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White text on a black background reads “the pursuit of brilliance”. Below, the logos for “It’s Nice That” and “Htc” are separated by a small cross.

An evening of talks on creative brilliance to launch the HTC One M9

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Date
4 March 2015

Because truly brilliant design is so important, those creatives who hold themselves to a higher standard and go above and beyond the everyday are especially inspiring. On 18 March we’ll be holding a special event to celebrate those practitioners whose pursuit of brilliance defines what they do, to mark the UK launch of the new HTC One M9 phone.

The east London event will bring together four design thinkers whose work is characterised by its intelligence, ambition and creative purity. We’ll be welcoming digital pioneer and founder of POKE London Nicholas Roope, whose Hulger company was also behind the multi-award winning Plumen lightbulb, and we’ll be joined by Australian body-architect Lucy McRae, whose incredible work has been commissioned by major companies and leading artists alike. Sam Jacob – an architect and writer who combines erudition and imagination to equal effect – will be speaking, and the line-up is completed by HTC’s creative director Daniel Hundt, talking about his design background that contributed to the award-winning HTC One series.

Each will give a short talk about how the “pursuit of brilliance” impacts and inspires their diverse creative practices, after which there’ll be a panel discussion between the speakers to compare and contrast their different approaches and a chance for the audience to ask questions.

The event takes place at the Protein Space in Shoreditch on Wednesday March 18. Tickets are free and can be reserved at the Eventbrite page here or below.

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A technical sketch of a device casing, showing an exploded view of two dark grey components. Handwritten annotations include “Metal Uni-body”, “CNC process” and “Forged process”.
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A sketch of the new HTC One M9

The front and back of a gold Htc smartphone. The screen shows a home page with the time “10:08 AM” and a photo of a city street.
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The new HTC One M9

Five vertical rows of glowing white neon rings hang from polished gold cylinders. The lights create a repetitive, shimmering pattern against a dark background.
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Hulger: Plumen

Five pendant lights hang in a row against a plain white background. Each light features a white bulb-shaped base topped with a coloured sleeve in grey, red, copper, blue and black.
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Hulger: Plumen

A person wears a voluminous, sculptural garment made of thick green grass. The textured material covers their torso and head, leaving only part of their face visible.
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Lucy McRae and Bart Hess: Lucyandbart

A large, concrete building with a jagged, dripping roofline and a purple lower wall. A yellow, cloud-like sculpture sits at the entrance, and the word “HEERLIJKHEID” is embossed across the top. The structure and a pink wall to the right are reflected in a still pool of water.
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FAT Architecture: The Villa, Rotterdam

A sculpture of a basketball made from terracotta clay. It sits on a plain grey plinth against a white background.
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Sam Jacob: Solid Shadow, a ceramic basketball

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Rob Alderson

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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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