Andy McMillan (designer)
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Andy McMillan between talks at XOXO 2014
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| Born |
20 March 1987 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Residence | Portland, Oregon |
| Nationality | Northern Irish |
| Occupation | Designer, publisher, event organizer |
| Known for | XOXO, Build, The Manual |
| Website | goodonpaper.com |
Andy McMillan is a Northern Irish designer, publisher, and event organiser currently residing in Portland, Oregon. He publishes The Manual, a design journal, and organises the XOXO Festival, an art and technology festival in Portland. Previously, he organised Build, a design conference in Belfast, from 2009 until its final year in 2013.
McMillan attended college at Queen's University Belfast for Music Technology, hoping to go into radio production at the BBC. While managing the university radio station, he taught himself HTML and CSS, leaving before his final year to focus on freelance web design.
Inspired by lackluster web design events he'd attended, McMillan launched Build in 2009, a web design conference held annually in Belfast, Northern Ireland from 2009 to 2013. Starting as a single day of talks, it grew into a week-long festival, including music, film screenings, workshops, evening lectures, and a beer festival.
The first Build was held in 2009 at Waterfront Hall, with positive coverage from the BBC and Wired. The Belfast Telegraph said it was a "must-attend" that "provides nourishment for the design-geek's soul."
In its five-year run, featured speakers included Eric A. Meyer, Erik Spiekermann, Frank Chimero, Dan Cederholm, Jessica Hische, Robin Sloan, Jason Scott, and Scott McCloud, as well as musical performances from Tycho and Chipzel. Rdio lead designer Wilson Miner's "When We Build" talk from 2011 was the most viewed talk, described by Wired as "incredibly inspiring."
The fifth and final Build took place in November 2013. In an interview with .net Magazine, McMillan said, "Build, like any good story, was always intended to have an ending."
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