This morning I attended The SF Creative Mornings event at the beautiful offices of Typekit.
This was probably one of the classiest events I've attended in awhile, which I suppose isn't saying all that much, but seriously, they had *glass pitchers* for milk and tiny little things of cereal! *Very* classy.
The sun was shining, there was food and coffee, there were tons of creative, nice people wandering about. The perfect start to a Friday. Oh, the talk was also pretty awesome. Seriously, Adam Tobin gave a great talk around the theme of "I have an idea... what next?" He spoke about what he'd done with his ideas, the toy companies he'd started, and his current mechanical/artistic work.
Some of the awesome things he showed included: a marble set that you stick on your fridge, musical instruments you fill with water and play in the tub, and a contraption that tells time with Othello pieces. One of my favorite quotes from him was "That idea that you have, you don't... you have the start of the idea." - making a point that a lot of things he thought he'd invented morphed and changed through prototyping and iteration.
(photos from the creative mornings flickr set)
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The sun was shining, there was food and coffee, there were tons of creative, nice people wandering about. The perfect start to a Friday. Oh, the talk was also pretty awesome. Seriously, Adam Tobin gave a great talk around the theme of "I have an idea... what next?" He spoke about what he'd done with his ideas, the toy companies he'd started, and his current mechanical/artistic work.
Some of the awesome things he showed included: a marble set that you stick on your fridge, musical instruments you fill with water and play in the tub, and a contraption that tells time with Othello pieces. One of my favorite quotes from him was "That idea that you have, you don't... you have the start of the idea." - making a point that a lot of things he thought he'd invented morphed and changed through prototyping and iteration.
(photos from the creative mornings flickr set)
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