Some words of wisdom from Sonja Rasula of UNIQUE LA at the March 2012 CreativeMornings/LosAngeles. A big thanks to Jeremiah Garcia for photography at this event.
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Some words of wisdom from Sonja Rasula of UNIQUE LA at the March 2012 CreativeMornings/LosAngeles.

A big thanks to Jeremiah Garcia for photography at this event.

At this CreativeMornings/LosAngeles talk, Bobby Solomon speaks about “Things I’ve Learned from Being Bored” and how he started his popular blog, The Fox is Black.

A big giant thank you to Grant Withington and Stephen Haynes for offering to shoot and edit the video, with assistance from Michael Mahaffey.

You already know what your destiny is. A lot of it is unlearning the things that block your way to it. Sharon Ann Lee, Culture Brain speaking at CreativeMornings/Los Angeles (*watch the talk)
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You already know what your destiny is. A lot of it is unlearning the things that block your way to it.

Sharon Ann Lee, Culture Brain
speaking at CreativeMornings/Los Angeles (*watch the talk)

CreativeMornings: The Audience Takes The Stage! A suuuper special event on Dec. 16 in NYC and LA To celebrate the end of an exciting year for CreativeMornings, we sent out an open call (you can watch our silly video here) to our amazing audience members to find 6 inspiring CreativeMornings-goers to take the stage in NYC and LA. We were overwhelmed with the response, so we caved and we picked 7 people to give an 8min talk at December CMs. We’re soo excited to announce the allstar lineup! *drumroll* Presenting in Los Angeles - Event details ——-EDWARD BOATMAN Edward Boatman is one of the founders of The Noun Project, a growing visual dictionary of the symbols and icons that form the world’s visual language.  Trained in design and architecture, Edward has always been fascinated by hieroglyphics and modern day symbols, and their ability as a visual communication tool to transcend cultural differences. thenounproject.com ——-SHANNON FLAHERTY Shannon Flaherty is the writer/blogger behind Hustle Up—an interview-format blog about inspirations and destinations. With a masters degree from UCLA and a client roster that includes big name brands in arts and entertainment, Shannon writes about her own hustle and the hustle of others. Since starting Hustle Up in 2007, Shannon has posted close to 100 “Hustle File” profiles asking creative types, “What’s Your Hustle?” “What Does Your Hustle Mean to You?” and other hustle-related questions.Hustle Up  ——-PAUL SCRIVENS Paul is known worldwide in his head. This also happened to be the first community he was ever allowed to join. He helped to create the first independent blog network, 9rules, and hasn’t stopped creating online communities since. Paul currently runs Drawar, an imagination community, and is the Product Designer at (mt) Media Temple.drawar.com ——- Presenting in New York - Event details ——-PRESCOTT PEREZ-FOX A designer and brand developer based in Jersey City, NJ. He is the founder of Starship Design and runs the blog Your Business Card Sucks .comperezfox.com   ——-CATHERINE MULBRANDON Combining her background in finance, economics and interaction design, Catherine Mulbrandon launched Visualizing Economics in 2006 to share her love of data graphics about economics. She is currently working on An Illustrated Guide to Income in the United States.visualizingeconomics.com ——-LARRY LEGEND A software developer obsessed with great design, user experience, and the web, and the founder of House of Legend, an iPhone and iPad app development company based in Brooklyn, NY. Before getting back in touch with his computer nerd roots, Larry graduated from the Berklee College of Music and engineered over two dozen commercial recordings, for clients as diverse as Xzibit, GZA, DJ Logic, Ron Carter, and Spin Magazine.houseoflegend.com ——-DAN PROVOST A designer living and working in New York City. He is the cofounder (along with Tom Gerhardt) of Studio Neat, a design studio with the goal of creating simple products at a small scale. (Creators of the Glif and the Cosmonaut)studioneat.com  ——- See you on the 16th!
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CreativeMornings: The Audience Takes The Stage!
A suuuper special event on Dec. 16 in NYC and LA

To celebrate the end of an exciting year for CreativeMornings, we sent out an open call (you can watch our silly video here) to our amazing audience members to find 6 inspiring CreativeMornings-goers to take the stage in NYC and LA. We were overwhelmed with the response, so we caved and we picked 7 people to give an 8min talk at December CMs.

