Digital Pecha Kucha
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
I’ve just got back from an evening in London, where I attended the Japanese event extravaganza that is the Pecha Kucha Night. Supported by D&AD, the evening provided each speaker with a 6 minute, 40 second time frame in which to showcase 20 slides and each shown for only 20 seconds at a time! - a great idea which proved to keep tempo up and interest levels engaged. These slides could be anything; the stage was open, and as intended some inspired, amused and even shocked too.
Speakers included professional, digital creative’s from the likes of Poke, Digit, AllOfUs, Mook, Glue and AKQA to name a few.
Part of me expected the night to be occupied by a lot of work from the companies themselves, however this was opposed with talks about personal works and personal interests, which proved interesting to witness the thoughts, finds and inspiration of the people behind the company names. - Culture and the history of gaming were also a few other topics of interest.
On a separate side note, personally it was real beneficial to experience first hand a few ‘different’ presentation styles for a change, which I’m glad to say opened my mind a little too.
A great evening and well worth the trip. I can’t wait until I’m living down in London where events like this are more accessible 
