Daniel Wolfe shares the experience of his first CreativeMornings event where PBS Kid’s Digital Director
Chris Bishop gives an education on the lessons he learned from designing for kids.
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This is one of the slides from
Andi Zeisler’s talk at CreativeMornings/Portland, quoting Thomas Frank, as part of our theme month on
Rebel.
Andi Zeisler is the co-founder and editorial/creative director of Bitch Media, a national nonprofit organization best known for publishing Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, which for 18 years has fused feminism and cultural criticism in a witty, readable quarterly publication. This is their mission statement. Watch her talk. →
Sometimes you just need to grab the reins and f*cking do it. At our Vancouver chapter, letter artist Jessica Hische speaks on the intersection of arts and technology through the lens of web typography.
As part of the special Art + Tech themed month in coordination with John Maeda’s team at RISD, our speaker on June 8th, 2012 was renowned letterer, illustrator, web designer, and self-described crazy cat lady, Jessica Hische. Watch the talk. →
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“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.” —James Gleick, quoted by Brad Frost at our Pittsburgh chapter. Taken from his full talk, Death to Bullsh*t, this is a two minute short on the return to craft.
Brad is a front-end designer, consultant and speaker. He is the creator of This Is Responsive, a collection of patterns, resources and news to help people create great responsive web experiences. He also created Mobile Web Best Practices, a resource site that lays out considerations for creating great mobile web experiences. He curates WTF Mobile Web, a site that teaches by example what not to do when working with the mobile web. He is passionate about the Web and is constantly tweeting, writing and speaking about it.
An awesome project,
Web Designers’ First Websites features the dastardly first dabbles into website creation by several web designers. It’s refreshing to see designers celebrating the ugly, and acknowledging that the first step to being kind of good at something, is really sucking at it.
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(via Brad Frost)
Michael Tavani was the speaker at this March’s Atlanta event. Michael is the co-founder and head of product at
Scoutmob, a venture-backed and nationally recognized local mobile company named one of the top apps in all categories by Wired and Mashable and one of the country’s most promising companies by Forbes.
He speaks on the Top 43 Lessons he learned the hard way, covering everything from launching viral marketing campaigns to hiring great employees. Read through them below.
Now is the best time in the history of the world to start something.
It’s doesn’t have to be a company, it can be a project, a nonprofit, a film..
Everyone has distribution to the whole entire world.
If you’re a creative, you’re only limited by your creativity.
There is no perfect idea.
No great ideas are great on paper.
Jump in.
It hurts.
You’ll figure it out on the way down.
It’s hard to learn from the sidelines.
It’s all about execution.
If you can execute, a good or bad idea, you can make it happen.
The idea is 1%.
Tell everyone your idea.
When you tell people your ideas, you get more from them.
Find a wingman with complementary skills.
You can’t do it by yourself.
Hire for passion. You want to have passionate people.
Send potential employees an industry article. See how they respond.
Passion is the key.
Do unscalable stuff.
You need to be a do-er.
Do stuff even an intern wouldn’t do.
Tap your local market.
Grow your initial base.
Brand is huge.
Before you do anything, create something remarkable.
If people don’t like your product, the rest doesn’t matter.
Hire a designer and copywriter.
People have to enjoy and like using your product.
Take opportunities and risks to build brands from the ground up.
Delight in all places. Even the smallest of details.
Hide Easter eggs. Everywhere.
Average loses on the web every single time.
Your competitor is a click away.
Don’t be average.
Brand, not technology, is the great differentiator.
No one shares a shitty brand.
T-shirt test: The company that’s created a solid brand is a company whose t-shirt you would want to wear.
There are a million ways to make it happen.
It’s easy to make an impact in Atlanta.
Nothing better than being in the game.
Watch the talk.
We’re pretty in love with Marta Armada and Javier Usobiaga of SWWWEET’s slidedeck from January’s CreativeMornings/Barcelona. Epitomizing the duo’s quirky aesthetic and passion for doing what they love, Marta and Javier shared these great visuals alongside their talk.
1. Good work
2. Keep always learning
3. Build nice things
4. Improve skills, gain skills, stay motivated
5. Trust your gut
6. Choose wisely
7. Share the love
8. Be happy!
See the whole deck here.
Simon Collison was one of our two speakers at the Kickstarter Benefit CreativeMornings here in New York in October of 2012. He speaks of freedom, creativity and his pursuit of something pure. A great watch for all creative professionals debating tuning in and turning off. A final takeaway: “Please, never consider design as a job.”
A big thank you to Ben Hallman for filming and editing, Katherine Miles Jones for photography
