We were joined by three great panelists for our live debate at the start of the day. Dan Jones (Maverick TV), Marc Goodchild (ex BBC) and Justin Weyers (Made Visual Studios) chatted about everything from independent productions and YouTube testing, right through to how the skills of hungry graduates can be best used in industry and what the future of video production has in store.

As always, the #CreativeWeekUK Twitter community played a huge part in the debate, with contributions including whether new technologies and production tools raise standards or just client expectations. And they also had their say in our daily poll with 90% of people agreeing that smaller budgets do make for more original content. What can we say…get creating!

We also welcomed Jason Levine over from the US who spent some time showing off the latest video tools Adobe has to offer including the new, streamlined Premiere Pro interface.

If you want to catch up on any of this week’s shows, then be sure to visit our website. Plus there’s still time to get involved in the final couple of days of #CreativeWeekUK by taking part in our competition. We’d love to hear from you!

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/uk/2012/07/11/creativeweekuk-day-two-can-print-and-tablet-publishing-co-exist/feed/ 0 http://blogs.adobe.com/uk/2012/07/10/creativeweekuk-starts-with-industry-wide-debate-on-creativity/ http://blogs.adobe.com/uk/2012/07/10/creativeweekuk-starts-with-industry-wide-debate-on-creativity/#comments Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:50:45 +0000 The @AdobeUK Team http://blogs.adobe.com/uk/?p=456 The UK’s first ever Creative Week is finally here! The event, which is a celebration of the creativity in the UK, kicked off on Monday with an overview of the creative industries – and what an overview it was!

And if you missed the live show, don’t worry because the sessions are all available on-demand here at the end of each day. That’s also where you can stay tuned for all the action during the rest of the week. Whether you’re a design nut, film buff, mobile fiend or photography pro, there’s something for everyone, so stay tuned!

We kicked off the creative industry overview with a lively panel discussion between Brendan Dawes, Joel Gethin Lewis and Dr Chris Gerry who gathered in the studio with presenter David McClelland to discuss if creativity can help drive the UK out of recession. With the magnificent setting of Tower Bridge behind them, the debate flowed for almost an hour, and those watching online had their say too with a whopping 88% of people that took part in our daily poll agreeing that creativity is a huge factor in stimulating economic growth and solving problems.

The evangelist demos and show-and-tell sessions that followed included jaw-dropping tips and tricks for Illustrator CS6 and Photoshop CS6, which were all received with relish and resulted in our #CreativeWeekUK Twitter followers going crazy about the black magic and special sauce Adobe uses in its products! Go to our on-demand hub if you missed it and want to see for yourself what was so special.

And that was just the first day! Carry on following all the action on Twitter using #CreativeWeekUK. And don’t just stay behind your screen, get involved through our competitions and audience challenges.

Here’s the lowdown of all our speakers and contributors throughout the week:

Monday 9th July – Creative Industry Overview

-          Brendan Dawes a UK-based, MoMA exhibited is an artist and designer (live debate)

-          Joel Gethin Lewis, co- Director of experiential design agency Hellicar & Lewis (live debate)

-          Dr Chris Gerry from The Skills Lab (live debate)

-          Rufus Deuchler, Sr. Worldwide Design Evangelist at Adobe Systems (Creative Cloud Evangelist demo and how-to sessions on Adobe Touch Apps)

-          Iconic British designer Wayne Hemingway (show and tell)

-          Chris Thompson, Head of Business Development at Ravensbourne College (show and tell)

-          Marc Lewis, pioneer of London’s new school dedicated to the art of advertising School of Communication Arts (show and tell)

Tuesday 10th July – Design & Publishing

-          Jeremy Leslie, Creative Director at magCulture and publishing industry commentator (live debate)

-          Publishing analyst and cultural commentator Danuta Kean  (live debate)

-          Future Publishing’s digital Editor-in-Chief Mike Goldsmith  (live debate)

-          Artist & Illustrator Pete Fowler (show and tell)

-          Three directors from creative agency Studio Output, Dan Moore, Rob Coke and Ian Hambleton (show and tell)

-          Adobe Certified Expert Tony Harmer (how-to session on creating stunning pattern designs)

-          Rupert Knowles, Adobe UK’s Design Product Manager (product demos, live debate and how-to session on InDesign CS6’s Content Collector Tool and Digital Publishing tools)

-          And Rufus Deuchler, Sr. Worldwide Design Evangelist at Adobe Systems will again be joining us (Creative Suite Design and Adobe Muse Evangelist demo)

