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Out of Trends: How going offline from global aesthetics made me a global creative

Guillermo Flores Pacheco

Oct 20, 2:00 - 2:45 PM

Meridian Hall — Main Stage

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The most disruptive creative decision I ever made wasn't a new tool, a new technique or a new market. It was going home.

While the design world chased global trends, I went offline from all of it—and returned to what I knew most intimately: the visual language of Guadalajara, Mexican folklore, the colours of markets and sunsets, the storytelling DNA of a family of musicians. That decision transformed my practice and led to commissions from Adobe, Nike, Apple, Sephora and Cirque du Soleil.

This talk is about Hyperlocality—the idea that stepping away from the noise of global aesthetics and going deep into your own cultural context is the most radical and effective creative act available to any designer. It is a celebration of the wild, the local, the specific and the instinctive—the things that no algorithm can replicate because they belong only to you.

Join Guillermo as he outlines how he discovered his unique creative patterns, why storytelling is the most underrated skill in design and how the creatives who will define the next decade are the ones who trust what they already know—not what the feed tells them.

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