Common Interest #1

If you want to be interesting, you have to be interested.

Connecting a diverse design crowd, united by inspiration and shared thoughts.

Doors 6:30pm. First speaker 7pm.

Our Speakers

Dan Witchell: Executive Creative Director at Koto

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Koto is a global studio of optimists building brand and digital for the most impactful companies of today and the founders defining tomorrow. Their client list is everybody's dream client list: Netflix, Spotify, Nike and Coca Cola, plus start-ups, challenger brands and companies looking to do something genuinely different.

Mr Bingo: Artist, Speaker and Twat (his words, not ours)

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Mr Bingo was a commercial illustrator for 15 years, working regularly for clients such as The New Yorker, The Guardian, TIME, CH4, The Mighty Boosh & The New York Times. An archive of the thousands of illustrations from this period doesn’t exist online because he got bored once in a motorhome and deleted his entire portfolio website.

In 2015 he launched a Kickstarter to fund a book about his Hate Mail project. The campaign featured a rap video and a diverse selection of rewards including being trolled, having your washing up done, going on a date in Wetherspoons, being told to fuck off on Christmas Day and getting shitfaced on a train.

He decided around this period to never work for clients ever again and focus on being some sort of artist which he’s done ever since.

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Craft is a global design recruitment company with a simple ambition: to enhance the studios, careers, and lives of everybody we partner with. Across the globe, we work with world-class agencies and design studios of all sizes. As the eyes and ears in the marketplace, we find you right people; those hard-to-find, cream-of-the-crop, incredibly talented people.

It's our job to highlight and celebrate the most incredible design talent the world has to offer. So it’s only right that we give those people a platform by hosting our own events.

We enhance the whole career cycle of people working in design - that’s why we sponsor inclusive creative careers resources, build partnerships within design education, offer free portfolio reviews and... host events to inspire people!

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The Venue

Band On The Wall has been at the very heart of Manchester culture since it began life in 1803. The award-winning venue has played host to Buzzcocks, the Fall and Joy Division.

Our venue is fully wheelchair accessible. If you have any access needs for the night or questions, please email [email protected] and we will help you.

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