PechaKucha Night,now in over 1,000 cities, was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.
This week's City Focus highlights the beautiful, mountainous capital of Utah, Salt Lake City. Having recently hosted their 24th volume in March, the PechaKucha creative community is looking forward to seeing more inspiring content from Salt Lake City soon. With their overflowing enthusiasm for bringing out the best in their community, we can only expect PechaKucha Night in Salt Lake City to get better and better from now going forward. Congrats to the new PKN Salt Lake City organizer Shelley Bodily for taking the reigns and continuing to spread the creativity in Utah! We are all wishing you the best in planning Vol. 25!
This week's PechaKucha Night Poster Spotlight shines on the stellar poster from PKN Quilpué Vol. 6! Its creative usage of linear shapes and color make this poster out of this world! Props to the creative minds of Quilpué for devising yet another imaginative poster for our ever expanding PechaKucha Night Poster collection!
For more amazing PechaKucha Night Posters, visit our PechaKucha Night Tumblr Page.
This week's PechaKucha People spotlight shines on the newest member of the PechaKucha Night Taipei team, Eric Shiang Young! He's got big shoes to fill as the new organizer of PKN Taipei but has shown that he's got what it takes to continue showcasing the creativity of Taipei with his team. Let's wish him the best as a new member of the PechaKucha community and all of us at PechaKucha HQ are looking forward to meeting Eric at this year's PechaKucha Organizer PowWow! Good luck and be seeing you soon!
Lively PechaKucha Night Penang organizer Bee Eu Tan shares her passion and excitement for the beautiful and vivacious city of Penang, Malaysia. With the delicious cuisine and colorful multi-cultural architectural sights of Penang, you'll surely want to visit after listening to her exciting talk!
"Who am I really? Question for the ages, right? Am I an Ad Man or an Artist?"
In his presentation, Charlie Johnston takes you on a journey through his identity described in colorful metaphores and illustrated in a portfolio of some of his most breathtaking masterpieces all around Winnipeg.
Tom Bode is a Portland native, entrepreneur, music composer, and photographer who loves fishing and Pacific NW history.
In the early 1990's, Tom began selling instant photos on the streets of Seattle using his grandfather's old Polaroid Land Camera 250. Over the next dozen or so years he took thousands of instant portraits around the NW and saw both Polaroid and Fuji films go out of production. Tom has been asked to speak about his experiences with instant films and why he believes they are having a comeback in popularity.
As an architect, Mustafa Naeem came across challenges and different styles in architecture and how he is still learning how vast this field is. Whenever he began to think about all he had achieved as a professional and felt that he had just about made it, something new would crop out of the corner. Mustafa's message to people and students of architecture is to keep exploring and discovering one's skills, and to more importantly to never quit.
Emily Kastner invites us to join her in her experiences and passions as she encourages young kids in embracing their creative voice.
