This talk yesterday kind of illustrated the frame for many of the stories that were told by the talks that followed.
The circle of stories, the archetypes, the whole 'going from the known to the unknown', the 'old self / new self' transformation, the dragon's den… there's a lot of that to be found in the (success) stories about the great creative works that followed on stage.
I love how Marc Thiele curates the talks of Beyond Tellerrand.
It is like putting together a tape for your crush, or making a set list.
I am very curious how the second day will unfold, but yesterday was one of the best 'Beyond Tellerrand' days, talkwise, for me at least - all killers, no fillers.
Webrocker
6 Reaktionen zu “The Power of Metaphor - Mike Hill @Beyond Tellerrand Conference, Düsseldorf 2019”
For the ninth year I attended this great small conference about Web, Design and going beyond. Here are some notes and thoughts. Maybe I polish it later, but I want to get this out of my head.
These moments stuck with me - which does not mean that any talk that is not mentioned here didn't. This conference's iteration was very very very good, there was not one talk that wasn't great. All killers, no fillers.
This here is just a first .brain { overflow: visible;}:
Charly Owen. I have a secret crush for Charlie (ok now it no secret anymore), but after her opening words 'I am in this for over twenty years now, and I am angry' I was like, 'I feel you!' and yes I subscribe to every word of her talk. Those who know me and my constant 'sitting on the couch and yelling at the internet' (as Joschi recently put it) about the ever increasing divide of what could be done with this amazing enabling by constraining web technologies and what happens instead, well, you know this talk would be right up my a11y.
Dorobot. If the conference was a competition (which luckily hopefully it isn't) for me this talk was the winner. Not only because the work presented is witty and charming, but because standing in front of 500 people, speaking for the first time in public in a foreign language AND having high-profile speakers sitting and listening - I would so shit my pants - well this takes a lot of courage. And despite of all that it was a very well thought-through and executed talk that entertained and delighted.
David Carson. Come on. I am old. I am a graphic designer at heart and there was no way around Carson's work when I got interested in magazine design, typography and layout - so this was a bit of fanboi time. I laughed out loud about the magazine cover with J Mascis and the ancecdote how he ended upside down there. The Big Lebowski-esque laid back way of presentation aside - the key point for me was: You can't expect clients to 'allow' crazy work if you don't dare to show it. If you do, it won't work 99 out of 100 tines, but maybe the one time is still worth the risc. And the best meta moment of the conference for me was the realisation that here's the guy who literally broke all rules about readable text and typography, telling a room full of web people, who are over excited about css grid landing in the browsers, to not use grids. That toe nail picture, though. I am not sure if I will remember anything else of this talk in a few years. :-)) But, entertaining as it was, I found it a little disrespectful to the following speakers and to the organizers that Mr Carson extended his speaking slot by quite a bit. Fuck rules, yeah I got it.
Shirley Wu. D3, vue.js, data visualisation, live coding - all very impressive and a lot of wow moments in that presentation. I am amazed what is possible and how beautiful bleak data can be illustrated. But what really stuck with me; what kind of sick society deports their homeless people? I need to read up on this (and if similar proceedings are going on here as well - I know that Frankfurt did something like that as well 'only' to 'clean' the inner city and bussing the junkies and homeless ones to the outskirts). Those graphics Shirley showed wowed me for their beauty, but shocked me for their content.
David Delgado. Nasa. Jet. Propulsion. Laboratory. For my inner 12 year old, this is the coolest place on earth to be, and imagine you are getting paid to make beautiful and playful stuff for the people who are reaching for the stars - can there be a cooler job? Wonderful talk, but overshadowed by a constant 'you lucky bastard you' feeling I cannot deny ;)))
Plus, I want this 'Earth' bumper sticker he had on his laptop and that appeared later in the talk. :)
Makuyuni. Visit the website. Donate. A little help here helps a lot elsewhere. This is more important than all the web tech stuff.
That's it for the first brain dump, more to follow surely.
And, again: Thank you Marc for doing this. Little did I know nine years ago how many friendships I would find through this event and how much I become reliant of this space where I feel part of a tribe, of not being alone in this constant struggle between (creative) longing and (economic) necessities.
Kommentare sind geschlossen.