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December 30, 2015
Keeping it weird: Artist Brian Keller at 47th monthly CreativeMornings in Chicago
Source: Chris Mendoza
November 2015: Visual artist Brian Keller spoke at the 47th gathering of the Chicago chapter of CreativeMornings. Keller began his career at digital-cable channel G4 in Los Angeles. He wrote, produced and directed TV segments, including in-studio interviews with celebrities. Feeling homesick, he returned to Chicago where he established “Brain Killer,” a studio where he pursues his passion for making art, whether in the form of music videos or branded communication for cli...
November 29, 2015
Politics as usual: Artist Rashayla Marie Brown at 46th monthly CreativeMornings in Chicago
Source: Chris Gallevo
At the October 2015 gathering of CreativeMornings/Chicago, Artist Rashayla Marie Brown presented a sampling of her creative work expressing her manifesto: “The personal is political.” Like most, if not all, constitutions, it’s loaded. Brown addressed a lot of charged topics during her talk: race, identity, representation and stereotypes. These areas, each a respective universe, are expressed through her photography, spoken-word and dancing performances. To me, Brown...
November 6, 2015
Empathy reloaded: Interaction Designer Antonio Garcia at 45th monthly CreativeMornings in Chicago
Source: Kyle Eertmoed
At the 45th gathering of the Chicago chapter of CreativeMornings, interaction designer Antonio Garcia addressed the concept of “Empathy,” CreativeMornings’ global theme for August. His talk focused on truly understanding another person and what she or he is feeling, compared to the ease of being presumptive and condescending. To act in a hospitable manner. He issued a the tall order: “Be excellent to each other.” It serves as homework, for humans...
October 31, 2015
Boldly weathering storms: 8th gathering of the annual Cusp Conference in Chicago, 2015
The 8th Cusp Conference was held on October 7th and 8th in Chicago. Its lens is wide, on purpose. The contrast between speakers—their culture, their passion, their discipline, their point in life, is high in order to broaden one’s exposure to practitioners and their chosen focus. Though each presentation is a short-lived slice into a topic, most probably never known before, let alone investigated, the effect is curiosity stimulated. And curiosity is a human quality in need of nourishing....
October 15, 2015
Pride, Work, and Necessity of Side Projects: Design of Healthcare by Joyce Lee, MD
What are you working on—on the side?
Design and Making. I am passionate about integrating patient-centered participatory design and the maker movement into healthcare.
This side project started when I fell into design by accident. You can read more about it here, but in short, I started designing/“making” tools for food allergies with my son, including a series of YouTube videos, educational nametags, cardboard creations and mobile applications. And along the way, I started working with a talen...
October 1, 2015
Pride, Work, and Necessity of Side Projects: The Coaching Fellowship by Jane Finette
What are you working on—on the side?
Two years ago, I created The Coaching Fellowship. What started as my personal goal to give back and coach a handful of young women leaders in the impact space, is now a tri-annual non-profit program which receives thousands of applications from 40+ countries and has awarded fellowships to more than 250 women. I have enabled and created a network of scores of coaches around the world, who—just like me, donate hours of their time each month to empower some of...
September 17, 2015
You See a Pothole, He Sees Potential: Mosaic Artist Jim Bachor, Chicago CreativeMornings
Source: Hannah Fehrman
Jim Bachor will change the way you think about potholes. At the 44th monthly gathering of CreativeMornings in Chicago, he focused his talk on these residual by-products of urban infrastructure. He doesn’t merely fill them, but rather populates them with personality. Instead of patching them up, he treats each pothole as a creative opportunity. His motivation: claiming his beloved city’s eyesores and turning them into playful visions of flowers, popsicles and ice cre...
September 16, 2015
Pride, Work, and Necessity of Side Projects: Jen Serafini’s Be Free, Lance
What are you working on—on the side?
In addition to having my own design studio, I have a couple side projects that I’m really passionate about. First, I’m the co-founder of Be Free, Lance with Breanna Rose, an online course for designers looking to be their own boss in some way, shape or form. It’s a four-week course that covers everything from finding your dream clients, to pricing your services, to finding a happy life/work balance. Breanna and I both became our own bosses by taking very di...
September 15, 2015
Pride, Work, and Necessity of Side Projects: Rachel Binx’s Making Care of Business
What are you working on—on the side?
Oh gosh! I have too many side projects. My “for the love” side project is called Making Care of Business, which is a collection of interviews with small business owners. The project started by me feeling isolated while working on my own eCommerce sites (Meshu, Monochōme and Gifpop!) and wanting to connect with other people who were going through the same processes. I wanted to know how other people dealt with customer service, shipping, supply chains—all of...
September 2, 2015
Anticipation for Cusp Conference 2015
If there is a sensation—an urgency—that humans crave, it’s creativity. It’s a heart-thumping, mind-bending variable. Creativity is, to borrow a phrase from neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, a person’s “real inmost story.” The state and nature of this story are aspects I enjoy noticing and learning through my series of interviews, as part of my Web-based project Design Feast. I especially enjoy the story of creativity unfold at the annual Cusp Conference.
For the third consecutive year, I ha...
