Episode 8: Designing the Indaba
Listen (25 min, 41 sec)This week we bring you a SPECIAL EDITION direct from Cape Town. We spent a few days at the Design Indaba Conference and Expo and bring you some of the highlights of these few days. Saul Kropman gives us an audio tour through his time at the conference and on the first day speaks to Seans Adams and Noreen Morioka from AdamsMorioka as well as Rick Valicenti from Thirst. On the second day he speaks to Mohit Jayal and V Sunil from W+K Delhi then Dwayne Spradlin from Innocentive. On the third and final day he also speaks to the members of The Blackheart Gang, a collective of animators and what Saul describes as: "The oddest people he's ever spoken to". In between these interviews Saul speaks about some of the Conference lectures he spent time at as well as giving a brief rundown of the expo.
Episode 8 is entirely about the Design Indaba so come hear all about it
Guests:
AdamsMorioka:
Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka founded AdamsMorioka in Beverly Hills in 1994. The simplicity of their work has attracted leading clients including Sundance, Nickelodeon, Frank Gehry Associates, the Walt Disney Company and many other major international companies.
Rick Valicenti:
Rick Valicenti is founder and design director of Thirst, a communication design firm devoted to art, function and real human presence. His clients include the leaders of Chicago’s design and cultural communities.
W+K Delhi:
W+K Delhi was formed in 2007 with the merger of Wieden+Kennedy and A, a Delhi-based creative agency. Founders of A in 2004, managing director Mohit Jayal and executive creative director V Sunil led the agency in defining a new approach to branding India, rejecting the clichés of aspirational faux-western imagery and defensive ethnicity.
After graduating with a gold medal in English Literature from Delhi University and a degree in economics and politics from Oxford, Jayal has held key positions at agencies in India and abroad, including Leo Burnett London and Euro RSCG India.
Dwayne Spradlin:
Dwayne Spradlin is president and CEO of InnoCentive Inc, an open innovation community of smart, creative people who provide solutions to tough problems in almost any industry you can think of.
The Blackheart Gang:
Blackheart Gang lead animator Jannes Hendrikz is the compositor and creative director of the Blackheart Gang by night, and TVC director for Shy the Sun by day. Completely self-taught, Hendrikz began his career at Refinery before moving to BlackGinger.
Links:
Design Indaba: http://www.designindaba.com/
AdamsMorioka: www.adamsmorioka.com
Thirst (Rick Valicenti): http://3st.com
W+K Delhi: http://wkdelhi.typepad.com/
Innocentive: http://www.innocentive.com/
Jarred Cinman: http://jarredcinman.com
Saul Kropman: http://saulk.co.za
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