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Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.Storm formed Hipgnosis in 1968 with Aubrey Powell (Po), a graphic design studio specialising in creative photography and working mainly in the music business designing album covers for many rock 'n' roll bands including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, 10cc, Yes, Peter Gabriel, Black Sabbath, Paul McCartney, Syd Barrett and Styx, amongst others.
Storm started a series of books on album cover art with Roger Dean called Album Cover Album, and with Hipgnosis wrote and designed Walk Away Rene 1978 and The Goodbye Look 1982 about their own material.
In 1983 Storm, along with Po and Peter Christopherson, formed Green Back Films and embarked on producing numerous rock videos including material for Paul Young, Yes, Nik Kershaw, Robert Plant, Interferon, Nona Hendryx, Big Country and many others and also long forms for Barry Gibb (Voyager), Yumi Matsutoya (Train of Thought), and Channel Q a heavy metal compilation for Polygram Records. Storm continues to design album covers and direct films.
He has written and designed several books including 100 Best Album Covers (Dorling Kindersley) and Eye Of The Storm (Sanctuary Books).
Storm will be joined on stage by fellow Storm Studios collaborator Peter Curzon for a q&a towards the end of Storm's presentation.
Karen Walker started her eponymous brand in 1988 while in her first year at fashion school with just $100. The last twenty something years have been solely focused on building this tiny starting point into the leading fashion brand it is today with a reputation for its original, effortless and unpretentious style.
Karen Walker shows each season as part of New York Fashion Week and has permanent showrooms in London, New York, Tokyo and Sydney.
Karen Walker collections are high casual with one foot in tailoring and the other in street wear. The reoccurring theme is taking extremes and pushing them together - masculine and feminine, tailored and street, luxury and non-luxury, dark and super-cute.
Celebrities such as Bjork, Sienna Miller, Alexa Chung, Beth Ditto, Jennifer Lopez, Claire Danes, Cate Blanchett, Liv Tyler, Mandi Moore, Shirley Manson, Kate Hudson, Claudia Schiffer, Drew Barrymore and Madonna all favour her work with four pieces from the Dust collection featuring on Kate Winslet in Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman’s legendary film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Mikhail Gherman studied towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts for four years at Elam, majoring in painting and then graphic design. After leaving University he had a graphic design company for several years before moving into the advertising world as an art director and later, creative director. He has been with Publicis Mojo since 1991.
Parallel to his advertising career he has also been creative director and partner in the Karen Walker brand since its inception in the late 80’s.
Karen Walker & Mikhail Gherman live in Auckland, New Zealand, with their daughter Valentina.
Adrian is a self-taught graphic designer based in London. He spent 15 years as creative director of Intro, the design studio he co-founded in 1989. During his time at Intro, the studio won numerous awards including a D&AD Silver. At its height the company employed 40 people. It was an early adopter of digital technology and a pioneer of motion graphics.
In 2004 he left to pursue an interest in writing and to work as an independent design consultant. Today he runs ShaughnessyWorks, a consultancy combining design and editorial direction and the publishing company Unit Editions.
He has written and art directed numerous books on design. How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul has sold over 70,000 copies and has been published in numerous foreign language editions. His two most recent books are Graphic Design: A User’s Guide and Studio Culture: the Secret Life of the Graphic Design Studio.
Andrew Gordon has been animating characters professionally for over 15 years. He joined PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS in 1997 where he has been an Animator on A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and Ratatouille. The characters he has worked on include Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Gill from Finding Nemo, Edna Mode the costume designer in The Incredibles and Linguini from Ratatouille. He supervised animation on Pixar’s academy award nominated short film Presto and has just finished production on Toy Story 3 which is due for release in New Zealand in early July.
Andrew studied animation in Vancouver, New York and New Jersey and prior to his work at Pixar he worked in the Looney Tunes division of Warner Brothers. He was awarded "Outstanding Character Animation in an Animated Motion Picture" by the Visual Effects Society for his work in Finding Nemo.
