Melbourne 201123rd & 24th Sept 2011Melbourne Convention & Exhibition CentrePurchase TicketsEvent PhotosYouOur event and audienceMore YouOur event and audienceDay 1Friday 23rd SeptemberDay 2Saturday 24th SeptemberSpeaker PortraitsMelbourne 2011Side Events1000 Pound BendSpeakersAnimal LogicAnimation, Film & VFX Studio - SydneyBuro NorthDesign Studio - MelbourneBenja HarneyPaper Engineer - Sydney PlatonPhotographer - New YorkScott DadichDigital Media - New YorkKelly ThompsonArtist - Wellington/MelbourneSam LeachArtist - MelbourneKurppa HoskCreative Direction - SwedenPatrick ClairMotion Graphics - SydneyKen TaylorArtist - MelbourneDroga5Agency - Sydney / New York / AucklandThe EntenteArt Direction - UKProgramInteractiveAboutSemi-Permanent Melbourne
Semi-Permanent is a world leading creative conference that to date has hosted 26 events in 8 cities covering 5 countries, with 164 speakers and over 42,000 attendees. It covers all disciplines of design, including graphic design, film, fine art, illustration, web design, interactive design, photography, visual effects, animation, graffiti, motion graphics, stop motion, architecture, and much more.
Semi-Permanent speaks directly to the individual. It is a forum that welcomes all people with a mind open to creative ideas and the wide world of design. Attendees include Creative Directors, Design Directors, designers, artists, photographers, digital creative's, company leaders, agency personnel, product and fashion designers and pretty much any one who operates as a creative.
Semi-Permanent sets out to be accessible to all of the creative community with generously discounted early ticket and student ticket rates that are well below the high costs of similar events. We want the inspiration and experience to be open to all, whether your starting your career or established within the industry. Semi-Permanent is an exciting and affordable way to get your creative juices flowing.
In its ninth year in 2011, Semi-Permanent has become the leading event of its type internationally. Semi-Permanent is highly respected and supported by the cream of the world's design, art, and media communities.
Semi-Permanent was born from a desire to unite the world's design communities with a premium creative experience by creatives for creatives.
Visit the Homepage for images and videos from past events. Side EventsScott DadichDigital Design MasterclassPlatonPhotography MasterclassPortfolio MasterclassWith mentors from around the worldJust Another Group ShowIn conjunction with SPThe EtccExhibitionAfter PartyThe Semi-Permanent After PartyThe PackPURCHASE A TICKET AND YOU WILL RECEIVE THE SEMI-PERMANENT EVENT PACKThe Pack includes the Semi-Permanent Book, the event bag and other items to be confirmed.VenueMELBOURNE CONVENTION & EXHIBITION CENTREPlenary 3
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Friday 23rd September
Kelly Thompson - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Droga5 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Buro North - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Sam Leach - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Patrick Clair - 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Kurppa Hosk - 5:30pm to 6:30pm Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookDay 1Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
Saturday 24th September
Ken Taylor - 11:00am to 12:00pm
The Entente - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Benja Harney - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Animal Logic - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Scott Dadich - 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Platon - 5:30pm to 6:30pm Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookDay 2Platon
Droga5 - Sudeep Gohil & Naren Sanghrajka
Buro North - Soren Luckins
Sam Leach
Patrick Clair
Kurppa Hosk - Andreas Pihlström, Måns Jacobsson Hosk & Thomas Kurppa
Ken Taylor
The Entente - Edd Harrington & Anthony Sheret
Benja Harney
Animal Logic - Grant Freckelton
Scott Dadich
Kelly Thompson Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookSpeaker PortraitsThursday night
Just Another Group Show
Presented by Just Another Agency
Saturday night
Semi-Permanent After Party
Presented by Sugar Mountain Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookSide EventsEstablished in 1991, Animal Logic quickly earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading design, visual effects and animation companies. With studios in Sydney, Australia and an office in Los Angeles, California, Animal Logic continues to produce award-winning work for a diverse, international clientele.
