A few weeks back, I attended a talk at the Design Musuem, as part of the Pioneers of Industrial Culture. The talk featured Wim Crouwel in conversation with the museum’s director, Deyan Sudjic.

I can only hope I am as witty and coherent when I reach Wim Crouwel’s age — 83 according to Wikipedia — He was such an insightful and engaging speaker. The talk and the exhibition left me feeling refreshed, it reminded me of my heady days studying graphic design, back when I wasn’t so cynical. My sketchnote from the talk is below, hope you enjoy!

Tonight I had the pleasure of attending the Symbol talk, by Angus Hyland (of Pentagram) at the Design Museum. Angus is a fantastic presenter and I really enjoyed the talk, although did get a little carried away doing my own versions of the logo in my sketchnote. The talk was in conjunction with Angus’s book, also called Symbol, which has just been released. Looks absolutely amazing and am very tempted to get a copy!

Here is a recent sketchnote from Bill Moggridge’s talk at the Design Museum, given to publicise his new book Designing Media. He also had a few guests from Airside. 

If I’m completely honest, I’m not sure I got a huge amount out of the talk. I was less interested in the pre-recorded interviews that he used to punctuate his responses than I was the dialogue between himself and Airside, who made a few salient points once they got going. 

There are a couple of other talks upcoming at the Design Museum and I’ll be attending those so I can practise my sketchnoting some more!