Showing posts with label Jamie Ellul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jamie Ellul. Show all posts

Friday 15 February 2019

WEDF - Give it a Whirli

On Wednesday evening, I went to one of the best talks on design and branding I've ever been to. The West of England Design Forum (WEDF) was founded in 2006 to champion design in the West of England. It's a volunteer run organisation which has created a place for local design industry people to meet, share ideas, be inspired and make connections. Every month or so, they have an industry insider or company to talk about their work.

The talk on Wednesday was by Ragged Edge, a branding agency in London. What made this talk different (and so brilliant) is that they focused on one project, called Whirli, taking the audience through the process step by step, with individual talks by the co-founder (Max Ottignon), the strategist, the writer and the creative director - each presentation punctuated by the reaction by the actual client!
Yes, Nigel Phan, founder of Whirli and the actual client, spoke after each of the presentations and gave his reasoning and insight into which routes he decided on and why - and Max even took the opportunity of asking Nigel how much budget played a part in the decision making!

This talk, broke the usual mould of a design company talking about where they went to uni, their first job, how they set up, what projects they did etc etc. The result was a fascinating and really insightful talk - and very well presented.

It was an excellent evening and the WEDF should be applauded for their program of events and the quality of speakers that they have managed to get - well done to all those volunteers at the WEDF involved in organising these events.

https://raggededge.com/
https://wedesignforum.co.uk/
https://whirli.com/
Posted by Justin Hobson 15.02.2019 

Thursday 13 August 2015

...and now for something not about paper!

Cai and Kyn is a design partnership run by two brothers, who are also both dad's and they have just launched a blog dedicated to dads who have a passion for design. The content varies from Q&A’s with industry leading design dads - finding out how they manage work and family life to super cool kid and dad related Apps, books, products and clothing.

They've only just started the blog but there's already lots of interesting stuff - take a look Dads and Design . You can subscribe to the newsletter and follow on twitter, facebook etc The objective is to try and build a collective of dad’s that are all adding content, bringing their own experience and expertise, and adding to the overall voice of the blog. So if you’re interested, or know of anyone who you think might be interested please get in touch with Cai and Kyn through the blog.

There's a really interesting article by Jamie Ellul of Supple Studio about making time for the family, while still running a successful studio. Very interesting.
http://www.dadsanddesign.com/life/why-is-it-so-hard-for-designers-to-work-less/
 Have a read and enjoy ...(I'm sure Mum's are welcome too!)
http://www.dadsanddesign.com/
Posted by Justin Hobson 13.08.2015