Together Apart with Priya Parker | Virtual CreativeMornings New York

Yesterday was an emotional day: The New York CreativeMornings chapter hosted our first ever virtual CreativeMornings event and welcomed over 1,000 community members on Zoom and YouTube Livestream.

Who would have thought that it would take a pandemic to make me embrace a digital format and host CreativeMornings from my bedroom.

After 11.5 years of putting on IRL (in real life) events here in NYC, I felt ANXcited about the challenge of adapting our events to a digital format. What can we translate from the regular events to virtual? What needs to change? What are the opportunities here? What is at the core of the magic of CreativeMorning?

At 9am yesterday, people tuned in from around the world. We kicked everything off with a lighthearted, fun pre-show, hosted by Christina and Kyle, former CreativeMornings/Toronto hosts and now members of our HQ team.

Our amazing ASL interpreter volunteer Canara helps us keep our events accessible for our hearing impaired. (We love you Canara!)

The pre-show includes audience participation and we had planned to create a virtual ‘coffee line’ and have everyone go into breakout rooms to meet each other, but Zoom didn’t cooperate. Oh well, we improvised by engaging the audience in the chat.

You can see NYC based Sarah Goldstone perform one of her songs at around 20:10.

The pre-show ends at around 25:00 and I get introduced. (Remember to unmute, Tina!)

At around 30:25 I introduce Holley Murchison to read our manifesto. (We adapted the manifesto slightly to match the digital world.)

I thank our sponsors around 33:00 with analog hand-drawn signs. We appreciate you, Harvest, Mailchimp, WordPress.com and Basecamp.

At our regular events we play the “stand up if” game, but for this digital landscape we adapted it to a a”raise your mug if” at around here.

At 40:19 I introduce our theme. And at 41:07 I introduce the remarkable Priya Parker, which then unfortunately lost her internet connection the minute she was supposed to come on! We got this. We stayed calm and stretched for a minute and then she dialed back in 2 minutes later from her phone.

This is the moment where my cat jumped on my desk and spilled my giant cup of coffee all over my desk and my pants. It was dripping EVERYWHERE! This is where I own it.

One of my favorite moments of the morning was when Priya’s husband Anand walks into the room and tries to troubleshoot her wifi. Look at this! Glorious!

After Priya’s segment was over, we launched into our 30 second pitches, where we hand 3 of our audience members the mic for 30 seconds so they can pitch the room anything they want.

We danced out of the event to a Justin Timberlake song, which was an incredibly heartfelt experience, but unfortunately we can’t show this as YouTube would instantly take the video down. So, just imagine 450+ audience members dancing goodbye after our first ever CreativeMornings/NYC event.

If you are interested in attending any of the upcoming virtual CreativeMornings events around the world, check out our upcoming chapter events and our FieldTrips.

And if you’re interested in how to meaningfully gather in a world of physical distancing, suggest you follow Priya and listen to her podcast Together Apart.

And if you have experienced interesting new creative ways of gatherings, or have some interesting ideas on how it could be done, please share them here in this Twitter Thread.

NYC/CreativeMornings Video with Emily Cohen

Our speaker at the december 2010 CreativeMornings was wonderful Emily Cohen.

Emily has been a consultant to creative professionals for over 20 years providing confidential, best-practice insights and advice on staff, client, and process-management strategies, conducting client surveys and writing winning proposals, creative briefs, and contracts. Her CreativeMornings talk was insightful and filled with hands-on tips. Please enjoy Emily Cohen’s talk:

A big giant thank you to Sy Abudu for offering her video and editing skills.

CreativeMornings Video: Liz Danzico

Our speaker at the october 2010 CreativeMornings was wonderufl Liz Danzico of bobulate.com. In her insightful talk Liz reminded us about the power of the pause.

A big giant thank you to Sy Abudu for offering her video and editing skills.

ZH/CreativeMornings Video with Michel Bachmann

Our speaker at the third Zurich/CreativeMornings was Michel Bachman, co-founder of The Hub Zürich talking about Social Entrepreneurship.

A big giant thank you to the team of Redsmoke Productions for their amazing work on documenting the event.

The Zurich/CreativeMornings chapter is run by Daniel Frei.

