Playful 2011

It’s but one week until this year’s Playful, and all the arrangements are coming together. It’s going to be a great day filled with talks from a wide variety of fields from gaming to doodling to science fiction writing. The one consistent strand is THE FUTURE – what is it? when will it get here?

We’ve got sci-fi author Pat Cadigan; app-maker Chief Wonka from Us Two; BBC Information Architect, Paul Rissen; Game Designer, Richard LeMarchand; Booming’s crazy social media provocateur, Marcus Brown; a doctor, a designer, more writers, and a load of illustrators.

The illustrators will be battling it out, doodling for their lives against each other in Sketch Tennis – our Overhead Projector and marker-pen inspired take in Coudal’s Layer Tennis.

We’ve also got a Stationery Shop, selling the finest high-quality imported pencils, sharpeners and notebooks from the foyer of Conway Hall, where the conference is held.

Last year we printed a Newspaper Programme via Newspaper Club. This year we’re going digital and have made a mobile web app for use on the day. There’s the programme, the shop, and speaker bios all navigable in a native-app like way, but without the rigmarole of app stores. This way we can keep everyone up to date with any last minute changes by updating the app live.