CreativeMornings Magazine #5

NEW YORK SPECIAL!

#5 COLOUR

it’s for you, it’s free, it’s NET WORKing, Yeah!

September 2014 Vienna & New York City

Illustration (on the left): Marie-Pascale Gafinen Illustration cover (detail): Florine Kammerer

Good morning, Vienna!

Welcome to this month’s CreativeMornings event in Vienna and to the special edition of the CreativeMornings Magazine.

Hi there, New York!

This magazine is made for you.

Have a creative morning, everyone!

— Y o u r s t r u ly, t h e C r e at i v e M o r n i n g s V i e n n a t e a m

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IMPRINT PUBLISHER: Association for the Promotion, Networking and Inspiration in the Creative Community EDITORS: Harald Eckmüller, Lisa Langmantel, Florine Kammerer, Thomas Piribauer, Marie-Pascale-Gafinen, Anna Wacholder ILLUSTRATION Portraits: Marie-Pascale-Gafinen, Cover illustration & illustration of the monthly theme: Florine Kammerer PRINT REMAprint Litteradruck CIRCUL ATION PER ISSUE: 500 COPYRIGHT Responsible for the content of this magazine are the contributing authors.

CreativeMornings Magazine acts merely as their platform.

CONCEPT Florine Kammerer / BueroApril, Marie-Pascale Gafinen, Thomas Piribauer DESIGN Florine Kammerer / BueroApril, Thomas Piribauer L AYOUT Florine Kammerer / BueroApril, Thomas Piribauer PROJECT MANAGEMENT Harald Eckmüller, Florine Kammerer INTERVIEW / TEXT EDITOR Verena Rumplmair TRANSL ATIONS / COPY EDITING Nicola Gold / Wortfachgeschäft

VIE Hi there, Vienna!

This magazine is a special edition.

As always it provides you with information about members, collaborators and the current speaker.

The exiting part is that it is not only issued in Vienna, but will also travel all the way to the CreativeMornings Summit in New York.

So instead of concentrating on members of Vienna’s creative community — as we usually do — you will find features from all over the world which we created for all inter­national Creative­ Mornings teams.

COPY EDITING Evan Samek CONTACT vienna@creativemornings.com CREATIVEMORNINGS VIENNA facebook.com/CreativeMorningsVienna twitter.com/Vienna_CM creativemornings.com/vie © VIENNA , 2014

Enjoy the trip!

HI THERE !

Hi there, New York!

We are happy to introduce to you Vienna’s CreativeMornings Magazine.

The magazine complements our monthly talks with additional aspects of the CreativeMornings idea: networking and inspiration.

It provides information about the speaker and the creative community — to support networking — and presents the current theme visually and creatively with typography, text and illustration — to support inspiration.

This issue features an insightful interview from the CreativeMornings headquarters, greetings from the the organizers in Vienna and portraits of four CreativeMornings hosts.

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Hi There A short introduction of the Vienna/New York double issue

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Uncharted Waters

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A short essay inspired by this month’s theme “Colours”.

By Sarah Nägele of the journalism lab paroli.

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Editorial

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by Florine Kammerer

Global numbers and the schedule of a typcial CM event

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Carly Ayres

Chief Content Officer at the CreativeMornings Headquarters, New York

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Marie-Pascale Gafinen Illustrator from Vienna, creates the portraits for CreativeMornings Magazine

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If not now, when?

Interview with the CreativeMornings Vienna Hosts Lisa Langmantel and Harald Eckmüller. By Verena Rumplmair.

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Ariane Klidjian, London, UK

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Team 6 sponsors Meet the CreativeMornings Vienna Team

BACKCOVER Vienna speakers’ profile

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Mornings family. In every chapter, every city, and throughout our personal networks, we all seek inspiration. And I strongly believe that meeting new people is a great way to find inspiration.

So where to meet the right people?

Either at the CreativeMornings Summit in New York or at the September event in the city of your choice. Summer is basically over (at least here in Austria), everybody is back from their holidays.

The city is packed with new energy, new ideas, new projects. September is a great time to start something new.

I want to encourage you to explore our colourful community, be inspired and motivated by the abundance of green, red, blue, grey, yellow, pink, purple and all the other colours that might come your way.

Lisa Langmantel This is our Vienna CreativeMornings community: creativemornings.com/cities/ vie/ communit y

Cr eati v e Mor n i ngs HOST VIENNA I really like the theme colour. It perfectly resonates with the CreativeMornings spirit and its colourful, diverse community. The colour spectrum of the CreativeMornings family is just stunning. (If you haven’t tried it, check out the option “rainbow” on the Creative­ Mornings website to sort the 88 chapters by colour.)

This manifold colour spectrum of enthusiastic and interesting people can be found within the whole Creative­

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We invite you to meet and connect with this great community — locally and worldwide. Make your network and your life more colourful!

H av e a h a p p y C r e at i v e M o r n i n g & a g r e a t S u mm i t !

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1.5M ONLINE VIEWS OF KEYNOTE SPEECHES

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Rise and shine!

Snooze Doors open, check in, enjoy breakfast Listen to a super inspiring talk Q&A with speaker Mix and mingle Off to work!

Have a creative morning!

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Carly Ayres/ Headquarters CM NEW YORK

Chief Content Officer AT CreativeMornings

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To get some real background information for all you guys, we did a skype interview with the New York Headquarters of CreativeMornings.

They are running wild coordinating teams from each of the 88 Creative­ Mornings cities. Right now, they are preparing to bring all of the teams together for the big Summit in New York this October.

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Carly Ayres: Hi, Harald! It’s just going to be me today Harald Eckmüller: That’s fine :) Harald Eckmüller: Ready for the call?

