The master of Crash!Media brought a really cool installation to OFFF this year. Here you have Craig explaining about this and also about OFFF. Enjoy it.
This year’s opening titles were made by two great guys, ESPAUN and I AM NOT ALONE (Joining forces they are Sintevision). An amazing experience in the old 3D style. They distributed glasses for everyone during Buck’s speach. Nobody knew about it (i did hehehe), but was a great experience for everybody.
To end the festival, we have a spetacular concert, brought to us by Takagi Masakatsu, who came from Kyoto to show us his dreamy environment and melancolic melodies, on a perfect piano concert presentation.
One of the precursors of the area, John Maeda, designer, artist, programmer, professor, researcher, etc, gave us a class about how to keep it simple, based on his latest book “Laws of Simplicity”, which in another hand, is very complex.
With a very conscient talk (and a small gadget that helped him on the key note), John hold very tight everyone’s attention. This year’s OFFF visitors were very lucky to have this chance of seeing him. I am sure that we learnt something very good for our professions with him.
And with that phrase, James started his speach about typography, posters and politics. Presenting all range of works that he has done at his studio in NYC, telling about what he is currently teaching at an american university and lots of jokes!