The Light Surgeons are a collective of pioneering multimedia artists, founded in 1995 by creative director Christopher Thomas Allen. TLS functions as a media arts production company which seeks to create new cross-disciplinary audiovisual work that breaks new ground through its installation, live performance and digital film productions.
Over the past 12 years The Light Surgeons creative output has spanned a diverse range of different mediums; from print, photography, motion graphics, digital film production and exhibitions, to installations and ground breaking live audiovisual performance projects. The Light Surgeons are renowned for producing countless innovative visuals for club events and concerts as well as helping pioneer and develop the current VJ scene in the mid-nineties.
Christopher Thomas Allen is the founder and director of The Light Surgeons. His work crosses a diverse range of media from graphic design, photography, film and video installations through to exhibition curation. Allen works on all aspects of The Light Surgeons projects as a Producer, Director and collaborating artist in his own right.
Jessica is a typographer, illustrator, and eater of cake working in Brooklyn, New York.
After graduating from Tyler School of Art with a degree in Graphic Design, she worked for Headcase Design in Philadelphia before taking a position as Senior Designer at Louise Fili Ltd. While working for Louise, Hische continued developing her freelance career, working for clients such as Tiffany & Co., Chronicle Books, and The New York Times.
In September of 2009, after two and a half years of little sleep and a lot of hand lettering, she left Louise Fili to pursue her freelance career further.
Jessica has been featured in most major design and illustration publications including Communication Arts, Print Magazine, How Magazine, The Graphis Design Annual, American Illustration and the Society of Illustrators.
Jessica Hische was featured as one of Step Magazine’s 25 Emerging Artists, Communication Arts ‘Fresh’, Print Magazine’s New Visual Artists 2009 (commonly referred to as Print’s 20 under 30), and The Art Directors Club Young Guns. In 2009 she was named Lettercult's Person of the Year.
From leading creative practitioner and cofounder of Antirom in 1995, through to executive creative director roles at Oven Digital and Poke, Nicolas Roope has always looked beyond industry rhetoric to the inspiring truths of interactive networked media; this passion driving his career in the business spanning the last fifteen years.
Nicolas has creatively driven numerous high profile client engagements, projects and personal initiatives, picking up world-class awards along the way. He was appointed member of the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in 2006 and is the UK’s Webby Ambassador. He is also a UK Coolbrands board member.
In 2004 Nicolas also founded Hulger, another creative slant on technology, but in this instance physical. Two of Hulger’s phone designs and their Plumen low energy light bulb concept were included in MoMA New York’s permanent design collection in 2008. The Hulger story has been featured in worldwide press including the New York Times, Vogue, ELLE, GQ. The Times and The Guardian.
A man of many talents. An artistic innovator, style leader, artist, hip-hop performer, radio personality, tattooist, graphic designer and chauffeur to the stars and a success in every pursuit, he is one of the true stars of New Zealand’s alternative universe.
If there are any barriers to where Otis Frizzel’s diverse, irrepressible talent and colourful personality will take him, he has yet to be stopped by them.
He has maintained a high profile for nearly twenty years, bringing the same appealing combination of energy, humour and raw talent to all his work regardless of the medium.
Otis entered public life in his late teens as half of popular hip-hop duo MC OJ and Rhythm Slave. He has performed as Joint Force and Stylee Crew.
Otis has more than 20 years of public graffiti art experience, and since 1998 has retained his position as New Zealand’s highest profile graffiti artist.
His work can be found at the Parnell Gallery, Lethams Gallery (Herne Bay) the Saatchi and Saatchi offices, Robbie Williams’ London management office IE Music, on KFC packaging, Breast cancer T shirts, Grand Prix Racing Cars, Drag Strips, Playstation Ads, numerous walls and backdrops, TV2 promos, record sleeves of pop artists such as Che Fu and more recently Tiki Taane and Fat Freddys Drop.