Carly Ayres: Let’s do this!

Harald Eckmüller: Call started

Tell us a little bit about your origins with Creative­ Mornings. How did you get into contact, and how did you start working for CreativeMornings?

I began working with CreativeMornings a little over two years ago when I took an internship with Tina Roth Eisenberg following my junior year. A product design major at the Rhode Island School of Design, I wanted to explore other fields and was becoming frustrated with the world of mass-production.

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THE CREATIVEMORNINGS HQ TEAM: Kevin Huynh, Chief Operating Officer, Joy Chen, Community Intern Sally Rumble, Chief Happiness Officer

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I stumbled upon CreativeMornings and was thrilled by the prospect of meeting new people and learning from creative folks around the world. After my internship, I was hooked. I worked part-time for Creative­Mornings during my senior year and then joined the team (at the time: Tina and Kevin Huynh) full-time. I now work there as Chief Content Officer, overseeing all things content and eating as many doughnuts as possible.

What does your typical day at work look like?

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I typically wake up around 6:00 am, get ready and then head to a local coffee shop for an iced coffee and croissant to get in the CreativeMornings mindset.

Caffeination is key here. Then I hop on the subway amidst a bunch of other Brooklynites and make my way to the office. I fire off some emails from my email cannon, and conquer any tech issues (like video upload problems) before digging into a few talks. Watching CreativeMornings talks is probably my favorite time of the day! I get to imagine what it’s like to attend these chapters halfway around the world and get a glimpse of what the events are like. My dream would be to do a CreativeMornings world tour, attending events in all 88 cities.

After that, I recap a few, send them off to other blogs and publications, as well as share them on our social media channels. I’ll grab lunch with the team, then edit blog

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How has your own perception of CreativeMornings changed through the work all the different chapters have done so far?

We have a saying at Creative­ Mornings headquarters that it’s “never about the thing.” I like to say, if it’s not about the thing, “it’s a cultural thing.” Working with Creative­Mornings has changed the way I interact with other humans on all levels. The best example I can think of was when our Toronto chapter chose the theme for April — “the birds and the bees.” A common phrase in North America, the term refers to mating rituals of various animals, implying S-E-X. When we announced the theme in Basecamp, it became immediately clear that “the birds and the bees” didn’t translate across all our chapters.

Moscow and Berlin had no idea what we were talking about and thought it was so strange that birds and the bees would be a valid theme. After explaining, everyone agreed the theme should just be “Sex.” Plain and simple. So that’s what we went with. Experiences like that have changed how I approach problems with others. If it’s not about the thing, it’s a cultural thing.

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CREATIVEMORNINGS HEADQUARTERs Tina Roth Eisenberg, Host NYC and Founder of CreativeMornings

posts from some of our contributors and queue up a few of my own before heading home for the day.

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How much is your personality and are your individual interests part of the mix?

This is a great question. I think personality is everything. And at CreativeMornings, we are all about people. Not only the events—which are about getting a community of creative folks all into the same room— but internally as we talk to organizers and their teams around the world. At Creative­Mornings headquarters, we often talk about personality types, which is so important as we’re such a small team.

Personally, I am a bit of an extrovert, which works well for me as I often have to go out and speak to other content partners and introduce myself.

Do you have an active culture of inspiration besides CreativeMornings?

Is there any time left for side projects?

Absolutely. A huge part of Creative­Mornings is that side hustle culture, the idea that we love our jobs, but wouldn’t feel creatively fulfilled if we didn’t have that extra passion project on the side. For me, beyond CreativeMornings I do a lot of freelance writing for blogs like Core77.

I also have been working on a project for a little over a year now called why-we-make.com, where I interview creative folks on why they make things and the path that took them there. And if you want even more side projects, I also help out with the copy for a fun endeavor called unti-tled.com that features different art shows to check out.

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CreativeMornings/Moon. Beyond CreativeMornings on the moon, the future of CreativeMornings is going to be awesome. With the Summit coming up, I think we have a great opportunity to bring all the organizers into one room and talk about where they see it heading.

For us at HQ, it’s important that all of our volunteer organizers and their teams are on board. There’s a huge potential for experimentation and trying new things beyond just the breakfast and talk. Creative­Mornings wants to inspire people to meet up BREAKFAST CHECK and work on creative projects, so how can we better facilitate Morning grouch or that? I don’t have the answers e a r ly r i s e r ? myself, but I’m looking forward Early riser, always on the to finding them out at the right side of the bed.

Summit.

Coffee or tea?

Coffee!

Carly joined forces with the CreativeMornings team in June 2012. She is a recent graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, the President of the Studiomates Cheese Club, and a contributor for Core77 amongst other blogging dabbles.

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Photo by Kate Matsumoto.

I feel like I’m expected to say doughnuts here, but the truth is: poached egg on an English Muffin with an ample side of bacon. Maybe even sausage.

And then some more bacon.

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Where do you see CreativeMornings heading?

A D V E R TISMENT F R IEN D S O F C R EATI V EM O R NINGS

Users are awkward people …

They are so obsessed with their own goals (even if it’s just wasting their time) that they don’t give a damn about us.

We, the designers, developers and experts are irrelevant to them. These user guys don’t honor our efforts in any way. They don’t care about our designs as much as we do. They simply see them as a means to an end.

Ignorant bastards …

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SIMPLEASE WAS THE CREATIVEMORNINGS VIENNA SPEAKER IN JUNE and is featured in the #2 Issue Minimal of the CreativeMornings Magazine

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hen like seeing sudden slow files of Mohammedan women in white I saw the white roofs of the little port of Tangiers sitting right there in the elbow of the land, on the water. This dream of a white robed Africa on the blue afternoon sea, wow, who dreamed it?”

