Talking innovation: Meet With UK Design Masters Mark Porter & Sean Perkins

<Shenzhen>
Organisers: Cultural and Education Section of the British Consulate-General, Shenzhen Graphic Design Association GDC11 committee
Time: 20:00, Sunday 4 December 2011
Venue: 2F, Guan Shanyue Museum, Shenzhen

<Guangzhou>
Organisers: Cultural and Education Section of the British Consulate-General, Shenzhen Graphic Design Association GDC11 committee
Supported by: Guangdong Provincial Museum
Time: 19:30, Monday 5 December 2011
Venue: Multifunction Room, North Gate, Guangdong Provincial Museum, Pearl River New Town, Guangzhou

Note: Free entry with consecutive translation. Limited seats will be first come first serve.

Brief introduction to the speakers

Mark Porter (UK)
www.markporter.com

Mark Porter is an editorial designer. He studied modern languages at Oxford University. Initially self-taught, he learnt from some of London and New York's best art directors. He has worked on a range of award-winning consumer, business and newspaper titles including Campaign, ES magazine, Wired, and Colors, and has consulted for newspapers and magazines throughout Europe.

MARK PORTER

Colors: Multilingual magazine for Benetton, produced in Italy and published worldwide in four languages

The Guardian: Major redesign of the UK daily, acknowledged worldwide as a contemporary classic
Evening Standard: Metropolitan magazine

Guardian Weekend
Design and art direction for The Guardian’s Saturday magazine

Wired: UK edition of the influential magazine about technology and digital culture

Mark joined The Guardian in 1995, later becoming head of design and then creative director. In 2005, he led the team which produced the design for the paper's relaunch in the Berliner format. He has been featured in several exhibitions including: 'Work from London', British Council, touring, 1997; 'Communicate: British Independent Graphic Design since the Sixties', Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2005; and 'Designer of the Year', Design Museum, London, 2006. His work has been recognized at the highest level by many organizations including World's Best Designed from the Society for News Design, a gold medal from the Society of Publication Designers in New York, and a Black Pencil at the D&AD Global Awards. He also lectures and writes on newspaper and magazine design.

Sean Perkins (UK)
www.northdesign.co.uk

-1963 born Doncaster, UK
-1981 - 1985 Sean studied at Huddersfield and Leicester Polytechnics (First Class, BA Hons Degree)
-1985 - 1987 Royal College of Art, London (MA RCA)

Sean formed North, his own design studio in London in 1995 (the other two directors Jeremy Coysten and Stephen Gilmore). It quickly gained the reputation as one of London’s leading groups for clear, modernist, communication design and has maintained this position to the present day. North build identities and brands that achieve business success and have transformational effects on organisations. Past and current clients include RAC, First Direct, The Royal Mint, HSBC, Hakkasan, Nokia and the Barbican.

Sean has published 2 books, Surface: Contemporary Photographic Practice（1996）and Experience: Challenging Visual Indifference Through New Sensory Experience (1995). Experience is an invaluable source of reference documents dialogue between over 100 organisations, marketeers, designers and artists around the world - from the creators of Japanese fog parks to the creatives behind Nike Town - exploring the possibilities of a radically progressive approach to marketing.

North's design works:

About GDC
GDC is the first large-scale comprehensive design campaign in China towards the globe since year 1992. It runs every two years with themed design competition, exhibitions and other activities. It was founded by Shenzhen Graphic Design Association (SGDA) as a predecessor as Graphic Design in China. This campaign has become the most influential with highest quality and the most authoritative and impartial design festival in great China area.GDC11 encourages and promotes creation of professional design, quality pursuit and academic spirit. While it also focus on the wide participation and contribution of design industries into the society. Under the theme of "Design for China’s Future", GDC11 will organize series of creative activities consistently last over half of the year, by forms of competition, forums, lectures, awarding ceremony, exhibitions and publications, etc. It is aimed to improve the general public’s recognition and focus on design and the social role of design.

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