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TOCA ME design conference 09 |
“HIT BY INSPIRATION”
we are really glad to announce the fourth TOCA ME design conference! once again it brings together some of today’s most outstanding designers from around the world. they present their works ranging from graphic design to web and product design, from video to interactive installations and invite you to have a look into their world. they talk about their inspiration and show how they manage their projects from the beginning to the very end.
the knife - bird |
watching james paterson’s presentation at brighton last week - he has shown the smash up project he did with amit pitaru and dana gingras.
and there was this song - after intense research finally nina found it - and now we are humming all day “if i was a bird….”
and it goes on … |
the discussions about the thoughts of jonathan harris’ talk.
there are a lot of black and white - good and bad - posts around. we still have problems to go left or right, actually what was said in this talk had some good points. some well known like “do your own thing”, “personal is powerful” or “go outside”. other statements - especially about masterpieces and if they are relevant in 25 years - well, that’s another topic. what is a masterpiece? am i allowed to call my piece of work a masterpiece, do i have to wait till it will be found in a museum or people and the media hype and name it a “masterpiece”? this will lead into this neverending complex discussion about what is art and what is (only) design…
how the statements came down the stage in brighton - hmmm - we also had our problems to put our emotions back and focus on the content.
concerning idea vs experimentation and tinkering. again - we think it’s not just black and white. ideas make a project powerful, but in our opinion the idea doesn’t have to be always visible. there are a lot of (our personal) masterpieces around which are at first sight just “beautiful” and the concept and idea are not obvious from the very first moment. the viewer/user has to push oneself to learn more about the concept behind the piece of work - it’s not the main visible part of the endproduct. and without experimentation a lot of ideas wouldn’t have been born and couldn’t grow. so - both aspects are important for the design process and should be in harmony instead of fighting each other.
have also a look at jeremy thorp’s blog and andy polaine’s blog.
fotb 2008 - review |
it was our first time at flash on the beach - and YES!!! we had a great time in brighton.
we arrived with super sunshine on sunday, at the evening then meeting a lot of old friends and talking to new faces (”you have to mingle!” - thanks john for kicking our lazy ass!:-)) at the speakers dinner. the perfect start for a 3 day marathon.
during the conference - as designers - we were attending mostly the “creative” and “designer” tagged presentations: jeremy thorp, gmunk, erik natzke, rob chiu, andreas müller, james paterson, andries odendaal and jonathan harris. at night everyone met for beer and good talks at old ship hotel and some more pubs…
john davey and his crew really managed - besides handling a crowd of 1000 people - to create a warm and kind of “big family feeling” during these days - we are already looking forward to the next one in brighton or maybe even the fotb in miami which should take place april 2009.
on our flickr site you’ll find some impressions.
and
the last 5 minutes of jonathan harris’ talk caused some controversies. a lot of things have been said the last days, so instead of pushing out one more opinion we post some links - have a look at peter elst’s blog and the statement of jonathan and read and comment…
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