Standing on the bow of the ship makes me think of this quote from “Desolation Angels” by Jack Kerouac.

Since embarking on the ferry in Algeciras and picking a seat I hadn’t opened my eyes once.

Shaky, sweaty hands thrumming on the cold iron railing. Around me the monotonous buzz of fluttery voices, like a keyed up swarm of bees. There is something threatening about it. Suddenly a voice close to my ear asks me something incomprehensible in Spanish. I flinch involuntarily but manage to keep my eyes tightly shut.

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“Are you alright?”, the same voice asks in broken English. My nod is barely noticable. “Where are you from?” The question yanks me back into my spiralling thoughts from which I had been trying to free myself.

I am from a grey city. At first it was the streets that caught my eye. There was nothing unusual about them, they had always been there. But I had never truly noticed them before.

Then the grey walls started to appear.

The tattered hem of all those grey blocks of houses.

I had to pass them every day on my way to work. “All this is manmade”, I kept thinking. A disquieting thought.

It felt like a grey veil was covering my eyes. Every day it became denser. Grey undergrowth. Hard to say when this whole thing started. Somewhere between dreams of the future and being stuck in reality. Between yesterday and tomorrow. Somewhere inbetween—fear

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appeared. The fear of failing, fear of the future, fear of commitment. This vague fear that reached out to me with her erratic fingers. Grey walls. They were moving in on me, coming closer and closer and nothing could stop them.

One day even the people on the street had turned grey. Just like that. Life in black and white. Only without the vintage charm. I asked what had happened to them, but they just looked at me blankly. Was this a silent movie?

In a sleepless moment I remembered a friend telling me about a journey to Morocco. It was a tale full of vibrant colours. Reddish brown deserts next to lush, green landscapes, pale blue stone houses, markets full of bright fabrics, colourful spices, exotic foods in ochre dishes. Wooden fishing boats whose vibrant colours had mostly peeled off but were still visible. A romanticizing tale.

But the colours of Morocco blended

into my dream. Maybe I was naive. But why travel if you don’t do it like a child?

A gust of wind blows in my face. Wants to blow away the fear. Inadvertently I shiver in my seat.

SARAH NÄGELE I am 24 and come from the Bavarian sea. Three years ago I moved to Vienna to study International Development and Journalism. I love spending my time travelling, drinking coffee, writing and in good company.

I take a deep breath and open my eyes. The roaring sea, glistening blue, gushes wildly under the clear, bright sky. The In their journalism lab, the members glaring afternoon sun of paroli work on innovative forms of blinds me relentlessly. In expression, formats and financing models for contemporary online the distance, above the journalism. dancing waves, I see the rust brown shoreline. The white houses of Tangiers sit enthroned on top of it, like a toy town.

I can’t help myself and start laughing.

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Florine Kammerer IL LUSTRATOR & ART DIRECTOR BUEROAPR IL I am super enthusiastic about design and illustration! Sometimes this is a curse, because my job is also my hobby.

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ADRAWINGADAY. FLORINEK AMMERER.COM Illustration Blog done in New York City, 2012–2013

In my professional life I have a double identity. On the one hand I am a designer and art director running my own small studio called BueroApril. On the other hand I do illustrations for publishers and magazines.

BueroApril specializes in packaging design, corporate identity and editorial design.

Together with the designers Marie-Pascale Gafinen and Thomas Piribauer, I invented the CreativeMornings Magazine, created the concept and the design.

Now we are editors in chief of the Creative­ Mornings magazine, which appears monthly. We really enjoy this work, because we get to meet our collaborators who are all very interesting people. And although no one gets paid, everybody is excited about the magazine and about contributing some work and a text about themselves.

My professional path as a designer has so far taken me from Lavista / Patrick Thomas in Barcelona to dasuno in Vienna, to Matthias Ernstbergers studio ME & Friends and Vault 49 in New York City to alessandridesign back in lovely Vienna.

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As an illustrator I love to tell stories. During my time in New York I did a year-long drawing project called "adrawingaday" to capture all the moments, obser- Florinekammerer.com vations, strange 699 19029968 things and stories +43 mail@FlorineKammerer.com that can be found Studio: Novaragasse 17/16 at every corner of 1020 Vienna, Austria this amazing city.

My third and private identity is being a mum of a lively little baby girl. The challenge of balancing family life and work has made me a super-quick and efficient worker, always coming up with new ways to organize my time. It has also made me view life in a more relaxed way, and of course has brought me great happiness!

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My drawings may be black and white, but my imagination is full of colour.

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MARIE-PASCALE GAFINEN IL LUSTRATOR & DESIGNER

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Hello world! My name is Marie-Pascale Gafinen. I come from Germany, my first name is French and my last name is the Germanized version of my Luxembourgian Grandfather’s name Gafiné. And I live in Vienna, to clear up any confusion about my nationality and current homebase.

I am a communication designer with a focus on environment and sustainGAFINEN.com ability, designing print products and info­g raphics. And I draw.

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When I was a kid, my father used to take me on drawing trips. I enjoyed these summer afternoons, sitting next to him, often silent, sometimes being a tourist attraction. Up to this day I still like this way of drawing: taking my time, contemplating, exploring with the help of the searching line of my pen. I don’t copy what I see in front of me onto the paper, but rather let the picture be born while I draw it. And when I draw, I experience so much more

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Portrait Katharina Hüttler CreativeMornings Magazine #3: Heritage Copic Multiliner 0.2, technique from scientific illustration, 2014

Portrait Simon Häussle CreativeMornings Magazine #4: Failure, Pilot G-TEC-C4 0.4, drawn with the left hand, 2014

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than just the obvious: the atmosphere, the people passing by, the changing light, motion, sound. And later, when I flip through the pages of my sketchbook, I remember all of that — my personal exerience of each situation.

