CreativeMornings/Toronto

CreativeMornings 18 with Peter Sanagan

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:50:00 -0400

Date: Thursday June 27
Time: Doors open + Coffee 8:30am / Lecture 9:00am / Event ends 10:00am
Location: Urban Space, 401 Richmond West. (Map)

Registration opens at 9:00am on Monday June 24th. Check back here for the registration link.

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Peter Sanagan

Peter Sanagan is not your usual butcher. A chef by training, he has lead the kitchens of some of Toronto’s top restaurants like Auberge du Pommier and Mistura for 15 years. Peter is as aware of the image and profile of his business as the quality of the products he offers. After all a butcher shop with 3000+ twitter followers is an indication of something different going on.

After his years of cooking in the city, equipped with enthusiasm and curiosity of his culinary explorations in Hong Kong in his younger years, Peter went north to Grey County and found himself fortunate to be cooking with exceptional local produce and meat. “I realized here that Toronto needed to discover the remarkable quality and variety of food produced by the small farmers who rarely have the means to get their goods into big city shops” he says.

Everything fell into place when he stumbled upon a the For Sale sign of Max and Son butcher shop, a 50 year old store in Kensington Market. A week later Sanagan’s Meat Locker picked up where Solly Stern has left off and the rest is lamb chop history.

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Swipe Design | Books + Objects

Swipe is an independent store with a selection of contemporary books on graphic design, advertising, architecture and urbanism worthy of space on the most enlightened of shelves.

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401 Richmond is a restored, heritage-designated, industrial building in downtown Toronto that is home to over 140 artists, cultural producers, microenterprises, galleries, festivals, and shops.

creativemornings: “Design the experience.” Paddy Harrington,...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:30:52 -0400

creativemornings:

“Design the experience.”

Paddy Harrington, Executive Creative Director at Bruce Mau Design
speaking at CreativeMornings/Toronto(*watch the talk)

Spring Break

Sun, 26 May 2013 21:07:45 -0400

Hello Toronto friends. We are taking a little break this month as schedules of our speakers (and the back up speakers) had to change unexpectedly.

In the meantime we will be releasing videos of some of the most popular lectures of the past few months starting with this thoughtful presentation by Underline Studio.

We are really excited with our 2013 lineup of speakers and have some special events and treats planned for you along the way. Keep in touch on Facebook, Twitter and via the email list (right here on the left column).

Enjoy the talk and send us your speaker nominations on facebook!

CreativeMornings 17 with Zahra Ebrahim

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:42:00 -0400

Date: Friday April 26
Time: Doors open + Coffee 8:30am / Lecture 9:00am / Event ends 10:00am
Location: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto

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Zahra Ebrahim

Zahra Ebrahim is the Founder and Principal of the design think tank and creative agency, archiTEXT. Born in Kenya, raised in Vancouver, and educated at McGill University in Montreal, she started archiTEXT at 22 years old as a place to bring together diverse groups to tackle the intersections of architecture and design with social change, to explore the impact of design and creativity on systems change, and to engage the public in a discourse of design and design thinking as a mechanism for creative problem solving.

At 24, Zahra was invited to teach at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) in the Think Tank program, getting the next generation of designers asking complex questions of themselves and the world around them. Zahra spent two years serving as Innovator in Residence at Canada’s National Design Museum, the Design Exchange. In recent years she has become increasingly committed to exploring the space where design, creativity, and play engage with systems change, sparking initiatives that create conversation and activate innovation.

Her work has been featured in Luminato, Come Up To My Room, Nuit Blanche, Toronto Design Offsite, TEDxTalks, as well as on CBC, The Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star. She has been the recipient of several innovation and entrepreneurship awards internationally, most recently as one of the Global Knowledge Partnership’s Top 100 Young Global Social Entrepreneurs.

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More than a hotel,The Gladstone is a social and cultural incubator facilitating sustainable and accessible ways of experiencing art, culture, community, and local cuisine. We host over 100 arts-related events each and every month!

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Konrad Group is a leader in cutting edge mobile, web, and social application development. As an integrated team of specialists, they provide strategy, architecture, design, and development for some of the greatest brands and agencies in the world.

CreativeMornings 16 with Spencer Wynn

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:57:00 -0500

Date: Friday March 15
Time: Doors open + Coffee 8:30am / Lecture 9:00am / Event ends 10:00am
Location: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto

This event is free. Online registration starts on Monday March 11 at 9:00am. To receive a reminder follow @Toronto_CM and subscribe to our email list on the left.

Spencer Wynn

Spencer Wynn is currently the Deputy Art Director for the Toronto Star newspaper and has more than 28 years of editorial and corporate design experience.