11/10 Michel Bachmann | The Hub Zurich from Zurich/CreativeMornings on Vimeo.

LA/CreativeMornings Video with Alissa Walker

Our speaker at the December 2010 Los Angeles/CreativeMornings was Alissa Walker of Gelato Baby. This event took place on December 17, 2010 and was generously hosted by Ford & Ching.

How incredibly charming is Alissa?

2010/12 Alissa Walker | Gelato Baby from LosAngeles/CreativeMornings on Vimeo.

A big giant thank you to Grant Withington and Stephen Haynes for offering to shoot and edit the video, with assistance from Michael Mahaffey.

The Los Angeles chapter of Creative Mornings is run by Jon Setzen.

NYC/CreativeMornings Video: Rachel Sussman

Our speaker at the august 2010 CreativeMornings was fabulous Rachel Sussman, force behind the fabulous The Oldest Living Things in The World project.

See all our NYC/CreativeMornings videos here.

A big giant thank you to Sy Abudu for offering her video and editing skills.

NYC/CreativeMornings with Andrew Zuckerman

I am thrilled to announce next week’s NewYork/CreativeMornings with the amazingly talented Andrew Zuckerman as our speaker.


WHEN/WHERE

NewYork/CreativeMornings, November 12th 2010, 8.30am – 10am. Please note that rsvp will open on monday november 8th, at 11.55am over at creativemornings.eventbrite.com.

This month’s event will be hosted by the generous folks over at the amazing Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO. If you are not familiar with the space, get ready for a real treat.


ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Andrew Zuckerman is a New York City based Photographer and Film Director with a truly inspiring body of work.

You might be familiar with his fantastic books: CREATURE, a portrait series of animals, was released worldwide in November 2007 to critical acclaim and is now in its fourth printing. WISDOM, a book, film, and traveling exhibition released in October 2008, is an ongoing project made with the support of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Andrew traveled the globe to photograph and interview the world’s most eminent elders, from Judi Dench to Nelson Mandela, creating a comprehensive account of their perspectives on life. His latest book, BIRD, is a visual study of birds from the rarest to the most common and will be available in October 2009.

In 2006 Andrew co-founded Late Night and Weekends, a company that produces advertising, films, books, and online content.

www.andrewzuckerman.com


HOW TO SIGN UP

R.S.V.P will open at 11.55am on monday november 8, 2010 over at creativemornings.eventbrite.com!

Please let us know if you r.s.v.p’d but can no longer make it. Our events fill up quickly and we usually keep a waiting list. Thank you! And at the morning of the event, make sure to put on your chatty networking hats!


BREAKFAST SPONSORS

Breakfast will be sponsored by our main sponsor MailChimp and this month’s co-sponsor Freshbooks.

MailChimp is a fantastic service that makes it easy to send email newsletters to your customers, manage your subscriber lists, and track campaign performance. A big yay-hooray to the team over at MailChimp!

FreshBooks is the leader in online invoicing for creative professionals. Get your free account at FreshBooks.com


ABOUT CREATIVEMORNINGS

CreativeMornings is a monthly morning gathering of creative types. Each event includes a 20 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. The gathering begins at 8:30am with the topic presentation starting at 9:00am and everyone taking off for work at 10am. CreativeMornings are free of charge! There are currently three chapters: Zurich, LosAngeles + NewYork/CreativeMornings. (More chapters are planned but not for another 2-3months)

Be the first to know when r.s.v.p’s open up, follow NewYork/CreativeMornings on twitter!

Check out pictures of previous NewYork/CreativeMornings over at Flickr.

View all the taped talks we’ve put up on the web so far over at Vimeo.com/creativemornings.

NYC/CreativeMornings with Liz Danzico

I am delighted to announce next week’s NewYork/CreativeMornings with my friend and UX Expert, Author, Educator Liz Danzico as our speaker.


WHEN/WHERE

NewYork/CreativeMornings, October 29th 2010, 8.30am – 10am. This month’s event will be hosted at the Blurb PopUp/NYC store on Mercer street in Soho.


ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Liz Danzico is part designer, part educator, and part editor. She is an independent consultant, and user experience consultant for Happy Cog Studios. She is chairperson of the MFA in Interaction Design program, which will see its inaugural class graduate in spring 2011 at the School of Visual Arts, and co-founded the program with Steven Heller (our last month’s speaker). She’s a columnist for Core77 and Interactions Magazine, and is proud to be on the advisory boards for the Austin Center for Design, desigNYC, Design Ignites Change, and Rosenfeld Media. Find more about Liz and her thinking on her fantastic blog called Bobulate.


HOW TO SIGN UP

R.S.V.P will open at 10.55am on friday october 22, 2010 over at creativemornings.eventbrite.com!

Please let us know if you r.s.v.p’d but can no longer make it. Our events fill up quickly and we usually keep a waiting list. Thank you! And at the morning of the event, make sure to put on your chatty networking hats!


BREAKFAST SPONSORS

Breakfast will be sponsored by our main sponsor MailChimp and this month’s host Blurb.

MailChimp is a fantastic service that makes it easy to send email newsletters to your customers, manage your subscriber lists, and track campaign performance. A big yay-hooray to the team over at MailChimp!

Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the joy of books – reading them, making them, sharing them, and selling them. Blurb developed a creative publishing service simple and smart enough to make anyone an author – every blogger, cook, photographer, parent, traveler, poet, pet owner, marketer, everyone. (This means you.)


ABOUT CREATIVEMORNINGS

CreativeMornings is a monthly morning gathering of creative types. Each event includes a 20 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. The gathering begins at 8:30am with the topic presentation starting at 9:00am and everyone taking off for work at 10am. CreativeMornings are free of charge! There are currently three chapters: Zurich, LosAngeles + NewYork/CreativeMornings. (More chapters are planned but not for another 2-3months)

Be the first to know when r.s.v.p’s open up, follow NewYork/CreativeMornings on twitter!

Check out pictures of previous NewYork/CreativeMornings over at Flickr.

View all the taped talks we’ve put up on the web so far over at Vimeo.com/creativemornings.

NYC/CreativeMornings with Steven Heller

I am happy to announce next week’s NewYork/CreativeMornings with design maven Steven Heller.

WHEN/WHERE
NewYork/CreativeMornings, September 24th 2010, 8.30am – 10am. This month’s event will once again be hosted by the generous folks over at the amazing Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO. If you are not familiar with the space, get ready for a real treat.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Steven Heller is a former art director, current educator, continual writer and sometimes pontificator. He is the co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author and co-founder of the MFA Design, MFA Social Documentary and MPS Branding programs at the School of Visual Arts. He writes the Visuals column for the New York Times Book Review, the Graphic Content blog for T-Style online for the Times. He also writes for Design Observer, is the editor and writer for AIGA VOICE online and The Daily Heller for PRINT magazines Imprint website. He is a contributing editor for EYE, Baseline and PRINT magazines. The author, co-author or editor of 130.5 books, his most recent include POP: How Graphic Design Shapes Popular Culture, Born Modern, and revised editions of Graphic Style : From Victorian to Digital (with Seymour Chwast) and Becoming a Graphic Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design (with Teresa Fernandes). His podcasts on design issues and history can be found at here.

HOW TO SIGN UP
R.S.V.P will open at 11.55am monday september 20, 2010 over at creativemornings.eventbrite.com!

Please let us know if you r.s.v.p’d but can no longer make it. Our events fill up quickly and we usually keep a waiting list. Thank you! And at the morning of the event, make sure to put on your chatty networking hats!

Breakfast will be sponsored by our main sponsor MailChimp and this month’s co-sponsor FieldNotes.

MailChimp is a fantastic service that makes it easy to send email newsletters to your customers, manage your subscriber lists, and track campaign performance. A big yay-hooray to the team over at MailChimp!

fieldnotes

Inspired by the vanishing subgenre of agricultural memo books, ornate pocket ledgers and the simple, unassuming beauty of a well-crafted grocery list, the Draplin Design Company, Portland, Oregon in conjunction with Coudal Partners of Chicago, Illinois bring you “FIELD NOTES” in hopes of offering, “An honest memo book, worth fillin’ up with good information.”

