Today’s CreativeMornings/NewYork with Charles Renfro was generously hosted by Park Here, a gallery turned indoor park. It was packed and seriously fantastic. What a fun venue! A big giant thank you to the team at Open House Gallery for hosting us. Here’s a short video about the space and the idea behind it all:
Parke Here is only open for a few more days. They are starting to break it all down on the 15th, next week. If you’re in NYC, make sure to stop by asap.
A few weeks ago I traveled to Atlanta to hear Ben Chestnut’s CreativeMornings talk. Ron Dawson of Dare Dreamer Magazine interviewed me briefly, asking me a few questions on why I started CreativeMornings. And just now, he sent over the link to the above video.
Wow!
So excited and thankful for Ron to put this together. CreativeMornings is entirely built on such generous gestures. We have now 22 chapters, run by close to a 100 volunteers and backed by numerous sponsors. A humbling and inspiring network of global creative types that believe that we are all contributing to something valuable – human connections.
Thank you Ron.
Photo by Emily Gilbert
Today’s CreativeMornings talk by Jacob Krupnick was followed by a Girl Walk // All Day movie screening which turned into an impressive dance party. Who says you can’t have a dance party at 10am?
Girl Walk // All Day is a 71 minutes dance video / love letter to NYC. Watch it here.
A few weeks ago I traveled to Atlanta to see Ben Chestnut, co-founder of Mailchimp speak at CreativeMornings/Atlanta. That was the best money I’ve ever spent on an airplane ticket. Ben talked about the history of the company and what he does as a manager to cultivate the infamous Mailchimp culture. If you are running a creative business do yourself a favor and watch the talk!
A little background info: Ben Chestnut is the CEO and co-founder of MailChimp.com, one of the most successful e-mail marketing companies around, with over 1.2 million users. They were recently featured in “Fast Company” for their non-traditional corporate culture and creative environment. Ben is one of my all-time personal rolemodels when it comes to running a creative business. Meeting him was my highlight in 2011. (Yes, I am a fan!)
A big giant thank you for the CreativeMornings/Atlanta team, especially Blake Howard, for organizing the morning and Dare Dreamer Media for taping and editing the talk.
To celebrate the end of an exciting year for CreativeMornings, we sent out an open call to our amazing audience members to find 6 inspiring CreativeMornings-goers to take the stage in NYC and LA.
Sure enough we received *a lot* fantastic video applications. It was hard to narrow it down to only three per chapter. We caved and added one more speaker to the line up in NYC. Our speakers at next week’s CreativeMornings in LA/NY are: *drumroll*
LOS ANGELES
Edward Boatman of The Noun Project
Shannon Flaherty of Hustle Up
Paul Scrivens of Drawar
NEW YORK
Prescott Perez-Fox of Your Business Card Sucks
Catherine Mulbrandon of Visualizing Economics
Larry Legend of houseoflegend.com
Dan Provost of Studio Neat
For more info on the speakers, head over to our CreativeMornings blog.
Sign up for the NYC chapter opens on monday, december 12th at 11am over at creativemornings.eventbrite.com and at 11am Los Angeles time over at losangelescreativemornings.eventbrite.com.
Yay for experiments and for a truly inspiring 2011!
We just discovered this gem of a promo video that the team of CreativeMornings/Atlanta put together. I am humbled. What a touching thought and execution. Thanks to Rick Anwyl, the first time-attendee Paul Stechmesser and Dare Dreamer Media!
To celebrate the end of another fantastic 2011 CreativeMornings year we thought we’d do something special and turn the mic to our audience.
We’re inviting anyone interested to apply to be a December CreativeMornings speaker in New York City or Los Angeles. Three people will be chosen (for each chapter) to give an eight minute talk.
To apply: submit a quick 60 second “talk-to-the-webcam” video telling us about you, your talk, and why you’d love to speak at CreativeMornings.
The application deadline is Nov 20th, 9pm EST. Hooray for experiments!
More info and short video with our siberian tiger, Kurt.
Apply here
Our CreativeMorning speaker at the September 2011 Los Angeles event was trend analyst/author Sharon Ann Lee.
One of her slides in her deck really made me think. On it she asks: What quadrant are you in on this work/happiness map?
Her talk is on the topic of the growing trend called (DYO) Design Your Own Success. She wonderfully explains how important it is to say no and to smartly allocate our time and energy.
Watch it here:
Many thanks to Chris Ganser for shooting and editing this video.
Our speaker at the July CreativeMornings/Chicago was Jason Fried of 37Signals. A big thank you to our Chicago host Mig Reyes for making this happen.
And thanks to Charlie Curran and James Schonzeit for taping and editing the video.
What started as a humble 50-person event at Studiomates in 2009 has grown into a 17-chapter global adventure. When I first launched CreativeMornings people laughed and said no one will show up. Too early for New Yorkers. Well, I proved you wrong! We now average 250 creative folks that attend CreativeMornings/NewYork at 8.30am, one friday a month.
A big thank you goes out to my *amazing*, hardworking hosts and their team. You have to understand, everyone is working on volunteer basis. Impressive and humbling to say the least. CreativeMornings started as a reaction to the expensive and time-demanding conference world. I knew there had to be something more accessible and nimble. An event you could simply go to before heading to work. An event, that let’s you connect with people in your community. That’s what CreativeMornings stands for.
Would you like to watch a selection of our talks? Head over to Vimeo where we created a ‘best of’ channel.
But for now, for the month of October, party along with us and tell us what we should do next! Do you have ideas for a speaker, host, venue or just simply a suggestion on how we should celebrate? Let us know! happybirthday.creativemornings.com
A big giant thank you to my team Yoko and Kevin for building the birthday site!
