Semi-permanent is a design conference held in Auckland this year on the 15th and 16th of August, with an extraordinary lineup of speakers from all over the world. It was an incredibly inspiring weekend and we learnt so much about design, technology and life in general.
Marian Bantjes explaining the method behind her remarkable work.
Stephan Sagmeister talks about life, design and sea elephants.
The first presentation (and my favourite) was by typographer Marian Bantjes. Her work is amazingly detailed and beautiful and also has a lot of her personality in it, which is something I admire in a designer. Other presentations were done by David Pidgeon of Design by Pidgeon, Interactive designer and artist Joel Gethin Lewis, Collider, The Wilderness, Karsten Schmidt (aka Toxi), Sea Design, Debaser, Stephan Sagmeister and our favourites - Kate Bezar (Dumbo Feather), photographer Derek Henderson and director Danny Yount. They were all awesome actually!
Kate Bezar speaks about her creation - a mook called 'Dumbo Feather, pass it on'. She is Michael's favourite!
The amazingly talented Danny Yount showed us some of his work from film titles. He has worked on movies like Iron Man, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and the opening sequence of Six feet Under.
There must have been over 2000 people at the conference and it seems to be getting bigger and better every year. While there we saw Anthony and Alysa from Axis and also managed to meet Matthias and Jono from BCG and had a little chat with them which was cool. So all in all it was a fantastic couple of days sitting in the dark eating skittles and listening to some people talk about their crazy thoughts and creative lives.
SKITTLES!!!
Just before the Saturday afternoon presentations.
The aftermath of an inspiring weekend - slightly crazy creatives.
This is the story of a type crazy, blues loving copywriter and a soccer mad Hong Kongese art director.
Our names are Anna Smith and Michael Tam and we’re an advertising creative team from the edge of the world – aka Auckland, New Zealand. We love the movie Gattaca, the colour purple, Bubble tea and of course the crazy world of advertising.
Currently we are busy little beavers working on our portfolio and looking for a job in an ad agency.
Semi-permanent is a design conference held in Auckland this year on the 15th and 16th of August, with an extraordinary lineup of speakers from all over the world. It was an incredibly inspiring weekend and we learnt so much about design, technology and life in general. 
Marian Bantjes explaining the method behind her remarkable work.
Stephan Sagmeister talks about life, design and sea elephants.
Kate Bezar speaks about her creation - a mook called 'Dumbo Feather, pass it on'. She is Michael's favourite!
The amazingly talented Danny Yount showed us some of his work from film titles. He has worked on movies like Iron Man, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and the opening sequence of Six feet Under.
SKITTLES!!!
Just before the Saturday afternoon presentations.
The aftermath of an inspiring weekend - slightly crazy creatives.
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