The most popular CreativeMornings talk of all time, Mike Monteiro gives us some valuable advice. If you’ve ever heard the phrase, “F*ck you, pay me,” just know that this is where it all started.
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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
— Kevin Kelly.
Watch the talk here and check out more quotes!
Watch the talk here and check out more quotes!
A bit of a throwback, check out this Like Knows Like with Lisa Congdon, fine artist, illustrator, and past CreativeMornings speaker from San Francisco, California.
“I’m inviting the viewer to create their own story.”
It’s a lovely five minutes into her work and life.
Our very own San Francisco chapter organizer, Erika Hall just released a A Book Apart, part of a series of brief books for people who make websites. Titled, Just Enough Research, the book offers up a quick read on Erika’s experience in research methods.
“Good research is about asking more and better questions, and thinking critically about the answers. It’s something every member of your team can and should do, and which everyone can learn, quickly. And done well, it will save you time and money by reducing unknowns and creating a solid foundation to build the right thing, in the most effective way.”
—from the A Book Apart website
Photos are up from CreativeMornings/SanFrancisco with Brady Forrest.
Check out the rest in their Flickr Album.
The SanFrancisco chapter of CreativeMornings is organized by Erika Hall. Follow along with them at @SanFrancisco_CM!
Another round of excellent sketch notes from Bernie Quah on Josh Cagan’s talk from March—all about reuse!
Check out some more excellent sketch notes from January’s CreativeMornings/SanFrancisco all about “Happiness” with Willo O’Brien.
Willo has made a career out of creativity. As an artist, social supercollider, and self-described geek for over a decade, Willo has a passion for empowering fellow creative entrepreneurs. Notes by the always great Bernie Quah.
Happy Valentine’s Day from CreativeMornings!
Our hearts totally melted over these letterpressed greeting cards over on Hello Lucky. The cards are a collaboration with Lisa Congdon, past San Francisco speaker who was thrilled to work with the local company.
Pick up a set here.
CreativeMornings/SanFrancisco just held their *twenty-second* event, featuring Philip Wood. Wood is best known for being the curatorial and creative brains behind the renowned international design and art brand, CITIZEN:Citizen.
Check out the rest in their Flickr Album.
The SanFrancisco chapter of CreativeMornings is organized by Erika Hall. Follow along with them at @SanFrancisco_CM!
The speaker at this Friday’s CreativeMornings/Berlin is Bold Futures, a young studio for innovation communications using design as a medium to explore plausible future scenarios. In order to assess their respective desirability and to spark debate about our technologically mediated society, Bold Futures devises so-called Science-Fiction Prototypes which are speculative (not yet developed, but fundamentally feasible) products or services that are communicated using various media. These artefacts “from the future” refer to aspects of possible future scenarios by implicitly asking how a society would need to be structured (economically, culturally, politically) to allow for their very existence.
Above is just one project from the studio. The Science-Fiction Prototype is a suit that allows for the innocent cuddling of children by helping adults to maintain their integrity. When the child wearing the suit is touched for too long or in inappropriate areas an alarm goes off, first gently hinting to potential ambiguities, finally assertively reminding (flashlights! bells!) the parent or care-taker and others around of their responsibility.
Find out more about the event here.
The speaker at this Friday’s CreativeMornings/SanFrancisco is Braden Kowitz, a designer, storyteller, and self-proclaimed product development geek. He’s also a Design Partner at Google Ventures and founded the team’s Design Studio. He advises startups on UX Design and Product Development.
Before joining Google Ventures, Braden led design for several Google Products, including Gmail, Google Buzz, Google Apps for Business, Google Spreadsheets, OpenSocial, and Google Trends.
Find out more about the event here.
This is what breakfast at a CreativeMornings/SanFrancisco looks like.
Want to see more delicious breakfast foods from CreativeMornings around the world? Check out our flickr group!
You’re going to change your mind a thousand times. That’s a good thing. Only imbeciles never change their minds.
Anna Rascouët-Paz
speaking at CreativeMornings/SF (watch the talk)
Gathering the Dots
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By Anna Rascouët-Paz, last week’s speaker at CreativeMornings/SF
Gathering the Dots (Aug. 26, 2011 at the San Francisco chapter of Creative Mornings).
Earlier this month, the wonderful Erika Hall asked me if I’d like to be a speaker at Creative Mornings. I agreed because 1/ I am a masochist 2/ when given the chance, I tend to do things I’ve never done before, generally ending up in awkward situations. In this case, it was finding myself in the same forum that welcomed Milton Glaser, Debbie Millman and Christoph Niemann earlier this year. Absolutely ridiculous. At any rate, I took it on because I am mad.
The good news is, I knew exactly what I wanted it to be about. Lucky for me, my husband is a former professor who’s very comfortable with and very good at public-speaking. For three weeks, he patiently coached me. This involved encouraging me as well as mercilessly ripping apart the structure of the presentation and my performance in rehearsal. The lovely Jessie, who’s both hilarious and tech-savvy in all the ways that matter, suggested a few jokes whilst introducing me to the wonders of Keynote and Keynote Remote. They were both right on target because it all made my life a helluva lot easier.
And so, Friday morning, a hastily-swallowed mimosa having neutralized the paralyzing stage fright, I was ready to roll. I can’t remember a thing, quite frankly, so I’ll have to see the video (made by master Caleb Sexton) to cringe at myself. In the meantime, here are a few pictures by the talented Paula Chang. Above, the slides, all beautifully designed by Jason (some of which was lost in translation by slideshare.net).
Did I mention it was about how curiosity is a lot of work and how sorry you’ll be if you don’t push yourself hard to expand your horizons?
Thanks again to all involved. ‘Twas a ball.
— From SF.
Great work is born from nourishing habits.
Craig Mod, Flipboard
speaking at CreativeMornings/SanFranciscso, *watch the talk