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GDFS 19—25.10.18 5th Birthday!

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2-day Workshop

Saturday 20th – Sunday 21st October
10.00-18.00
The Lighthouse, Glasgow

Expand your abilities in an industry-led 2-day workshop with:
– David Carson – SOLD OUT
– Noviki
– Erik Kessels – SOLD OUT
– Caviar
– Or Type – SOLD OUT
– Studio Spass – SOLD OUT
– Pentagram – SOLD OUT

Ticket: £132

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1-day Workshop (A)

Monday 22nd October
10.00-18.00
The Lighthouse, Glasgow

Develop new skills in 1-day workshops led by:
– Ciaran Glöbel – SOLD OUT
– Studio Something
– Edwin Pickstone – SOLD OUT
– International Magic
– Whitespace – SOLD OUT

Ticket: £66

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1-day Workshop (B)

Tuesday 23rd October
10.00-18.00
The Lighthouse, Glasgow

Extend your practice in industry-led workshops with:
– Hungry Sandwich Club
– Codebase
– Jamhot
– DR-Foundry – SOLD OUT
– STV Creative
– Good Press Gallery

Ticket: £66

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Business Bootcamp

Date: Friday 23rd November
10:00-15:00
The Lighthouse, Glasgow

– Starting a creative business?
– Started a creative business?
– Working in the creative industries?
– Freelancing?
– Graduating soon?
– Unemployed?
– Looking for opportunities?
– Want to invest in your future?

Build new skills, ask questions, discuss ideas and learn from experienced industry experts through creative talks, advice sessions, directed discussion which any practitioner from the creative industries can attend.

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Launch Night & International Poster Exhibition Opening

Friday 19th October
19.00-22.30
The Lighthouse, Glasgow

Join us for an evening of music, drinks, and celebration to launch Graphic Design Festival Scotland 2018 and the opening of our International Poster Exhibition.

Ticket: Free

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After Party x 12th Isle

Friday 19th October
22.00-03.00
Lola’s Nightclub, Glasgow

After enjoying this year’s Launch Night in the Lighthouse (6.30pm-10.30pm), head over to Lola’s Nightclub to continue the party.

Ticket: £8

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Erik Kessels & David Carson Q&A

Saturday 20th October
19.00-22.00
The Lighthouse, Glasgow

Dive into an open discussion with two of the most iconic names in the industry; design legends Erik Kessels and David Carson.

Before 31st August
Standard Ticket: £25

After 31st August
Standard Ticket: £35

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Young & Powerful Exhibition Opening & Award Ceremony

Monday 22nd October
18.30-20.30
The Lighthouse, Glasgow

Attend the opening of the Young & Powerful Exhibition, showcasing a selection of entries to the Young & Powerful Competition. Awards and certificates will be presented to the winners of the competition throughout the evening.

Ticket: Free

 

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TopForm - SOLD OUT

Friday 19th October
11.00-17.00
Mitchell Library, Glasgow

Join us for a series of insightful talks and discussion with six industry leaders:
– David Carson
– Erik Kessels
– Pentagram’s Naresh Ramchandani
– Noviki
– GraphicDesign&
– Noemie Le Coz

Before 31st August
Standard Ticket: £42 – SOLD OUT
Student Ticket: £32 – SOLD OUT

After 31st August
Standard Ticket: £62 – SOLD OUT
Student Ticket: £42 – SOLD OUT

Individual tickets for this event are now sold out, however TopForm can still be attended by purchasing a Weekend Pass or Full Festival Pass.

 

 

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Nitty Gritty

Wednesday 24th October
19.00-21.30
The Lighthouse, Glasgow

There are some things we don’t often share or talk about… Now is the time.

Through open and frank discussion we’ll explore the business, organisational and unexpected aspects of working within the creative industries. Let’s get down to the Nitty Gritty!

Ticket: £10

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Live Project
(Student + Recent Graduate)

Wednesday 24th – Thursday 25th October
10.00-18.00
The Lighthouse, Glasgow

Work on a creative design-led brief over 2 days with mentorship from some of Scotland’s top creative practices and the opportunity to present to internationally renowned jury and bag GDFS Emerging Designer Award.

Ticket: £66

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If you want to take advantage of all the opportunities at GDFS
pick up a Full Festival Pass or if you're just here for the weekend, bag a Weekend Pass.

