Rick Poynor Points Out the Rights and Wrongs of Design Conferences

As we’re in the thick of conference season, Rick Poynor has some thoughts about the lot of them over at Creative Review. Hitting both the wide variety of pros and cons, but largely finding many negatives, from lack of sufficient Q&A and participation with invited speakers to book famous names and asking them to just speak about whatever they want, without any specific requests or guidance. Poynor does touch on some conferences that have worked, his views on what conference trends designers seem more drawn to (smaller, more focused, and green-centric), as well as talking to oft-invited speakers like Stefan Sagmeister: