Crop

Crop - 'For creatives in and around Farnham. A platform for free thinking minds to land in one room.'

This was a truely inspiring evening! An highly engaging talk from Simon Waterfall, founder of Poke and Fray, partner of Social Suicide and ex president of D&AD, was filled with anecdotes and advice about working within the design industry, at all levels (and meeting the queen!). The night also showcased the work of Alison Haigh, a graduate from Brighton university who had her award winning work on display and for sale.

Crop was organised by Bekker and Rebecca at the Mulberry. I hope there will be many more to come (and lots more of these lovely invites)

The XX

I am loving Islands by the XX at the moment. Coincidentally on wednesday, ex Trent student Phil from XL Recordings came to give a talk about the work they did for the XX. This involved the guerrilla campaign and record artwork.

Noah Harris Lecture

This week Noah Harris, graphic designer responsible for the recent E4 idents, Talk Talk ads amongst others came to NTU to give a talk about his achievements, experiences and inspirations. I found him very inspiring and he has achieved a great deal working independently winning massive contracts with E4, Ford, Talk Talk, X Factor.... I had no idea that his work was created, in the majority, for real only using CGI for elements which wouldn't be possible any other way - extremely relevant to my dissertation which I am battling with at the mo! Was also really interesting to see images which he gained his inspiration from.