Design Storytelling

Mickey Smith has an amazing poetic economy with words. So I am not going to say much about this, except please watch and listen.

Thanks to Mickey for blowing us all away with honest passion in the Do Lectures tent last week.

Interestingly, Mickey’s film sits beautifully alongside one by American surf photographer Chris Burkard that I posted recently.

Oh now really, how lovely is this Manual Photography Cheat Sheet from @Yatcher on Zazzle. I just wish I’d had it with me at The Do Lectures last week when I was playing with my new camera (Canon 600D for you geeks out there, no I couldn’t lift the 5D). As it turns out, through trial and error, I did just about ok without it.

At least Wired.co.uk thought so today when they used one of my pics to illustrate a beautifully crafted feature on the Do Lectures 2011 by the talented Ella Saltmarshe (@saltsea). It’s been a not so secret ambition of mine, for some time, to get my foot through the WIRED door.

I figured it’d be the words that would work their way in first. But hey, thanks to Ella, it turned out to be a photo of the wonderful Mickey Smith instead. As this young wise man likes to say, I’m armed with a smile.

Thanks to my gorgeous sis for this cheat sheet top tip.

My New Year’s resolution for 2011. Courtesy of Andy Smith + @DoLectures.

Here’s my Art Pays for *Free article on TreeHugger about the graphic poster series from The Do Lectures team.

Right, I’m off to finish something I started a while ago.

Gorgeous work by James Whitaker for @DoLectures - let’s hope they pick these beautiful short films for their idents.

whitakerstudio:

Over the last couple of months I have been filming three idents for the Do Lectures, a set of talks held each year in west Wales by Do-ers - authors, farmers, publishers, campaigners, advertising creatives, entrepreneurs, inventors, mountaineers. People who do interesting things.

The idea behind the idents is that each day brings the opportunity to go out into the world and do something new, whether that’s sail across the Atlantic, write a book, climb a mountain or learn something new.

The Do Lectures are picking their idents from a selection submitted by different people so these may never get used but they were fun to create…   Unfortunately, 75mph winds and a blizzard thwarted my attempts to do one across snowy mountain tops in Scotland.