Live at Semi-Permanent

The Big Idea comes to you live from Semi-Permanent NZ, two ‘big days out’ for the creative and design industry in Auckland.

The design symposium brings together speakers from graphic design, fashion, animation, illustration, motion graphics, typography, sound design, fine art, music, product design and more.

The Big Idea will be tweeting lots of design goodness and speaker insights which you can follow via this live twitter feed below.

Programme

Fifteen international and local creatives are headlining the two-day event spanning August 20-21 at the THE EDGE, Aotea Centre, Auckland.

See the full programme and side events.

New Zealand creative duo Karen Walker and Mikhail Gherman feature while father and son team Dick and Otis Frizzell round out the New Zealand line up. (Read the TBI QnA with Otis Frizzell.)

The UK contingent features legendary graphic designer and film maker Storm Thorgerson, often referred to as the sixth member of Pink Floyd, Storm will be joined by his collaborator Peter Curzon; Christopher Thomas Allen founder of multi-media company The Light Surgeons; creative interactive firm founder Nicolas Roope of Poke London; graphic designer and author Adrian Shaughnessy and sound designer Duncan Speakman of Subtlemob.

From the USA comes New York based illustrator and typographer Jessica Hische and motion graphics company Buck will feature Kiwi Gareth O’Brien and Orion Tait.

Pixar’s Andrew Gordon who has just finished production on Toy Story 3 will talk about his animation experience and German product designer Katrin Sonnleitner completes the line up.

Live Tweets

Thanks to Anthea Whittle for tweeting on behalf of The Big Idea  (@thebigideanz).

Follow the stream of conversations from Semi-Permanent 2010 below, you can join in by including this hashtag #spnz