Early success working with leading advertising agencies and television commercial directors provided a platform for a successful expansion into feature film work including Babe, The Matrix, Moulin Rouge!, Hero, 300 and culminating in the 2006 release of Australia’s first digital animated feature Happy Feet.
Animal Logic’s continued commitment to the production of television commercials, series and feature film visual effects allow teams of experienced digital artists exposure to ideas and techniques shared across all types and scale of projects. Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookAnimal LogicAnimation, Film & VFX Studio - Sydney www.animallogic.comEstablished in 2004, Büro North is a multi-disciplinary design practice delivering evidence-based solutions that are creative, measurable and meaningful.
Led by Design Director Soren Luckins and Wayfinding Strategist Finn Butler, the diverse team works across the disciplines of graphic design, industrial design and wayfinding.
With an unwavering commitment to quality, Büro North’s design and strategy work in tandem in the creation of products, brands, identities, publications, signage, environmental graphics and wayfinding strategies.
Büro North’s approach is to discover the absolute potential of a project and to resolve their clients’ design and communication issues with mature rigour and youthful creativity.
Buro North will be represented by Director, Soren Luckins. Recently named as one of the Advertising and Design Club of New York’s ‘Young Guns’, an award for the most exciting designers worldwide under 30, Soren has developed an extensive portfolio attracting awards, media and clients locally and internationally. Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookBuro NorthDesign Studio - Melbourne www.buronorth.com
Benja is a self-taught Sydney based Paper Engineer.
Paper is his passion… Through his business, Paperform, Benja has been dedicated to engineering high-end pop-up books and paper construction professionally for about 6 years, for a variety of applications including: advertising, magazine illustration, fashion, packaging, invitations and fine art.
"Paper is such a humble medium to work with. It inspires and challenges me every time I sit down at my cutting mat. I strive for creativity and perfection in every project I undertake. I hope you enjoy my work." Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookBenja HarneyPaper Engineer - Sydney www.paperform.wordpress.com
Widely acknowledged as one of the worlds most talented photographers, London born, New York based portrait and documentary photographer, Platon has shot pretty much any major politician and celebrity you may care to name. Including the likes of Barack Obama, Muammar Qaddafi, Vladimir Putin, Al Pacino, George Clooney and many many more.
Since the early 1990s, Platon has shot portrait, and documentary work for a range of international publications, including The New Yorker, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, and The Sunday Times Magazine. His advertising credits include campaigns for Credit Suisse Bank, Exxon Mobil, Diesel, the Wall Street Journal, Motorola, Nike, Converse, Verizon, Vittel, Levi's, IBM, Rolex, Ray-Ban, Tanqueray, Kenneth Cole, Issey Miyake, Moschino, Timex and Bertelsmann among others.
In 2007 Platon photographed Russian Premier Vladimir Putin for Time Magazine's Person Of The Year Cover. This image was awarded the coveted 1 st prize at 2008 World Press Photo Contest.
Platon is now a staff photographer at The New Yorker, signing a multi-year contract in 2008. Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookPlatonPhotographer - New York www.platonphoto.com
As VP, Digital Magazine Development for Condé Nast, Scott Dadich leads the company’s creative efforts to build digital editions of its titles for electronic reading devices.
From 2006 to 2010, Dadich was the creative director of Condé Nast's Wired, where he oversaw design, photography, and production for the magazine. He also directed the 2007 redesign and relaunch of Wired.com and served as the creative director for the 10-hour PBS television series Wired Science.
Dadich led the development of the highly acclaimed Wired for iPad, which was introduced in May 2010. The app was downloaded nearly 100,000 times in its first month and has proven to be the most successful iPad magazine title launched to date. At the same time, Dadich worked closely with the editorial and art teams at The New Yorker to launch The New Yorker Tablet Edition, which debuted at #4 on the iTunes Top Grossing apps and has since been named the best publication app by iMonitor. Most recently, Dadich oversaw the development of the Golf Digest Hot List, which debuted in January 2011 and became the #1 iPad sports app within 24 hours. Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookScott DadichDigital Media - New York www.condenast.com
Kelly Thompson may be from New Zealand, but for the last few years numerous Australian magazines and blogs have claimed her as their own. Her distinctive seductive illustrations and penchant for beautiful girls have caught the eye of the art and fashion community and launched her career Internationally, she is now one of New Zealands most popular and recognised illustrators.