I am not a camera.

I am an illustrator!

When I was finally able to let go of the notion of having to draw “correctly”, I embraced the imperfection of my sketches as my own style. I don’t see them as preparatory drawings but as discrete works.

Having said this, you can imagine that drawing the portraits for the Creative­ Mornings Magazine isn’t simply routine work for me. After all, our readers are

supposed to recognize the portrayed people. I have accepted the challenge to experiment with different, more realistic styles. To be honest, it’s a struggle every month! But that’s how we learn.

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Portrait Elke Bauer CreativeMornings Magazine #1: Freedom, Indian ink, 2014

Of course these pictures aren’t “correct” from an academic point of view and often enough they don’t reproduce whatever it is that we call reality. It took me years to accept that that’s ok. Because

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There are two main reasons René Sørensen: reness@kaospilot.dk why we started a Co-Organizer: Mads Westergreen CreativeMornings chapter in Aarhus. First, we saw a need for creative people to meet and talk to each other. And second, we wanted to see if we could pull it off (we are still trying to answer that question). Our approach to CreativeMornings Aarhus was that we would let it evolve organically and not Graphic designer, book binder, sign force it on the city. Now, two and a half painter, director, writer, illustrator, idea years in, we are well established in the city developer, printer. I am all of these, and and starting to get the sponsor money to I am none of these. I do not know how to make it fucking awesome to attend. define myself, but for the last couple of It’s still really fun and rewarding to orgayears I’ve introduced myself as a maker. nize CreativeMornings Aarhus. I’m not a For as long as I can remember I have morning person, but those Fridays I like loved to draw on everything I could get getting up to early to make sure that our my hands on. Seven years ago I was in- event is as close to perfect as possible. troduced to the field of graphic recording and facilitation and I’ve been working with it ever since.

I truly believe that a drawing is the easiest way to create understanding between people.

For me the beauty in a drawing comes from how well it communicates, not in how we’ll it’s been drawn. I believe that everyone can communicate through drawing. It’s just a matter of putting a pen on a piece of paper.

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LWZ (from left to right): Stefan Salcher, Markus Wagner, Tobias Schererbauer, Mar tin Lorenz (photo by LWZ)

Interview: Vienna Speakers

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What does LWZ stand for?

LWZ means having fun with design and animation. And “Linke Wienzeile� (a street in Vienna).

How did you all meet?

We met at the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg where we studied MultiMediaArt. During and after our studies, and after stopovers in Berlin, Cologne and New York, we arrived

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in Vienna. We were friends, and occasionally roommates, who were actively involved in the independent VJ scene, and had done freelance work and realized some larger projects together as well. We were having a lot of fun.

How do you experience networking in Vienna’s creative community?

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Young creatives who work together in small structures network more, and more intensively. So we think this as a very positive development and try to contribute our share, since this brings life to our community.

Being part of such an environment makes many things easier.

For instance, for larger commissions or in order to develop independent projects we can be very flexible putting teams together. It is important to have an open mind and not be shy. Sometimes we pass projects on to people in our network, which has always worked out really well. Many are reluctant to do this because they are worried about losing potential clients. Actually, the opposite happens: it creates an atmosphere of collaboration and exchange, and small creative structures can strengthen each other and become more autonomous, which makes them more likely to survive. This also involves being able to find pockets of time to develop own projects. Working within the constraints of a large structure, one is more likely to use one’s creative energy to replicate the tried and tested. A collective of smaller structures has more potential for innovation, because it is easier to motivate each other. We strongly believe this way of working heightens international recognition of Vienna as a hub for the creative industries. Stewing in one’s own juice is not enough. We need to think outside of the box to find the necessary flavors to create something new.

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Interview: Vienna Speakers

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You have created the installation RingGingBling for the sound:frame Festival 2013. How did the idea and the collaboration come about?

We were invited to create an exhibition for the sound:frame Festival 2013 in Vienna. The festival’s theme was “Collective”, so it seemed natural to work with a large group of artists. We thus created and realized RingGingBling in collaboration with Woeishi Lean, Markus Harthum and Sebastian Pataki.

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Collaborations have always been very important to us and have always been part of our way of working. New inspirations and influences help to broaden one’s horizon. We love interdisciplinary projects. They allow us to explore uncharted territory. Everyone has unique strengths and weaknesses which complement and expand our own possibilities, which is very valuable for us. Collaborating means contributing these creative resources in the joint effort.

Colours should be mixed and not broken.

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How important is collaboration in your work and how “colourful” is it?

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We designed the exhibit around the idea of redefining what is expected of visual arts today by creating simple, analog things by hand instead of using computers and projectors. A very important part of RingGingBling was played by the volunteers who supported us in an “open lab” situation. We wanted to create art as a collaborative, interactive experiment, not as the typical distant kind of art. It was all about the joy of creating something together.

What potential has colour as a tool for you?

How do you use colours in your work?

Colours connect, colours separate. Often a colour is the result of the content and becomes the glue for a project.

Do you consider colour(s) as a limiting or wid­ ening instrument for your personal spectrum?

We try to limit our colour spectrum. Selecting and combining open possibilities and make for good design. Especially in collaborations we love

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to use a colour classification system as a limiting spectrum. This creates freedom of style which in turn is held together by the colors.

How is the way you use colours for print different from digital?

This is a question of technology.

Of course there is the difference of RGB and CMYK. If you work for TV, film or web, there are often colour shifts due to technical conditions. The same can happen with print and the different kinds of paper and printing methods. When you expand or ignore those technical conditions it starts to get fascinating.

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Evening grouch and late riser.

