Photos One Day Two

I'm pretty sure that we are going to hear a lot about semi permanent in the next couple of posts, but who cares? Because this year's semi permanent was fre-ken AWESOME. It was so awesome that I think the the word "inspirational" should be officially replaced by "semi-permanent 09". The person that really got me "semi-permanent 09" was yesterday's first speaker - James Jean (BTW Jean is an Asian, just thought i might clear that up a bit. Asian Pride) not that his work was better than the others or anything (cos all of their work was just fre-ken AWESOME). But the moment he flipped to the slides of his sketch book, I was totally "semi-permanent 09". For me in the past, the idea of a sketch was such a hassle. Despite the many attempts by my teachers trying to force the idea upon me. It probably got to a point where they would rather "eat slugs" than repeating themselves for the gazillionth time. I thought it was always such a pain to carry it around. I really just prefer doodling on whatever I have in front of me. Then along came Jean, Bam! the laziness was gone. Here are some of his works:

Did I even need to mention that David Carson got me "semi permanent 09" too? Motivated by a legend. Again, it was not from his designs and achievements. 'Cos I'm sure if you are a design student, "David Carson" was just another person you were told to stalk. No, nothing "fancy" like that .It was his everyday photographs, his way of capturing things that interested him. The beaches, airport signs, a cord dangling from the ceiling, the banana and coffee cup placed in his car, faded breakfast adds etc etc. I guess this was his way of keeping a sketch book and it was FANTASTIC FULL STOP.

The works of Studio aka. What can I say. Totally "semi permanent 09." My favourite was the comercial "SING UP tone". Love it so much, if it was tangible, I will go up and hug it.

Finale, almost all of them together on stage. Almost... we are missing a quarter. Oh well. we are designers, just don't expect us to be punctual.