What’s Your Best Piece of Advice?

At the last CreativeMornings/NewYork we asked: What’s your best piece of advice. Here are some of the answers.



All photos by the wonderful Katherine Jones.

What’s your Side Project?

At the last CreativeMorning/NewYork with Ji Lee we asked: If you didn’t have to worry about your job and lack of time, which side project would you start? Here are some of the answers. See the entire set here. What is yours?

(all photos by wonderful Emily Gilbert)

(want to create your own Icebreakertags for your next event? There’s a site for that!)

What is the one brand you can’t live without (aside from Apple)?

Photos by Emily Gilbert

At last week’s CreativeMornings/NewYork with Debbie Millman we asked the following Icebreakertag question: What is the one brand you can’t live without (aside from Apple)?

See all of the answers in this Flickr Set.

What’s your answer?

Icebreakertags.com



Are you an event organizer? Throwing a party? Do you want to help people strike up a conversation? That’s what Icebreakertags™ are for. Similar to name tags, people attach these conversation-starters to their clothes with a safety pin, but instead of a name, they answer a question.

It’s an idea I had while organizing CreativeMornings, a monthly breakfast lecture series here in New York. Icebreakertags™ make it easy to strike up a conversation with someone, even at 8.30am!

As I’ve seen a lot of buzz about the idea on Twitter, I figured why not build a site that let’s anyone use and customize them their liking. So, here it is, Icebreakertags.com let’s you generate your own icebreaktertag for your next party, conference or other gathering. Type directly into the tag to add your name/twitter/prompt, insert a good question, customize it with your logo or any graphic of your choice, and hit print. It will then generate a printout with 10 tags on it. Fun, no?

A big thank you to Ian Storm Taylor, our Studiomates Intern for building the site!

Make sure to add photos of your best tags to the Icebreakertag Flickr Group.

Happy conversing!

IcebreakerTag: I ♥ ….

Last friday’s IcebreakerTag question was easy to come up with, given that Milton Glaser was our CreativeMornings speaker:

I ♥ ….

What would you have answered?

See all of the answers in this Flickr Set. (All photos by Emily Gilbert and Chasi Annexy.)

LosAngeles/CreativeMornings

I had the pleasure to travel to Los Angeles last week to kick-off the LosAngeles/CreativeMornings chapter. Our speaker was Zach Frechette, co-founder and editor of GOOD Magazine. The event was hosted at the fantastic Ford&Ching space. I think it’s safe to say the event was a success. Check out the photos here, all taken by the talented Cicilia Teng.

I enjoyed the icebreaker tags. We asked: I wish they all could be….

A big giant thank you to Jon Setzen, who is running the LA chapter. Jon is Creative Director at Something Massive and they were super generous in flying me out and sponsoring breakfast.

The video of Zach’s talk will be posted soon. Sit tight.

Our biggest advancement in the year 4,000?

At today’s CreativeMorning with Rachel Sussman I asked the following Icebreakertag question: What do you predict will be our biggest advancement in the year 4,000? See some of the anwsers below and all of them over on Flickr.

CreativeMornings Icebreaker Tag



The icebreaker tag of this morning’s CreativeMornings asked the following question: If you could have any artist do a portrait of you, who would you pick? A few answers above, see all the answers in this Flickr Set.

I would like to be…

At today’s CreativeMornings, with Oliver Jeffers as the speaker, I asked the following question: If had to live my life as a cartoon/children’s book character, I would be…. See more answers over on flickr.

What’s your answer?

If I was a piece of furniture I would be…



At yesterday’s CreativeMornings, with Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan of Apartment Therapy as the speaker, I asked the following question: If I was a piece of furniture I would be …. See more answers over on flickr.

What would you be?

(thank you Sara Wasilausky, for taking the photos)

If I could wish for any speaker it would be….


At today’s CreativeMornings I asked the following question: If you could wish for any speaker it would be…. See more answers over on flickr.

Did you attend but we didn’t capture your answer? Or do you simply have a good suggestion for an upcoming CreativeMornings speaker, please leave your suggestion in a comment below.

(thank you sara, for taking the photos)

When I was a kid I…

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Here are a few of the answers of today’s conversation starter tag at this morning’s CreativeMorning with Charlie Todd of ImprovEverywhere. See the entire set of answers here.

What’s your answer?

If I could have any domain name, it would be…

Below are some of the answers on today’s ConversationStarter Tags at CreativeMorning. I asked the question: “If I could have any domain name, it would be…

See all of the answers in this flickr set. And here are images of today’s CreativeMorning with Matias at the ADC.

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(In case you noticed that awesome #fail necklace, it’s by SurvialOfTheHippest. I have a @swissmiss hanging around my neck. Awesome, no?)

What’s your answer to the question?

Question for my readers:

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What ConversationStarter Tag Question would you like to see answered at on one of our upcoming CreativeMornings?

What’s your favorite design related word?

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At today’s CreativeMorning with amazing Zachary Lieberman our Conversation Starter Tag asked the following question: What’s your favorite design related word?

What’s your answer?

(And here are pictures of today’s CreativeMorning)

I want to make a Documentary about…

At last week’s CreativeMorning our Conversation Starter Tag asked the following question: If I would make a documentary, it would be about…

What’s your answer?

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What would make *you* a good client?

We had another successful CreativeMornings today, generously hosted at the fancy Education Wing of the MoMA with Allegra Burnette (MoMA) as our fabulous speaker. Yummee breakfast was sponsored by GenevaSound.

I introduced the Conversation Starter tags a few months back, and today, I asked the question: “what would make *you* a good client?

Below are some of the answers, see all of them in this flickr set.

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What would you do if you had your own storefront?

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At today’s CreativeMornings at FREITAG in Zurich, I asked the question “What would you do if you had your own storefront?” Here are (some of) the answers in a flickr set. (These tags are meant to help break the ice and facilitate a conversation!)

So, what about you? What would you do if you had your own storefront?

What can you teach me?

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At today’s CreativeMornings I asked the question “What can you teach me?” Here are the answers in a flickr set. (These tags are meant to help break the ice and facilitate a conversation!)

So, what about you? What can you teach us?

I want to redesign…

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A new element of my CreativeMornings is the Conversation-Starter-Name-Tag experiment where I ask our attendees a question and they then display their answer like a name tag. Today’s question was: “What would you like to redesign?” See all of the answers here. What should I ask next week? And what would your answer have been? Tell us in a comment below.

(Another post about Michael’s fab talk at this morning’s CreativeMorning(s) will go up (hopefully) later today!)