Hywel Rh. Vaughan

Part two of my review of 2009. The start of Bloodhound, the Business Card Holders and the Bristol Design Festival… times are a changin’

So the deed is done, the destination is deserted and the design has disappeared. Until next year that is. Closing the doors on the Old Fire Station with over 4,500 visitors at that venue alone, this year’s Bristol Design Festival was by far the biggest, and most certainly the best. As I am sure that a detailed recap of the festival will be published soon, this is just a simple post to say some thank yous.

The West of England Design Forum have always tried to get a wide and diverse range of designer’s to give talks at the city’s Watershed venue, but it is rare that they manage to get product designers and even more rare that they get one working on such a pioneering project.

[Taken from the Bristol Design Festival Blog where I have been guest blogging]

It is always a real challenge to try and quantify the success of an exhibition launch. Do you rank its performance on the amount of visitors? The press coverage? The alcohol consumption? Last night the Bristol Design Festival held its launch party at the Old Fire Station, complete with competitions, prizes, speeches, wine, nibbles, music, and everyone seemingly enjoying themselves. To summarise the launch though, let’s look at a few numbers…

It has been a while since I did one of these, so I figured I would explain myself.

With only one exam remaining (tomorrow morning by the way), my focus is now split into two factions; the Bristol Design Festival and the Bloodhound Project. As Bloodhound does not kick off until the 22nd June, and I have planned blog posts specifically for it, my focus is really on the Bristol Design Festival.

Last year I entered the Grafikea competition. This year I am doing the same. And exhibiting. And volunteering for the event. And tweeting the event. And blogging the festival.

This is quite a big involvement on my part, both with preparation time for my exhibition and for all of the other media activities. Here then are a few links to everything BDF related, so you can keep up to date with the festival and my contribution to it.