Dick Frizzell has often slipped through the nets of traditional critical and curatorial definition and the success of his artistic career is, in part, due to the number of dramatic diversions he has made between different art styles and genres. Before moving into visual arts Frizzell worked in advertising. He has worked as an animator, commercial artist and illustrator and has no qualms about blurring the categories between his commercial work and art.His paintings are often a pastiche of images drawing on modern art and graphic design.
His work has always been characterised by a highly skilled handling of paint and an endlessly inventive range of subject matter and styles: faux-naive New Zealand landscapes, figurative still-life, comic book characters and witty parodies of modernist abstraction. His taste is conveniently broad and he has a penchant for fondly remembered and well-worn clichés. His work also portrays a sense of exuberance, ironic humour and baby-boomer nostalgia. An anti-traditionalist, Frizzell often makes a deliberate effort to mix up the categories of high and low art - poking fun at the intellectualisation of 'high art' and the existential angst of much New Zealand painting in the art culture of his youth.
Although primarily a painter, Frizzell also produces an extensive range of works on paper including lithographs and screen prints.
In her role as Senior Designer in the Frost Environments team, Sarah plays a key part in developing creative concepts and manages projects through to completion. During her time at Frost Sarah has developed environmental graphics, branding, signage and wayfinding systems for a range of clients across Australia and overseas.
Sarah brings to the team a passion for interior design as well as experience in environmental design and visual identity systems. Her strong interest in the built environment and passion for merging 2D graphics with interior design has seen her explore how graphics can be expressed in the built form, for example, the SA Water Head office in Adelaide that features a 25m mesh installation hanging in the atrium.
Recently Sarah has developed signage and environmental graphics for the Prince Alfred Park Pool, alphabet signage for the All Accessibility Playground at Sydney Park and was instrumental in the creative development of Frost’s Sculpture by the Sea artwork featured in October–November 2009. She is currently collaborating with a Canberra-based artist to create site-specific artwork for a corporate foyer, commissioned as a gift to the community of Canberra.
Duncan Speakman is an artist based in the UK’s Bristol. Since 2008, Speakman has been an artist in residence at the Pervasive Media Studio located in Bristol.
Originally trained as a sound engineer at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, his work now examines how we use sound to locate ourselves in personal and political environments. Seeking out the poetics of the everyday, he creates socially relevant experiences that engage audiences emotionally and physically in public spaces.
Many of the pieces Speakman creates, such as the sound walks and live performances, are experienced on headphones while walking through public spaces. Sometimes they are pre-recorded; at other times they may use satellite positioning, live performers and real-time sound processing. Other works include large-scale video projections, micro-documentaries and books.
Speakman is a senior lecturer in Media Practice at the University of the West of England and is currently developing site-responsive sound walks, street games and pervasive theatre works. He has been exhibited internationally at festivals including ISEA (Nagoya), Futuresonic (Manchester), RADAR (Mexico City), enter (Cambridge), TPAM (Tokyo), Liveworks (Sydney), Navigate Live (Gateshead) and InBetweenTime (Bristol).
In 2001 he was awarded the Clark Trust Bursary for digital arts and has received critical acclaim for his video blog 29fragiledays.
In 2007 he was peer advisor on the Almost Perfect locative media residency at Banff New Media Institute and in 2009 he was awarded the Vauxhall Collective Theatre commission for his work creating the 'subtlemob' performance form.
as if it were the last time
a subtlemob by Duncan Speakman
On Friday 20 August at 7pm, Semi-Permanent will attempt to set the world record for the largest ever subtlemob.
Audiences will be invited to download an MP3 file onto the device of their choice and turn up at a secret location in central Auckland, not far from The Aotea Centre, to listen to the especially composed sound track. The audience will hear the composed soundtrack along with narration and instructions.
as if it were the last time will explore ideas of how mobile technology can create social disconnection in shared public spaces. It will also look for ways to use those same technologies to create connections between strangers and friends, to savor the moment and the temporary space that will be created during the performance.
