Semi-Permanent 08

First off absolutely amazing event, the speakers, all the staff, Phil (Special features guy C4) the MC, the Church did awesome. Actually phil wasn't so great. But props to Simon (who we saw more of than we needed to) of the Church for overall amazingness for putting together the event.

Started off with a big bang Marian Bantjes (Ban-chees), showed her work and talked about her life and how she got where to she was in her life. I was blown away by her type patterns ridiculous stuff (also, probably not the right time to mention, but looking at my own page pictures make this blog almost irrelevant and boring). The kerning maybe off because of the pattern, but that stuff makes me want to start drawing up some patterns. Also the use of 'none type' as type (Sagmeisterness) gives me heaps of ideas. Super inspiring, lady who works for a small design firm in Newton with only 3 designer, who's name escapes me tells me that Bantjes talk was worth ticket price alone.

(All what I type is a retrospective look 'cos Semi-Permanent was on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th.)

Australian designer David Pidgeon (Pidgeon Design) was next up and had a tough act to follow up on. His work was all of top quality and his Di Stasio corporate identity extension was a highlight. But the work led to him to do an international competition for designs for the Australian pavilion at Giardini Della Biennale in Venice. Thinking outside the square and also doing things that are indirectly design related for design projects.