Well the channel is back and webcasting after a long time being dormant. We had a webcast for the first event in the Insights Design Lecture Series and it went well albiet to a very limited audience. Still it is good that we have an archive of that lecture and it looks like we are all ready to stream the second lecture tonight at 7 pm.
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Despite the very interesting work done by the last two presenting groups at the design lecture series … the public speaking abilities and presentation preparation of each group has been at the best: poor, which seems to be an issue, year in and year out with the design lecture series.
One wonders why, with so many bright, engaging, articulate designers out there in the world – Blauvelt, or whomever makes the call on the series presenters, continues to invite speakers that are more often than not: tedious, speak english marginally at best, poorly prepared, and generally very disappointing?
As huge fan of the series and the new Walker (as well as a member), I offer these comments as constructive criticism – I hope you will strive to do better next year …