Coffee or tea?

Diagonally, symmetrically and in equal parts distributed in our studio.

One should never see the world in black and white. So no key decision.

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Colourful, quite continental, in bed in good company and with enough time for a digestive nap.

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I ran my own design studio in Brooklyn in the building next door to Tina. I had always attended CreativeMornings in NYC and I loved it. I was about to move out to LA and one day I asked Tina what she thought about me starting a chapter in Los Angeles. She was on board. I was chapter three which thegreatdiscontent.com/ started in October of 2010.

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How is your and your team’s line of work influencing the events you’re hosting?

I would say I am constantly inspired by our speakers. Every time I hear our speakers it makes me pause and highly consider what I am doing with my life. I feel like I could be doing more.

How would you describe your local “creative community”?

Is CreativeMornings filling a need of the local creative community, and if so what is that need?

I think it’s giving people a reason to get up early. LA is a pretty late-rising city and I think it’s forcing people to get out of the house a little earlier. I also think there are so many events in this city that cost money or are VIP or guest list only. LA/ CM is open to everyone and completely inclusive.

What’s the most rewarding part about organizing a CreativeMornings event?

The most rewarding part is seeing and hearing our audience collaborate with one another. There are people who

attended events alone, met people, and now run companies together. To think that I played a small part in their happiness and inspiration is a wonderful feeling.

What’s unique about your city’s Creative­ Mornings events?

I am not sure what is unique, but I think that because we’re in Los Angeles we tend to have pretty high profile people speak.

We have a lot of creative folks from the entertainment industry, so that’s kind of unique. For example we’ve had people like Moby, bands like YACHT, producers from Yo Gabba Gabba, directors, actors, etc.

Our May 2014 LA/CM speaker, Moby!

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The community in Los Angeles is welcoming, collaborative, and extremely fashionable. I am generally the worstdressed person at every event. The audience is made up of designers, writers, actors, programmers, scientists, and everything else in between. I look forward to seeing them all every month.

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If you could wish for the perfect event, what would it be that’s making it so perfect?

An event where the speaker is an unknown and leaves the audience in a mess of tears as they give a standing ovation. creativemornings.com/ The tears are from shear beauty rather cities/la than sadness. losangeles@creativemornings.com

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My favourite colour is yellow.

It’s the only colour I see correctly due to colourblindness.

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I’ve been sitting here in my Sydney office trying to come up with a witty, clever first person account of my CreativeMornings journey and I’m coming up short. It’s not that the words won’t come out, this is my fourth draft. It’s that choosing what angle to come from is exceedingly difficult.

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Presumably, like most of you, I have a fulltime job that takes more than the lion’s share out of my week and personal life and running a chapter is no easy task. Things go wrong all the time, speakers cancel or never respond, we’re constantly rethinking our speaker choices and sometimes finding the energy to pick yourself up has already been spent elsewhere.

I don’t own my own business. I have a boss, KPI’s, goals and a job to do. I work for a

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So why do I do it? Sure it’s tough and the extra hours can be draining, but when you’re at your talk, and people are smiling, talking to each other and enjoying the coffee you know you’ve done a good job.

It’s also been humbling to expose the community to someone awesome who until their talk, was mostly unknown.

I also feel very strongly in creating an industry that’s supportive and open. I remember ten years ago when I was trying to become a designer and trying to figure things out that there was nothing like

CreativeMornings out there. The industry was alien and as far as I could tell, closed to outsiders. I/we needed an accessible platform for communication and a sense of community. I feel CreativeMornings does this in Sydney and I’m sure in many other cities around the world.

Our team is great and I know that a handful of people or single person can make a big difference in a community. Being surrounded by likeminded people who want to make a difference is fun, and probably essential to success. I wouldn’t trade the ups and downs for anything.

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growing design school which at the time of writing, was still just a startup under a year ago. It’s very successful, but we’re small and even a day off puts the business a day behind where it would otherwise be.

I try to work on CreativeMornings outside of hours as much as possible which is more ethical than practical and sometimes unavoidable. In a typical week finding the time in the week to dedicate as much time as I really want to CreativeMornings can be tough, often the easiest sacrifice is my social life and sleep. So, it needs to happen in short bursts. A little bit of editing here, some emails there.

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Caroline Seidler’s Illustrator Stefanie Hilgard is featured in the #2 Issue (Minimal) of the CreativeMornings Magazine

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How did you discover CreativeMornings?

What was it that immediately sparked your interest?

L isa I first read about CreativeMornings in the swissmiss blog and followed it for a while. I was immediately convinced that it is a really interesting networking concept which any creative community can benefit from. When I learned that everyone is free to start their own chapter in their hometown, I just had to apply for a license. It was good timing, because I was looking for a job at the time and thought: if not now, when?

H aral d I discovered Tina’s blog back in 2007 and have followed her on Twitter ever since. In 2012 I lived in New York for six months and first started visiting Creative­ Mornings events there. Even though I was really keen on taking this ingenious concept to Vienna, it didn’t happen at first. But when I learned that Lisa had obtained the licence, I wrote her an enthusiastic e-mail and offered to help.

Did you face any difficulties when you started out?

L isa Finding sponsors and locations was harder than we had anticipated. I got the license in January, our first event took place in May. We have tried out a few things since then. Our current sponsors trusted our professionalism from the start and now we have produced some great artwork which makes our concept even more tangible for them.

H aral d Since our first events were so successful, it became much easier to find appropriate locations. Now the roles are reversed and we get invited to venues. Other sponsors, like the companies providing breakfast, are so taken with our concept that they were happy to extend our contracts.

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OUR LOVELY COLL ABORATORS: The Typejockeys (featured in #1: Minimal with CM graphic designer Thomas Piribauer (third from left) at the first event.

