CreativeMornings /Auckland with The Bread and Butter Letter
Friday 24 March, 8.00am - 9.30am
The Kitchen, Ponsonby
This month we have the global theme of Backwards, and the CreativeMornings Auckland team has decided to take a somewhat vintage approach to the notion. And who better to speak about that, than Sarah & Rose from The Bread and Butter Letter.
The Bread and Butter Letter is an Auckland boutique that sells New Zealand made, hand crafted products alongside curated vintage, and delicious and local loose leaf tea. They represent this months theme “backwards”, as they not only sell retrospective items, but also because their business’ focuses are quite ‘backwards’.
While most companies continue to make mass-produced, low-quality items from foreign countries, T.B.A.B.L is strictly locally made, where items are made from the very hands of our creative community (including the owners themselves!).
The events they host encourage this communal focused idea, and some of their products suggest a slowing-down process like the days of old. The values are not unique to just the store, but are seen more and more in businesses of all sizes around the world.
It’s backwards, but it’s making a comeback.
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CreativeMornings /Auckland with Guy Ryan (Festival for the Future)
Friday 26 April, 8:00am - 9:30am
Movers & Shakers (MindHive)
This month we have the global theme of “The Future”, and we’ve decided to highlight the future generation of the creative community here in New Zealand. We are chuffed to welcome a community pioneer, creative young leader and good friend that exudes that, Guy Ryan.
A proud West Coast lad – Guy has won international filmmaking awards, run major community festivals and start-‐up organisations. In 2011 he founded Inspiring Stories Trust, and now two years in has developed a suite of partnerships & programmes to help young New Zealanders unleash their potential to change the world.
Alongside that, Guy was a semi-finalist for Young New Zealander of the Year 2012, a Vodafone World of Difference Recipient in 2011 and has had numerous speaking engagements including, Philanthropy NZ conference, Big Data panel, MINA, Toi Whakaari and Leadership New Zealand amongst many others.
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CreativeMornings /Auckland with Trash Footwear
Friday 22 March, 8:00am - 9:30am
Sitka Flagship Store (limited to 50*)
This month we are lucky enough this dynamic duo all the way up from Raglan, Ben Galloway & Melissa McMahon from Trash Footwear present on the global theme of “Reuse”.
“Imagine if they closed all the rubbish dumps tomorrow?”
Well we have, and have been building Trash Footwear with this thought in mind!
Trash Footwear is a brand that aims to inform people of the massive potential of ‘waste’ materials that would ordinarily end up in landfill; in the process questioning why we create something called ‘waste’ in the first place! Our range of footwear is made largely from locally sourced on-going waste streams, and it is through the collection of these materials that we have begun to see the many others ways in which we can transform this so-called ‘rubbish’ into *rather fancy* yet functional items! Resources are running low in this world, but rubbish isn’t!
All that is needed now is an effective and creative way of collecting, distributing and repurposing these abundant materials… maybe one that could help bridge the gap between business and community?
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CreativeMornings /Auckland with Philip Fierlinger (Xero)
Friday 22 February, 8:00am - 9:30am
Bank of New Zealand Partner Center
(Entry on Queen St, Level 7, Deloittes tower)
This month we are super stoked to have the Co-founder and Head of Design at Xero, Philip Fierlinger present on the global theme of “Money”.
Philip will share insights from his experiences reshaping the UX of money at Xero, the popular cloud accounting software. Xero is at the forefront of a whole new generation of financial apps that are dramatically changing the way people perceive and interact with their money.
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CreativeMornings /Auckland - Running with Scissors
Friday 18 January, 8:00am - 9:30am
Mt Albert Community Hall (Rocket Park)
For our first global theme of 2013 “Happiness,” we’re excited to have Running with Scissors share with us their story, learnings and creative insights on Friday 18 January.