This work will be a snapshot image of contemporary New Zealand, allowing the audience to watch it, reflect on it, and live it.
as if it were the last time, a subtlemob by Duncan Speakman is brought to you by British Council New Zealand.
Katrin Sonnleitner is a product designer based in Karlsruhe, Germany. After graduating from Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design she received a fellowship at Designlabor Bremerhaven and worked on several design and exhibition projects for Alfred-Wegener-Institute for polar and marine research about mircro-organisms and bionics.
She founded her own design studio in 2007 and works on a wide range of conceptual research, product and exhibition design and both interior design and public space for renowned clients such as Kahla Porzellan, Raumplus GmbH and Deutsche Bahn AG.
Katrin Sonnleitner plays with objects,spaces, and existing ideas in order to find unexpected interpretations of the familiar. Katrin’s concepts pull from ordinary and universal entities, deconstruct past notions, and finally deliver something new.
Semi-Permanent audiences can see Katrin’s work in somewhat different: Contemporary Design and the Power of Convention, an international touring exhibition prepared by the Institut for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) and curator Volker Albus, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and Shed 10.
Quirky interpretations of everyday objects bring a ‘serious lightness’ to this exhibition. With 148 objects from more than 60 designers and studios, 47 of them based in Germany and 20 in other European countries, the products on display illustrate the great diversity and the humour that can emerge when the usual rules of convention are deliberately subverted.
Venue: Shed 10, 90 Wellesley St (Middle Deck), Auckland CBD
Dates: 31 July - 29 August 2010
Katrin Sonnleitner’s visit is made possible with the support of the Institut for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) and the Goethe-Institut.
Dick Frizzell has often slipped through the nets of traditional critical and curatorial definition and the success of his artistic career is, in part, due to the number of dramatic diversions he has made between different art styles and genres. Before moving into visual arts Frizzell worked in advertising. He has worked as an animator, commercial artist and illustrator and has no qualms about blurring the categories between his commercial work and art.His paintings are often a pastiche of images drawing on modern art and graphic design.
His work has always been characterised by a highly skilled handling of paint and an endlessly inventive range of subject matter and styles: faux-naive New Zealand landscapes, figurative still-life, comic book characters and witty parodies of modernist abstraction. His taste is conveniently broad and he has a penchant for fondly remembered and well-worn clichés. His work also portrays a sense of exuberance, ironic humour and baby-boomer nostalgia. An anti-traditionalist, Frizzell often makes a deliberate effort to mix up the categories of high and low art - poking fun at the intellectualisation of 'high art' and the existential angst of much New Zealand painting in the art culture of his youth.
Although primarily a painter, Frizzell also produces an extensive range of works on paper including lithographs and screen prints.
A man of many talents. An artistic innovator, style leader, artist, hip-hop performer, radio personality, tattooist, graphic designer and chauffeur to the stars and a success in every pursuit, he is one of the true stars of New Zealand’s alternative universe.
If there are any barriers to where Otis Frizzel’s diverse, irrepressible talent and colourful personality will take him, he has yet to be stopped by them.
He has maintained a high profile for nearly twenty years, bringing the same appealing combination of energy, humour and raw talent to all his work regardless of the medium.
Otis entered public life in his late teens as half of popular hip-hop duo MC OJ and Rhythm Slave. He has performed as Joint Force and Stylee Crew.
Otis has more than 20 years of public graffiti art experience, and since 1998 has retained his position as New Zealand’s highest profile graffiti artist.
His work can be found at the Parnell Gallery, Lethams Gallery (Herne Bay) the Saatchi and Saatchi offices, Robbie Williams’ London management office IE Music, on KFC packaging, Breast cancer T shirts, Grand Prix Racing Cars, Drag Strips, Playstation Ads, numerous walls and backdrops, TV2 promos, record sleeves of pop artists such as Che Fu and more recently Tiki Taane and Fat Freddys Drop.
