Hasta La Ideas

Artwork by Chuck Anderson/NoPattern

Portland and Los Angeles! The Semi-Permanent conference is touching down in the United States this month: March 13th in Portland and March 22nd in Los Angeles and Core77 is giving you the chance to win a pair of tickets to the conference!

One of the largest events of it’s type, Semi-Permanent is a creative platform spreading art and design inspiration. Started in Sydney, Australia in 2003, the event has established itself over the last ten years as a leader in presentations and exhibitions throughout the creative world. With annual events hosted in Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, and Brisbane, this is the first time the conference has hit Stateside since their 2005 US debut in New York City.

Andrew Johnstone, the Director and Founder explained, “Two of the Semi-Permanent team visited Portland last last year and loved it—we chose Portland to host a conference because we had heard that it was a really creative and interesting city. We chose Los Angeles because we felt that the art and design scene in Los Angeles is quite strong—it is a more creative city than people like to think.”

This year’s event includes presentations from Chuck Anderson (NoPattern), Terry White (Adobe Evangelist), Holly Wales (Illustrator), Michael Muller (Photographer) and special guests in each city: Gary Baseman (Artist), Gmunk (Motion Graphics) and Rei Inamoto (AKQA) in Portland, Aaron Rose (Director/Curator), Gia Coppola (Director/Photographer), Oliver Zahm (Purple Fashion) and M Blash (Director’s Bureau) in Los Angeles. Attendees can look forward to an exhibition and parties that are programmed alongside the conference itself. More artists are on the roster and are being announced daily—REGISTER TODAY for the Early Ticket pricing.

To win tickets, leave a comment below with:
– Which speaker are you most excited about seeing + one sentence explaining why
– Be sure to include your email address so we can reach out to you if you win!

To get a taste of what’s in store at the conference, check out the highlight reel from last year’s event in Sydney.

SP Sydney 2012 Montage from Semi Permanent on Vimeo.

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