ABOUT CREATIVEMORNINGS
CreativeMornings is a monthly morning gathering of creative types. Each event includes a 20 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. The gathering begins at 8:30am with the topic presentation starting at 9:00am and everyone taking off for work at 10am. CreativeMornings are free of charge! There are currently two chapters: Zurich + NewYork/CreativeMornings. (LosAngeles is kicking off next month)

Be the first to know when r.s.v.p’s open up, follow NewYork/CreativeMornings on twitter!

Check out pictures of previous NewYork/CreativeMornings over at Flickr.

View all the taped talks we’ve put up on the web so far over at Vimeo.com/creativemornings. (For the Swiss chapter go to Vimeo.com/zurichcm

Zurich/CreativeMornings

Big news! CreativeMornings is expanding. Zurich is going to be the first city kicking off a CreativeMornings chapter. The two main forces helping me in this effort are Daniel Frei and Thomas Kupferschmied. They have been amazing in helping me get the Zurich chapter off the ground. And we are going to set the bar high with this first one. How?

Our first official Zurich/CreativeMornings event will be held at the Zurich Google headquarters. Our speaker will be Ario Jafarzadeh, User Experience Designer on Gmail. Ario will talk about user experience design at Google and provide insights from the brand new Gmail Priority Inbox feature which launched today. We are excited that Steve Rogers, Director of User Experience EMEA will give a short introduction prior to Ario’s talk.

(I can’t wait to hear what Ario will share with us. Yes, I’ll be attending.)

We are thrilled (!!!) that Google offered to host and sponsor our first official Zurich/CreativeMornings. Get ready for a real treat. Don’t know what I am talking about? Check out this swissmiss post.

You’ll be able to sign up for the Zurich/CreativeMornings starting september 6th, 11am, Zurich Time, over at zurichcreativemornings.eventbrite.com. There are 100 spots available and we will fill up quickly, so, mark your calendars!

You can follow the Zurich chapter on twitter.com/Zurich_CM.

Until we have the actual CreativeMornings site running, you can see what’s happening in the zurich chapter by filtering the swissmiss content by zurich/creativemornings.

Oh, and if this wasn’t enough, we will be kicking off the LosAngeles/CreativeMornings chapter in October. Are we excited? YES WE ARE!

ABOUT ZURICH/CREATIVEMORNINGS

Zurich/CreativeMornings is a brandnew monthly breakfast lecture series originally started by NYC based Tina Roth Eisenberg. The Zurich/CreativeMornings chapter is run by Zurich based Daniel Frei and Thomas Kupferschmied.

Each event includes a 20 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. The gathering begins at 8:30am with the topic presentation starting at 9:00am and everyone taking off for work at 10am. Zurich/CreativeMornings are free of charge!

Check out pictures of previous NewYork/CreativeMornings over at Flickr.

View all the taped NewYork/CreativeMorning talks we’ve put up on the web so far over at Vimeo.

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 with Rachel Sussman

After having hijacked CreativeMornings to Zurich last month, I am happy to announce our august talk, and yes, taking place in NYC again.:

CreativeMornings, August 27th 2010, 8.30am – 10am

SPEAKER

I am thrilled to have Rachel Sussman, who just gave a talk at TED Global, as our next CreativeMornings speaker. Rachel is on a mission to identify, find and photograph the oldest living things in the world. For the past 5 years she has been researching, working with biologists, and traveling all over the world to find continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older.

This month’s event will be hosted by the generous folks over at the amazing Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO. If you are not familiar with the space, get ready for a real treat.

R.S.V.P will open at noon monday august 23, 2010 over at creativemornings.eventbrite.com!
Please let us know if you r.s.v.p’d but can no longer make it. Our events fill up quickly and we usually keep a waiting list. Thank you! And at the morning of the event, make sure to put on your chatty networking hats!

Breakfast will be generously sponsored by our main sponsor MailChimp and this month’s co-sponsor Edition29.

MailChimp is a fantastic service that makes it easy to send email newsletters to your customers, manage your subscriber lists, and track campaign performance. A big yay-hooray to the team over at MailChimp!

Edition29 ARCHITECTURE is a visually stunning collectable iPad magazine App that focuses on showcasing the new generation of modernist architects and their creations through cinematic photographic storytelling. Watch the Video.