Full Festival Pass - SOLD OUT
(Standard)

Friday 19th-Wednesday 24th October
All Venues

A full festival pass includes entry to:
– TopForm
– Launch Night
– International Poster Exhibition Opening
– After Party x 12th Isle
– 2-day Workshop
– Erik Kessels & David Carson Q&A
– 1-day Workshop (A)
– 1-day Workshop (B)
– Nitty Gritty

Ticket: £306
(Total Saving: £73)

Full Festival Pass - SOLD OUT
(Student or Recent Graduate)

Friday 19th-Thursday 25th October
All Venues

A full festival pass includes entry to:
– TopForm
– Launch Night
– International Poster Exhibition Opening
– After Party x 12th Isle
– 2-day Workshop
– Erik Kessels & David Carson Q&A
– 1-day Workshop (A)
– 1-day Workshop (B)
– Nitty Gritty
– Live Project

Ticket: £362
(Total Saving: £63)

Weekend Pass - SOLD OUT
(Standard)

Friday 19th-Sunday 21st October
All Venues

A weekend pass includes entry to:
– TopForm
– Launch Night
– International Poster Exhibition Opening
– After Party x 12th Isle
– 2-day Workshop
– Erik Kessels & David Carson Q&A

Ticket: £199
(Total Saving: £38)

Weekend Pass - SOLD OUT
(Student or Recent Graduate)

Friday 19th-Sunday 21st October
All Venues

A weekend pass includes entry to:
– TopForm
– Launch Night
– International Poster Exhibition Opening
– After Party x 12th Isle
– 2-day Workshop
– Erik Kessels & David Carson Q&A

Ticket: £189
(Total Saving: £28)

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19—25.10.18
5th Birthday!

Business Bootcamp

Friday 23rd November 2018
The Lighthouse, Glasgow

10:00-15:00
Doors open: 9.45

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About Business Bootcamp

Build new skills, ask questions, discuss ideas and learn from experienced industry experts through creative talks, advice sessions, directed discussion which any practitioner from the creative industries can attend.

Business Bootcamp will begin with morning coffees, introductions, and initial conversations. Each speaker will then handle one of the below topics, talking for 10 minutes about their approaches and methods.

After the 12 topic talks have concluded, participants will then have the opportunity to spend time with each speaker for directed discussion and advice sessions.

Business Bootcamp is broken down into 12 topics:
1 – The Business Plan
2 – The Legal Essentials
3 – Naming & Defining
4 – Branding & Promotion
5 – Love Your Network
6 – Grow Your Business
7 – Important Systems
8 – Costing & Pitching
9 – Finding Work/Clients
10 – Keeping Work/Clients
11 – Believe in You
12 – Invest in You

Participant Information

Business Bootcamp is open to anyone who would like to develop skills and ideas to assist in working within the creative industries. Supported by Creative Scotland to offer creatives a toolkit to develop creative businesses, skills, and projects.

– Starting a creative business?

– Started a creative business?

– Working in the creative industries?

– Freelancing?

– Graduating soon?

– Unemployed?

– Looking for opportunities?

– Want to invest in your future?

Programme

1 – The Business Plan

Learn how to create a business plan which covers: business offering, brand values, services and products, target audience, competitors, finances, objectives, planning and much more!

2 – The Legal Essentials

Understand how to set up and register a business and ensure you abide by legal responsibilities and financial obligations.

3 – Naming & Defining

Understand the power of your business name and how to develop your brand values and story.

4 – Branding & Promotion

Gain advice and direction on how to brand and promote your business, physically and digitally.

5 – Love Your Network

Understand the value of developing a network that you can utilise to find clients and customers, gain advice and direction, and brainstorm new ideas.

6 – Grow Your Business

Understand the best way to present your previous work and utilise this to gain potential clients and projects.

 

 

 

 

 

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7 – Important Systems

Learn about project management, billing systems, contracts, fees, time-sheets and much more. Getting these things in place early, ensure projects go smoothly.

8 – Costing & Pitching

Learn how to create pitches/proposals for projects and how to build a costing for a client.

9 – Finding Work/Clients

There is no business without clients. Understand how to find clients and develop new work streams.

