SEMI PERMANENT THIS WEEKEND!

Hey creative cats, if you haven't got your tickets to Semi Permanent yet, get your shit together because its this weekend! Its going to be amazing, if you have been before you'll know what I'm talking about and if not you don't know what your missing. This year its running over two days with a massive twelve speakers from all over the globe. As always there is a big after party where you can usually have a chat to some of the designers or even have a dance off with one of them if you drink enough. Classic.

The two final speakers have been announced so check them out too:

JOEL GETHIN LEWIS

Joel Gethin Lewis is an interaction designer and artist. He has recently formed a company based around creating interactive experiences using open source tools. For the last three and a half years he was the interaction designer at United Visual Artists, working with clients such as U2, Massive Attack, Nokia and the British Council. Educated in London, he split his time between the Royal College of Art and working at Dazed&Confused magazine, where amongst other things he launched AnotherMag.com and assisted the photographer Rankin. In other work he has collaborated with such varied clients as Benetton, Rem Koolhaus, IBM, and Orange. He is one of the founders of the interaction design meet-up, This Happened.
www.joelgethinlewis.com

DEBASER

Designers David Homer & Aaron Hayward established Debaser in January 2004. Having worked as Art Directors for Sony Music, they decided to leave the corporate environment and establish their own business.

Since doing so they have created some of the most memorable and iconic album artwork of the last few years. Having worked with artists as diverse as mainstream favourites Powderfinger, Bernard Fanning Paul Kelly and Tim Finn, to indie bands Kisschasy, Faker and End Of Fashion, through to Ben Folds, The Cat Empire, Paul Mac, Lior, the Living End, Butterfingers, Sarah Blasko, Something For Kate, The Beautiful Girls, Ben Lee, The Grates, the Exploders and the list goes on...

They have won back to back Aria awards for their cover for Bernard Fanning in 2006 and Powderfinger in 2007.

www.debaser.com.au

Yay!