Kelly has been published in 6 of the 7 Curvy illustration books along with "Trendy Fashion Illustrators" Monza Publications 2010, "The Beautiful" Gestalten Books 2010, and was included in one of the very first Semi permanent editions. Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookKelly ThompsonArtist - Wellington/Melbourne www.kellythompson.co.nz
Sam Leach was born in Adelaide in 1973. He completed a bachelor of Economics at Adelaide uni before studying painting at RMIT, completing his masters of fine art in 2009. Leach's paintings are detailed studies of animals and technology considering how they relate with humans. His project has been fuelled by an interest in the developments and discoveries of science as it emerged in the 17th century. Leach draws on the history of art to reveal how the changes science has made to the relationships between humans and non humans have been reflected in painting.
Leach has won numerous prizes for his work, including the Archibald and Wynne prizes and his works are held in several private and institutional collections. He is currently completing a PHD in fine art at RMIT. Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookSam LeachArtist - Melbourne www.samleach.net
Andreas Pihlstrom, Thomas Kurppa & Mans Jacobsson will take the stage on behalf of Suprb & Kurppa Hosk.
Pihlstrom has been working with user experience design, creative direction, concept development and social network development for studios and agencies all over the world. He has been responsible for various innovative and well known projects such as the media bookmarking service 'Dropular' and the 'Grid-A-Licious' WordPress theme, one of 2008-09's most recognizable web design layout templates to name but a few.
Kurppa received his professional training at the Forsberg School of Design in Stockholm from 1996 to 1999. After working as a designer for Wallpaper* magazine, he became art director of Stockholm Design Lab from 2002 to 2008. In 2009 he founded - together with Måns Jacobsson Hosk - Kurppa Hosk and has since then been working as creative director. He has won numerous prizes, among them three Merit Awards, a Distinctive Award from the Art Directors Club in New York, and the swedish ‘The Golden Egg Award' (Best Swedish Advertising).
Måns has a background as brand strategist and concept developer at some of Sweden's most renowned communication agencies. He's been working with a broad range of brands spanning from local culture brands to global consumer and B2B brands. He co-founded Kurppa Hosk in 2008 with longtime collegue and friend Thomas Kurppa. Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookKurppa HoskCreative Direction - Sweden www.kurppahosk.com
Patrick is a designer and director from Sydney, Australia.
Specialising in motion design, music visuals and information graphics, his work has a strong focus on innovation with a strong passion for combining motion design with storytelling.
His design work has been featured in places like IdN Magazine, Desktop, Inside Film Awards, Australian Creative, Juxtapoz, Stash Magazine, Infosthetics and OneDotZero Festival, and has He created documentaries about robot warfare, cyber activism, private military contractors, digital privacy and football. Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookPatrick ClairMotion Graphics - Sydney www.patrickclair.blogspot.com
Melbourne based Illustrator & Designer Ken Taylor works primarily within the music industry and is predominantly well known for his striking rock posters. Ken started in Perth Western Australia doing posters and album artwork for local bands. In 2001 He moved to Melbourne and slowly started to create a name for himself within Melbourne’s music scene. In 2006 he went out on his own and started to work full time on music based artwork. Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookKen TaylorArtist - Melbourne www.kentaylor.com.au
Droga5 is an independent advertising network, creatively led, strategically driven, technology friendly & humanity obsessed.
Named 2009 'Australian Agency of the Year' by B&T, as well as "Best Commercial of the Year" for their VB TV spot. Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookDroga5Agency - Sydney / New York / Auckland www.droga5.com.au
‘The Entente’ is a Brighton, UK based design and art direction studio formed by Anthony Sheret & Edd Harrington in late 2008.
The studio is named after the relationship between both parties: ‘The Friendly Understanding’.