We’re soo excited to announce the allstar lineup! *drumroll*

Presenting in Los Angeles - Event details
——-
EDWARD BOATMAN
Edward Boatman is one of the founders of The Noun Project, a growing visual dictionary of the symbols and icons that form the world’s visual language.  Trained in design and architecture, Edward has always been fascinated by hieroglyphics and modern day symbols, and their ability as a visual communication tool to transcend cultural differences. 
thenounproject.com

——-
SHANNON FLAHERTY
Shannon Flaherty is the writer/blogger behind Hustle Up—an interview-format blog about inspirations and destinations. With a masters degree from UCLA and a client roster that includes big name brands in arts and entertainment, Shannon writes about her own hustle and the hustle of others. Since starting Hustle Up in 2007, Shannon has posted close to 100 “Hustle File” profiles asking creative types, “What’s Your Hustle?” “What Does Your Hustle Mean to You?” and other hustle-related questions.
Hustle Up

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PAUL SCRIVENS
Paul is known worldwide in his head. This also happened to be the first community he was ever allowed to join. He helped to create the first independent blog network, 9rules, and hasn’t stopped creating online communities since. Paul currently runs Drawar, an imagination community, and is the Product Designer at (mt) Media Temple.
drawar.com
——-


Presenting in New York - Event details
——-
PRESCOTT PEREZ-FOX
A designer and brand developer based in Jersey City, NJ. He is the founder of Starship Design and runs the blog Your Business Card Sucks .com
perezfox.com
 
——-
CATHERINE MULBRANDON
Combining her background in finance, economics and interaction design, Catherine Mulbrandon launched Visualizing Economics in 2006 to share her love of data graphics about economics. She is currently working on An Illustrated Guide to Income in the United States.
visualizingeconomics.com

——-
LARRY LEGEND
A software developer obsessed with great design, user experience, and the web, and the founder of House of Legend, an iPhone and iPad app development company based in Brooklyn, NY. Before getting back in touch with his computer nerd roots, Larry graduated from the Berklee College of Music and engineered over two dozen commercial recordings, for clients as diverse as Xzibit, GZA, DJ Logic, Ron Carter, and Spin Magazine.
houseoflegend.com

——-
DAN PROVOST
A designer living and working in New York City. He is the cofounder (along with Tom Gerhardt) of Studio Neat, a design studio with the goal of creating simple products at a small scale. (Creators of the Glif and the Cosmonaut)
studioneat.com 

——-


See you on the 16th!

Our CreativeMornings speaker at the September 2011 Los Angeles event was trend analyst/author Sharon Ann Lee.

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.

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Whatever your passion is, put it out there. There will be people that love whatever you love. Bobby Solomon, The Fox Is Black speaking at CreativeMornings/LosAngeles (watch the talk)
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Whatever your passion is, put it out there. There will be people that love whatever you love.

Bobby Solomon, The Fox Is Black
speaking at CreativeMornings/LosAngeles (watch the talk)

Poketo looks back on the July 2011 LA/CreativeMornings

creativemorningslosangeles:

Read Poketo’s account of their great LosAngeles/CreativeMornings talk from last month. Thanks for the great write-up!

Exciting week for CreativeMornings! The following events will be happening this Friday, with all sign ups opening (Zurich is already filled up!) today. CreativeMornings/Chicago with Digital Kitchen [Event Page] Sign ups at 11am CDT CreativeMornings/Zurich with Alain Leclerc von Bonin [Event Page] Sign ups full, add yourself to the waitlist CreativeMornings/LosAngeles with Brad Swonetz [Event Page] Sign ups at 11am PST CreativeMornings/SanFrancisco with Anna Rascouët-Paz [Event Page] Sign ups at 11am PST Photo from CM/SanFrancisco w/ Matt Honan
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Exciting week for CreativeMornings!

The following events will be happening this Friday, with all sign ups opening (Zurich is already filled up!) today.

CreativeMornings/Chicago with Digital Kitchen
[Event Page] Sign ups at 11am CDT

CreativeMornings/Zurich with Alain Leclerc von Bonin
[Event Page] Sign ups full, add yourself to the waitlist

CreativeMornings/LosAngeles with Brad Swonetz
[Event Page] Sign ups at 11am PST

CreativeMornings/SanFrancisco with Anna Rascouët-Paz
[Event Page] Sign ups at 11am PST

Photo from CM/SanFrancisco w/ Matt Honan

From the inaugural CreativeMornings/LosAngeles: Zach Frechette, co-founder of GOOD Magazine, talks about the story behind and experience of starting GOOD.