We ♥ this ‘freedom is a universal language’ tshirt by past CreativeMornings/Atlanta speaker and current CreativeMornings/SanFrancisco organizer, Stewart Scott-Curran. Snag one while they’re still available over on Cotton Bureau! →
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Happy Holidays from all of us at CreativeMornings HQ. We put together a slideshow of some of our most festive photos from around the world: http://bit.ly/1cwk5q2
CreativeMornings ♥’s MailChimp
MailChimp has been a big part of CreativeMornings for years. From covering breakfast at the earliest NYC events and presenting our global month on “Happiness” to helping start our Atlanta chapter and pointing out that you can rearrange the letters in “Debbie Millman” to spell “Denim Millbabe,” MailChimp has been an irreplaceable ally for CM.
Since 2009, we’ve had the pleasure of growing alongside MailChimp and getting to know their founder, Ben Chestnut, who gave one of our favorite talks last year. When we asked them about coming onboard as an Official Partner, we shouldn’t have been surprised by their continuing generosity.
Apart from providing a great product (to design and send email newsletters), they embody a wonderful brand, have an adventurous mascot, and seem to continually find ways to delight their community. Their support will help us launch new cities, equip hosts with shiny tools, and grow our small, passionate team at HQ.
We’re honored to formally announce MailChimp as our newly minted Official Partner for Communication!
To celebrate, enjoy an animated gif of Freddie making it rain donuts. (Thanks, Kate!)
Learn more about MailChimp and read the best piece of advice Ben’s received at creativemornings.com/partner.
September’s Global Theme is “Connect”
Last month, fifty-seven CreativeMornings chapters came together for a global conversation around the topic of “Urbanism.” This September, we’re excited to announce our next theme: “Connect” brought to you by Mailchimp. The theme was chosen by our Vancouver organizer Mark Busse and skilled Vancouver-based designer and illustrator Tom Froese made our monthly illustration.
This month’s speaker list promise to cover a wide breadth of topics, ranging from Monika Frech, co-founder of Dark Horse who will be speaking on capitalistic communism (Berlin), Matthew Clark of Subplot Design on Synapses and Synecdoches (Vancouver), Charles Morrison, who wrote a letter a day to acquaintance when his sister was dying of cancer (Seattle), to Ayah Bdeir, founder of littleBits, a system of electronic modules that snap together for prototyping and play (New York).
To find an September event near you, check out creativemornings.com, or follow your local chapter on Twitter. As always, free tickets are available starting the Monday before the talk.
We’ll see you there!
The CreativeMornings Newsletter is out! Offering an overview of everything that happened in February, the newsletter gives summaries of some of the best talks, awesome photos, as well as what new chapters are popping up around the world.
You might even call it your monthly dose of caffeinated inspiration.
The speaker at today’s CreativeMornings/Raleigh is Lyle Estill, founder of Piedmont Biofuels, a community scale biodiesel project in Pittsboro that collects used fats, oils and greases from throughout the region and converts them into B100 biodiesel fuel.
Lyle is the author of several books, and many blog entries and articles on renewable energy, local economy, adaptation and sustainability. He is a reluctant activist who now finds himself entrenched in what he calls, ‘the renewable energy establishment.’
What makes you happy?
This month marks the first global theme for CreativeMornings, where all 42 chapters will be talking about “Happiness.”
We want to know, what makes YOU happy? Photo reply to this post with a photo of something around you—could be your studio space, a friend, the weather—anything that is a source of happiness for you!
“The creative economy is becoming an integral part of global trends.”
Hael Kobayashi, Associate Director at the Creative Industries Innovation Centre
speaking at CreativeMornings/Sydney (*watch the talk)