Great design is all about telling coherent stories

Pecha Kucha (“chit-chat” in Japanese) is a night where 10 successful creatives talk about 20 slides for 20 seconds each.

Apart from a good opportunity to get the design community together and see how many checked shirts you can get in one room (about 80% of attendees, since you asked), this fast-paced format is a fresh way for people to share their ideas, work, thoughts or just about anything they want. The night included a good balance of serious and silly, but after sitting through 200 slides in just over an hour, the two people who stood out for me were illustrator and animator Mr Bingo, and Simon Manchipp, founder of branding agency SomeOne.

Mr Bingo offered an insight into how his mind works, showing what could be described as normal scenes, but with an original, witty twist. Taking a photograph of some scraps of litter with the last bit of snow on top of it, he described as them as wearing snow wigs. A scrapyard filled with old office chairs became a story in which he gave each chair a personality: “the two blue ones on the left are a bit older and more conservative and tend not to mix with the rif-raf; whereas the green one on its own is awkwardly placed having just told a racist joke.”