Here are the Top 10 Facts about The Liverpool Design Symposium according to the September edition of Design Symposium Magazine, available from all good news agents:

1) The Liverpool Design Symposium takes place on Wednesday 4th November.

2) The Liverpool Design Symposium is in Liverpool.

3) The Liverpool Design Symposium includes talks from Ian Thompson, Andy Chambers, Deborah Dawton, and Peter Mills.

4)  The Liverpool Design Symposium will also feature a D&AD President’s Lecture by Michael Wolff. Tickets can be purchased here.

5) The Liverpool Design Symposium’s website can be found here.

6) The Liverpool Design Symposium takes place in the LJMU Art & Design Academy.

7) The Liverpool Design Symposium has 27 letters. That’s one more than the alphabet.

8) The Liverpool Design Symposium doesn’t really rhyme with anything, making it almost completely useless in a limerick.

9) The Liverpool Design Symposium is the only time of year that Tamsin Valentino ever contacts me, to check that we’re putting something up on the blog about it. Not even a Christmas card.

10) The Liverpool Design Symposium is brought to you in association with Liverpool John Moore University, D&AD, dba, The Drum, Merseyside ACME, Design Initiative, Liverpool Design Festival, Uniform, Smiling Wolf, Black & Ginger, the letter F and the number 8.

If you only go to Liverpool once this year, make sure it’s on the 23rd October. That’s when the inaugural Liverpool Design Symposium will take place at St.George’s Hall. In case you didn’t know, Liverpool is the European Capital of Culture for 2008, and to celebrate this three of its top design agencies, Uniform, Smiling Wolf and Black & Ginger, have collaborated with D&AD, DBA, Design Initiative and Merseyside ACME to set up an insightful and  inspirational programme of speakers to share their wisdom with you.

Here’s a rough breakdown of events:

1pm: D&AD Student Awards Seminar. Speakers:

Rhiannon James, D&AD Education & Professional Development Manager

Fergal Kilroy, D&AD Student Awards Manager

Richard Scholey, Creative Director, Elmwood

Suzie Webb, Freelance digital guru

2pm: DBA Business Briefing: Surviving the Credit Crunch

Adrian Rasdall, Revenue Matters

3.45pm The Emotional Type – 

Bruno Maag, Founder, Dalton Maag

5.15pm D&AD Awards 2008 Winners Showcase and Q&A

It should be a great day, with plenty to learn, and plenty of people to meet. There should be a fair few people going from here, so if there’s enough interest we might get a small bus to take us over. We’ll let you know of any spare places nearer the time.