If you are a long time Design Droplets reader you have probably already heard of the AGIdeas International Design Week, one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious design events. Regardless of its namesake reference (Alliance Graphic International – AGI, the international professional body for graphic designers and artists), AGIdeas is no longer a purely graphics focused event and has not been for sometime. AGIdeas ever expanding speaker list and event programme includes areas of design far beyond graphics and illustration. The programme now encompasses a diverse range of design disciplines and this year includes speakers and topics at the cutting edge of interaction, product, automotive and concept design, and much much more.
The AGIdeas 2011 festival programme and speaker line up is one of the most exciting and also largest to date.
This year AGIdeas International Design Week have further developed and refined their long standing events such as the International Design Forum, Secondary Schools Design Forum, Studio Access program and Workshops, and added a several exciting new events and additions/changes to the program.
AGIdeas 2011 events additions include:
- AGIdeas International Design Research Lab
The Design Research Lab is a one-day forum that provides design educators, researchers and practitioners with the opportunity to present design research papers to their peers.
- Children for Design
Aimed at primary school children, this event is a program of activities aimed at encouraging children to become champions of good design. Activities include a short forum, workshops with internationally renowned designers and a collaborative creation.
There have also been several changes to the traditional event programme including the Opening Cocktail Party now open to more than just AGIdeas speakers and organising committee.
Also returning after their huge success last year are In Conversation (a public seminar on Design) and the Advantage Business Breakfast.
The AGIdeas 2011 program is stuffed full of awesome events and will be a really worth while and exciting experience for any designer whether they are a student, graduate, long time practitioner or senior academic.
The speakers at this years AGIdeas that I am personally looking forward to seeing speak (and also to interviewing & showcasing here on Design Droplets) are Ian McCaig (one of the motion picture industries leading concept designers), Natan Linder (A member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Fluid Interfaces Group), Bruce Bigelow (from Electric Art, a Sydney based creative retouching and 3D company), Susan Bonds (a pioneer of transmedia storytelling) and Nicolas Hogios (Manager of Design at Toyota Style Australia).
As well as the above speakers there will no doubt be an awesome line up of other engaging and amazing speakers, so if I was you I would be grabbing tickets right now as AGIdeas sells out every year and is an event that is not to be missed.