Alongside the The Entente studio practice, an independent type foundry, Colophon Foundry is also run. Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookThe EntenteArt Direction - UK www.the-entente.org
FB1FB2TW1TW2MList 2Mlist 3Digital Design Masterclass
with Scott Dadich
Digital Design Masterclass with Scott Dadich will provide a valuable insight into emerging digital design & development principles.
VP of magazine development at Condé Nast in New York, Scott Dadich is one of the most influential people in publishing today working on magazines such as Vanity Fair, Vogue, GQ & The New Yorker. Scott led the development of the highly acclaimed Wired for iPad and worked closely with the editorial and art teams at The New Yorker to launch The New Yorker Tablet Edition, which has since been named the best publication app by iMonitor.
Presented by The Loop
Date: Thursday 22nd September
Tickets are limited.
11:00am - 12:30pm (1.5 hours)
Location: GPO, Melbourne
General tickets: $160
Discounted tickets: $80 for Semi-Permanent ticket holders / The Loop members
Widely acknowledged as one of the worlds leading portrait photographers, Platon has photographed the likes of Barack Obama, Muammar Qaddafi, Vladimir Putin, Al Pacino, George Clooney and many many more.
In this intimate Masterclass, the audience is strictly limited to fifty. Platon will discuss the technical aspects of his craft and how photographing such powerful people affects his work, and what it takes to gain their trust and co-operation.
Presented by The Loop
Date: Thursday 22nd September
Tickets are limited.
1:00pm - 2:30pm (1.5 hours)
Location: GPO, Melbourne
General tickets: $160
Discounted tickets: $80 for Semi-Permanent ticket holders / The Loop members
Looking for top tips on how to create that perfect portfolio? Get advice and have your portfolio reviewed by Semi-Permanent speakers and Melbourne's top Creative Directors.
Date: Thursday 22nd September
Time: 3.30pm - 5.30pm
Location: GPO, Melbourne
General tickets: $30
Discounted tickets: $15 for Semi-Permanent ticket holders / The Loop members
Confirmed Mentors:
Jake Smallman (Design Director, Interbrand)
Jeremy Wortsman (The Jacky Winter Group)
Josie Amato (Artistic Agent, Coco Production
Andrew Johnstone (Semi-Permanent Cofounder)
Kelly Thompson (Artist & SP Speaker)
Ken Taylor (Artist & SP Speaker)
Kurppa Hosk (Creative Direction & SP Speakers)
Patrick Clair (Motion Graphics & SP Speaker)
Steven Cornwell (Founder, Cornwell)
Luke Lucas (Typographer)
Tin & Ed (Founder Tin&Ed)
Ticket Link: PURCHASE TICKETS HERE Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookPortfolio MasterclassPortfolio MasterclassIn conjunction with Semi-Permanent Melbourne, Just Another Agency brings you the second instalment of their annual “Just Another Group Show.” - an exhibition celebrating the diversity and eclectic nature of the agency's stable of artists.
Each artist involved has been asked to create a single piece of work showcasing their unique style, formatted to a square.
Opening Night: Thursday 22nd September from 6-10pm
At: 1000£Bend - 361 Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Show runs until the 26th Sept.
More info at - www.justanotheragency.com.au Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookJust Another Group ShowIn conjunction with SPThe Etcc Exhibition
Date: Opening Friday 23 September
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Where: Rancho Notorious / 361 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Artists: Bec Winnel, Rena Littleson, Bridge Stehli, Beci Orpin, Leif Podhajsky, Nate Trapnell , Louis Kanzo, Jimmy Bligs, Benjamin Reeve,Michael Steele and many more to be announced. Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookThe EtccThe Etcc ExhibitionDate: Saturday 24 September
Time: 7pm - Midnight
Where: 1000 £ BEND - 361 Little Lonsdale St
Presented by Sugar Mountain - The Semi-Permanent After Party
Super Wild Horses
Triple R DJ's
Free entry & drinks included. Tweet about this artistShare this on FacebookAfter PartyBluestar PrintCorbisBritish CouncilJust Another AgencyViceDesktopThe LoopEmpty magazineAGDATakePedestrianChamnpfestTimeout MelbourneLifeloungeConcrete Playground
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