Contemplating CreativeMornings and Zooming in on the Chicago Chapter

CreativeMornings is an international series of monthly talks dedicated to creativity and its community. There are currently chapters in 164 cities—in 2011, it came to Chicago, “My Kind of Town.” And CreativeMornings is my kind of design conference: local, no-frills and grounded. What I find in CreativeMornings is the same renewable source of vitality that drives my passion project of Design Feast: creative culture.

Having started in January, designer and Chicagoan Jen Marquez is the new organi...