A few days in London
Photo by tim_d
I’m writing this on the train back from a few days in London. I left Glasgow on the surreal night of graduation, and arrived in Euston station at 7am in order to present my movie at the Interesting 2008 conference organised by Russell Davies. I was invited to the event by David Smith, whom I owe a lot of thanks - as he’s also the man who told Colin Greenwood about the film. David kindly offered me his presentation slot at the conference which allowed the first public screening of Big Ideas (Don’t get any).
Great chap.
The event was an incredible transition between London & Glasgow - and was a valuable opportunity to meet and show my work to some really interesting people. Among those were Matt Dent, Jim Le Ferve, and Curtis & Simon James - I’ll post more about my personal highlights in the next few days.
I wanted a chance to meet up with Ben Terrett from the Design Conspiracy, who did the Ident for the event. Ben visited GSA last year and it would have been nice to catch up - although I couldn’t find him in the crowd afterwards. His face was all pixely.
My friend Ivor Williams let me stay at his - which was handy. Another great chap.
Then there was D&AD. New Blood is an event held each year by D&AD to showcase the talents of new graduates, and to meet prospective employers. Art schools enter, and it works & looks very much like a trade show. Our department - Vis Com @ The Glasgow School of Art was awarded best stand in show. We also got three ‘Best New Blood’ awards. These were picked up by Jonny Naismith, Silje Eirin Aure, Victoria Kastenbauer and myself. Rock on GSA.
When in London, I also met the fine folks at Frani&Jonny’s (after a hellish cab journey that involved a minor crash, and the mixup of Charlotte Street and Charlotte Road) and had a tour of The Mill.
Thanks to everyone who helped me out in London, look out as I’m coming for good in a few weeks!
