Digital Futures 2005
I managed to get to go to this event at short notice yesterday. I was initially interested because they had Neville Brody speaking, but as a result he was not as interesting as expected and some of the other speakers were much better. It was basically an event that had a selection of inspirational speakers in to talk about a broad range of subjects. Heres a quick rundown:
Brian Collins
Brian came across as very passionate, and also told a great story about branding and pirates.
Neville Brody
Neville seemed not that interested about being there from the start. His presentation was based on one he had done 2 years previous so I was unsure of the relevance. He did make some interesting points I thought though on city cloning and how everything is becoming a copy.
Lisa Strausfeld
Lisa comes from a information architecture viewpoint and although seemed completely dis-associated from what she was saying, showed some great visualisation work they had been doing.
Paul Mijksenaar
Paul was without a dowt my favourite. Paul’s company do wayfinding. He is responsible for the signage at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam and various other airports around the world. He was very easy to listen to and what he said made a lot of sense to me who although has studied design is not a designer.
Marco Susani
Marco currently works for Motorola as the Director of advanced concepts. He had just flown in and had loads of information to tell us. It’s just a shame that he did not have enough time to tell it all.
Bill Drummond
What can I say. He was as abstract as I would have expected. The former money burner and KLF guru talked about some the 25 or so projects he is currently working on. He also handed out daffodils at the end and I was one of the lucky recipients.
Here are all the photos I took on the day.