Wednesday 11th July – Film & Video

-          Dan Jones, Head of Multiplatform, Maverick Television (live debate)

-          Multi–platform and interactive specialist, Marc Goodchild (live debate)

-          Director at Made Visual Studios, Justin Weyers (live debate and show and tell session)

-          Oli da Costa, founder of Fraktiv (show and tell)

-          Adobe evangelist, Jason Levine (CS6 Video Tour)

-          Dado Valentic, Director and chief Colourist at Mytherapy (how-to session on All-new SpeedGrade CS6)

-          London-based artist, Birgitta Hosea (how-to session on ray-traced 3D in After Effects)

-          Niels Stevens, Adobe UK’s Video Product Manager (how-to session on Adobe Audition CS6 for audio sweetening)

-          Matthew Gyves, Adobe’s Business Development Manager (how-to session on new features in Adobe Premiere CS6)

Thursday 12th July – Web & Mobile

-          Chris Jenkins, Head of User Experience, Tribal DDB London (live debate)

-          Alex Morris, Interaction Designer, Mark Boulton Design (live debate)

-          Rob Borley, Emerging Technologies Consultant, Headscape (live debate)

-          Joe Benton, Student Web Designer (show and tell)

-          MD of The Virtual Forge, Matt Wicks (how-to session on how to create for multiple devices and show and tell session)

-          Adobe’s Web Evangelist, Paul Trani (live debate, CS6 Web Tour and how-to session on the new features in Flash Professional CS6)

-          Adobe UK’s Web Product Manager John Cole (how-to session on Adobe Proto and Dreamweaver CS6)

-          Adobe’s Nordic Web Product Manager Johan Lopes (how-to session on Dreamweaver CS6 for responsive design)

-          Steve Burnard, Adobe UK Product Manager (how-to session on Fireworks CS6 for mock-ups and interactive content)

Friday 13th July – Photography & Imaging

-          Photographer Timothy Allen (live debate)

-          Photographer Erin Moroney (live debate)

-          Photographer and Photoshop World instructor Glyn Dewis (live debate and show and tell session on Compositing and Retouching Techniques using Photoshop CS6)

-          Julieanne Kost, Adobe Evangelist (demo on new Features of Photoshop CS6)

-          Fine art and commercial photographer Allan Jenkins (show and tell session on producing Victorian-era Cyanotype prints)

-          Fine art photographer John G Moore (show and tell session on his photographic style)

-          Adobe UK’s Digital Imaging Product Manager Richard Curtis (live debate and how-to session on Photoshop Lightroom 4’s book module)

-          Commercial photographer Debbie Jones (how-to session on creating client previews in Lightroom 4)

-          Digital artist Steve Caplin (how-to session on 3D with Photoshop CS6 Extended)

For more details on the event and to sign up for updates, visit the Creative Week website at www.adobecreate.co.uk/creativeweek.

Check out the full report here, which also includes different perspectives from leading creatives including Wayne Hemingway MBE, Brendan Dawes, Dan Jones and Joel Gethin-Lewis, as well as Chris Thompson from Ravensbourne.

This chat picks up where we left off last Thursday evening when designers, coders and creatives discussed the web and mobile issues that matter to them. Take a look at a selection of the tweets that flooded #CreativeWeekUK on our Storify post.

Photographers often consider aperture, exposure and light settings an art form to be cherished over auto-settings and quick fixes, with all the work done in post-production. But in an age when everything is becoming digitalised, should the photography community be ready to embrace image manipulation? Some of the areas we’ll be touching on to stoke the debate are;

• Do you agree with photographers who are of the opinion that you shouldn’t do anything to your shots in Photoshop that you couldn’t do in a darkroom?
• When does a photograph stop being a photograph, and become a piece of illustration or artwork?
• When it comes to retouching, how much is too much?

Join us for our final Twitter Chat by using #CreativeWeekUK and follow @AdobeUK and @ComputerArts.

It’ll also be the last chance for you to get your hands on tickets to next week’s Creative Week. Include #CreativeWeekUK in all your tweets during the live Twitter Chat this Thursday and you’ll be entered into a competition to win one of two tickets to the Photography & Imaging day of Creative Week on Friday, July 13^th.

For anyone without a ticket, we’ll also be broadcasting all the sessions from Creative Week live online, so make sure you don’t miss out and register now!

