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Monday, 4 April 2016

Tim Yip’s New Orientalism

Tim Yip at Whitworth Art Gallery

Wednesday 23rd March 2016


Tim Yip is an award winning designer who will be designing the set and costumes for the Giselle ballet. This talk introduced the brief for the fashion students by Tim Yip and offered the opportunity for the winning to collaborate with Tim Yip to produce the designs for the Giselle Ballet.

The talk took place at the Whitworth Art Gallery from 6pm till 8pm, but he talk did finish an hour early. It was compulsory for Animation to attend this talk because Tim Yip is highly regarded designer and it was important for us to attend. Only three animation students attended including myself whereas the rest of the audience were fashion students and other people.



Tim Yip went on to talk about his work and projects, I was not able to hear most of the talk as he spoke very quietly. I found his answers rather short and limited when people offered complicated and engaging questions. Tim Yip did have his work playing on a PowerPoint on the stage, which I did not particularly like but can appreciate the work. 


I found this talk very disappointing and a waste of time as I felt that I had not taken anything away from this despite Tim Yip being highly regarded and that only a few of our course attended. This is not to say I do not enjoy speakers and listening to them, but it does depend if the speaker and present effectively. 

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