Si Scott

Si Scott is a designer/illustrator whose work I had come across in the past and greatly admired.
It took a few minutes on the morning of his talk before I realised who he was, when his name was mentioned as being the day's guest speaker.
Needless to say I was pretty excited. While the Johnny Hannah talk was good to attend, not because I enjoyed his work but because it proved an interesting insight into his life as a practicing illustrator I hoped that I could get a similar experience from a designer whose work I really enjoyed.
Here's some of the points I made during his talk:
• Si won a D&AD Newblood award while in his final year at University.
• He found himself moving back and forth between London and the North.
• Got made redundant a lot.
• He enjoys spending a lot of time on his work.
• He's illustrated lamps, opera posters, pieces for Swedish transport and Notion Magazine.
• 90% of his work is hand drawn, the remaining 10% is scanning the piece in and some minor touch ups.

I really enjoyed this talk, Si was very down to earth and took a less than formal approach to his presentation often digressing for ten minutes to tell us a story of something that has happened to him in his working life so far, which I though was great. It was much better for us to get the nitty gritty stuff than the so-called "Do's and Don'ts" which can often be the case.