Glug xhibit - Nov 2019

I have started to regularly attend the Glug Xhibit evenings most commonly held at Duke Street Studios in Leeds as a way finding out about the creative scene up North and building my network with other creatives. 

The speakers at this event were:

• Melanie Hough
• Adam Allsuch Boardman
• Oli Bentley
• Laura Wellington - Co-founder Duke Studio

Notes:

Melanie Hough - Archive curator

Getty Images 

• Founded 1854
• 80 000 000 images across 1500 collections 
• history before history 
• images as agent for social change - Yosemite protection 
• @gettyarchive

Adam Allsuch Boardman - Illustrator

aaab-illustration

• collect assets as reference - Tin Tin books
• In depth analysis of Hyde Park Picture House
• The illustrated book of film making
• Struggles with colour within his work
• Refined a colour palette of approx 100 colours to 20 and now uses this for everything
• These colour palettes were based on monthly Pinterest boards - paradigm aesthetic = Pinterest
• add lots of detail initially and then remove and simplify 
• If you over work - it’s okay to go backwards
• @aadb-illustration 
• 'submerge yourself with stuff, always have inspiration'

Oli Bentley - Split studio

These Northern Types

Lessons:

• Northern identity is a myth
• It’s a powerful myth
• The grey is important and needs to be explored
• Don’t care if it’s design or not 
• Suffer from imposters syndrome
• Less scared of putting yourself out there