Speakers
Announcing the first batch of speakers for the idesign 08 conference.
Adrian Shaughnessy
Consultant Creative Director
This is Real Art
Adrian Shaughnessy is a self-taught graphic designer.
Until recently he was creative director of Intro, the London-based design company he co-founded. He left in 2004 to pursue an interest in writing and consultancy, and is currently consultant creative director of This is Real Art, a ‘virtual’ design company.
Shaughnessy has written three books on design for music (the Sampler series) and edited a book of Intro work.
He writes for many of the leading design publications, and is a contributor to Design Observer and The Wire. He lectures extensively around the world, and in January 2006 he was appointed editor of a forthcoming magazine devoted to illustration.
Anne Longley
Digital Strategy Director
MediaEdge: CIA
Ann is Digital Strategy Director with MediaEdge: CIA, a global communications planning and implementation agency. She has been working in the digital arena for over 10 years
Her work has taken her to Africa where she helped set up an awardwinning social enterprise with support from Vodafone and to Bristol where she worked with Futurelab, a think-tank and ideas incubator focusing on digital innovation in education.
Currently based in London, Ann is heading up MEC’s Social Media Practice which entails listening and learning from what people are talking about online in order to improve relationships and ultimately organisational performance
Over the years, Ann written and presented on digital age dynamics and provided digital strategy consulting to clients including BT, Cadbury Schweppes, Chanel, Courtaulds Textiles, Glaxo Smith Kline, Lotus Cars, Reuters, Rio Tinto, Scottish Power, Swinton Insurance, Toshiba Europe, and Tate & Lyle.
Brendan Dawes
Creative Director
Magnetic North
Brendan Dawes is Creative Director for magneticNorth, an interactive design group based in Manchester, UK. Over the years he’s helped to realise projects for a wide range of brands including Diesel, BBC, Fox Kids, Channel 4, Disney, Benetton, Kellogg’s and Coca-Cola.
Ever since his first experiences with the humble ZX81 back in the early eighties, Brendan has continued to explore the interplay of people, code, design and art both in his role leading the team at mN and on brendandawes.com, a personal space where he publishes random thoughts, toys and projects created from an eclectic mix of digital and analog objects.
Brendan regularly speaks at design conferences across the globe, has been featured in many magazine articles and books on interaction design as well as writing two solo works published by New Riders.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York featured Brendan’s “Cinema Redux” project as part of the ground breaking “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition in 2008
Colin Jenkinson
Design Director
Cogapp
Colin Jenkinson is Design Director at Cogapp, an interactive company based in Brighton.
He has worked on projects for many of the company’s world-class clients, including MoMA, The British Museum, V&A, BBC and National Portrait Gallery. His experience and commitment to producing creative work of the highest quality has seen Cogapp’s design department successfully complete many ambitious projects, significantly raising the company’s profile in the field. Cogapp has been innovating for more than twenty years, and continues to push every brief it receives to produce beautiful, long-lasting work.
Colin graduated from Central Saint Martins in 1993, and has built a career spanning more than twelve years as a designer. He is passionate about innovative technology coupled with beautiful design that is accessible for everyone.
Ximo Peris
Creative Director
Smoothe
Ximo Peris initially trained as an architect before moving into architectural visualization in 1997. He lived in Holland for 3 years, teaching at TU Delft and working at DPI Animation House before moving to London and joining Hayes Davidson.
Since 2000, Ximo has worked for Smoothe on a variety of large-scale film and animation projects across the UK and worldwide. Most notably Ximo liaised with the London 2012 bid team, delivering the CGI and managing an extensive team to create imagery and film sequences that very simply, yet effectively communicated the Olympic vision to a global audience.
Other projects Ximo has delivered include work for Mercedes Benz to launch the new Mercedes Benz World at Brooklands, Orchid House, (Lower mill estate, waterfront Landmark homes project in the Cotswolds), which featured in BBC2’s design show and several large scale productions that incorporated green screen studio shoots for projects all over the middle east.
Ximo is currently overseeing production on the next suite of communications to relate to the press for the Olympics and working on a large production in Kuwait promoting a mixed use district in central Kuwait City. Ximo regularly lectures and presents to students as well as architects on the language and techniques of visualization within the construction industry.
Over the years Ximo has developed skills not only within the design aspect of his role, but discovered a real passion for teaching and training. He has built his team at Smoothe from nothing up to 15 people and regularly takes on students to help with their development. This enables him to have clear and concise explanation techniques and constantly hone his advice on the best ways to encourage people both creatively and professionally.
Ximo and his teams work, regularly appears in noted industry journals such as the AJ, the BD and 3D World, and projects which he has been involved in have picked up awards at various events from the pretigious Big Chip Awards to the Imagina Awards. Ximo also wrote a chapter for Brian Smith’s “3ds Max 2008 Architectural Visualization-Beginner to Intermediate” that will be released on July the 31st. http://www.3dats.com/products.asp
Some other links that you might find of interest:
http://www.stroom.nl/paginas/pagina.php?pa_id=4422935
http://www.mundosdigitales.org/english/noticias/noticia03.htm
