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.

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

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.

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.

See all our NYC/CreativeMornings videos here.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

2010/06 Paola Antonelli from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.

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

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 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?

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.

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.

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.

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, 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!

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.

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

2010/04 Oliver Jeffers from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.

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?

2010/03 Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.

Hooray for another CreativeMorning, on April 23, 2010, with brilliantly talented Illustrator Oliver Jeffers.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
My readers know how much I love Oliver Jeffers. There’s not an evening that goes by at casa swissmiss where we don’t read Ella one of his books. Originally from Ireland, Oliver now lives and works in Brooklyn, just a few blocks from casa swissmiss. His talent is humbling. From figurative painting and installation, to illustration and picture-book making, Oliver Jeffers’ work has been exhibited around the globe. www.oliverjeffers.com

HOST
This month’s CreativeMornings will be generously hosted by Harper Collins.

R.S.V.P
Interested in attending? R.S.V.P will open up on today at noon EST. Make sure to be ready to sign up as we tend to fill up within minutes: creativemornings.eventbrite.com

CreativeMornings start at 8.30am, end at 10am and are FREE of charge. Also, if you did r.s.v.p’d but can no longer make it, please do send us a note as we usually have a waiting list.

BREAKFAST SPONSORS

Breakfast will be generously sponsored by MailChimp and Family Documentary Photos:

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!

Rather than simply photograph what your family looks like at a specific minute in a photo studio, the Dumbo-based Dads of Family Documentary Photos will spend a day photographing what this moment of time actually feels like and is like.

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? ‘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. The whole thing closes down at 10am. The events are hosted at studios/gallery spaces in NYC. (We are always looking for potential hosts that are willing to accomodate 50+ people. Please email us if you’re interested in hosting or sponsoring one of our events!)

In case you are wondering about Allan’s comment in the beginning: There was a huge snowstorm that morning and the night before the event and we weren’t sure if anyone would show up. But a good 50 brave souls ventured out to enjoy Allan’s fabulous talk (and serenade for Tilo!). It was well worth it, see yourself and watch his presentation:

A big giant thank you to Roland Lazarte who once again has been generously offering his video and editing skills.

What would you be?

(thank you Sara Wasilausky, for taking the photos)

Next week’s CreativeMornings is going to be a big one! Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan of Apartment Therapy is our speaker and we have already over 180 rsvp’s for Friday the 19th at the fabulous Galapagos Art space.

As the event is shaping up to be bigger than expected, we are in need of another co-sponsor alongside MailChimp to cover the cost for breakfast. (CreativeMornings are always free of charge!)

Here’s what you’d get: For $500 you will be mentioned and given a shout-out on the CreativeMornings announcement post with a graphic, next to MailChimp. As well as on the Eventbrite site. Plus, we’ll of course thank you the morning of the event and if you’d like you can even have a banner/sign up during the event or hand-our promotional items. Your banner and mention will stay on swissmiss/creativemornings.com indefinitely. Plus, you’ll get 1000 instant karma points!

Interested in reaching out to a big, high-end creative audience in NYC? Email me at sponsorship@swiss-miss.com.

UPDATE: We have found a co-sponsor! Will update the CreativeMornings Post shortly. Thank you for everyone reaching out! Your generosity is amazing! Yaaay!

Also, we are looking for someone to help us videotape the event. Unfortunately Roland, who usually tapes the events, will be out of town. Know anyone that might be interested in teaming up?

Hooray for another CreativeMorning, on March 19, 2010, with Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, Co-Founder of Apartment Therapy.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
“One part interior designer, one part life coach,” Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan is the founder of Apartment Therapy, a unique interior design practice in the New York metropolitan area. In April 2004, Maxwell, with his brother Oliver, launched apartmenttherapy.com, now one of the most popular and influential design weblogs in the country. Swissmiss is a huge fan of Apartment Therapy and our loyal readers know we love to link to their fantastic sites. (Tina especially loves unplggd, the Apartment Therapy’s sub-site with everything gadgety!)

HOST
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
Interested in attending? Make sure to get your free ticket over on creativemornings.eventbrite.com quickly as we usually fill up fast. Please tell us your name and what industry you’re in. CreativeMornings start at 8.30am, end at 10am and are FREE of charge. Also, if you did rsvp but can no longer make it, please do send us a note as we usually tend to have a waiting list. Email us at creativemornings@gmail.com!

