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.

Some Plus+ Photos

Here are some photos of Plus+ 2008:

-From Alexandre Parre click here and here.

Smile also have some of photos of the festival.

- For Smile click here and more here.

Thank You!

Plus International Design Festival want to thank all the sponsors, speakers, exhibitors, demonstrators, visitors, volunteers, organisers and you for this year festival, without your assistance the event would not have been the great success that it was.

We hope you had a great time and see you next year!

Thank you!

The Plus+ Team

Feedback Prize Draw

eOffice, proud sponsors of this years workshop / demonstrations programme at Plus+ 2008 would like to offer 5 lucky individuals the opportunity to benefit from one years free membership with them.

Winner of the BCO ‘Projects up to 2,000 m2’ award 2008 and a Climate Neutral business centre, eOffice has created a new generation of workplace solutions.

Members will benefit from access to our contemporary workspace, the latest in IT functionality, meeting and conference space for up to 100 delegates and other flexible services such as hotdesking and virtual offices.

The eCard offers holders 8% discount on meeting rooms in all of our UK centres (Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester and London Soho) as well as access to over 60 eOffice affiliated centres worldwide.

You just need to come to the event and fill out the Plus+ feedback form at the reception, one winner every day.

Remember bookings are open online http://www.youplusus.net/

Would you like to see a Creative Marketplace in Digbeth / Eastside?

The East Birmingham & North Solihull Regeneration Zone (ebns Ltd) with our funders Advantage West Midlands have been investing in the development of Digbeth and Eastside as a Learning and Leisure Quarter and a centre for the creative industries, particularly the digital media sector. We have worked with a range of partners including Birmingham City Council, the Custard Factory, the Bond, Vivid, Groundwork, the Learning & Skills Council and others to develop a range of projects, create new workspace and provide new learning opportunities. One of the project ideas now under discussion is the establishment of a Creative Marketplace, and we would like your input to help decide whether there is the demand for this, and if so what it should be.We therefore want to take this opportunity to canvass your views.

We would welcome your responses to the following questions as an addition to the Plus+ festival blog:

Would you like to see a Creative Marketplace in Digbeth / Eastside?

Click here to take the survey

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)

Plus+ Touring the city with the Walking Tours

Visit the 2008 Plus International Design Festival and join one of our walking tours exploring the typographic complexity of Birmingham’s urban environment – they are a great way to see this familiar city from a new perspective. Tours run throughout the Festival and are aimed at both practitioners and students of design, local historians and visitors. The walks look at a variety of typographic forms that can be found in the street and are conducted by an experienced and informative guide with both local knowledge and typographic understanding.

Our guide is Ben Waddington, a Birmingham-based historian with an especial interest in architecture, industrial history and typography. His guided tours for this year’s Plus festival will include the evergreen John Baskerville tour, which follows the story of the innovative C18th Birmingham printer. He will also conduct a Type Tour of the City Centre and beyond, which will explore the use of lettering on buildings, public art, mosaics, signs, plaques and ephemeral vestiges of the past.

Digbeth Type Tour: Exploring use of typography and handwritten letterforms in industrial Digbeth side streets. The area's history revealed through its use of type.

Baskerville's Birmingham: the history of Birmingham's most famous typographer, John Baskerville (1706 - 1775). Artifacts, locations and type specimens associated with Baskerville will be visited, around Birmingham City Centre.

Blue Plaques tour: The history of Birmingham and of the Blue Plaque itself: changing and improving designs, layouts, type use &c. The tour also covers plaques other than Blue; many forms of wall mounted commemorative texts around the City Centre.

City Type Tour: Birmingham history as shown through its typography. Civil, monumental and commercial use of typeforms will be explored in Birmingham City Centre.

For Walking Tours bookings please email Magda at info@youplusus.net.

Timetable

5/11/2008 WEDNESDAY
12:00 - 13:30 1. Digbeth Type Tour

Meeting Point: Festival Reception

6/11/2008 THURSDAY
12:00 - 13:30 2. Digbeth Type Tour

Meeting Point: Festival Reception
14:30 - 16:00 3. Baskerville's Type Tour

Meeting Point: Baskerville House, Broad Street, B1

7/11/2008 FRIDAY
12:00 - 13:30 4. Digbeth Type Tour

Meeting Point: Festival Reception
14:30 - 16:00 5. Blue Plaques Tour

Meeting Point: Baskerville House, Broad Street, B1

8/11/2008 SATURDAY
12:00 - 13:30 6. City Type Tour

Meeting Point: Baskerville House, Broad Street, B1

One-day ticket £15.00 (£10.00 concessions) Full-Festival ticket £40.00 (£25.00 concessions) Discounts available on groups of 10 or more.

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

Bookings for the Festival are now open and can be made online.

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+.

You must indicate which session you would like to attend. Places are limited, so make sure you book one of these sessions through info@youplusus.net

10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00

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.

eOffice Workshops List for Plus+

Visit the 2008 Plus International Design Festival and you will have more to do than simply look at the exhibits and listen to the lectures – you’ll be able to get you hands dirty with a range of workshops and feast your eyes as you watch other people work on a range of crafts and technologies that include, sponsor it by eOffice.

4Talent Writing sugeries

Coventry Univeristy Letterpress printing

Tim Donaldson Big letters

Alex Hughes Cartoons

Gabriel Hummerstone Stone carving

Barry McKay Bookbinding

Periscope On-line studio management system

Screen Media Lab Creative Suite

Linda Winnett Calligraphy

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

Have you book your ticket already if not you can do it 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.