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Design Symposium attracts big names to region

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

August 26, 2008 | 3 min read

The inaugural Liverpool Design Symposium is readying for launch. A collaboration between D&AD and DBA, alongside the city’s creative industry agencies, Design Initiative and Merseyside ACME, the event will take place on 23 October at St. George’s Hall

The Symposium is the brainchild of three of Liverpool’s leading design agencies, Uniform, Smiling Wolf and Black & Ginger, who were inspired to organise an event to focus attention on the creative design sector during the Capital of Culture year.

The programme will involve some of the design industry’s leading figures and aims to attract creative practitioners and students alike from across the country.

Aspiring creatives will have the opportunity to hear tips on how to break into the industry in a Student Awards talk by D&AD, featuring freelance digital guru Susie Webb and Elmwood’s Richard Scholey.

D&AD will also be screening a selection of winning work from this year’s Awards, followed by a Q&A session on all you ever wanted to know about D&AD juries, the judging process and how to win an elusive Yellow Pencil.

The DBA will be running a Business Briefing on ‘Surviving the Credit Crunch’. There will also be a talk by leading international typographer Bruno Maag, founder of Dalton Maag, and an exhibition of winners of this year’s Roses Design Awards.

The day culminates with D&AD’s President’s Lecture featuring Matt Pyke, founder of Universal Everything; an innovative cross-disciplinary team of designers, programmers, animators and musicians. Matt Pyke will be talking about his work which includes projects for Apple, Nike, London 2012 Olympics, Channel 4 and his current commission to create sound sculptures for the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Kevin McManus of Merseyside ACME said: “Bringing D&AD and DBA to Liverpool for the first time shows how significant the local design sector’s profile is becoming nationally. We have been proud to part fund the Design Symposium activity and the fact local design professionals have driven this important initiative themselves demonstrates the strength of the design sector in Liverpool.”

For further information and booking visit www.liverpooldesignsymposium.com

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