CAMP Festival 2019
Talks
Campfire: Scary Stories from the Studio
Join Leta and Wade as they get personal, and talk about scary mishaps, studio meltdowns, and computer crises.
Get cozy around the campfire for storytelling with no slides, no filters,… Read more…
Creating with Integrity
When you look at history, every innovation resulted in unwanted harm or erosion of trust. One of the key reasons for that is because we didn’t know how to design… Read more…
Arthur Bodolec
Facebook
Creative Companionship
Not only do design duo Leta and Wade eat and sleep together, the two share a creative bond that has catapulted them to success. Their design studio, Wade and Leta… Read more…
Designing Futuristic/Odd Devices, Interfaces and Interactions
What would our devices, interfaces and the way we interact with them look like if we threw out all our pre-conceived notions about them? Through works ranging from bacteria based… Read more…
Dhairya Dand
ODD Industries
Designing Respect for VR
Virtual reality (VR) designers accept the ethical responsibilities of removing a user’s entire world and superseding it with a fabricated reality. These unique immersive design challenges are intensified when virtual… Read more…
Michelle Cortese
Facebook
Fumbling Around in the Dark
From the outside design can seem like a polished and intimidating world, full of ‘design-thinkers’ influencing the future of business and culture. The reality though, is often much less glamorous… Read more…
Matt Luckhurst
The New Company
Hands-On: Get Your Shit Together
Intention shapes perception. If you’re not aligned from the get-go, you won’t be able to see your vision. The subtle nuances in being sure that your “goal” aligns with your… Read more…
Taylor Cashdan
Hologram
Hands-On: Headversity– Think, Feel, and Be Better
Do you get overwhelmed? Stressed? Exhausted? Congratulations, you are a normal human being who lives in the world of exponential change. The antidote is resilience training. The headversity resilience methodology… Read more…
Dr. Ryan Todd
headversity
How Failure Can Fuel Your Most Creative Breakthroughs
Have you ever lost a pitch? Experienced a design critique gone awry? Or designed something you thought was terrible and thought, ‘‘Why do I even bother?” PJ has too. Nothing… Read more…
PJ Richardson
Laundry
I Think I Have Imposters Syndrome, but it Might be Someone Else’s
Xerxes grew up surrounded by creatives. His dad was an architect and an artist who ran his own architecture practice out of their basement and owned his own art gallery… Read more…
Xerxes Irani
Amazon Music
Imagining Monsters in Children’s Book Illustration
Being a children’s book author and illustrator sounds like it should be all sunshine and rainbows, but sometimes you can get too much in your head. Kim shares her personal… Read more…
Kim Smith
Kim Smith Illustration
Immersive Cinema and the Power of Volumetric Storytelling
A technology that just ten years ago was science fiction is now reality. Several technological advances is the past few years are opening up a new frontier in volumetric storytelling.… Read more…
David Karlak
davidkarlak.com
Let’s Get Vulnerable! The Ups and Downs of a Creative Life
Ever work alongside another creative and think you’re a total phony? Or push so hard to prove yourself that you crash and burn? How about feeling anxious when someone else… Read more…
Mental Health Is Hard Work
Ryan is a psychiatrist and the CEO of a digital mental health company. He has sat with approximately 4,000 individuals with mental illness, and trained for eight years to be… Read more…
Music & Sound: Picture’s Perfect Companion
How does music help tell a story without overshadowing it? If you didn’t notice the sound design, does that mean it worked? What are some of the most effective ways… Read more…
Andrea Wettstein
Six Degrees Music & Sound
Narrative Design at 150 Feet Per Second!
From “Men in Black” to “Ford v. Ferrari,” François will recount how his creative journey over the past 25 years—working in the art departments of 40 films—has revealed recurring lessons… Read more…
François Audouy
audouy.com
Off the Browser
A lot of HKI members started off as Flash developers, which over time evolved into making rich web experiences in HTML / Javascript. While the advertisement industry is shifting toward… Read more…
Post-Earth Visions: Designing for Space and the Future Human
Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and during their relatively short stays, they are provided with… Read more…
Sands Fish
BLUE ORIGIN
Pretty Rubbish
As an artist working with technology, it’s very tempting to always use the newest shiniest toys. However, artists have the freedom to reuse, misuse and subvert existing items. In this… Read more…
Neil Mendoza
neilmendoza.com
Production Design: Unfiltered
Here Francois is in Calgary, designing the next “Ghostbusters” feature film for Columbia Pictures. How did he get here?
Objective
Unfiltered access to a leading feature film production designer in… Read more…
François Audouy
audouy.com
Psychology & Shit
Mike will talk all things film and mind… he will likely will be drunk, but therefore highly talkative. He’ll introduce the enneagram – a way to understand how your personality… Read more…
Mike Hill
Mike Hill Design
Say Yes and Figure it Out Later
The journey of a renaissance woman
Coming from a background in genetics, Hilal Koyuncu will dive into how being a generalist has helped her in her career as a designer… Read more…
Hilal Koyuncu
Google
Stress Addiction: From Morning Coffee to the Cardiac Wing
“I work best under pressure.” “No worries—I’ll get it to you ASAP.” “It’s fine, I can handle it.” Sound familiar? It did for Taylor, as well, until he woke up… Read more…
Taylor Cashdan
Hologram
Tell Your Boss You’re Working: Professional Development Can be Fun and Productive
What do you do when you have downtime at work? When you’re in between meetings or waiting for client approval, does it feel like you should be doing something, but… Read more…
The Story of You
Why do we do the things we do? What really drives our personalities; and how do our personalities form in the first place?
Each of us is complex and unique… Read more…
Mike Hill
Mike Hill Design
Validation for Fun & Profit
Burnout is real, and behind every burnout is the never-ending pursuit of ‘more’: more recognition, more awards, more money, more confidence, more control, more success…
Bamff would like to get… Read more…
Marc Rimmer
Bamff
Visualizing Connections
Connections are a part of us, of the world. From the connections between people, between cultures, within language, and more. In these days when more data is collected daily than… Read more…
Nadieh Bremer
Visual Cinnamon
Workshop: Creative Data Visualization Techniques
With so many tools available to visualize your data, it’s easy to get stuck in thinking about chart types, always just going for that bar or line chart, without truly… Read more…
Nadieh Bremer
Visual Cinnamon
Workshop: Improv Your Design Skills
What do a good improv comedian and designer have in common? They both actively listen, collaborate and create. Improv has been used to foster personal and professional growth in a… Read more…
Hilal Koyuncu
Google
Workshop: Seeing is Believing
Marcel Duchamp was a pioneer of Dada, a movement that questioned long-held assumptions about what art should be and how it should be made. Duchamp was “interested in ideas—not merely… Read more…
XR for Social Good … Maybe
Can we utilize extended reality (XR) technologies to create positive social impact? Are there ways that these can be leveraged to help improve our lives or address some of the… Read more…
Anastasia Victor
PLACE