ABOUT CREATIVEMORNINGS

CreativeMornings is a monthly morning gathering of creative types. Each event includes a 20 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. The gathering begins at 8:30am with the topic presentation starting at 9:00am and everyone taking off for work at 10am. CreativeMornings are free of charge!

Be the first to know when r.s.v.p’s open up, follow CreativeMornings on twitter!

Check out pictures of previous CreativeMornings over at Flickr.

View all the taped CreativeMorning talks we’ve put up on the web so far over at Vimeo.

CreativeMornings Video: Rolf Hiltl

Our speaker at the July 2010 CreativeMornings was Rolf Hiltl, of the renowned 102 year old vegetarian Hiltl Restaurant in Zurich, Switzerland. The event was generously hosted at the Hiltl WM Lounge in the patio of the Landesmuseum in Zurich. This was our first outdoor CreativeMornings and hopefully not the last.

To all my Switzerland based readers: We are officially kicking of the Zurich/CreativeMornings chapter on September 10, 2010. Yay Hooray!

2010/07 Rolf Hiltl from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.

A big giant thank you to Thilo Hoffmann for offering his video and editing skills. As well to Sunny Yang for her video compression magic.

CreativeMornings Video: Paola Antonelli

Our speaker at the June 2010 CreativeMornings was fabulous Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The event was generously hosted by the MoMA. Watch Paola’s talk below:

2010/06 Paola Antonelli from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.

A big giant thank you to Sy Abudu for offering her video and editing skills.

CreativeMornings Video: Jay Parkinson

Our speaker at the May 2010 CreativeMornings was visionary Jay Parkinson. The event generously hosted by Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Watch Jay’s talk below:

2010/05 Jay Parkinson from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.

A big giant thank you to Sy Abudu for offering her video and editing skills.

And in case you’re in Switzerland on July 9th, join us for a swiss CreativeMornings in Zurich.

CreativeMornings in Zurich, Switzerland

CreativeMornings is crossing the Atlantic and will take place in Zurich, Switzerland on July 9th 2010, from 8.30am-10am in the courtyard of the Swiss National Museum. (picture below)


S P E A K E R

Rolf Hiltl will be our July speaker.

In Europe the name Hiltl is well-known for the famous vegetarian restaurant located in the heart of Zurich.

The original restaurant opened 112 years ago (!) and is considered a gastronomic highlight in Zurich. Representing the fourth generation, 45-year-old Rolf Hiltl took over the family business in 1998, exactly 100 years after Europe’s first vegetarian restaurant was founded. Rolf Hiltl admits that his approach on running the business has always been both American and Swiss. He works on the trial and error principle: try something out and then improve on it.

Today the Hiltl brand includes a cooking studio, cook books, a bar, a club, take-away outlets and a catering business. Rolf Hiltl is also co-owner of tibits with 4 restaurants in Switzerland and one outlet in London.

– About Rolf Hiltl
– swissinfo article: Where vegetarian cuisine is making history
Hiltl Vegetarian Cookbooks


H O S T

This month’s event will be hosted outdoors at the Hiltl WM Lounge in the impressive courtyard of the Swiss National Museum , across the street of Zurich main station. (Scroll down to see an image of the courtyard)

Swiss National Museum
Hiltl WM Lounge


A T T E N D I N G

Click over to eventbrite to R.S.V.P for the event! Please let us know if you r.s.v.p’d but can no longer make it. Our events fill up quickly and we usually keep a waiting list.


BREAKFAST SPONSORS

Breakfast will be generously sponsored by our main sponsor MailChimp, and Switzerland based companies Tube and Binary Design:

MailChimp is a fantastic service that makes it easy to send email newsletters to your customers, manage your subscriber lists, and track campaign performance. A big yay-hooray to the team over at MailChimp!


Tube Products are almost entirely made out of recycled bicycle tubes. The Switzerland based company turnes used tubes into unique, handmade products such as belts, iPhone cases, key chains and USB sticks.


Switzerland based Binary Design creates custom made, modern and sustainable internet solutions. webdesign . onlineshops . webapps”


ABOUT CREATIVEMORNINGS

CreativeMornings is a monthly speaker series and morning gathering of creative types. Each event includes a 15-20 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. The gathering begins at 8:30am with the topic presentation starting at 9:00am and everyone taking off for work at 10am. CreativeMornings are free of charge!