BREAKFAST SPONSORS

Breakfast will be generously sponsored by our new main sponsor MailChimp and John Boardley this month’s co-sponsor and founder of I Love Typography.

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!

Not familiar with I Love Typography? Then hurry up, check the world’s most popular type blog.

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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? ‘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. The whole thing closes down at 10am. The events are hosted at studios/gallery spaces in NYC. (We are always looking for potential hosts that are willing to accomodate 50+ people. Please email us if you’re interested in hosting or sponsoring one of our events!)

Fantastic write-up of this morning’s CreativeMornings Talk by Allan Chochinov over at soulellis.com. Thank you Paul!

UPDATE: And here’s a write-up from over at Design Is People. (Scroll down to the end of the post for a quite amusing picture of me taking a virtual bite out of the breakfast buffet.)

Tilo (12 days) and I had the honor to experience the event from ‘the other side’ as Virtual Guests. Below are some images I took during the event. Quite a surreal experience, I must say! I even got to ‘virtually’ enjoy the breakfast, generously sponsored by MailChimp!

Allan’s talk about “Cascading sequence of contingencies and consequences” (#bucketfail), including an impressive serenade in the beginning for Tilo, will be posted on www.creativemornings.com shortly! Stay tuned!

(image by design is people)

I am excited to announce next week’s CreativeMorning, on February 26, 2010, with Allan Chochinov.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Allan Chochinov is the editor-in-chief of Core77.com, the widely read design website, Coroflot.com design job and portfolio site, and DesignDirectory.com design firm database.

Some of you might be familiar with his A Manifesto for Sustainability in Design or his fantastic article Those Who Can, Teach. 1000 words of advice for design teachers.
that I have linked up before.

HOST
A big thank you to Liz Danzico and her team at the MFA in Interaction Design Program at SVA for hosting our February CreativeMornings. Liz will also be the one welcoming everyone and introducing the speaker as I am unfortunately not able to attend, due to the arrival of little swissmister. A big thank you to Liz, for taking over!

R.S.V.P
Interested in attending? Make sure to get your free ticket over on creativemornings.eventbrite.com quickly as we usually fill up fast. Please tell us your name and what industry you’re in. CreativeMornings start at 8.30am, end at 10am and are FREE of charge.

BREAKFAST SPONSOR

Breakfast will be generously sponsored by our new main sponsor MailChimp, 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!

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? ‘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. The whole thing closes down at 10am. The events are hosted at studios/gallery spaces in NYC. (We are always looking for potential hosts that are willing to accomodate 50+ people. Please email us if you’re interested in hosting or sponsoring one of our events!)

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)

Amazing Michael Bierut was today’s CreativeMornings speaker and boy did he set the bar high for any upcoming events. Galapagos was jam-packed with approx 300 attendees, attentively listening to Michael’s brandnew talk about ‘Clients’. A few weeks back, he asked me if I had anything specific in mind for him to talk about, and as I had a particularly bad client experience that day, I basically said: “I would love to hear your wisdom when it comes to dealing and handling clients!” Very much to my surprise, Michael whipped together a fantastic talk about just that. I can not wait to share the talk with you once the video is ready. (For now, you can check out previous talks over at vimeo.com/creativemornings.)

If you would like to read up on some of the things Michael Bierut had to say in his talk, please refer to the below write-ups:
- by soulellis.com.
- by Design is People
- by Hyperfocus
- by something massive

A big thank you to Blurb and Behance for sponsoring breakfast. (Lucky us, Behance handed out their brandnew line of action products which will only go on sale next week! Whee!)

A big virtual wave to Galapagos and their team for hosting this morning’s event. Can a venue be any cooler? Make sure to sign up with their Mailing List so you stay on top of cool happenings at Galapagos DUMBO.

Jon Tan of Analog, located in Bristol UK was our virtual guest this morning. Make sure to check out his blog filled with web typography goodness.

And a big thank you goes to Roland for filming and my dear friend Sara Wasilausky for shooting the morning and Brian Luckey for color-correcting the shots. No idea what I would have done without you all!

You can see the photos of this mornings event over at flickr.

12/11 Charlie Todd from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.

How incredibly excited and honored am I to announce our January CreativeMornings speaker, Michael Bierut? (gasp!)

