Wow. We’re really spoiling you.

As a special pre-Valentine’s gift, Old Broadcasting House will be hosting ‘An Evening with…Clive Grinyer’ on 13th February.

Clive’s career has taken him from physical product design, to user interface and the full customer experience - as a consultant, corporate manager and at the head of national design organisations.

Currently, he is the Director of Product Design at France Telecom’s Orange, developing and overseeing the next generation of Orange products and developing design as a tool for innovation and technology development.

Clive’s past includes…

• Senior Design management roles at IDEO.

• A co-founder of design company Tangerine with Martin Darbyshire and Jonathan Ive (yes, the designer of the iPod!)

• the Director of Design for Samsung.

• Head of Design for TAG McLaren Audio.

• Director of Design at the Design Council, creating the Design Demonstration projects with UK manufacturing and technology companies.

Clive is a passionate advocacy of design and design thinking is more than apparent in his popular talks, The Silence Of Design and Lipstick On A Pig, as well as his book Smart Design: Driving Technology To Suit Our Needs.

The evening will begin at 6pm, with drinks followed by a talk from Clive, an open Q&A session and a chance to network with other guests and meet with Clive.

Designers, creatives, technologists, entrepreneurs and innovators will find great insight and passion in Clive’s work; as such this is an event that you cannot miss!

Do let us know that your coming by registering here, for An Evening with…Clive Grinyer.

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Later this month, on 31st January, Old Broadcasting House will be hosting ‘An Evening with… Haydn Bendall‘; the latest in the ‘Evening with…’ series of events, hosted by nti in partnership with Innovation North.

Haydn Bendall’s career - as a renowned record producer and sound engineer - spans three decades, with a ten year spell as senior engineer at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. Haydn has worked with some of the biggest names in music, including Paul McCartney, Sting, Damon Albarn, Tori Amos, Kate Bush and Elton John, among many others. He has also worked across many different genres, including pop, rock, musicals and orchestral works. In addition, Haydn is Vice Chairman of the Music Producers Guild and lectures at universities across Britain.

At this event, Haydn will be sharing his experiences from his long and varied career and hosting a Q&A session.

‘An Evening with… Haydn Bendall’ will begin at 6 pm and close at 8 pm. To book your place, call 0845 122 1555 or email info@ntileeds.co.uk.

Hot on the heels of last Friday’s Open Coworking day, organised by Brighton’s Werkshop, comes Manchester’s own effort, organised by Vagueware’s Paul Robinson.

The full day schedule includes a meeting of the city’s OpenCoffee networking chapter as well as, free fairtrade coffee, brainstorming and some afternoon collaborations, all taking place at the Manchester Digital Development Agency in the heart of the city.

Paul’s filled up all 20 places already, but is looking to hold the next event around 26th February.

Open Coworking days sound like a great idea for met:space. Perhaps having one or two free and open-access days each month could broaden the community and help encourage collaboration.

Good luck Paul!

Last month, Old Broadcasting House hosted An Evening with Rory McLeish. Rory’s track record as a concept artist and digital designer is awesome. With a bunch of high profile videogames and movies (Stealth, Star Trek: Nemesis) under his belt, Rory is now looking to do more conceptual work.

We have a few more ‘An evening with…’ events planned for the next few months…stay tuned!