ESAD organises the ESAD Open Talks, part of the intensive lectures and workshops programme of the Master’s in Communication Design, which happened throughout the academic year of 2019/20.

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OPEN TALKS PROGRAMME [online]

Liza Enebeis
JULY 1, 5:00 PM
Liza Enebeis, Creative Director of Studio Dumbar, is directly involved in landmark projects such as the visual identities of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the D&AD Creativity festival and the Van Gogh Museum. She is co-founder of Demo - Festival Design in Motion and Typeradio.org. In 2018, she was elected member of the design association AGI, Alliance Graphique Internationale, since 2020, she is co-chair of ADCN - the Advertising and Design Creativity Club of the Netherlands.
Theme: Identity in Motion
Conference: LINK

Paul McNeil
22 APR, 5:00 PM / 13 MAY, 5:00 PM
Paul McNeil is a graphic designer, writer and educator. In 2009, he cofounded MuirMcNeil with Hamish Muir, a design consultancy focussed on exploring the use of systematic methods in visual communications. He's the author of The Visual History of Type (2017). He was course leader of the MA Contemporary Typographic Media at the London College of Communication.
Theme: Type and Language: Ten projects - link / Typography in the Search for Perfect Language - link

Patrick Thomas
8 APR, 5:00 PM
Patrick Thomas is a graphic artist, author and educator. He studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art in London. He is a professor at ABK-Stuttgart and he is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale. In 2019, he created Open Collab, a self-run workshop format to enable and encourage collaboration, dialogue and experimentation between participants.
Theme: Man, Machine, Motion
Lecture: link

Rejane Dal Bello
25 MAR, 5:00 PM
Rejane Dal Bello has 23 years of experience in graphic design and branding, including work in renowned agencies such as Wolff Olins (UK) and Studio Dumbar (NL). Rejane studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and at the St. Joost Art Academy in the Netherlands. She has also been a teacher in art schools all over Europe.
Theme: Designers Syndromes
Lecture: link

Jason Grant
11 MAR, 10:00 AM
Jason Grant is a graphic designer, founder of Inkahoots, a design studio based in Australia, that practices experimental typographic solutions, often realised as three dimensional installations and in print. He has studied fine art and design, and taught typography, design and art theory.
Theme: Inkahoots – Advocacy and Activism, a practical philosophy of socially engaged design (with words and pictures)
Lecture: link

John Morgan
25 FEB, 5:00 PM
John Morgan is a graphic designer, specializing in designing books, identities and graphics for cultural institutions, artists, and architects, since the foundation of his studio, in 2000. Recent projects include the identity and signage for the Jumex Museum in Mexico, wayfinding for Tate Britain and the art direction of Artreview magazine.
Theme: Kind of Blue – The making of James Joyce’s Ulysses
Lecture: link

Jessica Helfand
11 FEB, 5:00 PM
Jessica Helfand is an artist, designer, and writer. She taught at Yale University for more than two decades. A founding editor of Design Observer, she is the author of numerous books on visual and cultural criticism. She is a former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Eye and Communications Arts magazines.
Theme: Evidence of Things Unseen
Lecture: link

Maria da Gandra
21 JAN, 5:00 PM
Maria da Gandra is a graphic designer specialising in information design. She is the co-founder of InformForm and is currently the final year coordinator for BA (Hons) Graphic and Media Design at London College of Communication.
Theme: Information Design and Mapping
Lecture: link

Pedro Carvalho de Almeida
11 JAN, 5:00 PM
Pedro Carvalho de Almeida is a graphic designer, educator and researcher. With a focus on visual identity, product semantics and visual research methods, his research interests address the retrieval, organization and creative use of organizations' archives as key strategic resources for brand innovation.
Theme: Visual conversations – From image mapping to structured written content
Lecture: link

Adrian Shaughnessy
10 DEC, 5:00 PM
Adrian Shaughnessy is a graphic designer, writer, speaker and editor. Creative director at the design agency Intro, he is also the editor of the book How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul and co-founder of the design publisher Unit Editions.
Theme: Publishing as Creative Practice
Lecture: link

Heitor Alvelos
30 NOV, 5:00 PM
Heitor Alvelos has pioneered the implementation of Design Research in Portugal, as member of the National Foundation for Science and Technology, and as Director of ID+ of the University of Porto.
Theme: Design Research
Lecture: link

Ronnie Fueglister
26 NOV, 5:00 PM
Ronnie Fueglister is a Swiss graphic designer specialising in book design, typography and type design.
Theme: Editorial Design
Lecture: link

Russell Bestley
23 NOV, 5:00 PM
Russell Bestley is director of the Master's Degree in Graphic Design at the London College of Communication and co-author, with Ian Noble, of the book Visual Research: An Introduction to Research Methodologies in Graphic Design.
Theme: Visual Research
Lecture: link

Hamish Muir
12 NOV, 5:00 PM
Hamish Muir is an art director, professor and co-founder of the award-winning studio MuirMcNeil Design Systems (with Paul McNeil), OF the 8vo design studio (1985-2001) and co-editor of Octavo, a typography magazine (1986-1992) recently documented in Octavo Redux, a book published by Unit Editions.
Theme: Typography
Lecture: link

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SHORT INTERVIEWS

https://youtu.be/C70g0zI74R4

https://youtu.be/Fg1OjkxalsU

https://youtu.be/l2_kFc2wdsE

https://youtu.be/vf0fG5yZlwM

https://youtu.be/2_YmAI9Bj00

https://youtu.be/43CdtEYfiU8

https://youtu.be/JrefzXP2y_A

https://youtu.be/CR_N6WNuNcA

https://youtu.be/lANj36YNhiw

https://youtu.be/8peRM1ZH8BA

https://youtu.be/xluqrK_osaI

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last editions

2019/20
2018/19
2017/18
2016/17
2015/16
2014/15

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