Talking about Plus+

What people thought about Plus+ 2008:

- What UKType wrote of Plus+ in 4Talent.

- What Chris Unitt wrote of Type, tart cards, T-shirts and crosses in Eye Magazine.

- What CMYK found in Plus+, the Headstone of John Baskerville and the giveaway that we had for everyone.

- What Alex Bermingham one of our volunteers wrote and what the T Shirt he designed for Smile.

- What Sarah Carter experienced in the Visual Thought workshop and the overral of the Festival.

In Baskerville’s memory

Visit the 2008 Plus International Design Festival and you will be able to watch history in the making.

For more than 230 years John Baskerville has been at rest in an unmarked grave in the city, but this is about to change as Gabriel Hummerstone, sculptor of bespoke memorials will carve a commemorative plaque in memory of Birmingham’s typographic genius.

Baskerville had composed his own memorial:

Stranger –Beneath this Cone in unconsecrated ground
A friend to the liberties of mankind directed his body to be inhum’d
May the example contribute to emancipate thy mind
From the idle fears of superstition
And the wicked arts of Priesthood.

and it is this text that Hummerstone will use as he carves the plaque using Baskerville’s letters on Welsh slate.

Come and watch as history is made.

For more information visit http://www.youplusus.net/.

Bookings for the Festival are open and can be made online at http://www.youplusus.net/.

One-day ticket £15.00 (£10.00 concessions)
Full-Festival ticket £40.00 (£25.00 concessions)

FREE Marketing Surgeries from Business Link at Plus+

FREE MARKETING SURGERIES FROM BUSINESS LINK

Friday 7 November 10:00-12:00

How does marketing and exploiting digital technology enhance your business? Would you benefit from the latest guidance on marketing and the key components of a marketing plan and the benefits that if can deliver to a business?

If your business would benefit from free advice and support on marketing strategies and business growth, sign up for a half hour one-to-one surgery with Business Link’s specialist advisers at Plus+.

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10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
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Exhibitors in Plus+

Visit the 2008 Plus International Design Festival and view the work of some of the most inspirational and innovative work from both established an up-and-coming agencies, designers and illustrators which this year include:

4Talent
Jane Anderson
Baskerville Project
Birmingham City University
Matt Cannon
Clusta
Coventry University
Designers Republic
Timothy Donaldson
Feed
Fluid
Fused
Girls Who Draw
Illuminate Lighting Ltd
Periscope
Karoline Rerrie
Joe Rogers
Smile
Stereographic
Andrew Spackman
Type
We Make Art
WOK Media
Wolverhampton University

For more information visit http://www.youplusus.net/.

Bookings for the Festival are now open and can be made online at http://www.youplusus.net/.

One-day ticket £15.00 (£10.00 concessions)
Full-Festival ticket £40.00 (£25.00 concessions)

Discounts available on groups of 10 or more.

BCU Lecture Programme

The Plus International Design Festival is pleased to announce a full and engaging lecture programme including talks from:

Jonathan Barnbrook Barnbrook Design UK
Barnbrook is arguably most recognised for his work on the cover artwork of David Bowie's 2002 album Heathen which featured the debut for his 'Priori' typeface. Barnbrook collaborated with Damien Hirst, most notably on the design, layout and typography of his book I Want To Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now.

Steve Bell Cartoonist, The Guardian UK
Steve Bell is a political cartoonist, whose work appears in The Guardian and other publications. He is probably best known for the daily strip called If..., which has appeared in The Guardian newspaper since 1981, and since the mid-1990s he has also been that newspaper's principal editorial cartoonist.

Jason Conrad Red Bee Media UK
Red Bee Media are specilists in creating, enhancing, delivering, promoting and navigating content. Primarily for TV, but with screens popping up all over the place these days, they’ve quickly become experts in multi–platform technology - TV, video on–demand, broadband, IPTV, and mobile.

Jamie Wieck Airside UK
Airside is a cross-platform design agency that works in moving image, graphic design, illustration, digital and real world interaction. Founded ten years ago by Alex Maclean, Fred Deakin and Nat Hunter, Airside's unique approach has won many awards.

Jeff Willis Perks Willis Design UK
A Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London Jeff remains active as a graphic designer having formed Perks Willis Design in 1990. He is a member of Design and Art Direction, the International Society of Typographic Designers, a member of the Sign Design Society and a member of the Higher Education Academy.

The lecture programme is sponsored by Birmingham City University.

For more information visit http://www.youplusus.net/

Bookings for the Festival are now open and can be made online at http://www.youplusus.net/.

One-day ticket £15.00 (£10.00 concessions)
Full-Festival ticket £40.00 (£25.00 concessions)

Discounts available on groups of 10 or more.


See us also at the Field of Light part of the Hello Digital Festival 23-26 October 2008.