Here’s an event I’d go to in a heartbeat if I’d live in Boston: “Beyond Helvetica: a look at the power of typography” – Lecture with Ken Barber and François Rappo at MIT.
On October 27, 2010 from 6.30-9pm at MIT Room 3-270
Beyond Helvetica…
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The Feast Conference
I am thrilled to be attending the The Feast Conference October 14-16 in NYC. I thoroughly enjoyed the past two year’s events and can’t wait to see some of this year’s speakers. The list is impressive, and includes
Scott Belsky, founder of Behance
Rachel Botsman, Author of Collaborative Consumption
Adman Braun, Founder & Executive Director Pencils of Promise
John Forte, Musician johnforte.com
Dr. Mitchell Joachim, Co-founder & NYU Professor Terreform ONE
Naveen Selvadurai, Co-Founder Foursquare
Tony Wagner Co-director Change Leadership Group, Harvard Graduate School of Education
The Feast brings together leading creative entrepreneurs, revolutionaries, radicals, doers and thinkers to inspire more action, share best practices, and create valuable connections that will change the world. And I can attest that I had some of the most inspiring conference break conversations at last year’s conference.
FREITAG am Donnerstag: Talk 3
This thursday will be last of our three «FREITAG am Donnerstag» talks, a mini lecture series I am curating and partially moderating for FREITAG, to celebrate their new REFERENCE collection.
So far, Khoi Vinh and David Rowan have been so generous to share their thinking and insights in two exciting talks. This thursday, Peter Hossli will be sharing his thoughts on the topic of journalism at the FREITAG REFERENCE editorial space in Zurich that the bros. have set up for the month of September. (read more here)
Space is extremely limited (50 spots max). 25 spots will go to a carefully selected group of people but 25 slots will each time be available for swissmiss readers. Maybe you? (No worries, for those of you who can’t make it either because you are too far away or you didn’t get a slot, we will tape the talks and then share here on swissmiss.)
Peter Hossli, Reporter SonntagsBlick Magazine
September 23rd, 8.30am – 1oam
Moderated by the FREITAG bros.
Send us an email if you’d like to attend this thursday’s talk with Peter Hossli. (These talks will be in a rather intimate setting and we anticipate a lively discussion after each talk. We’d love to have people attend with a serious interest in the topic of journalism and media.)
Send your email to [email protected]. (Please note this event is in ZURICH!)
We will get back to you and let you know if you made it on the list.
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!
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
Season Six of Design Matters
Lovely Debbie Millman just announced Season Six of Design Matters. It will premiere on Design Observer this Friday at 3pm with my legendary guest Massimo Vignelli.
After an entire year off air to launch the Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts, Debbie is returning to regular broadcasts and a full season of interviews with designers, artists, writers, thought leaders and general all-around provocateurs.
Design Matters began in February of 2005 with an idea and a telephone line. Mostly, she started out doing it for herself–she thought it would be a great way to ask her guests everything she wanted to know about their lives and their thoughts and their careers without seeming stalker-y. In the process, she realized the opportunity to share the insights of her guests with a listenership.
Friday marks the beginning of a new season on a new station as well. She will be recording her shows live in the brand spanking new recording studio at 132 West 21st Street in NYC—home of the Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts —and the shows will be aired at the regular time online: 3PM on Fridays. Design Observer will be broadcasting Design Matters, and you can listen to both the new episodes, as well as the entire archive of past shows here: www.designobserver.com.
Guests for for Season Six include Massimo Vignelli, Stephen Doyle, Eric Baker, Ralph Caplan, Marjan Bantjes, Kate Bingaman-Burt, Dominique Browning, Steven Heller, Alexandra Lange & Jane Thompson, James Victore, Tina Roth Eisenberg (gulp) and more…
FREITAG am Donnerstag
I am happy to announce «FREITAG am Donnerstag» (Friday on Thursday), a mini lecture series I am curating and partially moderating for FREITAG, to celebrate their new REFERENCE collection.
Three renowned international speakers are going to share their thoughts on the topic of journalism and media. The «FREITAG am Donnerstag» talk series will take place at the FREITAG REFERENCE editorial space in Zurich that the bros. have set up for the month of September. (read more here)
Space is extremely limited (50 spots max). 25 spots will go to a carefully selected group of people but 25 slots will each time be available for swissmiss readers. Maybe you? (No worries, for those of you who can’t make it either because you are too far away or you didn’t get a slot, we will tape the talks and then share here on swissmiss.)
SPEAKERS:
Khoi Vinh, former NewYorkTimes.com Design Director
September 9th, 8.30am – 10am
Moderated by swissmiss.
David Rowan, Editor WIRED Magazine UK
September 17th, 8.30am – 10am
Moderated by the FREITAG bros.
(We realize that the series is called Friday on Thursday but this event is happening on a friday. Consider this one talk ‘Friday on Friday’)
Peter Hossli, Reporter SonntagsBlick Magazine
September 23rd, 8.30am – 1oam
Moderated by the FREITAG bros.
HOW TO SIGN UP:
Get your name on the list of potential attendees by sending us an email with your preferred date/speaker in the subject line. These talks will be in a rather intimate setting and we anticipate a lively discussion after each talk. We’d love to have people attend with a serious interest in the topic of journalism and media.
Send your email to [email protected].
We will get back to you and let you know if you made it on the list.
Brooklyn Beta
My fab studio mates Cameron and Chris have been working hard in getting a brand new Brooklyn based web conference off the ground: Brooklyn Beta!
