DUp 174 🎫 DUp24 Referrals are Live, Speaker Reveals, AltCwithJD, GuestEd > Illustration, Motion Design, Pixel Art and Cooking

💥 Welcome to a power-packed newsletter 💥 with a bunch of DesignUp Conference updates and our guest editor for this issue Shivam Thapliyal who has a bunch of interestingness lined up for you…

4 quick UpTakes, before you scroll -

1. ⏳ 19 Days to August 15 - last day to buy the Conf Passes at a special rate!

2. 📣 DesignUp Referrals have gone live - your friends who are going, can help save up on #DUp24 passes! Don’t miss out…

3. 🚀 Jay launched AltCwithJD - a podcast on alternate careers and it’s been resonating with rebel kids and those creative types too (both parents and kids)!

4. 🎄 Not just Pablo Stanley, the DUp24 Speaker, Workshop and Masterclass list is growing super fast!

🚀 DesignUp24 is Live on Linkedin!

Mark your attendance on our LinkedIn event!

If you haven’t yet planned to attend DesignUp, here’s a good way to get your friends to help! DesignUp24 promises to be an amazing week of impactful ideas, actionable insights, and inspiring connections! Just ask your friends!

🎫 Refer Friends & help them save up on their DesignUp 2024 Passes!

Around two months ago, DesignUp launched its brand new, ground-up, in-house designed and developed platform called Lumos - with a host of features including referrals, exchanges and more, apart from buying tickets! We're thrilled to announce that you can now refer your friends and colleagues for DesignUp 2024 Conference Passes 🎉

Priority Pass members, refer friends and pocket a cool Rs 200 for each successful referral. What’s more - the people you refer get a Rs 300 welcome bonus! That's right, this is a jumpup from the Rs 150/250 we originally promised. Even better news? This isn't just for Priority Pass holders. We're opening up Referrals to all ticket holders. Refer as many people as you want and gift them Rs 300 each, with no cap on number of referrals.

👉 👉 Ready to share the savings? Head on over to pass.designup.io

🎪 Speaker Highlights

Thomas Küber is co-founder at Futur2, a critical design studio based in Berlin, Germany. With 18+ years of experience, he is a leader in his craft and has formerly led international design teams at Groupon, banbutsu and Designit.

Here’s a talk by Thomas about doing hard things as a design practitioner.

Our next speaker is Andreas Wegner, co-founder at Berlin-based design studio Futur2, and seasoned design leader and speaker. With 20+ years of experience and numerous talks under his belt, he has previously led the design team at iconmobile. Fun fact? In 2000, he even had a short stint with Imaginary Forces, where he worked on the titling for 'Charlie's Angels', and the teaser of 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'!

✅ Follow us on Insta or Linkedin for more speaker reveals and the latest updates on DesignUp Conference 2024!

🌏️ Around the Web

If you’ve been charmed by the cute illustrations on Swiggy, you’ll be familiar with the work of Shivam Thapliyal. Shivam was also a speaker at DesignUp Conference back in 2022 “Product Illustration Today”!

In this issue, Shivam shares some of his side projects, inspirations, useful resources, and more!

“A few months back I took a break away from the city and went for a few days on a snowboarding expedition in the Sethan, Himachal, a little away from Manali. Four days with no network, or electricity, with only a few people seen around, and 8 dogs at our cottage, it was an adventure of a lifetime. I also shot a small Cinematic film that you can watch! 

I’ve recently been inspired by the Vibrant and Pure Cookbook, a visual delight for all food enthusiasts and designers to create some food and plate it as an art. While eating healthy is a goal I wish to sustain for very long, plating and making it look pretty is the best part!

I’ve started to learn motion design and if you want to see the process, check out Motionographer Behind the Scenes for project breakdowns and how various studios/designers approach a project.

Pssh!! Here’s my favourite one - it’s an animation design timelapse of Xoana Herrera and Esteban Esquivos’ process which will give you some great insights:

I recently stumbled upon illustrator Ping Zhu’s lecture where she talks about her work, and career and so many helpful tips. It’s a 1:30 hour long video so you’ll be learning a lot in detail. Grab a notebook for sure.

If you love pixel art and animations, then Studio Mini Boss’ Pixel art tutorials is the most comprehensive, to-the-point and useful resource for pixel art animation reference. It’s a very detailed and exhaustive list that you’d ever find.

🎙️ AltCwithJD: A Podcast on a Mission

In AltC's Season 1, Episode 1, we have Jayanth Sharma, an award-winning photographer, founder & CEO of Toehold Travel & Photography and Sony Alpha ambassador. ✨ Jayanth started his professional journey as an engineer before pursuing wildlife photography. In this podcast, we discuss if passion can make a profit and what it takes to survive in the wild wild world of business, amongst other things.

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