He has been recognized nationally and internationally with awards of excellence in news, corporate and magazine design. He is called upon to lecture and evaluate graduating student work for colleges and high schools. In addition to design, Spencer has traveled extensively on assignment to shoot and write for the Star and a variety of freelance clients. He has been published in the Toronto Star, various travel sites and blogs, and the New York Times.

Spencer’s many visual interests and skill-sets contribute seamlessly into his design work and his sensibility as one of Canada’s leading designers.

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In a nutshell, Vitamin T was created to exclusively meet the unique needs of ad agencies, mid-sized companies and digital creatives. We spend our time connecting the best creatives in the industry and we’d love to connect with you at the Creative Mornings event!

Nora Young is the host and the creator of Spark, CBC Radio’s...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:26:43 -0500

Nora Young is the host and the creator of Spark, CBC Radio’s national radio show and podcast about technology and culture.

In this eloquent lecture she explores topics of virtual self, privacy, cyber activism and open data.

Get to know one of our February speakers better. Steve Frykholm,...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:50:00 -0500

Get to know one of our February speakers better. Steve Frykholm, Creative Director and Vice President at Herman Miller.

February event info

CreativeMornings 15 with Steve Frykholm and Clark Malcolm

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:58:00 -0500

We are please to announced this special two-hour event with two of most articulate and revered contemporary creators. We are thankful to our friends at HermanMiller who made this possible.

Date: Thursday February 28
Time: Doors open + Coffee 8:30am / Lecture 9:00am / Event ends 10:30am
Location: HermanMiller, 462 Wellington Street West, 4th floor Toronto
This event is free. Online registration starts on Monday February 25. cmto15.eventbrite.com

About the speakers

Steve Frykholm

Steve was Herman Miller’s first internal graphic designer. An employee for 42 years, he has been largely responsible for Herman Miller’s image and graphic identity, posters, annual reports and other collateral literature. Steve received Herman Miller’s highest recognition for an employee in 1986, The Carl F. Frost Award. In 2007, he received an AIGA Fellow, and in 2010 he received the AIGA Medal, the highest recognition from AIGA. He’s recognized as an annual report legend in Graphis and an American design icon in the 50th Anniversary Issue of Communication Arts.

Clark Malcolm

Clark has worked for Herman Miller since 1983 on almost every kind of communication project. He is author, co–author or editor of 16 books on leadership, management, design and architecture. The most memorable are five books with Max De Pree and one with Bill Stumpf. Clark has served on teams in marketing, R&D, HR, and corporate communications.

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Attendees will have the opportunity to explore HermanMiller’s elegant space and flip through books, magazine and other publications.

Social Capital Markets Keynote from Mark Surman, Mozilla...

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:48:59 -0500

Social Capital Markets
Keynote from Mark Surman, Mozilla Foundation - Embrace Disruption

Watch Mark Surman, our speaker on January 25th, talk about the...

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:37:53 -0500

Watch Mark Surman, our speaker on January 25th, talk about the future of the web and the important role that kids are already playing in it.

CreativeMornings 14 with Mark Surman

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:05:00 -0500

Speaker: Mark Surman, Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation

Date: Friday January 25th
Time: Doors open + Coffee 8:30am / Lecture 9:00am / Event ends 10:00am
Location: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto

This event is free. Register Online.

A community activist and technology executive of 20+ years, Mark currently serves as the Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, makers of Firefox and one of the largest social enterprises in the world. At Mozilla, he is focused on using the open technology and ethos of the web to transform fields such as education, journalism and filmmaking. Mark has overseen the development of Popcorn.js, which Wired has called the future of online video; the Open Badges initiative, launched by the US Secretary of Education; and the Knight Mozilla News Technology partnership, which seeks to reinvent the future of digital journalism.
Excerpt from Mozilla Press Center. Read more.

Read Mark’s opinions, findings and learning on his personal blog.

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Fridays Video Picks / LA / Singapore / Berlin

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:58:00 -0500

We are going to kick off 2013 with a series of Friday posts to bring you the best talks of 2012 as selected by our 42 enthusiastic organizers from around the globe.

John Ross Bowie talking about political campaign design and messaging (hilarious and insightful).

Fredrik Härén, hands down the most entertaining talk about creativity from the Author of The Idea Book.

And one for all you typography nuts out there. Nadine Roßa’s lecture on a letter that only exists in German, “The Letter ß”. She does that with fun and typographic enthusiasm without being too nerdy.

Creative Mornings 13 with Dave Meslin

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:47:00 -0500

Speaker: Dave Meslin, a Toronto-based artist and organizer, with a focus on public space issues, cycling infrastructure, & voting reform.

Date: Friday December 14th
Time: Doors open + Coffee 8:30am / Lecture 9:00am / Event ends 10:00am
Location: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto
Sponsor: Eventbrite

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Speaker

Dave Meslin is a Toronto-based artist and organiser, with a focus on public space issues, cycling infrastructure, voting reform, transpartisan advocacy and democratic renewal.

