In his presentation at the fourth CreativeMornings event in Chicago, Jake Nickell emphasized from start to finish: make, make, make. As co-founder of the “monstrous” (per Jim Coudal’s description at Chicago CreativeMornings’ debut) community-driven t-shirt designer and maker Threadless, Nickell lives up to his call to create. His demonstration of making not only involved the satisfaction it can bring, but also the fun which shined through in his company’s in-house Airstream trailer and other business-casual reminders to not take your job too seriously. Here are some of Nickell’s thoughts to motivate you to be a proactive maker, and not just a messenger:
Ideas are meant to be seen. If they don’t reach paper, screen, whiteboard or another surface, they can’t be visualized. Jason Fried of 37signals, and who spoke at the second Chicago CreativeMornings, recommends sketching with a Sharpie.
This may sound counterintuitive, but it has a start-local rationale. Friends can be the foundation for collaboration.
Nothing made means nothing to share and, in turn, nothing to promote. The only result is the unknown.
The implicit refrain running throughout the presentation by Jake Nickell (above) about making was: Persist.
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See Jake Nickell’s presentation “Never Stop Making” at TEDxBoulder.
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Photos by Nate Burgos. See more of Chicago CreativeMornings’ event at Threadless.
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Big thanks to organizer Mig Reyes, videographer Craig Shimala, photographers Chris Gallevo and Rosario Edwards, and Admin of Awesome Victoria Pater for their great work on making CreativeMornings happen in Chicago.
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Typeface of quotes is called Massive designed by Shawn Hazen, who also makes awesome typographic illustrations for series Creative Roles.
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I just recently learned about Threadless when I had the great pleasure of meeting Charlie Festa. Charlie used to be the community manager at Threadless and was a fellow speaker at the Hello Etsy conference last month in Berlin.
Watching and listening to his presentation I was really impressed by Threadless. This post just reinforces that feeling.
I got to get back to Chi-town one of these days, so much going on!
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