OFFF FESTIVAL

Héctor Ayuso is the founder and director of the famed award-winning OFFF festival, which has been inviting creative minds to come together and collaborate since 2000. Currently Héctor is also a content curator and consultant at Kickstarter. Artist, filmmaker, creative director, storyteller, seeker… his multifaceted artistic powers make him a true renaissance figure of the digital age. He has been a jury member of ADC (Art Directors Club - first global organization to celebrate and award leaders in creative communications since 1920). Among his many professional outputs one can even find an IMDB profile as a producer (a short opening movie for Offf Barcelona 2014) and as himself in three TV series. “I don’t make people more creative. I don’t teach them skills. I just unlock whatever they have inside.” All of Hector’s work is about creating unique experiences, no matter if generating ideas for brands like Redbull, Adobe, Dropbox, Audi and HP, or bringing to world’s attention the talent and the mindblowing projects of his design idols through events. OFFF is a powerfully inspiring festival of creativity that engages thousands around the world forming a community of offline/online designers, motion designers, thinkers, sound designers, graphic designers, theorists, developers, professionals and students. OFFF is a way of understanding visual creativity now. It keeps being a reference event around the world and since its launch has been organized in more than 40 cities with upcoming editions in Seville, Moscow, Bogota, Zurich, Berlin, Vienna, Tel Aviv and Barcelona.

Melba Symposium presents Héctor Ayuso as a speaker thanks to the kind support of the Spanish Embassy in Bulgaria.