Thursday, 9:30am
1 September 2011
Code, design and inspire
Graphic design
Illustration
Information design
New media
Technology
Visual culture
Gearing up for this year’s Flash on the Beach in Brighton
Flash on the Beach is only a few weeks away, and we’ll be manning an Eye stand in the breaks – and blogging and Tweeting our way through some of the talks and presentations.
This year’s conference features a comprehensive array of designers, developers and thinkers from the Flash, design and Web community. Among the varied line-up, Eye readers might recognise such names as letterer / illustrator / designer Jessica Hische, sonic experimenter Jared Ficklin, illustrator Jon Burgerman and user experience designer Eva-Lotta Lamm. More code-minded attendees will have plenty to get stuck into also, with leading developers discussing Flash animation, mobile app development and HTML5.
Top: Jon Burgerman, Cheerio (see ‘Tools: old friends, new friends’ on the Eye blog). Burgerman gives an ‘Inspired Session’ on the Monday night: ‘A short talk about working and not working and how to waste your time proficiently.’
Below: A ‘sketchnote’ from the ‘Design of Understanding ’conference by Eva-Lotta Lamm (see ‘In with the old, in with the new’ on the Eye blog). Lamm will give a session called: ‘Visual improvisation – using playfulness to spark ideas’.
Above: Jessica Hische’s illustrative typography featured in ‘Make each letter speak out loud’ (Eye 75). Hische is giving a talk entitled ‘Lettering is not fonts’ at this year’s conference.
Below: Visualising sound with fire – Jared Ficklin’s ‘Harold Daw flame box’ (see ‘Stephen Hawking’s Universe’ on the Eye blog). We’re looking forward to more daring experiments at Ficklin’s ‘Visions from the man cave’ session.
11 > 14 September 2011
Flash on the Beach
Brighton Dome
Church Street
Brighton
BN1 1UG
flashonthebeach.com
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