CreativeMornings/Findings

Everything I learned about bravery, I've learned through love.

Vanessa German is an award winning multidisciplinary artist based in Pittsburgh. She has pioneered a performance style called Spoken Word Opera; a dynamic hybrid of spoken word poetry infused with the theatrical elements of Opera, Hip Hop, and African Storytelling. In this talk, Vanessa shares…

At our very first Austin event, Austin Kleon encourages us to be less precious about our creative endeavors and makes the case for the benefits of “showing your work.”

Do good work and share it with people.

“We need to create a culture of accepting mistakes and actually rewarding people who are at least trying.”
—Tegan Martin-Drysdale

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“If you’re good at everything, you’re not groundbreaking at anything.” — Snask
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“It’s really amazing the difference you can make in someone’s day just by talking to them.”

Stewart Scott-Curran, Art Director, Graphic Designer, and Illustrator
speaking at CreativeMornings/Atlanta(*watch the talk)

Last June, CreativeMornings hosted the initial globally themed month across all chapters, which looked at the intersection of arts and technology.

At CreativeMornings/Zürich, Antonio Scarpoini spoke on the intersection of arts and technology, a space he describes as “design.” Moving forward, Antonio used this visual to describe problems that we need to tackle.

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Hooray! The always amazing Jessica Hische hand-lettered this beautiful poster which is currently arriving in mailboxes around the globe as part of fulfillment for our Kickstarter Campaign.

“You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.”

Dieter Rams
quoted at CreativeMornings/Orlando (*watch the talk)

Good work gives you great work. This is my only business model.

Mike McQuade, Illustrator and Graphic Designer
speaking at CreativeMornings/Chicago (*watch the talk)

From the inaugural CreativeMornings/LosAngeles: Zach Frechette, co-founder of GOOD Magazine, talks about the story behind and experience of starting GOOD.