After my visit yesterday to the ‘MCRDS2012’ conference, I was hugely inspired from the youngest of all the designers there, Will Hudson. The other five were highly inspirational, but I felt it was easier to relate to Will, simply because of his age and lack of experience (in comparison), which all the others had behind them.

As usual Adrian Shaughnessy didn’t disappointed with his inspiring talk on the economy and design. He knows exactly what to say. He will just say it as it is, and I think this is the best way as it makes you realise exactly what is wrong or right.

Jason Smith was interesting to listen to, from how he creates all these detailed fonts to his argument in the panel discussion about piracy. He had a massively important point that piracy is steeling and to him and his business. This is serious as it is already such a niche market and it is becoming even smaller because of people steeling his fonts. Whereas, for graphic designers like Will Hudson or Vera-Maria Glahn, it is the complete opposite, to them it is good. It is good because it spreads their work to the masses and makes their businesses more of an exclusive luxury thing, which works pretty well. A lot like with the Adobe suites, pretty much every student ‘steels’ their programmes, of that I’m sure they know, and they get highly skilled within these all throughout their high education. Then, once looking for a full-time job, they then have to start paying for it; as it is the only set of programmes they are skilled in to do their work. In the long run piracy works for most business, I would say.

Also, I loved the welcome package we all received. Very well done, nice to see it was definitely worth paying £25, as initial thoughts were, expensive!? Money well spent.