Be the first to know when r.s.v.p’s open up, follow CreativeMornings on twitter!

Check out pictures of previous CreativeMornings over at Flickr.

View all the taped CreativeMorning talks we’ve put up on the web so far over at Vimeo.

This is a picture of the WM Lounge in the Landesmuseum Courtyard. Pretty darn cool, no?

Wanted: CreativeMornings co-sponsor

I am currently looking to find a co-sponsor for the upcoming CreativeMornings on July 9th with Rolf Hiltl at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich, Switzerland. The event is taking place in the courtyard of the museum in the supermodern Hiltl WM Lounge. The venue is stunning to say the least. (Event info)

Our attendees range from Designers (web and print), UX experts, Marketing, CEO’s of any kind of design related business, to writers, PR people etc. It’s an amazingly diverse group but I would say with a tendency to be more on the creative/designer side.

This month’s Breakfast Co-Sponsorship is $800 and includes:

A co-sponsor mention on the swiss-miss.com announcement post with a visual banner like on this announcement.

A mention and thank you at the beginning of the event with a screenshot of your site or any graphic of your choice, projected onto the screen. If you would like you can set up signs and can hand out print material during the event. We had Mailchimp hand out T-shirts in the past or Behance handed out their actionpads. You can really do whatever you’d like, or let’s say, almost anything! :)

More about the CreativeMornings:

Talks over at vimeo.

Pictures of previous CreativeMornings on Flickr.

swiss-miss.com gets an average of 30k unique visitors a day, and about 900kuniques a month. Your brand exposure would be quite big.

Interested in co-sponsoring the event alongside with our main sponsor Mailchimp?
Email me.

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.

Paola Antonelli, CreativeMornings

Yet another fantastic write-up of a CreativeMornings by Paul Soulellis:

Paola talked about design of course, and how the design community in NYC has shifted during the last 16 years. She started by comparing Milan’s regional strength (design) to New York’s (art) in 1994, when she arrived here. There’s a kind of normalcy in the way design belongs to life in Europe, and how it breeds a kind of everyday design culture that she felt was lacking in America (I admit, I still feel this). She traces this inferiority complex back to the 18th century, when we began importing culture from France. But she recognized New York’s strength in contemporary art (“in Italy art ended with Dada”) and today she traced the coming-together of art, design and architecture through technology and economic crisis from 1994 until now.

Read the full post.

CreativeMornings with Paola Antonelli

D A T E
CreativeMornings, June 18th 2010, 8.30am – 10am

S P E A K E R
Paola Antonelli is on a mission to introduce — and explain — design to the world. With her shows at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, she celebrates design’s presence in every part of life.

Since she stepped back from practicing architecture in order to focus on writing about design, teaching and curating gallery exhibitions, Italian native Paola Antonelli has become a force to be reckoned with in the design world. Working at the Museum of Modern Art in New York since 1994, she now heads up the gallery’s Architecture and Design department and has worked on shows such as “Humble Masterpieces,” which celebrated traditionally unheralded design icons such as the paperclip; “Safe,” considering issues of protection, and “Workspheres,” a look at contemporary workplace design.

Ever mindful that the majority of visitors to MOMA are attracted by artists such as Picasso and Matisse, Antonelli works to ensure that if they do stumble across a design-related show, they’ll be both entertained and enlightened.

Have you seen Paola Antonelli’s TED Talks?
Paola treats design as art
Design and the Elastic Mind
(And yes, I am humbled by the fact that a two-times-TED speaker is speaking at a CreativeMornings! YAY!)

H O S T
This month’s event will be hosted in the Celeste Bartos Theatre at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
The Celeste Bartos Theatre
Museum of Modern Art
4 West 54 Street
New York NY 10019

A T T E N D I N G
R.S.V.P will open at noon monday june 14, 2010! Please let us know if you r.s.v.p’d but can no longer make it. Our events fill up quickly and we usually keep a waiting list. Thank you! And at the morning of the event, make sure to put on your chatty networking hats!

