Designival

In November, me and Luke went to Designival — a 2 day design festival in Liverpool. As we'd be setting up a studio together, we thought it'd be useful to hear from the 4 speakers, particularly Lance Wyman and Simon Manchipp due to their specialisms in brand design.

Day 1

For the first day of Designival, a few studios around Liverpool opened their doors. We selected a few we wanted to visit in particular — Mercy, Uniform, SB, Black & Ginger and Smiling Wolf. I think we only managed to see 3 of these (Mercy, SB and Black & Ginger) but all in all, a really insightful day and interesting to see the environment in which these studios work in. (Also got a mean brekkie this day, as you can see below).

Day 2

Day 2 was the day of the talks and portfolio review sessions. Although we had booked for these, there must have been some confusion with timing as we didn't get seen to in the end. The talks make up for this and first on was Sara De Bondt who talked through the development of her career. She discussed in depth how she approached, created and resolved a project which was extremely insightful.