Chris and Cameron want Brooklyn Beta to be the friendliest web conference you’ve ever attended. Their goal for the conference is to inspire you to “make your own stuff.” They’d love to see what the Web would be like if all you talented web people started using your magical abilities to bring your own ideas to life.
They hope you’ll leave inspired and anxious to build something of your own to beta in 2011. If that happens, you’ll have a hard time wiping the smiles off their faces.
BrooklynBeta, the site, launched today and while you can not register yet for the conference day you can register for the Workshops.
Please note that space is extremely limited. They want this to be an intimate conference where attendees play just as important a role as speakers. The workshops will sell out pretty quickly! So, go and register quickly.
See you there! Brooklyn Beta!
Follow BrooklynBeta on Twitter.
Joshua Viertel: Slow Food USA
The below talk by Joshua Viertel was my favorite presentation at last year’s FEAST conference. Enjoy:
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.
reSPECt
AIGA Metro-North’s reSPECt is a civilized dialog between advocates and opponents of speculative branding and design work.
Is speculative (spec) work productive and fair? Can it enable clients to achieve goals that are not possible with traditional work-for hire practices? Does it advance the fortunes of some at the expense of others? What are the rewards and perils of speculative work?
Once a rare practice, spec, or “try before you buy”, work is being requested a growing number of businesses-startups to global organizations. Many believe that the call for unpaid work is being fueled by changing mores, new forms of crowd-sourcing, and economic stress–but whatever the cause, spec work has the potential to upend the economic model of the industry.
Moderated by New York State Supreme Court Justice Colleen D. Duffy, our diverse panel explored if, why, and how spec work has a rightful place in the way projects are structured. The evening’s goal was to outline a way forward that meets the functional, economic, and ethical needs of clients and practitioners.
The panel included:
• Ric Grefé, Executive Director, AIGA
• Brendán Murphy, Senior Partner, Lippincott
• Jerry Kathman, President & CEO, LPK
• John Gleason, Founder & President, A Better View
Held June 24th, 2010 at the The Ossining Public Library’s Camille Budarz Theater.
reSPECt (an AIGA Metro-North Event) from Scott Lerman on Vimeo.
Brand New Conference
UnderConsideration is starting a conference. Focusing on corporate and brand identity, the conference is a direct extension of the popular blog Brand New.
The inaugural conference takes place in New York City as it is undoubtedly one of the most important hubs of identity practice and, presumably, an allure to out-of-towners who might be inclined to attend the conference and make a weekend out of it. The venue for the conference will be the School of Visual Arts Theatre, in the Beatrice auditorium, which holds 266 attendees.
The speaker line-up is nothing short of impressive. I am not surprised. When Armin and Bryony do something, they do it right.
Very much looking forward to this. Yay!
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.
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.
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!
DIY Days
Why haven’t I heard of DIY Days earlier? Seems like a fantastic conference and overall idea. Can’t believe I just missed it.
DIY Days from Sabi Pictures on Vimeo.
99% Conference 2010: Motion Graphics
I truly enjoyed the 99% Conference 2010: Motion Graphics. In the spirit of making ideas happen, they evolve the identity of the 99% Conference every year. For the 2010 edition of this intimate gathering focused on creative execution, the motion graphics were all about bold colors and crisp, decisive movement.
Art direction by Behance’s Matias Corea, animation by Hugh Gran.
99% Conference 2010: Motion Graphics from 99% on Vimeo.
TDC | Beautifully Banal
I had the honor to be part of this very cool project by The Type Directors Club called Beautifully Banal.
TDC and Cardon Copy asked 16 designers to find a classified/personal newspaper ad from our local community to “hijack” typographically. When redesigned, the once banal and disposable classified ads are reinterpreted by the designer into a one-of-a-kind collectible poster. Each poster will be auctioned on Tuesday evening, May 11th (starting at 6:00 pm), with proceeds to benefit the TDC Scholarship Fund.
I also happen to give a talk that night, right before the auction. To register please email the TDC (email on the bottom of this page) or call 1-212-633-8943.
The original classified:
UPDATE: One of my readers, Erik Wessel, pointed out that my classified seems to be from a puppy mill. I had no idea and am sorry to be giving this breeder additional attention with my poster. If you do get a puppy (or a poodle for that matter) please make sure to go through breeders that treat their animals with respect and dignity.
I am *not* endorsing the sale of puppies like this or this breeder, and I simply chose this ad because the idea of “poodles, all colors” was attractive to me as a designer.
swissmiss PSFK Talk
Below is a video of the talk I gave at this year’s PSFK conference. Thank you for having me Piers!
Spark Panel
I have the honor to be on a panel discussing “Designers Developing Additional Revenue Streams” this coming tuesday, May4th, organized by Spark. Also on the panel are Stuart Constantine of Core77 and Angela Voulangas. The panel will be moderated by Jennifer Rittner.
Tuesday, May 4th
Spark Speak Designers Developing Additional Revenue Streams
Where: Noble Desktop 594 Broadway, Suite 1202, New York, NY 10012 | MAP
Time: 6:30pm time to chat; 7:00pm discussion begins
Cost: Free for Spark members and $10 for non-members
RSVP: [email protected]
For more info click here.
CreativeMornings Video: Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
Our speaker at the March 2010 CreativeMornings was Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan of Apartment Therapy hosted at the fabulous Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn. Enjoy Maxwell’s wonderfully personal talk in the video below. A big giant thank you to Sy Abudu who has been generously offering her video and editing skills.
2010/03 Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.