I am the Creative Director at Media Temple. I I live and work in Los Angeles, California where I also run the Los Angeles chapter of Creative Mornings.
I am really looking forward to January’s edition of LosAngeles/CreativeMornings with National Forest. I’ve been an admirer of their work for years now and I have a few pieces of Steven Harrington’s work in my “collection.” I stopped by their studio the other day to take some pics and chat with them up the upcoming event. They really couldn’t have been nicer guys and anyone who is coming to see them speak on the 20th is in for a treat. RSVPs open up on 1/16 at 11am.
Last Thursday night we had our second Creative Mornings at night. This time our speaker was the legendary Roger Gastman. Gastman has been at the forefront of street art and graffiti for years and years. He founded the magazines While Your Were Sleeping and Swindle, he was one of the produces and creative consultant for Exit Through The Gift Shop, he co-curated the Art in the Street show at MOCA and he recently wrote The History of American Graffiti. His talk was a short history of how he got where he is today, including bank-rolling a European trip, and most of his early business success, by selling graffiti caps. We’ll be posting a video of his talk on the LACM Vimeo page in the next couple of weeks.
Thanks to everyone who turned up. We had a big crowd and many thanks to Willard Ford at Ford & Ching for getting this all going.
The event is currently sold out, but go ahead and add your name to the wait list for our second LA/CM (at night) with the legendary Roger Gastman. Huge thanks to Willard Ford and the 722 crew for helping make this happen.
Our July Creative Mornings was one of our biggest productions yet and featured the dynamic husband/wife duo behind Poketo. Ted and Angie gave a wonderfully honest and personable presentation about how they built their brand, how they’ve grown their business and where they’re taking it. The talk took place at the stunning Herman Miller Showroom in Culver City which is one of the more beautiful office spaces I have ever seen. Everyone kept saying “It’s Herman Miller. You expect it, but even this is surprisingly awesome.” So many people to thank for this one – firstly the Poketo crew: Ted and Angie from Poketo, all the Poketo employees especially Dikka who took the rad photos above. Secondly, everyone at Herman Miller: Cerentha (editor of Lifework who got the ball rolling), Julie and Gigi (pictured with Ted and Angie above) who took care of literally EVERYTHING so I didn’t have to. Big thanks to all our volunteers specifically Grant Keiner for shooting video. See you in all in August!
On June 25th Willard Ford and I put on the first (of hopefully many) CreativeMornings (at night). These quarterly nighttime events will give us the opportunity to bring speakers from outside in LA into town to talk. Our first speaker was David Trubridge from New Zealand. Trubridge, famous for the lights you see above, gave an enlightening talk about our place in nature, the future of design and the importance to get outside, connect with nature and listen.
