From 400 to 4,000

Going through our hard drive we came across some rare snaps of what was to become our annual conference week event.

Back in December 2007 we initiated 3 days of speakers under the title ‘The Christmas Lectures’ and here is a short review of the event that we also happened to find on a word document attached to the file.

“Over three days the department played host to a series of informative a well attended visiting speakers from a variety of disciplines. These included Andrew Griffin from ‘up the resolution’ a multi-disciplinary design agency, specialising in music videos, film and animation. Claire Norcross - head of lighting design at Habitat UK and Richard Scholey creative director of Elmwood – Leeds.

Over 400 students attended these informative lectures which were followed by brief question and answer sessions”

Fast forward 14 years.

We have just recently celebrated our 10th conference week event, themed around ‘Making your Mark’. which consisted of 24 speakers, from a wide cross section of design disciplines spread over 5 days.

Over the past several years the event has become a mainstay of our wider alumni family as well as other professional practitioners currently working in the creative industries.

This year we also broadcast the whole week via teams as well as making the talks available on youtube and between those tuning in live on the day and those watching on youtube catch up, this years figures were estimated at around 4,000+.

Should you have missed the event all the talks are archived and available to watch here.