Julian Speaking at Design Event 09

I was delighted to be asked to speak at this years Design Event 09 Pecha Kucha night, being awarded the final slot, which I wasn't sure was a good thing (people will have had more to drink) or a bad thing (people will have had more to drink...)!

If you've never had the pleasure of attending a Pecha Kucha night I would urge you to do so if you get the chance.  The format ensures speakers are on their toes and keeps the evening fast paced and interesting - there just isn't enough time to be boring!

At the Newcastle Design Event evening we had a real variety of speakers, with Stuart Varrall (Fluid Pixel Studio), Miles Thurlow & Paul Moss (Workplace Gallery) and Nick James (James Design/ Mushroom Works) being my personal faves.

My own 6 minutes and 40 seconds went well, I'd gambled on a reasonable smattering of humour and that seemed to work (the drink element perhaps helped me there).  It really is a lightening format and no matter how well you've prepared the pace is really tough to keep up!  Great fun though and I hope to see and do more of this in the future.

Videos will be online very soon, photo's can be found here.