Founded in 2002 in Australia by Murray Bell and Andrew Johnstone, Semi Permanent encompasses three businesses: Semi Permanent, SP Brand Studio and SP Productions. Semi Permanent brand includes a global design festival, annual book, and website. Semi Permanent have been running creativity festivals since 2003 in cities across the globe, including Sydney, Auckland, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, London, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Portugal. Past speakers and collaborators include filmmakers
Oliver Stone,
Michel Gondry, and the Coppola family; artists
Tom Sachs,
CJ Hendry and
Alex Israel; and creatives including
Nike's
Tinker Hatfield, Pentagram's
Paula Scher, pro skater
Tony Hawk, architect
Bjarke Ingels and others. Previous festivals have included the collaborations with Google Tilt Brush and
National Geographic. Previous festival themes include "Truth" in 2019, and "Restless" in 2020. Semi Permanent publishes an annual book, featuring interviews with creative thought leaders. Previously featured interviews included
Alicia Keys, Cara Stricker,
Takashi Murakami, Nadia Lee Cohen and Kevin Parker. SP Brand Studio co-created a two-day live sport and creativity experience in 2021, and created an immersive retrospective with
Stanley Donwood and
Radiohead with
sound design by
Thom Yorke. SP Productions is an events and production agency. They worked with Google to curate and produce their global diversity and inclusion program, Rare. The Semi Permanent office is located in
Sydney,
Australia. ==Past speakers and collaborators==