The Forum / Winckley Street / Preston
Speakers from 6.30pm / Networking from 8.30pm
Entry Free / Register here
Speakers//
Prof Stuart Walker / ImaginationLancaster
Prof Rachel Cooper / ImaginationLancaster
Mark Beever / thomas.matthews
Chair: Steven Johnson / The Hub
Further speakers TBC
Never short on ambition, GroupHub’s July event will be asking, “Can design save the world?” If design is about solving client problems, then Our Future Ltd is issuing some seriously challenging briefs - mammoth projects with daunting objectives and scary deadlines.
This event will assemble a panel of creative practitioners and academics to discuss how we can use our skills, our work and our businesses to offer up some answers. We’ll be talking about the environment, ethical trading, community cohesion and world peace. And we’ll be looking for answers a little more ambitious than switching off Macs, recycling paper and changing light bulbs.
We’d very much welcome your input on this event. Please submit comments on this post to suggest further speakers/themes/questions. Places at this event are free, but strictly limited so place ensure you register by emailing our events team here.
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thomas.matthews biog:
thomas.matthews is a communication design agency with a diverse team delivering creative, innovative and sustainable solutions across a spectrum of areas.
Our design approach creates solutions that tackle issues in interesting and surprising ways and which demonstrate respect and understanding of the subject and its audience. We have a commitment to high quality
design built on humour, fresh ways to communicate, sustainable and innovative use of materials and production processes, and actively engaging clients and audience.
thomas.matthews specialise in:
• conceptual and creative thinking
• consultation and interaction
• design for exhibitions
• design for media including print and digital
• brand design and development
• wayfinding and signage strategies
thomas.matthews runs a carbon neutral studio, aiming to become ‘carbon positive’ by developing active relationships with our identified ‘sphere of influence’, the clients and suppliers.
Over the past ten years we have developed an extensive knowledge in sustainable practice, delivering a vast range of projects from printed leaflets through to large scale
exhibitions and international identities.
Each project is developed to have minimal environmental impact at each stage of the process with maximum communicative impact.
thomas.matthews are recognised as one of the leading sustainable creative design studios in the UK.
Read more about their work at thomas.matthews.com
Posted 08 Jul 2008 at 7:37 pm ¶Wow! Looks a really excellent event….really wish I could be there.
I’ll have a think and see if I can whiz across a question or two beforehand.
If you’re wondering whether to go or not, I’d like to take this opportunity to say GO! The speakers are out there making a genuine difference and are engaged in exploring the true potential (and need) of creative intervention. Designing a genuine difference. Go, for me….
and have a great night everyone : )
Posted 08 Jul 2008 at 8:43 pm ¶Sent to me by one of our programmers this evening (seen on ffffound.com), after the event (which he had no knowledge of, as he’s been in Italy) but I found rather amusing and apt!
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