Adrian Shaughnessy is a graphic designer and writer based in London. In 1989 he co-founded the design company Intro. Today he runs Shaughnessy Works, a consultancy combining design and editorial direction. He is a founding partner in Unit Editions, a publishing company producing books on design and visual culture.

Shaughnessy has written and art directed numerous books on design including How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul which has sold over 70,000 copies to date. A new edition appeared in 2010. He latest book is Supergraphics — Transforming Space: Graphic Design for Walls, Buildings & Spaces (Unit Editions).

He writes regularly for Eye and Creative Review, and has a monthly column in Design Week. He is an occasional contributor to avant-garde music magazine The Wire. From 2006 until 2009, Shaughnessy was editor of Varoom, a publication devoted to the critical appraisal of illustration. Shaughnessy has been interviewed frequently on television and radio and lectures extensively around the world. In 2010 he was appointed visiting professor at the Royal College of Art, London. He hosts a radio show called Graphic Design on the Radio on Resonance FM.

Dave Kirkwood’s 3hundredand65 Project began as a last minute idea, late on New Year’s Eve and it has now become an internet phenomenon. The first graphic novel to be crowd authored on Twitter, 3hundredand65 has attracted over 230 volunteer writers and celebrity Tweeters, including Stephen Fry, and support from professional poets, writers, artists, bands, musicians, Professors, Olympians, and DJs across the UK. Each day, a Tweet moves the story along and each day that Tweet is illustrated by Dave Kirkwood to create a year-long novel with 365 writers and 366 illustrations.

Ideas and characters are brought to life, offering starting points for the images Dave will eventually provide for the finished book in collaboration with writer Dom Conlon. All this and more will appear on 3hundredand65 and the blog created by Corporation Pop.

Followed by readers all over the world, 3hundredand65 also raises funds for The Teenage Cancer Trust. With teenage cancer being an issue that can devastate families, it is the hope of the 3hundredand65 Project that more celebrities pledge to send one Tweet and contribute to a story that is changing lives.

Malcolm Garrett RDI is a partner and creative director in the London-based communications design group 53K. He is one of the world’s best known designers in popular culture, having designed the graphic image of musicians such as Buzzcocks, Duran Duran, Simple Minds, Boy George and Heaven 17. Beginning his career in Manchester in the late 70s, he has over three decades of graphic design experience, and an acknowledged passion for interactive media.

As a scene-setter his provocatively titled digital call to arms ‘The Book is Dead?’ was published in Graphics World magazine in 1991. His pioneering work in a variety of interactive platforms, from early work with Peter Gabriel to more recently co-direction of the interactive gallery guide for New York’s MoMA, earned him the title of Royal Designer in 2000.

His range of work in graphic communications and moving image encompasses many other disciplines. He art directed the music, art and fashion magazine New Sounds New Styles, and has designed books & catalogues, film titles, TV graphics, and wayfinding systems. An exhibition of his brand designs, titled Ulterior Motifs, was shown at the Design Museum in London in 1992, as well as touring Manchester, Tokyo and New York.

Malcolm is Visiting Professor at Central St Martins and is Senior External Moderator at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a member of the Science Museum Advisory Board, the Sir Misha Black Awards Committee, is a Fellow of the ISTD, and is a founder member of 5D: the Future of Immersive Design.

53K.co.uk
malcolmgarrett.com

12:00

• Symposium registration

13:15

• Welcome and introduction from Professor David Crow
• Jason Smith (Fontsmith)
• David Kirkwood (3hundredand65)
• Morag Myerscough (Studio Myerscough)

15:10

• Coffee break

15:30

• Alex Bec (It’s Nice That)
• Vera-Maria Glahn (Field)
• Adrian Shaughnessy (Unit Editions)

17:20

• Panel Discussion
• Joined by Malcolm Garrett

18:00

• Finish

Manchester Town Hall
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The Great Hall is a glazed skylight on which are inscribed the names of mayors, lord mayors and chairs of the Council since Manchester received its Charter of Corporation in 1838. The superb ceiling of the Great Hall is separated into panels bearing the arms of the principal countries and towns with which Manchester traded. The landing outside the Great Hall is known as the Bees. On the mosaic floor is a pattern of bees. The bee is symbolic of Manchester's industry and is found on the city's coat of arms.

Design Initiative

Design Initiative is a regional design development agency, supporting the design sector in the North West of England and nationally. Design Initiative works directly with the design industry, its customers, strategic local, regional and national bodies and education providers to encourage the sector's growth and success.

designinit.org.uk

Manchester Metropolitan University

Manchester Metropolitan University is a leading educational provider with a national and international reputation for excellence. Its innovations in undergraduate and post graduate course development for craft and design reflect its outward facing perspective and the University has a commitment to helping its students understand the commercial contexts for their practice.

artdes.mmu.ac.uk

Manchester City Council

Manchester City Council is pleased to be supporting the Manchester Design Symposium.

The ambition of the Greater Manchester Strategy is 'to secure our place as one of Europe's premier city regions, synonymous with creative, culture, sport and the commercial exploitation of a world-class knowledge base'. Manchester's creative economy is a foundation stone of the region's future economic success and its potential to be a catalyst for innovation and growth for a broader Manchester City Region economy.

manchester.gov.uk

Independent Northern Creatives

INC is a non-profit organisation created to provide events, exhibitions, information and a focal point for graphic designers and people from other related disciplines in the North of England.

We recognise the need for more graphic design events in the region. Since the Drawing Board events in the 1970's and the Typographic Circle North events in the 1980's there have been precious few, especially when compared to London. These northern events were not only informative and enjoyable, but also brought the design community together on a social basis to discuss ideas.

Considering the design heritage of the North and it's huge influence on design around the world, the area has often lacked a forum to showcase its talented individuals and companies.

Although we are based in Manchester, with the use of gallery space at the studios Creative Lynx on Princess Street, we aim to extend membership to the whole of the North of England.

independentnortherncreative.org