Shift Disturbers

The Diviner, Deliverer, Designer, Sagmeister!

Sarah Pugsley — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:31:01 +0000

Stefan Sagmeister
Founder,
Sagmeister Inc.Design & Happiness: Ãœber-designer Stefan Sagmeister will discuss achieving happiness through design and ensuring work remains a calling without deteriorating into a job. He’ll also explore the notion of creating pieces that induce happiness in the audience. Tons of work from the last couple of years will be shown.

View Stefan’s Bio

R/GA’s Law Advocates Marriage (for Digital & Storytelling)

Sarah Pugsley — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:49:51 +0000

Nick Law
EVP, Chief Creative Officer,
R/GA

From NIKEiD to the Times Square DROID launch, R/GA is hellbent on applying technology to help brands give their consumers control, and has changed the very nature of product parameters by extending brand functionality into virtual worlds. In doing so, theyâ€™ve also triggered the next creative revolution. As Chief Creative Officer, NA, Nick is responsible for the overall creative vision of the agency, and guides teams consisting of visual designers, copywriters and interaction designers, working in close collaboration across disciplines. In his own words: â€œToday if you don’t collaborate you’ll quickly find yourself in a creative cul-de-sac.â€ He believes in a flat, flexible, modular structure because â€œno one knows it allâ€, and because â€œyou’ll be making a bunch of different things (including some things that haven’t been invented yet).â€ View Nick’s fullÂ bio.

The Future of Advertising…and Porn

Sarah Pugsley — Mon, 10 May 2010 14:17:03 +0000

Cindy Gallop,
Founder & CEO,
If We Ran The World, LLCWhat is the future of advertising? Cindy Gallop, founder & CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld and former chairman, BBH New York, tackles the $64 million question with some highly subjective and thought-provoking views on the new marketing reality, the interface between creativity and technology, how ad agencies should be restructuring themselves, what social media really means, why it’s all about production in the broadest sense of the term, and, of course, porn.

Rage against the Machine – Creative.Artificial.Intelligence

Sarah Pugsley — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:30:05 +0000

StÃ©phane Xiberras,
President & Executive Creative Director
BETC Euro RSCG, Paris

What if someone invented a machine that could replace the creative role of an ad agency?

BETC has done just that. C.A.I. (Creative Artificial Intelligence), known as Kay to her closest friends, is a piece of software created, programmed and developed by BETC’s planners and creative staff during eight months of hard work. StÃ©phane will show what Kay is capable of; an amazing yet frightening experience, sparking reflection on the fundamentals of the creative profession. Like Frankenstein’s monster, Kay is a creature whose only reason for existence is to show us what we should never become.

CAI could be advertisingâ€™s future. Which means you could all be out of a job very soon. Is creativity dying? Is it already dead? Will CAI replace the modern agency?

Castor makes shit look good

Sarah Pugsley — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:32:46 +0000

Castor Design defies labelingCastorâ€™s work has been described as a cross between Guy Maddin and Larry Clark with a side of Stompinâ€™ Tom Connors. They are interested in the middle ground between high design and ribald yokelism. Materials and reuse of materials is also an important part of Castorâ€™s aesthetic. Burnt out bulbs to make lighting, a rusty shipping container to make a sauna – this re-contextualization of materials is a primary design consideration for Castor.

Castor is Brian Richer and Kei Ng. Brian Richer trained as an architectural stone carver and studied English Lit and Philosophy at York.Â Kei Ng studied architecture at the University of Winnipeg, then art directed films, and more recently has been feeding the masses at his namesake restaurant.Skype-ing in from their studio, Castor will design a special object for Shift Disturbers and drive it to the event in their custom Winnebago.

View full Castor Design biography

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admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:55:18 +0000

Co-Chairs:		Advisory Panel:
Rev. Stephen Jurisic, Creative Director, john st.	Rev. Ted Royer, Executive Creative Director, Droga5	Glen Hunt, Creative Catalyst, Dentsu Canada	Paul Little, Creative Director, TBWA Vancouver	James Milward, Executive Producer & Founder, The Secret Location	Steve Mykolyn, Chief Creative Officer, TAXI
		Mikey Richardson, Creative Director, Amoeba Corp.	Andrew Simon, SVP, Creative Director, DDB Canada	Nancy Vonk, Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy & Mather	Christina Yu, EVP, Creative Director, Red Urban