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And what worked really well from the beginning?

H aral d From the very start we were lucky to have an enthusiastic, professional and self-organized twelve-person team that brings great energy to each event.

L isa It was great not having to beg anyone to work with us. I told many people about CreativeMornings, and they approached me and asked if they could join our team. Even complete strangers contacted me via e-mail. We are enormously happy with our team and I believe this really shows at the events.

CreativeMornings Vienna only started in May 2014.

What have you managed to achieve and what is still on your wishlist?

L isa : It’s going really well! The Semperdepot is on top of our venue wishlist, it has so much flair and represents Vienna very well. We would really love to host a CreativeMornings meeting there. (Translator’s note: The Semperdepot by German architect Gottfried Semper was built in 1877 and today houses an atelier space for the oldest academy in Central Europe, the Acadeny of Fine Arts, Vienna.)

H aral d : With the first events we basically focused on getting things going, on gaining experience and on developing the most efficient workflow. During the next step we will dig deeper into the different nuances of networking and inspiration, so as to understand our community better and to learn which speakers, themes and locations work best. Of course we aim for the best quality in all of this.

L isa Our team is the constant in all the events. Therefore we can take risks with our choice of speakers and locations.

H aral d Finding new venues and figuring out the smartest and least obvious choice for our speakers are our ways of challenging ourselves and making sure the events stay fresh and exiting.

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What kind of feedback do you get about your work and the event series as a whole?

L isa So far I have received positive feedback throughout. Audience members approach me after an event and thank me for creating a setting where they can find inspiration and like-minded people.

H aral d For me it is the greatest compliment that people voluntarily get up so early in the morning and that they keep coming back.

Do you get the sense that, with Creative­ Mornings, you are giving something to the community that they have lacked so far, and that you are meeting needs that are not met by other networking platforms?

L isa We are definitely filling a gap, because Creative­ Mornings happen, well, in the morning. This is what many people tell us: there are no other events in the morning, when people tend to be more alert than in the evening.

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OUR TEAM MEMBER Verena Rumplmair, the magic interview lady.

L isa It is a constant building process, a curious experimenting and testing out possibilities. I always think about what else we can offer our team and the community.

H aral d In the beginning I had very clear expectations about what the “creative” aspect of CreativeMornings should be like. But it turned out to be much more multi-faceted than I thought. This opens up exciting possibilities to explore and see things from a different perspective. For me personally, a CreativeMornings event is successful when people have arrived with specific expectations, but get something completely different and still—or because of it—start their day with an extra large dose of inspiraton.

OUR TEAM AT THE JULY EVENT with Speaker Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel

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H aral d Many events call themselves creative, but are traditional networking events geared much more towards business people than creatives.

Creative足Mornings, on the other hand, is specifically aimed at the creative community, which completely alters the networking style and the atmosphere. We make an effort to focus on the fact that inspiraton often arises from the fusion of new ideas and experiences. Our speeches are less about self-presentation than about the exploration of unexpected impulses.

How free do you feel in your work for CreativeMornings?

Are you able to realize your own vision within the given concept?

L isa The headquarters provide the framework for what we do, which is definitely a good thing, because it guarantees a certain consistency.

But within this framework each chapter can express their own ideas and do what they think best.

This makes for the great variety.

H aral d I think it is impossible to understand a community completely. But you can realize your own vision and hope that people like it. This is why it was so important that Lisa brought Creative足 Mornings to Vienna for the reason she did: she herself wanted it. So she is her own target audience. We are really lucky to have the freedom to create the events our way, and that our way appeals to the community.

L isa This is exactly what we base our work on: we think about what we would like to learn from a speaker or we imagine how an event should be like so we would want to attend ourselves.

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What makes CreativeMornings Vienna so unique?

H aral d I don’t think that we work so much differently from the other chapters.

I suppose it is the combination of the city, the local hosts and the speakers that makes each chapter special. The only thing that is unique to the Vienna chapter is our monthly magazine. Its quality is really impressive, I think.

What was the greatest surprise working for Creative­Mornings? Which experiences were unexpected?

L isa What has surprised and delighted me the most was that from the very start twelve people have unfalteringly contributed their work and energy and motivation, and on a voluntary basis at that. Our team’s evergrowing motivation makes me really proud! The magazine is the best example. For this special New York issue we got a translator on board and added some extra international features. Our team self-organizes around the product each month and develops the content with staggering self-initiative.

H aralD CreativeMornings Vienna and its amazing team are everything I would expect from an ideal workplace: I get to work on an idea I believe in, my collegues are motivated, self-organized and intelligent, and we cooperate really well. I have never met such a highly motivated team in any of the jobs I have ever done, especially a team of this size. Nobody is forced to participate, everyone could leave at any given moment—but everyone keeps going with unchanging enthusiasm.

L isa We are working really well together. The time just before the start of the event, when we have finished preparing everything and just sit there chatting and drinking coffee, gets longer and longer. We are becoming more proficient, everything works more smoothly every time.

H aral d When you organize events on a regular basis, you get used to things going wrong, sometimes even something fundamentally important.

Of course, not everything can go according to plan every time. But so far, nothing has gone wrong for us, not a single thing!

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Why did the Vienna chapter decide to produce a magazine in the first place?

The magazine is free for everyone at the event.

L isa We wanted to create a print product for the events.

Florine, Marie and Thomas, our graphic designers, suggested the magazine. At first I thought, wow, this is going to be really complex and time-consuming. But they were so exited that my only job was to say “Go!� and look forward to the result. Now every single month I am absolutely thrilled about how beautifully the magazine turns out. I am very grateful that we can offer our audience such a great product.

