I managed to stumble on a Twitter account called The Food Illustrator late last year. While I post recipes I cook most days on Cooking This Week, The Food Illustrator was doing illustrations of everything he ate!
Way back in June, we went to the opening show at Arch 402 in Shoreditch which had all 365 days of artwork on display. It was quite amazing that someone had managed to be so committed to a project for that long.
My work were kind enough to send me to this year’s dConstruct, held at the Brighton Dome on the 2nd September. As usual, I sketchnoted and you can see the results in this blog post. Generally, I found the quality of the talks to be better than I expected. There was a couple I wasn’t a big fan of and a couple that I really loved - Don Norman, Frank Chimero.
In terms of sketchnoting, I found the length of the talks a little short for my sketchbook. The 45 minute talks were about right for a full page, the 30 minute talks were a little short. For a change, these were mostly Tombow‘d post talk. I miss the time that is normally used for questions!
Don Norman - Emotional Design for the World of Objects
Kelly Goto - Beyond Usability: Mapping Emotion to Experience
Bryan & Stephanie Rieger - Letting Go
Craig Mod - What is the Shape of The Future Book
Frank Chimero - Oh God, It’s Full of Stars
Dan Hon - The Full Stack of Entertainment: Storytelling, Play & Code
Kars Alfrink - The Transformers
Kevin Slavin - Reality is Plenty
If I haven’t said it before, then I’ll say it again, the RI — Royal Institute of Great Britain — in Mayfair is one of my favourite venues for talks - great venue, fantastic speakers and always thought provoking.
This week I went to a talk by Professor Raymond Tallis, who has recently written a book called Aping Mankind - Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity, the talk was on the same subject. Although the talk was very fast paced, it was very insightful, although some of the questions were rather interesting.
If you haven’t been to the RI, definitely check out their programme of talks. As usual, my sketchnote is below - Enjoy!