On Monday 9^th July, we’ll be taking a look at the Creative Industry as a whole, and will include a debate on how creativity can help drive the UK out of recession as well as show and tell sessions with industry experts. Taking part on Monday will be;

-          Brendan Dawes a UK-based, MoMA exhibited is an artist and designer (live debate)

-          Joel Gethin Lewis, co- Director of experiential design agency Hellicar & Lewis (live debate)

-          Iconic British designer Wayne Hemingway (show and tell)

-          Chris Thompson, Head of Business Development at Ravensbourne College (show and tell)

-          Marc Lewis, pioneer of London’s new school dedicated to the art of advertising School of Communication Arts (show and tell)

-          Rufus Deuchler, Sr. Worldwide Design Evangelist at Adobe Systems (product demos and tips and tricks)

On Tuesday 10^th July, we’ll be focussing on the Design & Publishing industry and are delighted that the following speakers will be joining us on the day;

-          Jeremy Leslie, Creative Director at magCulture and publishing industry commentator

-          Publishing analyst and cultural commentator Danuta Kean

-          Future Publishing’s digital Editor-in-Chief Mike Goldsmith

-          Artist & Illustrator Pete Fowler (show and tell)

-          Three directors from creative agency Studio Output, Dan Moore, Rob Coke and Ian Hambleton (show and tell)

-          Adobe Certified Expert Tony Harmer (how to session)

-          Rupert Knowles, Adobe UK’s Design Product Manager (product demos and tips and tricks)

-          And Rufus Deuchler, Sr. Worldwide Design Evangelist at Adobe Systems will again be joining us (product demos and tips and tricks)

For more details on the event and to sign up for updates, visit the Creative Week website at www.adobecreate.co.uk/creativeweek.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Check out what discussion took place in our film and video Twitter Chat earlier this week by taking a look over our Storify post. And if you want to take part in our web and mobile Twitter Chat this Thursday read on to take a look at the topics we’ll be discussing:

This Thursday, 28^th June, between 6.30pm and 7.30pm, we’ll be kicking off a discussion on all things Web and Mobile.

Developers have traditionally specialised in single formats – whether HTML, JavaScript, CSS or Flash for web; mobile web or rich apps for mobile. But there is a growing need for interdisciplinary designers, able to switch from coding to formatting for mobile or WordPress customisation.

What do you think of where the industry is headed? Is it better to be a specialist or should designers be able to turn their hand to a variety of technologies? Some of the areas of discussion we’ll be looking at during the Chat include;

• Should designers code?
• Is ‘UX professional’ a real job?
• Do dedicated project managers do more harm than good – should this always be a shared responsibility for web designers?

We’d love to hear what you think! So join our Twitter Chat by using #CreativeWeekUK and follow @AdobeUK and @Netmag.

Everyone who uses #CreativeWeekUK during the hour-long chat will automatically be entered into a draw to win one of two tickets to the Web & Mobile day of Creative Week on Thursday, 12^th July! But if you aren’t one of the lucky ticket holders, we’ll be broadcasting all the sessions live online, so why not register now.

In the lead up to the UK’s first Creative Week on 9th – 13th July, we’re going to be hosting weekly Twitter Chats, in partnership with Future Publishing. This Thursday, between 6.30pm and 7.30pm, we’ll be kicking these Chats off by talking all things design and publishing, and we want you to let us know your thoughts on the industry and where it’s headed.

It’s well documented that the design and publishing industry is going through a huge period of change, driven by the explosion in digital publishing and accelerated by the surge in popularity of tablets and mobile devices. But what does the industry look like from your point of view? Some of the topics up for discussion include;

• Where should digital publishing develop next?
• How can (print) designers evolve to adapt to digital publishing workflows?
• What still excites you about print, and what does it take for a print product to attract your attention in a digital world?

Join in our Twitter Chat by using #CreativeWeekUK and follow @AdobeUK, @ComputerArts, @CA_Collection and @CreativeBloQ to see the conversation starters, as well as interesting views from our Adobe Solutions Consultants.

Plus, everyone who uses #CreativeWeekUK will automatically be in with a chance of winning one of two tickets to the Design and Publishing day of Creative Week on Tuesday July 10th, which will be jam-packed with exclusive demos, lively debates, creative challenges and inspirational case studies!

Don’t worry, if you aren’t one of the lucky ticket holders you don’t have to miss out as we’ll be broadcasting all the sessions live online, so why not register now?