Creative Week, hosted by Adobe, kicks off today
July 09, 2012
Creative Week UK is finally here! The event, which is a celebration of the creativity in the UK, will be packed full of lively debates, creative challenges, exclusive demonstrations and inspirational case studies – all broadcast live online and presented by David McClelland.
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.

