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Dear Morning People,

What newsletters do you read with a passion? We’re putting together a small collection and want to know what interesting, inspiring ones should be on our radar.  

Any recommendations?

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"Also I think most importantly, it’s about doing stuff instead of wishing you had done stuff." 

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creativemornings:

With a whopping 47 million images in their collection, our friends at Shutterstock have their pulse on the latest creative trends emerging around the globe. We’re couldn’t be more excited to share some of their findings and magic with you here. 

Check it out! Or, scroll on down for the infographic.

Catch up on our November event, where founder and principle of Previously Unavailable, James Hurman, shared with us his personal tales of the power and beauty of chance.

Thanks to our videographers, Reagan Qiu and Kaan Hiini, for capturing the event, and to the team at GridAKL for hosting. Chur.

Morning People: Meet Sam!

We have an amazing team of volunteers and partners who help us make CreativeMornings happen every month. We think they’re super cool and you should totally meet them.

This week: Meet Sam Tozer from LOT23, our hosts for January! LOT23 is a creative haven committed to creating opportunities for creative people to connect and collaborate. We have it on great authority they do a mean scone.

Who are you?
Sam Tozer - Director - Lot23

What gets you up in the morning?
One or other of two kids under 5

Explain what you do in five words or less…
Tech monster, problem solver.

What’s a surprising fact about you?
I can do ninja rolls (think Steven Segal)

What is your favourite thing about Auckland?
Karekare

Best breakfast you’ve ever had?
Bircher Muesli at Lot23 ;-)

Best piece of advice you’ve received?
Try not to be a C__t. (Buddha I think)

Who would you love to hear speak?
Simon Taylor  (http://squarewhiteworld.com)

Secret Superpower?
I see dumb people.

What’s the ugliest thing you own?
My temper.

Find out more about LOT23 over on their website, or head in to check it out IRL.

In January we gathered at LOT23 to embrace the ugly. Kelvin Soh, creative director and the founder of DDMMYY talked us through his context-responsive approach to design and the subjective qualities of “ugly design” and its merits.

Massive thanks to our talented speaker, our accommodating hosts, our awesome supporting partners Curative, AUT and 3rdeye Recruitment & Talent Management Agency, and our breakfast partners Coffee Supreme and Antipodes Water, and our dedicated team of volunteers! 

What we make, makes us. - Richard Boehmcke

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CreativeMornings/ Auckland with Kelvin Soh
Friday 23 January, 8.00-9.30 am
LOT23

What is ugly? Who decides whether something is ugly? Is it personal and subjective? Is it collective and inherited? And, is it really a negative adjective? Talking to the theme of Ugly this month, Kelvin Soh will look to the idiosyncrasies, vagaries and judgements surrounding the notion of the “ugly.”

Kelvin is the creative director and founder of DDMMYY – a design agency and publishing platform based in Auckland. Kelvin embraces a thoughtful, fluid and context-responsive approach which accommodates a diverse range of outputs including brand-building, identities, packaging and art book publishing.

While his projects vary greatly in terms of scale and context, a unifying thread is the importance of the designer’s point of view, often resulting in highly collaborative and conversational approaches to design. His work for Stolen Rum, Triumph & Disaster and publishing projects for DDMMYY and Le Roy magazine reflect an interest in design that functions on a personal scale. Can design be meaningful in some way and able to accommodate playful experimentation, stories, opinions and even jokes?

For Kelvin, ‘design’ should never be defined purely as a vocation but thought of in the same way as writing – an activity approached differently depending on context. For example a writer might write a fictional novel, magazine interview, screenplay and personal letter in the course of a week. Kelvin’s interest in a more personal, meaningful design practice has led to him amassing a collection of found ephemera, publications and ‘amateur’ signage; things often considered ‘ugly’ when viewed through the lens of commercial or conventional design.

Alongside his design work, Kelvin has also curated and shown in group exhibitions at St Paul St Gallery, Adam Art Gallery, Gambia Castle and the Govett-Brewster. He is the current editor of thought-based culture journal, Le Roy.

Join us for some coffee, conversation, and connection, Friday 23 January. 

Get it in your calendars! The first CreativeMorning/Auckland of 2015 will be going down January 23rd! More details very soon.

This month’s theme is UGLY, chosen by our CreativeMornings/ Geneva team and beautifully illustrated by the talented Matt Chase. 

Learn more: http://creativemornings.com/blog/januarys-theme-is-ugly

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