Wednesday, 17th September 2008, 11:00-18:00
Purcell Room & Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX – www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Cost: FREE
Nearest tube: Waterloo, Embankment

More info at: www.digitaldesignday.com

The first staging of a dedicated day of all things digital design with installations and interactive elements to please everyone. Come and get your hands on the latest technology and be inspired by a range of demonstrations and performances from across the digital community. Digital Design Day is scheduled to include a 2-hour session run by Apple on techniques, tips and insights. The day concludes with the Y-Design Awards; a celebration of the best creative talent in the UK’s digital community.

Between 12:30-13:30, Martyn Ware presents a showcase of innovation in interactivity and digital media.

Martyn is best known as a seminal 80s pop icon and co-founder of The Human League and Heaven 17. However, through the Illustrious Company – his recent creative venture with Vince Clarke of Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure – and his current Arts Council supported convergent art project, the Future Of Sound, Martyn has been working with and and showcasing some of the latest developments in convergent media and emergent technologies. For Digital Design Day he invites a selection of inventive practitioners to share and discuss their work – guests include:

  • Eva Rucki – co-founder of Troika – a multi-disciplinary art and design practice;
  • Mike Faulkner of D-Fuse – a collective of London based artists who explore a wide range of creative media;
  • Andy Huntington – an interaction design consultant specialising in software and hardware prototyping and development;
  • Fiddian Warman – Managing Director and a Soda founder who has steered the company’s evolution in developing creative tools that help communities work, play and learn together.