Due to his fear of commitment, Dave has skipped around from project to project. He organised Reclaim the Streets (’98-’00), coordinated Toronto’s Car Free Day programming (’00, ’01), founded the Toronto Public Space Committee(2001), co-founded Spacing Magazine (’03), created the WhoRunsThisTownproject (’06), produced City Idol (’06), founded the Toronto Cyclists Union(’08), started Dandyhorse Magazine (’08) launched Better Ballots (’08), organised WindFest (’10) created the Ranked Ballot Initiative (’11) and recently curated the Fourth Wall exhibit about transforming local politics in Toronto.

In November 2010, Coach House books published Local Motion: The Art of Civic Engagement in Torontot co-edited by Dave, Alana Wilcox and Christina Palassio. Swipe Design | books + objects will have it for sale at the event, and Dave will be available afterwards to sign your copy!

Multi-partisan, fiercely optimistic and delusionally utopian, Dave embraces ideas and projects that cut across traditional boundaries between grassroots politics, electoral politics and the arts community. In his work, he attempts to weave elements of these communities together.

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Creative Conversations: Nora Young

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:55:04 -0500

Interview and illustration by Cassie McDaniel

Ahead of this Friday’s lecture, we caught up with Nora Young to see what she might bring to us this upcoming dark November morning. And we’ll tell you what – after further insight into her creative process, we are more excited than ever to present this whip-smart, down-to-earth force for creativity and storytelling in Toronto. See for yourself!

The Virtual Self is your first book. How did that process go? Was it really difficult to finish or did it flow pretty naturally from content you’d developed over the years at CBC? What are your next steps?

I really enjoyed being able to dig deeper into a topic than you can on a weekly radio show/podcast. I loved being able to chew over ideas, and see how the form and the argument emerged. It was really difficult to spend that much time alone, though. One of the great things about making Spark is that it’s highly collaborative, and I really missed that collaboration working on The Virtual Self. Because of that isolation, I initially thought this would be my only book, but I’m now starting to think about other opportunities. One thing I’ve been mulling over is whether I - or Spark - might edit a series of short ebooks on topics
about technology and culture.

Where do you go in the city – or out of the city – to recharge and feel inspired?

I do find that if I don’t get out in nature, I start to get a bit squirrelly. I often ride my bike through the Don Valley system; that always makes me feel recharged. When I’m trying to come up with ideas for a new project, I just walk and walk downtown and try to leave my ‘antennae’ up for creative inspiration.

What has been the greatest challenge in your career so far? Your greatest accomplishment?

Leaving DNTO and becoming self-employed was my greatest challenge, and in some ways my greatest accomplishment too. I had to go through a lot of personal and professional growth to be confident - I think anyone who is self-employed knows how much of succeeding in that realm is a mind game. Beyond that, Spark is where my heart is, and I consider Spark my greatest accomplishment (though obviously, not mine alone).

I’m going to borrow a page from The Great Discontent and ask: Are you satisfied creatively?

Sometimes I am; Spark does give us latitude to play creatively in how we produce stories. I have to say, though, that I get bored easily and am always looking for new challenges. Change really fuels my creative impulse.

Besides Spark and The Sniffer of course, what are some of your favourite podcast or radio series everyone should know about?

Like many public media fans, I love Radio Lab; they have such a sonically rich, creative, and relentlessly entertaining way of producing science stories. I love Philosophy Bites, which is short interviews with leading contemporary philosophers about topics in ethics and philosophy. As the name implies, it’s bite-sized, so perfect for a short commute. At
CBC, I really enjoy the consistently fascinating IDEAS.

CreativeMornings 12 with Nora Young

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:12:00 -0500

Presented by Vitamin T

Speaker: Nora Young, host of CBC’s Spark
Date: Friday November 23
Time: Doors open + Coffee 8:30am / Lecture 9:00am / Event ends 10:00am
Location: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto

Register online, starting Monday November 19, 9:00am. This event is free.

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Speaker

We are absolutely excited to round up our first full year of CreativeMornings Toronto talks with Nora.

Nora Young is the host and the creator of Spark, CBC Radio’s national radio show and podcast about technology and culture. She was the founding host of the CBC Radio show Definitely not the Opera, where she often focused on new media and technology. Her work has also appeared online, on television, and in print.

As a journalist, author, and speaker, Nora explores how new technology shapes the way we understand ourselves and the world around us. Her book, The Virtual Self, on the explosion of data about our behaviours, thoughts, opinions and actions, was published by McClelland and Stewart this spring. This fall, she takes on the role of syndicated technology columnist for CBC Radio afternoon shows.

Nora blogs at norayoung.ca, and does the indie podcast The Sniffer with her friend and colleague, Cathi Bond. On Twitter, she’s @nora3000.

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We Are (number) One!

