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Win pass to Semi-Permanent for your permanent inspiration

In the lead-up to the design smorgasbord on offer at this years Semi-Permanent, we’re giving you the chance to win a pass to the event, so you can indulge in some design inspiration for yourself - whether it be graphics, fashion, animation, illustration, motion graphics, typography, sound design, live audio-visual art, interactive and experiential marketing, fine art, music or product design. Phew!

To win, all you need to do is tell us your Semi-Permanent wish list. In other words, if you could chose one person anywhere in the world to make an appearance at the event, who would it be and why?


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Peter Jackson. Inspirational.

Zaha Hadid - challenging, boundary pushing, difficult.

Neville Brody. And if he was still alive Walter Gropius

banksy, the most mysterious and influential artist of my generation.

David Kelley or Tim Brown from IDEO because design thinking is a hot topic at the moment

If he was still alive Andy Warhol! But Kelcy Taratoa is an amazing and inspirational NZ artist!

Zaha Hadid. Challenging, boundary pushing, tough nut.

Wim Crouwel. He is an amazing and passionate typographer and graphic designer of our time. His work, meticulous passion and dedication to his craft is totally inspirational and makes him stand out above the rest.

Candy Chang – young, fresh, inter-disciplinary

Massimo Vignelli - love his work and he's very accomplished in many areas of design. Also he's quite funny

Bansky,
The most well known unkown figure in urban art scene today. Constantly pushing the boundaries and laughing in the face of convention

I would love to see what the founders of Frankie magazine have to say - Louise Bannister & Lara Burke. Its such an inspiring and creative read.

Paula Scher - of Pentagram. An inspirational female designer and new Yorker.

John Maeda. Inspirational designer, writer, educator.

peter Max

Paul Smith - to me an amazing and inspirational designer.

Kashiwa Sato - chief designer of the UNIQLO brand and art style. His visual inventiveness is amazing and very broad minded. One of the reasons why the brand is so well-known today.

Duncan Forbes from The International Office- an amazing wellington based graphic design group- great typography

Catherine Griffiths - to see an imaginative Wellington typographer holding her own with other inspiring internationals. Please.

david carson

Carson was last year :) Keen for Banksy too!

Steve Jobs - what was behind the design of the ipod that led it to being the most successful music player of our generation and revamped Apple as a business? Huge!

I'd like to see someone new that I've never heard of before - someone with energy and ideas that leave me speechless.

Erik Spiekermann - Typographic God, Inspirational, simply amazing.

Ken Leung - Founding Art Director of Monocle magazine, who has now established his own consultancy Modern Publicity.

The guy or gal who started core77.com, the product design website & community.

Karim Rashid. Inspirational, outgoing, eccentric futurist designer.

@Steve, you'd be meaning Allan Chochinov (or Eric Ludlum and Stuart Constantine, as they officially started it but Chochinov is editor in chief). There's some cool stuff about him at http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/allan-chochinov-interview

Eine - the UK street artist who has just his print gifted to President Obama

Would love to see Eduardo Recife, he has such a great style and mix of illustration/collage/design….

Stanley Donwood - Donwood has designed every Radiohead album cover and most of their posters since 1994’s My Iron Lung - design genius!

Antonio Carusone from Aisle One I'd love to hear more about his Buddy Carr skateboard designs & his blog is full of excellent typography!

Kenny, the Australian mobile toilet cleaner. He deals in crap all day, so he'll probably be best at letting people know what's crap design and what's not, and how to cut the crap when doing strategy.

I would love to see Marian Bantjes here. She has done such beautiful work with text and pattern, and not just in books - though the book she is about to release looks like a total dream, but also on furniture. She writes about her design work with such intelligence and passion, I'm sure she would be a great guest.

Scott Dadich creative director of Wired Magazine. @nsmart Stanley Donwood would be awesome.

Erik Spiekermann - one of the great living typographers, who could discuss the designing of Meta font, setting up FontShop and the utility of webfonts, to list just a few things… (PS Marian Bantjes has already been to SP - she was great).

If he was real, God, some neat designs.

It was Adrian Shaughnessy, but he is already coming this time round.

Seth Godin is my next pick.
Need I say more?

Takashi Murakami. Just look at his work for great inspirations from illustrations to comibination of colours.

John Williams. His musical scores have made an incredible contribution to the motion picture industry.

'Independant artists'
These people, the people that don't get ENOUGH recognition for their work. I suppose the weirder arts, and/or the kinda work that has never been done/seen before, these are the ones that really hit me and i'd love to see more of them.

I'd like me to make an appearance by winning the ticket :)

After that though I'd love to see my bro Exceeda -http://www.exceeda.co.uk his audio visual and archive footage ninja chopping skillz are awesome. (plus it would be great reason for him to come visit!)

im happy to see anyone who inspires a crowd with their work and themselves. to be able to go would be all the joy for 2010.

Daniel Eatock, or Universal Everything

Johnathan Ive would be cool, the man behind Apples design. Neville Brody would be interesting as would John Maeda. So many talented people out there it would be hard to pick one ultimate choice.

Shepard Fairey

Julia Rothman - so talented with such a wide range, in particular for her amazing patterns.

Pixar director John Lasseter, love there work

I would love to have someone from older times, as far back as can be, to be there at the event as it would be great to see in person the works of some of these great sources of inspiration. Inspiration is truly important to a designer, and it is always great to draw from the greats.


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