BREAKFAST SPONSORS
Breakfast will be generously sponsored by our main sponsor MailChimp and this month’s Co-Sponsor Moment.

MailChimp is a fantastic service that makes it easy to send email newsletters to your customers, manage your subscriber lists, and track campaign performance. A big yay-hooray to the team over at MailChimp!

Moment is a digital product design firm. They help clients make things that work for people.

ABOUT CREATIVEMORNINGS
CreativeMornings is a monthly morning gathering of creative types. Each event includes a 10 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. The gathering begins at 8:30am with the topic presentation starting at 9:00am and everyone taking off for work at 10am. CreativeMornings are free of charge!

Be the first to know when r.s.v.p’s open up, follow CreativeMornings on twitter!

Check out pictures of previous CreativeMornings over at Flickr.

View all the taped CreativeMorning talks we’ve put up on the web so far over at Vimeo.

wanted: CreativeMornings co-sponsor

I am currently looking to find a co-sponsor for next week’s CreativeMornings on june 18th with Paola Antonelli at the MoMA. (The announcement will go up tomorrow and rsvp will open monday morning.)

Our attendees range from Designers (web and print), UX experts, Marketing, CEO’s of any kind of design related business, to writers, PR people etc. It’s an amazingly diverse group but I would say with a tendency to be more on the creative/designer side.

This month’s Breakfast Co-Sponsorship is $800 and includes:

A co-sponsor mention on the swiss-miss.com announcement post with a visual banner like on this announcement.

A mention and thank you at the beginning of the event with a screenshot of your site or any graphic of your choice, projected onto the screen. If you would like you can set up signs and can hand out print material during the event. We had Mailchimp hand out T-shirts in the past or Behance handed out their actionpads. You can really do whatever you’d like, or let’s say, almost anything! :)

Your co-sponsorship contribution pays for breakfast and the person filming the event. Next week’s CreativeMornings place at the MoMA Barthos Theatre which can hold about 160 attendees.

More about the event:

Talks over at vimeo.

Pictures of previous CreativeMornings on Flickr.

swiss-miss.com gets an average of 30k unique visitors a day, and about 900kuniques a month. Your brand exposure would be quite big.

Interested in co-sponsoring the event alongside with our main sponsor Mailchimp?
Email me.

UPDATE: Moment has generously offered to sponsor this month’s event! YAY!

CreativeMornings with Jay Parkinson

CreativeMornings, May 21th 2010, 8.30am – 10am

Jay Parkinson will be the speaker at this month’s CreativeMornings. He is a pediatrician and preventive medicine specialist with a masters in public health. Fast Company calls him The Doctor of the Future and one of The Top 10 Most Creative People in Health Care. Esquire Magazine calls him one of 2009’s Best and Brightest Radicals & Rebels Who Are Changing the World. Jay runs a design and consulting firm called The Future Well. He designs products and services that have a positive impact on health and happiness.

This month’s event will again (!) be hosted by the generous folks over at the amazing Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO. If you are not familiar with the space, get ready for a real treat.

R.S.V.P will open at noon monday sunday may 16th, 2010 over at creativemornings.eventbrite.com!
Please let us know if you r.s.v.p’d but can no longer make it. Our events fill up quickly and we usually keep a waiting list. Thank you! And at the morning of the event, make sure to put on your chatty networking hats!

Breakfast will be generously sponsored by our sponsor MailChimp

MailChimp is a fantastic service that makes it easy to send email newsletters to your customers, manage your subscriber lists, and track campaign performance. A big yay-hooray to the team over at MailChimp!

ABOUT CREATIVEMORNINGS

CreativeMornings is a monthly morning gathering of creative types. Each event includes a 10 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. The gathering begins at 8:30am with the topic presentation starting at 9:00am and everyone taking off for work at 10am. CreativeMornings are free of charge!

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Check out pictures of previous CreativeMornings over at Flickr.

View all the taped CreativeMorning talks we’ve put up on the web so far over at Vimeo.

CreativeMornings Video: Oliver Jeffers

Our speaker at the April 2010 CreativeMornings was Oliver Jeffers generously hosted by Harper CollinsSy Abudu for offering her video and editing skills.

2010/04 Oliver Jeffers from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.

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?