What function does the magazine serve and where do you want to go with it in the future?

H aral d The magazine does what the special features on a DVD do: giving additional value and insights beyond the event itself. When someone likes the event, they find different ways to communicate with us. The magazine is a substantial way to connect with CreativeMornings in addition to attending the event. This way we are able to bring the community into closer contact with us and get them more involved. Additionally, the magazine can be a source of income in the form of sponsoring, which would be much more difficult to generate otherwise.

What have your experiences with the magazine been like so far?

H aral d Everybody loves it! Even in this era of digital communication a printed magazine is met with great enthusiasm. When I tell someone that we produce an issue every month, that five people work on it, that the illustrations are done by hand and that we cooperate with a number of sponsors so that we can produce the magazine without cost, they realize

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that we know what we are doing. The magazine acts like a business card that proves to sponsors and partners that we work on a very high level.

L isa The magazine’s editorial team is highly professional. They quickly came up with collaborations that are in tune with our concept and that give substance to the magazine. It is all about carrying further the two principles of CreativeMornings: inspiration and networking. Therefore we cooperate with Typejockeys who design our inspirational quote each month and with the journalism lab paroli who write an essay about each BREAKFAST CHECK monthly theme. A variety of Viennese illustrators and illustration agencies M o r n i n g g r o u c h o r e a r ly r i s e r ? get a chance to present late riser ;) / not a morning person / early but themselves in the magatired / both / totally morning hater / morning zine and our printers cugrouch / late morning bird / early riser / morning lover / more early than grouch / bed loving rate a page, as well. Our morning lover partners are enthusiastic and regular visitors of our events and are happy Coffee or Tea? to contribute in this way. coffee & tea / tea / lots of coffee / both, H aral d It is definitely a good alternating / coffee / flat white cuppa / coffee / thing that the events tea. tea. tea / coffee / both / coffee and the magazine both are running on such a W HAT ' S Y OUR I D EAL B REA K FAST ? high level. Otherwise plenty of time / fruits / friends / good, organic it would give a strange food, preferably salty / coffee / smooth jazz / impression, I think. But avocado / great people, ideally outdoor, in the event and magazine are sun / sunshine or thunderstorm outside / a perfect match and so newspapers / foamed milk there is no doubt: this is Answerd by the CreativeMornings Vienna Team: high quality.

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I started my career as an explorer in Graz, Austria, studying Information Design. Almost at the same time I started freelancing as an illustrator and graphic designer and did various internships. At the end of my bachelor’s degree I interned at Vault49 in New York City. Working during this internship more on the conceptual level shaped my wish to be able to focus and work on the bigger picture in my further career. Therefore, I decided to study Creative Direction in Germany.

In addition to travelling a lot during my studies, I enjoyed living in New York City (USA), Tampere (Finland), Pforzheim and Munich in Germany and Graz

(Austria). Right now I am back in my hometown Vienna. However, as it is typical for an explorer, this is not the last stop on my journey.

My constant curiosity and my open mind keep me in the loop with all the things that are happening around me. From time to time I discover a new insight which can be the starting point for a new creative endeavour. I am eagerly looking foward to my next discovery!

Do you like what you’ve just read? Then I have some important information for you: I am currently searching for a new job. If you know anything, if you want to hire me or collaborate on a project, feel free to drop me a line: liz.langmantel@gmx.at.

Stay awesome!

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I always wanted to be a designer. Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, however, somehow prompted a more “roundabout” career. I began as the graphic designer who evolved into the “concept imagilabs.com guy”, started teaching, picked up transmedia storytelling, harald@imagilabs.com drifted into game design with a strong dose of community management, began organizing a lot of events and eventually ended up with my own startup.

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was the ongoing opportunity to expand and hone my understanding of design.

Two other topics stayed close to my heart during my multi-faceted career: education and technology. I co-founded imagiLabs in NYC in 2012 to finally unite these passions. We design products that bring more storytelling and hands-on learning to modern education, and participated in the 4.0 Schools Accelerator.

CreativeMornings has been a fascination of mine ever since I attended my first event. Now I consider myself lucky to be part of the team, and thanks to our host, Lisa, and our truly awesome team, it is a constant source of amazement, inspiration and opportunities to learn.

I’m looking forward to getting to know my fellow CreativeMornings hosts from around the world, and sharing our passion for design and learning during the summit.

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imagiL abs For our first product, ChallengeBox, we combine interactive stories with hands-on projects, aiming to make learning more playful and play more adventurous.

MindNode Delightful mind mapping that’s intuitive and easy.

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took me up on the offer and it was almost the same for Victoria, and so we became part of the CM/LDN team.

I discovered CreativeMornings following SwissMiss’ blog and had watched a few of the videos she had posted and loved it. I had seen that there had been some chapters popping up in other places and thought of contacting Tina about starting a London chapter, but Drew, the previous host, had done exactly that.

So I was happy that London got it’s chapter and managed to get a ticket for an event a few months after it started and offered Drew my help, if ever he needed it. He

When Drew decided last year to move on he asked me if I wanted to become the new host and I said yes of course, being seven months pregnant quite a decision to make.

I started the following month. I had two events were I think the audience was a bit worried about me giving birth on stage, and looking back at the photos I'm not surprised …

In September 2013 I had my daughter and this is where my fantastic team came in and supported my two events maternity leave and rocked the show without me.

I can’t stress enough how amazing my team is and how it helps to be surrounded by great people who will get you through the trickier months and events and you can celebrate the creativemornings.com/ little great moments with. cities/ldn london@creativemornings.com

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Hence we have been lucky to realize many exciting and sophisticated projects, gaining great know-how and expertise in the process.

No matter what your specific requirements are: You can always trust that we implement them to your utmost satisfaction.

