Creative Mornings
A fascinating talk by two successful start-uppers about their past adventures and what’s next for their team…
I loved the way they shared their failures and successes – and how luck played such a big part in success. There seem to be so many start ups now, but rarely do you hear about luck being a part of it.
2012/07 Will Hudson from CreativeMornings/London on Vimeo.
Ok, we admit that a big part of going to this Creative Morning talk was to see the Google Campus space designed by the same interiors company as our office. It's a beautiful space with a great cafe downstairs. But no one was disappointed with the talk either. Will's focus on the power of a brand was really inspiring to me, as we are facing many issues from a stagnant brand while redesigning uSwitch.com. To see how he has shaped businesses from such an emphasis on a core principle, and how that doesn't close his scope but allows him to expand his horizon from a magazine, to a shop, events, and who knows what's next... a pub?
2012/05 Peter Gregson from CreativeMornings/London on Vimeo.
One of the things I've always like about Creative Mornings is the diversity in the scope of the events. It's not just about the discipline of design - it's anything to do with creativity. The areas that Peter is exploring in his music and blending it with technology has a lot of similarities to our work, and I especially liked his emphasis on the technology working for us, not creativity working around technology. This is a super important point to remember in user experience design; it's worth going the extra mile technically so the experience is seamless for the user who is not even aware of the complexity involved.
2012/04 Jonty Sharples from CreativeMornings/London on Vimeo.
What a great way to start my birthday - with hosting another Creative Mornings event! In between topping up coffee suppliers, we met some great people at Jonty's talk about Arrogance & Design. He gave a very interesting talk about our industry and challenged us to approach design with a stronger conscience - not just design for design's sake.
2011/10 David McCandless of Information is Beautiful from CreativeMornings/London on Vimeo.
Having David McCandless to speak at Forward is a perfect match. We work in such a data-focussed company and here is one of the biggest names in infographics and visual presentation of data sharing his stories, experience and top-tips. I think Forwardians at least half-filled the auditorium space at this super popular talk - it's been a fantastic morning (despite some continued technical hiccups... we'll have them ironed out for the next CM we host!)
2011/08 Sandy Suffield of Things&People from CreativeMornings/London on Vimeo.
Our first-time hosting an event has been a learning curve, but a really fun one! Sandy's talk was great and it was so nice to welcome other London creatives to our office space. I'm looking forward to more CM events!
The perfect ingredients: Creative Mornings, free design talks which started in NYC and now expanding to London + Forward, the London internet company I work for with newly finished awesome offices... Creative Mornings/London is born! We're hosting our first event in August, and we're super excited about it!