The speaker at the second CreativeMornings/London was Chris Bangle, formerly design director at BMW Group and now running Chris Bangle Associates. Talk about the London chapter starting off with a bang. Hat tip to the host, Drew Smith and his team!
The event was generously hosted by Buro Happold and Sense Worldwide. A big thank you to Nick Culley for filming and editing the talk.
Last month we launched our first Canadian CreativeMornings chapter! Hooray! Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr kicked off the series in Vancouver.
The Vancouver team, led by Mark Busse, is doing a phenomenal job! A big giant thanks goes to Ryan Mah, Mahyar Saeedi and Jake Hermiston for filming and editing the talk. Here’s the video:
Check out the photos of this event over on Flickr. To see if there’s a CreativeMornings happening near you, go to creativemornings.com
Last week we kicked off the Sweden chapter of CreativeMornings. Richard Feigin and his team organized the first CreativeMornings/Stockholm at the supercool looking Bianchi Cafe & Cycles with Nicke Bergström, Creative Director of VICE, as the speaker. Richard and his team are breaking all video speed limits as they already uploaded the talk on vimeo, English subtitles included. A big thank you to Nisse Emil Forest Axman and Oskar Törnros for the fantastic work on documenting this event! Hat tip off to Team Stockholm!
CreativeMornings is featured with Podcast on swissinfo.ch!
You can listen to it here. A big thank you to Karin Kamp for the wonderful feature. Team CreativeMornings is thrilled!
Kevin and I are researching songs with catchy lyrics entailing the word “Morning”. Any songs that come to mind and we should add to our list? Would you mind to share them in a comment below? Thank you so much!
“The reason that most of us are unhappy most of the time is that we set our goals—not for the person we’re going to be when we reach them—we set our goals for the person we are when we set them.” – Dan Gilbert
Jim Coudal quoting Dan Gilbert during a CreativeMornings/Chicago talk.
Our speaker at the June 2011 CreativeMornings/NewYork was Yancey Strickler co-founder of Kickstarter. A big thank you to Sy J. Abudu for filming and editing the talk:
CreativeMornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types. Each event is free of charge, and includes a 20 minute talk, plus coffee!
You can see photos of the Yancey Strickler CreativeMornings over on Flickr. And you can now follow us on Tumblr!
Our speaker at the May 2011 CreativeMornings/NewYork was Maria Popova of Brain Pickings. The event was generously hosted by General Assembly. A big thank you to Sy J. Abudu (/) for filming and editing the talk.
UPDATE: Maria wrote a fantastic post about her talk over on BrainPickings.
Our speaker at the March 2011 CreativeMornings/NewYork was Ji Lee, at the time Creative Director Google Labs, now Creative Director at Facebook. The event was generously hosted by Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
A big thank you to Sy J. Abudu for filming and editing the talk.
Last month we kicked off our first Chicago/CreativeMornings with a fantastic talk by Jim Coudal. GravityTank was generously hosting the event and Mig Reyes did an absolutely fantastic job as the host. Thanks to everyone in involved. I am thrilled to have Chicago on the map!
And a big thank you to the team over at Coudal, Steve Delahoyde in particular for taping and editing the event!
I started CreativeMornings in september of 2009 wanting to create an accessible, inspring morning talk series. Little did I know that it would grow into a global series. With an evergrowing number of chapters, CreativeMornings currently take place in NYC, Zurich, LosAngeles, and SanFrancisco with Chicago kicking off this friday. A London chapter is starting in July and Berlin and Vancouver are going to be kicking off shortly after. All of this has came from the help of my fantastic hosts and their volunteers in every city. It’s impressive that my idea has been received such generous support. Every event fills up within minutes. (Take this week’s first ever Chicago CreativeMornings with Jim Coudal. It was full in a mere 3 minutes.)
And things are only going to get better. Why?
In the winter of 2010 I had the pleasure to meet Craig Shapiro, former president of GOOD Magazine and now force behind Collaborative Fund. Craig took me out to lunch and I could tell he was interested in CreativeMornings. To my surprise, he was so interested, he asked if he could become a partner. I was stunned to say the least. We are talking about a man that has invested in companies like Kickstarter, Skillshare and BankSimple. I was speechless.
Curious as to why he wanted to become a partner, I continued to listed. He explained that he is drawn to CreativeMornings because of two important things:
a) There is a new breed of entrepreneurship and it is based on using creative facilities to solve big and small problems.
b) When you Bring like-minded (creative) people together, magic happens. New projects, job and business opportunities, friends and much more can all come from thee meaningful gatherings.
After my initial shock, I realized what an incredible gift it was to have met Craig. I can tell that he understands my vision for CreativeMornings and seems as excited as I am to make it happen. Craig obviously is a very smart business man and I am excited to know that I have a skilled partner to help me navigate the CreativeMornings ship. His support is allowing me to spend more time on CreativeMornings and focus on growing the series.
Beyond that, we here at Studiomates love when Craig comes and hangs out at our space. He is fueling our entrepreneurial spirts and is just an overall wonderful person to have around.
I am excited and incredibly humbled to be part of Collaborative Fund. This year cannot get any better, I think.
(raising my glass of bubbly stuff in excitement)
Our speaker at the April 2011 San Francisco/CreativeMornings was Craig Mod, a writer, designer, publisher and developer concerned with the future of publishing and storytelling in the iPad and Kindle era.
A big giant thank you to Chris Whitmore for offering to shoot and edit the video. Photos were graciously provided by Richard Something.
