Morning Person: Meet Jane

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 Jane Maisey!

Who are you?
Jane Maisey.

How do you help out at CreativeMornings/Akl?
Im one of the resident Twitter Ninjas.

What gets you up in the morning?
Designing with a purpose + Helping others + Running + Faith + Helping refugees & victims of human trafficking. 

What’s a surprising fact about you?
I have 3 passports.

What is your favourite thing about Auckland?
Surprisingly open & functional multicultural communities… we all ‘play nice’ fairly well together. 

Best breakfast you’ve ever had?
Breakfast burrito in the middle of nowhere in the Utah desert. 

Favourite CreativeMornings/Akl so far?
Tie between Deanna Yang & Ritchie Hardcore.

Favourite CreativeMornings talks from around the world? 
Hmmmm too many to choose! Chicago, Melbourne & Johannesburg are usually good value. 

Favourite CreativeMornings Quote?

Follow Jane on Twitter and Instagram.

"I believe the most valuable things in life are people and time you spend with them." — Kyra Clarke from Threaded Magazine spoke at CreativeMornings in May, on the topic of Freedom. 

Watch the talk at http://creativemornings.com/talks/threaded-magazine/1

Last Friday we explored Heritage at CreativeMornings/ Auckland, with The Alexanders, a family of creative entrepreneurs. Kate, Elliot and Grant Alexander took us into their personal worlds, examining how ‘Heritage’ has influenced their past and may influence their future

Hosted by the amazing team at AUT University and proudly brought to you by Curative, Coffee Supreme, Antipodes Water Company, Little Lot, AUT and our fantastic team of volunteers.

Hat tip to Aria Taylor for the photos.

Check out the full set here: CreativeMornings /AKL with The Alexanders

We love the awesome folks that make CreativeMornings/Auckland happen every month. So we shared it with the CM global community! 

http://creativemornings.com/blog/auckland-morning-people

It’s 4pm on Friday, the perfect time to start watching inspirational talks! Here’s @swissmiss at the @99u conference…

Get into dat Heritage groove with this month’s playlist, curated by resident CreativeMornings DJ Jim Quindlen.

Playlist and highlights at http://creativemornings.com/blog/playlist-heritage.

In June 2014 Industrial Designer Jamie McLellan spoke at CreativeMornings/Auckland, exploring what ‘Minimal’ means to him in creativity and design, as well as the role it plays in our lives.

Catch up with the talk above or watch over at creativemornings.com

Registrations go live for CreativeMornings with The Alexanders in just under half an hour, at 11am! Excite!

While you wait for that e-scrum, why don’t you check out our latest email update?

Morning People: The Alexanders

July’s CreativeMornings talk is just over a week away from happening, so we thought we should take a moment to get the scoop on two of our three speakers. Meet Kate (of Places & Graces) and Grant (of Studio Alexander)!

Who are you?

• Kate: I’m a mum, partner, friend, creative. 
• Grant: A person who loves the Bodoni regular lowercase g.

What gets you up in the morning?

• Kate: People get me up in the morning. The possibility of who I might meet, the conversations that might occur and the reaction to my projects I might encounter. 
• Grant: The idea of getting my hands on a Bodoni regular lowercase g.

Explain what you do in Five words or less.

Best piece of advice you’ve received?

• Kate: Choose what you want to do in life, then who you are going to take with you. Unfortunately I am not good at listening to advice. 
• Grant: There are only three typefaces in the world that matter and Bodoni is one of them.

Who would you love to hear speak(Anyone from any point in time)?

• Kate: The oldies - Joan Miro, or anyone from the Bauhaus. The newbies - stylist Sibella Court, Artist Kirra Jamison, blogger Alana Broadhead.
• Grant: David Byrne on why Bodoni regular is the only typeface you should use with Powerpoint.

Secret Superpower?

• Kate: I can turn even the ugliest room into a thing of beauty.
• Grant: The power to persuade every client that Bodoni regular is the right typeface for their work

How can our heritage define us? 

• Kate: I think heritage comes into play as we get older. When you wonder ‘how did I get here’, then you realise part of your journey was pre-determined by who and what came before. Creatively it can give a starting point, family history is inspiring. And it can provide a goal. Now that I have children, heritage for me is also about what do I want to teach my children, how would I like them to remember me. How will I be described to my great great grandchildren… Hopefully, as that ‘slightly crazy maverick creative lady’!
• Grant: By acknowledging genius in all its forms. e.g. Giambattista Bodoni got there before us.

Kate, Grant and Elliot Alexander will be speaking speaking at CreativeMornings on Friday 25 July, hosted by AUT. Full details here.

Tickets go live Monday 21 July at 11am. Sign up to our newsletter to get a reminder email on Monday morning.

"People will get on board with a good idea."
— Celery Productions.

Catch up with the video at http://creativemornings.com/talks/celery-productions/1