Liverpool Trip

Yesterday our course took a trip to Liverpool for the day to go to the Liverpool Tate and the Liverpool Design Symposium at St George's Hall which was a major industry event for creative practitioners and students such as myself. We started off the day meeting James from the design company Thoughtful, he took us around the Tate and then around Liverpool as he has been one of the designers involved with the Liverpool Biennial Made up international exhibition 08. We saw this amazing giant spider made out of metal, hanging from a web between this building.

After our tour of Liverpool we headed to the St George's Hall and heard some great talks, starting with The Emotional Type, from international typographer Bruno Magg founder of Dalton Magg, he had some great tips to tell us and showed us a lot of his work and how he got to his final pieces. I also heard a talk from D&AD who gave us some tips on how to break into the industry and what stands out at the awards. They showed us this years D&AD award winners work, which i have to say was amazing so well thought through and executed, pushing the boundaries. The day finished off with a great talk from Matt Pyke founder of Universal Everything, he showed us his work for clients which included some big names such as London 2012 Olympics, Audi and Channel 4. He talked about his company a bit which i found interesting as his clients list is so diverse he covers a great deal of design fields which leaves his portfolio a big range of different design, which is possible for his company as it is made of a mix of designers, programmers, animators and musicians.

So overall was a good day, listened to some interesting talks from amazing designers and learnt a lot of great tips for the future.