I am in a point in life where I cannot listen to pep talks because they make me feel even more depressed. But this time I gave it a shot and I went -after quite some time- to a conference.
On 13th of March, the famous British Graphic Designer, Malcolm Garrett, was giving a speech at Coventry University.
I have to admit that I was not familiar with his work and attending the conference gave me some context.
He walked us through his evolution as a Graphic Designer and he talked about his best accomplishments.
He started his career by designing album covers for bands such as Buzzcocks and Duran Duran (band I did not know about and I am glad I found out about it) at a fairly young age. He proceeded, afterwords, to founding Assorted iMaGes, a design company in 1977.
He is now Creative Director at Images&Co and one of the masterminds behind the ingenious digital street maps that can be found all around London and not only.
He had a friendly attitude and spoke with passsion no matter the subject.
At the end of his presentation -as expected- he gave us advice on how to achieve the best in life.
Even though the motivational speech did not have any impact on me since, as I implied above, I am not in my best state, I did find the conference interesting and I really appreciated his work.
Living life as a Graphic Design student 