Ian Anderson from The Designers Republic started the day off by running through an A-Z of his studio. The most interesting and successful project he talked through was his fantastic work for Aphex Twin's Syro which stripped away the whole idea of a record and essentially gave us a beautifully designed receipt as album sleeve!
Next up was Danny Leigh, a film journalist with an immense knowledge of film posters. He gave us a brief history of the film poster and how film advertising has shifted and changed (not always for the best) over the years! A wonderful, informative talk and everyone seemed to go away with a new list of films to go and see. I'd seen Saul Bass's work before but never had them explained in such a way and in this context.
Finally, Alan Kitching was up and talked us through his career in printing! It was good to hear anecdotes from the horse's mouth after a few months of watching interviews / reading up on him etc. It was a shame he didn't bring any prints along with him but to see his working process was invaluable. One interesting point I would make is that he never waxed lyrical about print as a thing, seeing it more as a means to an end...
For a print talk, there was a distinct absence of a true love and fetishisation of the medium that I was kind of hoping for - maybe everyone's just bored of discussing if print's dead when it clearly isn't and never will be!
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