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. Prior to joining Pentagram in 1990 as a partner in the firm’s New York office, he worked for ten years at Vignelli Associates, ultimately as vice president of graphic design. His clients at Pentagram have included The Council of Fashion Designers of America, Harley-Davidson, The Minnesota Children’s Museum, The Walt Disney Company, Mohawk Paper Mills, Motorola, Princeton University, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the New York Jets.

Bierut’s work is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Montreal. He has served as president of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) from 1988 to 1990 and is president emeritus of AIGA National. Michael was elected to the Alliance Graphique Internationale in 1989, and was elected to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 2003. Michael is a Senior Critic in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art. He writes frequently about design and the co-editor of the four-volume series Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphicpublished by Allworth Press. In 1998 he co-edited and designed the monograph Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist. His commentaries about graphic design in everyday life can be heard nationally on the Public Radio International program “Studio 360.”

HOST
This month’s event will be hosted by the folks over at the amazing Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO. If you are not familiar with the space, get ready for a real treat. Also, this will be the first time ever there will be a bar (!) serving Mimosa’s and Bloody Marys. Yes, you read right! We are starting off the new year with a bang!

Interested in attending? Make sure to get your free ticket over on creativemornings.eventbrite.com quickly as we usually fill up fast. Please tell us your name and what industry you’re in. CreativeMornings start at 8.30am, end at 10am and are FREE of charge.

BREAKFAST SPONSORS
A big thank you to this month’s breakfast sponsors Blurb and Behance Outfitter.

At this month’s CreativeMorning Behance Outfitter will be celebrating the launch of a new line of yet-to-be-announced products, designed for productivity. I can’t wait to see what Scott and Matias came up with this time!

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.)

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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? ‘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. The whole thing closes down at 10am. The events are hosted at studios/gallery spaces in NYC. (We are always looking for potential hosts that are willing to accomodate 50+ people. Please email us if you’re interested in hosting or sponsoring one of our events!)

(Look, we’re all loving our FieldNotes.Thank you Jim!)

(How cool is this Christmas Tree by Ian Trask which is part of Recession Art?)

Today’s CreativeMorning with Charlie Todd of ImprovEverywhere was a huge success. His talk was incredibly entertaining, I don’t think the crowd has ever laughed so much at a CreativeMorning. A big thank you to Lucien Zayan, the wonderful host at the Invisible Dog Space and to Jim Coudal over at FieldNotes for sponsoring breakfast. Here are all the photos of today’s event.

45 cancelations & no-shows today. Does one really need to start a black list, or as Cameron calls is the ‘swissmissed-list’? :(

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?

How excited am I to announce next week’s CreativeMorning?

Charlie Todd, the inspiring force behind Improv Everywhere will be our upcoming speaker and I am *thrilled*! I am a huge fan of Charlie’s Flash Mob Missions and can’t wait to hear more about the person behind it all.

For those of you not familiar with Improv Everywhere: Improv Everywhere regularly organizes scenes of ‘chaos’ and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 100 missions involving tens of thousands of volunteer undercover agents. The group is based in New York City. Some of my personal mission highlights are:

Frozen Grand Central:

Invisible Dog

It’s in fact the Invisible Dog mission that connected me with Charlie of Improv Everywhere, Keith Schweitzer of No Longer Empty and finally Lucien Zayan our host this month and the inspiring force behind the Invisible Dog Space in Brooklyn. (Here’s an article on Lucien’s mission over at the NYTimes.) The Invisible Dog Space is at 51 Bergen Street, right off Smith Street and calls a three story factory building its home. The Invisible Dog Space includes an art gallery, artist studios, a huge open event space, an amazing freight elevator and a basement filled with vintage finds. (I was lucky enough to get a full tour and truly fell in love with the building and cause!) A big thank you to Lucien for generously hosting this month’s CreativeMorning.

Interested in attending? Make sure to r.s.v.p via email quickly as we usually fill up fast. Please tell us your name and what industry you’re in. (Check your inbox for a confirmation email!) CreativeMornings start at 8.30am, end at 10am and are FREE of charge. I am sorry but we’ve reached full capacity!

This month’s breakfast is generously sponsored by 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.”

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? ‘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. The whole thing closes down at 10am. The events are hosted at studios/gallery spaces in NYC. (We are always looking for potential hosts that are willing to accomodate 50+ people. Please email us if you’re interested in hosting or sponsoring one of our events!)