Tuesday Club Lectures.

This post is about our Tuesday Club Lectures we have on one Tuesday of every month. These are related to the design world in some way, not alway's to do with illustration. I will supply their name's, what they do and then I will rate them in my opinion, on a star scale from zero to five, (zero being the worst).

1.  7th October, JIM WILLIAMS. His published book; TYPE MATTERS.

           This lecture would have been a lot better if Jim actually stuck to telling us about type and his tips in this discipline, but to me he did not do this. He seemed to be promoting his book rather than informing us of type. I have seen his book and it is very good but as for the lecture I give a;

   

2. 4th November, LUKE ARTINGSTALL, lecture on ART IN LIGHT.                                    

Too be very honest, I did not find this appealing in the slightest. Don't get me wrong, he was good at his job but I found this lecture to be boring, sorry Luke i give this; 

      3. 25th November, JOHN WALTERS, Editor of EYE Magazine.

This lecture was on issue 87 in the magazines collection about food. This lecture provided me with a good number of sources and reference's into some avenue's I hadn't even considered yet, so it was a positive talk. When you listen to a lecture/talk from somebody who has obvious passion for what they do, then it is much easier to comprehend. For this lecture I give a;

4. 9th December, VAUGHAN OLIVER, Visceral Pleasures. Art Director & Graphic Designer.

This was the long awaited lecture by myself and many in uni. This man is regarded as one of the six hundred elite designers around the globe in this day and age. He is well respected in the industry and with good reason in my opinion. Vaughan's lecture was not only packed with information, direction and links, he was also very comfortable doing what he does as he had a comical tongue. He certainly knew how to keep an audience enthralled as the lecture was supposed to be only one hour but turned quickly into two hours, (with no complaints). It was an absolute pleasure to have attended this lecture. His inspirations in his earlier days have been Salvador Dali and Roger Dean, which when looking through Vaughan's earlier work, you can see the connections. I admire the fact that he always wanted to produce beautiful record sleeves and he stuck with his dream despite what others told him, and went on to produce numerous of them for several bands, most popular being 'The Pixies'. For this lecture i give a full house, five stars.