Over the last seven years or so I’ve been lucky enough to speak at some great design conferences, including Flashforward 2000 in New York featuring a live performance by Run DMC! But I have to say having just come back from Brighton, this year’s Flash on the Beach was without question the best conference I have ever been a part of.
With over 800 attendess, an incredible venue and a stellar line up of speakers, there was an incredible vibe to the whole thing. Every session I attended was truly brilliant, and the ones I couldn’t make where apparently just as brilliant. Some stand-outs for me where Andre Michelle and his crazy open source sound project for the creation of audio in Flash, Jared Tarbell’s beautiful view on the world through his algorithmic coding, Mario Klingemann’s genius art machine, Aral Balkan’s elegant approach to getting data into Flash that he calls SwxFormat, GMUNK’s crazy pieces of video and Robert Hodgkin and his jaw dropping Processing work.
And I’ve not even mentioned Chris Orwig, Hoss Gifford, Andy Pollaine, Erik Natzke, Craig Swann, Joshua Davis and many others. John Davey, the man behind FOTB, has done a truly incredible job of creating a friendly, exciting and above all inspirational conference that very much reminds of the early days of Flash.
If you made it to FOTB this year I hope you too share my love for an amazing four days. If you didn’t, do everything you can to make Flash on the Beach the must go to conference for next year.
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