Semi-Permanent 2012

The speakers at this two-day design love-in span just about every creative field and the globe

First published on . Updated on 13 May 2012.

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Kelli Anderson
New York-based Anderson is an artist who creates images with vivid imagination and utopian undertones. She returns to the Pratt Institute to teach each summer, and continues to influence progressive minds worldwide. We love her for her mock edition of the New York Times that covered “all the news we hope to print.”

David Alan Harvey
This Virginia native first picked up a camera at age 11 and has not put it down since. From photographing his family, Harvey went on to document the life of a black family in Norfolk, VA, which led to the publication of Tell It Like It Is. Harvey has since published two books, Cuba and Divided Soul, and has shot more than forty essays for National Geographic.

Meirion Pritchard
In 2003 Pritchard joined Tony Chamber’s team at visual arts magazine Wallpaper*, and become the magazine’s art director four years later. At Wallpaper* Pritchard maintains the magazine’s extraordinary design model – the heart of each issue.

Luca Ionescu
Ionescu is better known not as an artist but as a masterful typographer. His dynamic vision for branding caught the attention of Australia’s Leo Burnett, Publicis Mojo, BMF and MTV US.

Meggs
David ‘Meggs’ Hooke has been making strides in the street art community for the past decade. Meggs came of age in Melbourne’s street art scene and is a founding member of Everfresh Studio. His cartoon-like murals inspired by film, sci-fi and skateboarding have been exhibited in Canberra and Melbourne.

Derek Henderson
Kiwi-born, Henderson is one of the most prominent names in photography in the Southern Hemisphere. Henderson has worked from New Zealand to New York, London and Los Angeles, transforming desolate scenes of nature to evoke intense human emotion.

Hi-ReS!
Hi-ReS! is the brainchild of Alexandra Jugovic and Florian Schmitt and now spans studios in New York, London and Hamburg. Focusing on graphic design, art, film and music, Hi-ReS! has worked with top-shelf clients including Dolce & Gabbana, Jägermeister, Chanel and The Economist.

Ed Ulbrich/Digital Domain
Academy Award-winner Ed Ulbrich is the charismatic chief creative officer and president of the commercial division at Digital Domain Media. Since the company’s creation in 1993, Ulbrich has worked on the visual effects for movies such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Fight Club and Titanic, and more than 500 commercials.

GMUNK
Bradley G Munkowitz started his career in digital design as an interactive designer in London at Vir2L Studios Europe. Since then, GMUNK has been invited to speak at conferences in England, Portugal, Spain and the US and has worked with Digital Domain on one of the most visually spectacular movies of the past decade, TRON: Legacy.

Vince Frost
After joining the team of Pentagram London in 1989, Frost became the company’s youngest associate at age 17 and has since gone on to open independent offices in Sydney and London, working on projects spanning publishing, advertising and the built environment.

Benja Harney
Harney is a paper engineer who designs for fine art, magazine illustration and packaging. Harney has recently created a series of intricate pop-up books on the journey of a child into adulthood.

Bec Parsons & Bart Celestino
For the past nine years Bec Parsons has worked in the fashion industry shooting models, advertisements and covers all over the world. In 2005 Parsons partnered up with Bartolomeo Celestino to become a photographic powerhouse. Their cult zine LOVEWANT has a devoted fan base, and their work has been featured in Harpers Bazaar, Russh and Oyster.

The Monkeys
Scott Nowell and Justin Drape will take the stage representing Redfern creative agency the Monkeys, who have worked with world-class brands including the BBC, Google and IKEA. 

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Words by Kiana Sarabia-Strayhorn

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