Speakers Update
7 September, 2007 – 10:40 amAnnouncing three more speakers for iDesign. Biographies for all the speakers at the conference are available on the Speakers page.
Simon Waterfall Bsc (Hons) MA RCA FRSA BAFTA D&AD RDI
Simon has been a creative director since he was sixteen, still at school, his company wrote the first computer games for Commodore 64 and Amigas, he still remembers when computers came with soldering irons. Unlucky enough for him his chosen profession in the Digital arena moves so fast that every thing he learns today is dated tomorrow.
After studying his Masters in Industrial design at the Royal College of Art in 1994 he co-founded Deepend design which grew as the industry embraced digital. It blossomed to 350 staff in nine offices round the world and became the number one creative agency in the UK for three years running and number one in the world in 2001.
In 2001 he with five partners set up Poke which was a vehicle to challenge everything that they had learned, practiced and preached. It become the number one digital studio in the UK in 2006 and is part of the advertising company “Mother”. In September 2007 he will become the youngest and first Digital President of the D&AD and in November will also be awarded with the title of Royal Designer of Industry, the highest honour in Design.
Martyn Ware
Martyn Ware is best known as a seminal 80s pop icon and co-founder of The Human League and Heaven 17. However, through the Illustrious Company - his recent creative venture with Vince Clarke of Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure - and his current convergent art project, the Future Of Sound, Martyn has been working with and and showcasing some of the latest developments in convergent media and emergent technologies.
Bill Thomson
New media pioneer Bill Thompson has been working in, on and around the Internet since 1984. Formerly head of new media at Guardian newspapers, he writes a weekly column, the BillBoard, for BBC News online and a monthly feature for new net users for BBC Webwise. He makes occasional contributions to other publications both on and offline including The Register, The New Statesman, Focus and The Guardian. He appears weekly on ‘Digital Planet’ on the BBC World Service and occasionally on other BBC radio and television programmes. He is the editor of w4mp, the website for people working for MPs.
