The sixth CreativeMornings event in Chicago began with a civic call to duty by speaker Scott Thomas (or SimpleScott): Remain responsible. Not only a call, it was also a reminder, a philosophical one, but philosophy applied, as evident in these statements:
To Thomas, design is civic responsibility, a selfless act to make any part of the world a little better. Demonstrating this was his highlighting of The Noun Project, which “collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language.”
At the start of his presentation, Thomas quoted from theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking’s book Grand Design which posits simplicity as “a matter of taste.” Thomas stressed that it’s also a matter of responsibility: to truly love something and work on it really hard—only then will the reward become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.”
—Stephen Hawking, Scientist, Author
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Big thanks: to Chicago Portfolio School,for hosting and 24 Seven for sponsoring Chicago CreativeMornings #6; to organizer Mig Reyes, videographers Craig Shimala and Charlie Curran, photographers Adan Altamira and Chris Gallevo for their great work on making CreativeMornings happen in Chicago.
Especially big thanks: to Tina Roth Eisenberg—Swissmiss—for inventing CreativeMornings in 2008. The fifth chapter was launched in Chicago, June 2011—my write-up and photos.
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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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