From offices in New York and Los Angeles, Buck works with a broad range of clients in the advertising, broadcasting, retail, film and entertainment industries. Buck is a full-service creative studio, specializing in an innovative and collaborative approach to production. Comprised of illustrators, animators, filmmakers, artists and designers, Buck direct and produce live-action, stop-motion, 3D character animation, and traditional cell animation. Buck design and animate motion graphics, branded networks, and write and direct campaigns and short-form narratives. They have designed print ads, websites, vinyl toys and exhibited in art galleries.
Orion has written and directed campaigns for Coke Zero, Mountain Dew, Sherwin Williams, Hertog, Powerade, and Buck’s first music video for The Bravery. He earned degrees in filmmaking and fine arts, then fell in love with graphic design after graduation and taught himself the discipline. Formerly an interactive designer at a company called Heavy, Orion designed and directed interactive campaigns and promos for scores of record labels and artists including Radiohead, Madonna, The Flaming Lips, The Beastie Boys, Warner Brothers, Reprise and Capitol Records.
Kiwi born Animation Director and Designer Gareth O’Brien works on multiple mediums including stop motion, live action, 3D animation, cell animation and motion graphics.
After graduating from Massey Design School in Wellington Gareth began working at the Emmy Award winning Kraft:Haus Films.
Gareth joined Buck in New York as a Designer and Animator, quickly progressing to Art and Animation Director. Over the past 3 years Gareth has worked with such clients as Coke, Pepsi, Sundance, Comcast, The Bravery, NBA, Fox, Nike and MTV.
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a subtlemob by Duncan Speakman
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On Friday 20 August at 7pm, Semi-Permanent will attempt the largest ever subtlemob.
Audiences will be invited to download an MP3 file onto their own device (e.g. Mp3 player, ipod, mobile phone) and turn up at a secret location in central Auckland, not far from The Aotea Centre, to listen to the especially composed sound track.
as if it were the last time, a subtlemob by Duncan Speakman is brought to you by British Council New Zealand.
Sign up to participate here http://subtlemob.com/?p=438
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Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.If you work in the creative industries you’ll need to be at Semi-Permanent 2010 - New Zealand’s largest annual design gathering and the only event of its kind in Australasia.
Semi-Permanent is a celebration of all things design - graphics, fashion, animation, illustration, motion graphics, typography, sound design, live audio-visual art, interactive and experiential marketing, fine art, music, product design and more.
"I think Semi-Permanent is really awesome—it's such a professional conference, that just helps inspiration-wise. I mean you get to see all these people just doing things that you want to do. Just hearing their stories is great."
2010 speaker Jessica Hische after her experience at SP10 Sydney
The characters he has worked on include Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc, Gill, from Finding Nemo, Edna Mode, the costume designer in The Incredibles and Linguini from Ratatouille. He supervised animation on Pixar’s Academy Award nominated short film Presto and has just finished production on Toy Story 3.
Andrew studied animation in Vancouver, New York and New Jersey, and prior to his work at Pixar, he worked in the Looney Tunes division of Warner Brothers. He was awarded "Outstanding Character Animation in an Animated Motion Picture" by the Visual Effects Society for his work in Finding Nemo.
Andrew has been passionate about teaching animation for over 10 years and began teaching all levels at the Academy of Art animation program. He has taught animation intensives throughout the world and is also actively involved in The Pixar Animation Internship, helping lead it for 2007, 2009 and 2010. Andrew is a contributing lecturer at Animation Mentor. He is a frequent guest artist at CSU Summer Arts Program. He is one of the founders of Spline Doctors (www.splinedoctors.com), a blog/podcast dedicated to animation education. He is currently helping develop and teach at the new animation program at California College of Art in Oakland.
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