CreativeMornings is a free, monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types.
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With the launch of the new CreativeMornings profiles, folks can sync up with Dribbble and Behance to show their best work. We heart thelettering and illustration work of Jen, a volunteer at our New York chapter. If she had five minutes, she could teach you how to remember to spell ‘onomatopoeia.' Check out more of her work here. →
CreativeMornings/Austin celebrated June’s theme month on Food by hosting their event with speaker Sonya Coté at the beautiful outdoor venue, Eden East. Photos by Marshall Wright.
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The Austin chapter of CreativeMornings is organized by Ben Thoma. Follow along with them at @CM_Austin!
Austin Kleon rings in the first CreativeMornings/Austin event on a good note, setting the bar high for future talks at the Texas chapter.
Austin wants us to stop fetishizing creativity. Stop using ‘creative’ as a noun. And stop treating the creative process as some sort of magical mystery that always ends in beautiful work.
Instead, he wants us to not just show the product of those creative efforts, but show our process. Austin walks us through some of his messier moments, the 'shadow galleries’ of being an artist and a father. He calls for authenticity, but not just in the trite way it has become to be known—but as artists and designers sharing their work with other people.
Watch the talk.
Notes taken by Sean McCabe.
Woohoo! The moment you have all been waiting for.. the very first CreativeMornings/Austin talk is now live online!
The speaker is none other than Austin Kleon, the force behind Steal Like an Artist and Newspaper Blackout. Austin speaks on April’s theme of the future, by attempting to set the ground rules for future discussions between artists and designers—in terms of how we discuss our work and process.
“I think we’re living in this mass fetishization of creativity,” he says. “And you can tell that from the way we use ‘creative’ as a noun.” He goes on to breakdown some of his previous advice: Do Good Work and Share It With People, on what is good, what is work, and how we should share.
Excellent talk. Watch it here.
Austin Kleon was the first speaker to grace the stage at our Austin, TX chapter, speaking on the future for our April theme month on the topic.
Austin has raised the eyebrows of the creative community with his books Steal Like an Artist and Newspaper Blackout. He has drawn rapt audiences at TEDx, Pixar, Google, and SXSW (to name a few). And he was declared by The Atlantic to be “one of the positvely most interesting people on the Internet.”
And, of course, his name is Austin.
Woohoo! Austin, Texas joined our ranks as one of our latest chapters this past March. They hosted a very special SXSW kick-off event, attended by both Tina and Kevin, our founder and Chief Breakfast Officer.
You can see more photos of the event here. Photos by Alexis Wilson.
The Austin chapter of CreativeMornings is organized by Ben Thoma. Follow along with them at @CM_Austin!
“Everyone underestimates what ten minutes a day will do. You do something a little bit for ten years, you come out with something.”
—Austin Kleon, speaker at this Friday’s CreativeMornings/ATX
We’re pretty psyched about Sidebar, a new initiative championed by our Austin, TX chapter to introduce speakers before events, and highlight Austin’s late night culture. The CreativeMornings/Austin crew sat down with this week’s speaker to discuss writing, creativity and his upcoming talk. Two hours and several drinks later, this is the edited version, available to listen on SoundCloud.
