Freedom in Expression
DIY, Doing & Disruption
Richard Turley
Corporate Shill (and design legend)
Gabriella Marcella
Designer and founder of RISOTTO
Arisa Sudangnoi
Developer Relations Lead at Playdate
Mark Denton
Artist, Author & Designer
Last but by no means least, our closing night sees four more world-class speakers (responsible for brilliant & influential work) take to the stage to share with us their thoughts on Freedom in Expression. Creative director and provocateur Richard Turley, RISOTTO Studio founder Gabriella Marcella, PLAYDATE’s Arisa Sudangnoi and Artist/joker Mr Bingo will ensure we finish on a laughter-induced high at The Crossing in Digbeth.
Gabriella Marcella – Balancing Act
Gabriella Marcella, Designer and Founder of RISOTTO Studio, will take you on a high speed journey through her adventures in business, design and play.
Sharing her love for Risograph print; and how a machine has shaped her practice, as well as the ups and downs of running a studio and juggling projects; in the pursuit of finding balance, ten years on.
Arisa Sudangnoi – The Story of Playdate
Arisa Sudangnoi, Developer Relations Lead for Playdate, cranks through the history of Playdate and the company behind this tiny handheld game system, Panic. The journey of making the company’s first game system, with details on the inspiration behind it, the process for designing the Playdate, and the vision going forward.
Richard Turley – Those days are behind me
Design legend Richard Turley talks about F1, Civilization, Interview, Bloomberg, MTV and more.
Mark Denton – New Speaker
Mark has done loads of different jobs from Knitting Digest’s premier paste up artist, to typographic assistant, to visualiser, art director, creative director, executive producer and everything in between. He’s currently publishing, designing and bossing people about at COY! Communications, at the same time as directing commercials.
Denton has produced award winning work for clients such as Nike, Wrangler, Heineken, Cadburys, Levis, Greenpeace, and many, many, many, many, many, many more.
Unfortunately, due to the virus that shall not be named, Mr Bingo is no longer available for the talk – but we’re delighted to welcome Mark Denton to the line-up!
Speakers
Richard Turley
Corporate Shill (and design legend)
Richard Turley is an English creative director and graphic designer based in New York who works in media, fashion and assorted other corporate shilling projects. He is a partner of new creative agency Food, as well as the editorial/design director of Interview magazine and founder of Civilization newspaper. He is known for his work redesigning the visual strategies of Bloomberg Businessweek and MTV – and that Formula 1 rebrand.
Gabriella Marcella
Designer and founder of RISOTTO
Gabriella Marcella is the designer and founder of RISOTTO.
RISOTTO is of the UK’s leading risograph print specialists and stationary company; renowned for delivering jam-packed colour, bold graphics and fluorescent inks.
Arisa Sudangnoi
Developer Relations Lead at Playdate
Arisa Sudangnoi is the Developer Relations Lead for a new, tiny handheld game system with a crank called, Playdate.
Panic, the company behind Playdate, is an ancient corporation in Portland, Oregon that relentlessly follows its heart in an effort to make nicely made things that bring everyday joy.
Mark Denton
Artist, Author & Designer
Mark is just about getting the hang of this advertising lark after nearly 45 years playing around at it.
He’s been a creative partner of a famous ad agency and the owner of a highly awarded design company. He’s launched and designed magazines and books, re-launched Britain’s oldest advertising awards, produced a couple of plays and put on the UK’s first ever World Championship Mexican Wrestling event.
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