Patrick Thomas Talk

• Travelling by train
• Graphic artist, author, educator in Germany
• From Liverpool - Saint Martins Graphic Design BA - got into animation and a passion for print
• Went to Barcelona after graduation - met olympic mascot designer - COBI - documented the process of the mascot in a published book
• sketchbooks for process
• Andy Warhol posters
• Does his own work on silkscreen presses 
• 2 published books - 2005 and 2011
• Has a reasoning for all type used 
• Concerned about climate - design is always a political act - designers are responsible for the consumerism in society - carrier of messages
• in 2008/10 Patrick Thomas studio in Berlin
• worked for Desigual and Abbey road studios
• News & people giving headlines via a QR code, which gets sent in with the real news and gets mixed up and printed with projectors all over the room
• Protest stencil toolkit - stencils that can be used for usual statements 
• Banner inspires activism - posters don't really engage - t-shirts do 
• Open collab - printing/accidental/layer
• Newspaper as a medium - freezes a moment in time, each is unique, overprint (edit)
• He has a moral responsibility - good way of trying to change things - platform with a like to provoke 
• You can't go wrong at art uni - the most time and freedom you'll have - collab