10 – Keeping Work/Clients

Once you’ve found work and/or clients, you then need to keep them. Find out how to manage client relationships and secure future work.

11 – Believe in You

The most important thing about the success of your business is you. Get inspired.

12 – Invest in You

It’s important to constantly develop your skills and explore new processes. Find out the best ways to do this.

 

 

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Erik Kessels and David Carson Q&A

Saturday 20th October
The Lighthouse, Glasgow

19.00-22.00
Doors open: 18.30

Take part in an open discussion with two of the most iconic names in the design industry.

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About Erik Kessels

Erik Kessels is a Dutch artist, designer and curator and is since 1996 Creative Director of international communications agency KesselsKramer in Amsterdam and London.

As an artist and photography curator Kessels has published over 50 books of his ‘re- appropriated’ images, is editor of the alternative photography magazine Useful Photography and has written the international bestseller Failed It!

Kessels made and curated exhibitions such as Loving Your Pictures, Use me Abuse me, 24HRS of Photos, Album Beauty, From Here On and Unfinished Father.

In 2010 Kessels was awarded with the Amsterdam Prize of the Arts, in 2016 nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. In 2017 his mid-career retrospective was shown in Turin and Düsseldorf.

About David Carson

David Carson, American graphic designer, whose unconventional style revolutionized visual communication in the 1990s.

Carson came to graphic design relatively late in life. He was a competitive surfer—ranked eighth in the world—and a California high-school teacher when, at age 26, he enrolled in a two-week commercial design class.

Discovering a new calling, he briefly enrolled at a commercial art school before working as a designer at a small surfer magazine, Self and Musician.

He then spent four years as a part-time designer for the magazine Transworld Skateboarding, which enabled him to experiment. His characteristic chaotic spreads with overlapped photos and mixed and altered type fonts drew both admirers and detractors. Photographer Albert Watson, for example, declared, “He uses type the way a painter uses paint, to create emotion, to express ideas.” Others felt that the fractured presentation obscured the message it carried.

In 1989 Carson became art director at the magazine Beach Culture. Although he produced only six issues before the journal folded, his work there earned him more than 150 design awards. By that time, Carson’s work had caught the eye of Marvin Scott Jarrett, publisher of the alternative- music magazine Ray Gun, and he hired Carson as art director in 1992. Over the next three years, with the help of Carson’s radical design vision, Ray Gun’s circulation tripled. Because Carson’s work clearly appealed to a youthful readership, corporations such as Nike and Levi Strauss & Co. commissioned him to design print ads, and he also began directing television commercials.

After leaving Ray Gun in 1995, Carson established David Carson Design. The firm was instantly successful and attracted well-known, wealthy corporate clients. In 1995 Carson produced The End of Print: The Graphic Design of David Carson (revised edition issued in 2000 as The End of Print: The Grafik Design of David Carson), the first comprehensive collection of his distinctive graphic imagery. This was followed by the boldly experimental books 2nd Sight (1997), Fotografiks (1999), and Trek(2003).

In 2014 Carson was awarded an AIGA Medal.

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Live Project

Work on a live project with mentorship and guidance from Scotland’s leading design agencies. 20 participants will be offered placements and 3 winners will be awarded GDFS champions of 2018.

Work on a creative design-led challenge over 2 days with mentorship from some of the top design agencies in Scotland and have the opportunity to present to an internationally renowned panel of judges.

This is an opportunity to create a piece of personal work with industry level creative direction, meet like-minded people, develop your work and enjoy yourself!

The 20 participants who create the strongest projects will be offered work placements with their mentor agency. The top 3 selected by the jury will be rewarded with a design bundle and be awarded GDFS Champions of 2018!

This year’s challenge will be set by The Design Kids.

Mentors

Judges

Wednesday 24th–Thursday 25th October
The Lighthouse, Glasgow

10.00am-6.00pm
Doors open: 9.30am

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Day 1 Schedule

9.30am: Registration
10am: Opening presentations from mentors
11am: Project launch
11.15am: Work with mentors on brief
1pm: Lunch
2pm-6pm: Work with mentors on brief

Day 2 Schedule

10am-1pm: Work with mentors on brief
1pm: Lunch
2pm: Presentations from mentors
4pm: Project deadline
4pm-8pm: Project presentations

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