Friday Sessions London

We wanted to take this opportunity to briefly thank Pictoplasma and Lars Denicke to make his way over to London for last Friday's session.
The evening attracted a mix of people with some being very familiar to the subject of 'character design' and others only attracted by curiousity. Lars is one of the two founders of Pictoplasma, based in Berlin, and together with his business associate, Peter they were one of the first to recognise and proclaim the development of a new species of characters that surmount cultural barriers and celebrate the possibilities of a universal language. If people were wondering before they arrived at last Friday's talk, with his presentation about Pictoplasma's work and the 2- and 3 dimensional characters becoming animated and starting to inhabit our cities with their own lives, Lars raised astonishment even further. The question about the future of 'characters', should they be (fully) commercialised, as in the instance of the ads for Opel/Vauxhaul, or should they return to their initial 2-dimensional flatness, remains to be explored by Pictoplasma and all the character lovers and their community.

Special thanks to the colourful characters and the numerous children who turned this into a really lively Friday session.