In 2009 Running with Scissors celebrated its first anniversary with a “What colour is your happiness” party. Three and half years later they continue to find enjoyment through imagination, diversity and belief. Founders Friday O’Flaherty and Andy Mitchell will talk with us about finding happiness through the democratisation of creativity.
Running with Scissors is an advertising and innovation agency that believes anything is possible. As well as creating advertising they apply imagination in areas that don’t usually get creative attention.
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CreativeMornings /Auckland with Rob Garrett
Friday 26 October, 8:00am - 9:30am
Former Contemporary Art Gallery
(Entry on Lorne St, by Khartoum Square)
This month we have a couple of very exciting things happening with CreativeMornings /Auckland:
1) It’s our one-year birthday! (And yes, there will be cake)
2) We’ve collaborated with Art Week Auckland to bring you Rob Garrett presenting on the development of his recent curatorial initiative “Lost in a dream”
“Lost in a dream” is an international contemporary art exhibition curated by Rob Garrett for Snake Pit, Auckland; 19 October – 10 November 2012
“Lost in a dream” brings together fourteen renowned and emerging artists from Australia, Germany, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden and the United States whose work has excited Rob Garrett. When invited by Snake Pit to curate a show, Garrett considered the most interesting prospect would be to introduce the gallery and its audiences to new artists. Snake Pit already has a strong programme of showing young local artists and several of Garrett’s recent Auckland projects also have had this focus. Therefore he felt it would be more interesting to go further afield by inviting several Northern Hemisphere and Australian artists, but also to include some local artists who are currently completely unknown.
Read more about “Lost in a dream” here »
Credit: Image (above) Cécile B. Evans, “Straight Up” 2011, video still; courtesy of the artist
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CreativeMornings /Auckland with Jef Wong & Hudson Smales
Friday 28 September, 8:00am - 9:30am
Air NZ Auditorium
The kiwi design and creative community have openly expressed and shared their thoughts on the recent rebrand of the iconic Air New Zealand.
So, for the month of September, CreativeMornings /Auckland proudly presents Jef Wong Group Head of Design, Designworks and Hudson Smales who was Head of the Design House at Air New Zealand during the design process. They will both being taking you through the story behind the wordmark and the testing process behind the Air New Zealand Wordmark Development.
Air New Zealand is a brand built on a strong investment in design and innovation. Informed by the brand strategy and visual identity program, already undertaken by Air New Zealand’s design and communication partners, it was agreed that a new wordmark was needed that was better aligned with the new brand promise, of ‘liberating travelers from the ordinary’. The wordmark needed to feel more modern and be imbued with a sense of momentum, credibility and elegance that would truly represent the character of the brand.
Guided by a strict set of design principles, a highly collaborative process was undertaken between Designworks, Air New Zealand and renowned New Zealand typographer, Kris Sowersby.
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CreativeMornings/Auckland with Matt von Trott (Assembly Ltd)
Friday 29 June, 8:00am - 9:30am
The Kitchen
We have our second installment of the ‘CreativeMornings global theme Art + Technology’ where Matt von Trott will be presenting Assembly’s latest creation; The V Motion Project. This project combines the collective talents of musicians, dancers, programmers, designers and animators to create an amazing visual instrument. Creating music through motion is at the heart of this creation and uses the power of the Kinect to capture movement and translate into music. Performed live and projected on a huge wall.
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CreativeMornings/Auckland with Jason Galeon (Weta Digital)
Friday 1 June, 8:00am - 9:30am
BizDojo Makerspace
For our June event (initially intended for May) we have our first CreativeMornings global theme of Art + Technology where Jason Galeon from Weta Digital will be presenting on this topic and highlighting such magic that occurs at the intersection of the two.
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CreativeMornings/Auckland with Special Group
Friday 27 April, 8:00am - 9:30am
Loft 503, Achilles House
To give you a taster of the Semi-Permanent speaker line-up in Auckland for 2012, we have the pleasure of Michael Redwood from Special Group sharing his creative insights into one of their most innovative campaigns of the past year, its brand campaign for Unitec.
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