afternoon, which also seemed to go down well judging by the reactions afterwards (i was nervous as hell)

all in all a really fun and inspiring event, i hope they invite me back for a future edition of which i have no doubt there will be many, thanks guys…

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the festival leaders made by belgian artist ‘kristof luyckx’ using lo-tech synth equipment were absolutely hilarious, he is slowly adding them to his vimeo page check it out they are worth a watch (one shown below)

m / 07-05-2013 08:31 - tags: , ,  

design matters

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interesting debate last night at the design matters series with ’75b’, ‘job wouters’, ‘raw color’ and ‘rogier arents’ discussing the divide between personal and commissioned work as a designer

’75b’ in particular were very articulate, entertaining and well versed on the subject matter… i will actually be interviewing mister ‘job wouters’ myself this coming saturday in belgium, at the new beyonderground (design) festival

m / 23-04-2013 08:56 - tags: , ,  

qu’est ce que le design?

(thanks to ‘boy bastiaens’ for the tip)

m / 11-04-2013 10:21 - tags: , ,  

75b

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in the run up to the launch of their new book, the bizarrely titled: ‘arab spring & aaron winter’ design studio 75b will be doing a talk in amsterdam on the 22nd of april, the subject of the talk and the book is the constant duality and friction in design between autonomous and commercial practice

m / 11-04-2013 09:10 - tags: , , ,