In addition to offset printing, we offer digital printing as well as a book binding.

We are also glad to help you pick out the most suitable materials from our large selection of artisanal paper and patterns.

As part of a large network of specialists, we always know who to call to handle something we don’t do ourselves.

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Thus we are the proud sponsors of the Austrian Typography Society (TGA) and the Viennale Festival of Austrian Film and we support the graphic designers’ regulars’ table remaprint.at as well as the series “Wie +43 1 403 89 26 – 71 geht das?” (“How Does Rema-Print-Littera und VerlagsgmbH This Work?”) on local DruckNeulerchenfelder Straße 35 television.

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QUOTE ☛ The quotation for this month’s theme “colour“ on the following spread was created by the Vienna-based graphic and type design company Typejockeys. They used their font Henriette, available at typejockeys.com About Henriette: In the 1920s the Viennese government decided to standardize the street signs across the city. A typeface was especially constructed for the purpose. It TYPEJOCKEYS.com was available in a +43 1 890 11 71 Heavy and a Bold hello@typejockeys.com Condensed version, Henriettenplatz 8/6 1150 Vienna, Austria to support short street names as well as longer ones.

As the years went by, the typeface was adopted and redrawn by several enamel factories. These adaptations lead to variations on the design, and to the fact that there isn’t only one Viennese street sign font but 16—in part extremely diverging—different versions. Henriette is not a digitization of any of those versions; rather, it is influenced by all of them. The italic versions are completely original and designed to accompany the Roman.

We are incredibly happy that Sonja trusted our “Hey, let’s do a Creative­ Mornings Magazine” idea from the very beginning. Her services and expertise are invaluable to us. We are very grateful that she is supporting this magazine, and with it, all of Vienna’s creative community, every month!

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cincinnati@creativemornings.com Jeremy Thobe | jeremy.thobe@gmail.com | @thobejp Joe Kruessel | jkruessel@usdigitalpartners.com Ryan Cayabyab | cayabyab.ryan@gmail.com | @rcayabyab Jessica Nolte | nessicajolte@gmail.com | @noltenolte89 Kelsey Gallager | gallagher.kelsey@gmail.com | @kelseygallagher Jessica Wollcot | jessica@creativesoncall.com | @Jessgottweets Josh Emerson | joshemerson@gmail.com | @joshemerson Aurore Fournier | fournia@gmail.com Ben Baker | ben.baker@appica.com | @benabaker Rachel Kirkwood | rmkirk@gmail.com

I have to say, I’m so grateful for the opportunity to lead our CreativeMornings chapter! Being fairly introverted, this has been such a great experience for me.

I love meeting new people and being inspired by our local community and I love working with our great team of volun­ teers to share the inspiration we come across every day.

handful of us got together and started the application process. In a city with such strong creative pockets, how do we begin to bring everyone together?

The absolutely amazing team we have now should all be proud of the progress we’re making to connect people around the city. With the help of CreativeMornings, we’ve established the first completely free and accessible community event centered around creative inspiration from within our very own community. That’s a huge sense of pride for me. I can’t wait to see how things evolve and what our city can do with CreativeMornings.

To say that I couldn’t do this without the team of volunteers that have come together over this past year is a huge understatement.

Our creative community in Cincinnati is known for being approachable and brilliant but humble at the same time. That humility can make it hard to know what’s going on, what’s being created and who’s leading the charge unless it’s all happening next door. That was one of the main challenges we wanted to address when a

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Words are like colours.

They can create the most amazing landscapes.

NICOLA GOLD

copywriter, tr ansl ator, voice - ov er artist

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Once I read about this woman in Morocco. She is the only literate person in her village, so she sits in the cafĂŠ all day and people come to her to tell her their story. She writes these stories down on her typewriter.

What a most blissful life, I thought.

That’s what I want to do! Just that I want to travel the world doing it.

Composing this, I am realizing that the Moroccan lady and I have more in common than I thought: I also write things for people that have something to do with them. And sometimes I do this on my typewriter, too! It is a Remington 7 Noiseless from 1931 and with it, magic happens.

The motto is: tell me a word and I write you a poem.

I do this in small theatres, at design fairs, in cafés and pop-up shops, at events and markets. No word is too banal or com-

plicated, it doesn’t matter if it is “love” or “nevertheless“ or “desoxyribonucleic acid”. The result is a poetic text on a beautiful card for the receiver to keep or give away as a present. Would you like to try? Just give me a call. And if you want me to visit your city to record your stories, just get me a plane ticket and I am coming right over!

CARD: This poem was originally written in Switzerland, inspired by the beautiful mountains and the incredible sky. And by the richness of life.

But I can’t complain. Always a keen writer, it has taken me many years of living abroad and exploring various means of communication — TV, film, radio and contemporary dance — before I arrived back at the written word. I have worked hard to be able to make a living from writing, to become independent and work on my own terms.

Wortfachgeschäft is German for “specialty store for words” and I offer copywriting, proofreading, translations and voice-overs.

vie buttons: Nicola’s one-of-a-kind buttons are inspired by everyday communication. They are hand-typed and hand-made in Vienna.

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LWZ is a design and animation studio based in Vienna.

Their skills were awoken in the talent pools of SV Hintstein, Union Brunnenthal, Academic Ski Club Innsbruck and the marching band of Biberbach and united during their years

LWZ DESIGN & ANIMATION STUDIO

at the University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg, Austria.

Now based in Vienna, they experiment with the uncon-

ventional, causing visual derailments with happy endings, whether in installations, moving or printed form.

LWZ are Martin Lorenz, Stefan Salcher, Markus Wagner, Tobias Schererbauer: wearelwz.com

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