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:25:29 -0500

We feel so fortunate to you have you guys with us! It was a blast celebrating our first full year and we look forward to another jam packed year of talks, ideas, coffee, cup cakes and most importantly discussions and learning.

We are here to help make our city an even better creative hub and we get the energy and inspiration from you: the early risers, our speakers, and supporters.

Stay amazing Toronto. Here comes Year Two!

CreativeMornings is indeed a delicious cake made of ideas from...

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:31:44 -0500

CreativeMornings is indeed a delicious cake made of ideas from our speakers and you! We turn one this month. Come out and celebrate this Friday. Details Here

Poster by Behrouz Hariri

CreativeMornings 1 year birthday party + DesignThinkers after party

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:22:00 -0400

In the past year, we’ve hosted 11 sold-out CreativeMornings events across Toronto. That means 11 mornings, 11 talks, 17 speakers, and a little over 1000 cups of coffee.

Looking back at the year we are extremely thankful for the generosity and wisdom of our speakers, the trust from our sponsors and the dedication of the volunteers. And frankly, without you, the great creative community of Toronto, none of this would have been possible.

To thank everyone for being a part of this creative movement in our city we’re having a birthday party to celebrate with you and all our previous speakers!

This party is also be the after party for DesignThinkers, which means an extra special creative crowd and a few out-of-towners – let’s show our guests how awesome Toronto is.

THIS PARTY NEEDS NO REGISTRATION. We are expecting 150+ guest and are prepared for a little more. First come first serve.

Date / Time: November 9, 8:30pm
Location: The Ballroom (Upstairs), 145 John Street, Toronto, ON M5V 2E4 (Map)
Facebook Event

Party supported by Freshbooks and Vitamin T

These were our amazing speakers who inspired us throughout the year:
Nov 2011 – Helen Kerr & Nigel Smith, KerrSmith Design
Jan 2012 – Patty Johnson
Feb 2012 – Vanessa Eckstein, Blok Design
Mar 2012 – David Buchbinder, Composer, Musician, Director of Diasporic Genius
Apr 2012 – David Scadding, Designer, Design Educator
May 2012 – Gary Taxali
June 2012 – Andrew and Matt McCracken, Doublenaut
July 2012 – Paddy Harrington, Bruce Mau Design
Aug 2012 – Audience takes the stage: Arianne Shaffer of Love Letters to a Friend, Katherine Hague of ShopLocket, and Irwin Adam Eydelnant
Sept 2012 – Paul Rowan, Umbra
Oct 2012 – Claire Dawson and Fidel Peña, Underline Studio
Announcing November 2012 - Nora Young, Host of CBC’s Spark

CreativeMornings 11 with Underline Studio

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:40:00 -0400

Presented by Vitamin T

Speakers: Claire Dawson and Fidel Peña, founding partners of Underline Studio
Date: Friday October 26
Time: Doors open + Coffee 8:30am / Lecture 9:00am / Event ends 10:00am
Location: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto

This event is free. Online registration opens on Monday October 22, 9:00am. Follow @Toronto_CM and sign up to our newsletter to receive reminders and alerts.

About the speakers

Claire Dawson was formerly Creative Director at Concrete Design Communications, where she worked for eight years on a wide array of marketing and corporate communications projects. Among the clients she has collaborated with are Holt Renfrew, Harry Rosen, Umbra, Dyson, Noranda, Prefix and the University of Toronto. A fine arts graduate from York University, Claire serves on many creative awards juries, lectures regularly on design issues and advises students as a visiting critic in the York/Sheridan Joint Program in Design.

Fidel Peña previously held senior design positions at Concrete, Dinnick & Howells and Pentagram London. He has led projects for a broad range of international clients, from Holt Renfrew and Cole Haan to Audi, Vanidad magazine and the London Institute. A graduate in design from George Brown College (where he is on the program advisory committee), Fidel is a vice-president of the Advertising & Design Club of Canada, a board member of Latin American Canadian Art Projects and a guest faculty member of Institute Without Boundaries.

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On July 27 we had the pleasure of presenting a joint lecture by...

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:24:00 -0400

On July 27 we had the pleasure of presenting a joint lecture by the Toronto design duo Andrew and Matt McCracken. The two designer have been working under the name Doublenaut since 2004 with works primarily in the music industry.

Our friends at Design Edge covered this event in great detail with snippets on the studios experiences in finding clients, self directed work, workload distribution and the pursuit of creative control among other topics.

Video shot and edited by Jordan Lloyd and Mathieu Martel
Photos by Jacklyn Atlas

This event was generously supported by Freshbooks

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Upcoming CreativeMornings Toronto event will feature Claire Dawson and Fidel Peña cofounders of Underline Studio. Find out when tickets are released by following http://creativemorningstoronto.tumblr.com/ or @Toronto_CM.