So it’s that time of the year again—a week without classes so that we can attend agIdeas! But erm, that’s not why we go, right? Last year I started to write a summary post on my opinions on each guest speaker but that was too ambitious for me (!!!). However, I am determined this year to get it right. Just some brief words on all.

I may post pics of their works later, but for now Google is your friend. Or check out the agIdeas website for an overview of the speakers list.

Michael Mabry

A great prologue to the conference. Michael introduced his talk with a lively video using primitive but delightful animation techniques of all his “friends”, including Milton Glaser, Ella Fitzgerald and the President and Mrs Obama. There’s a warmth and humanity to his illustrations; he also showed us his process into making the “collagey, textural” look for one of his illustrations for Land of the Nod.

Richard Ferlazzo

Chief designer of Holden. Had  a perky kind of manner of speaking which was engaging and enlightening. Form may follow function but there’s a balance between the two somewhere round the middle, for what’s wrong with beauty in life if it is possible?

Eamo …