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The New York Public Library



presents

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Artist Career Development Series
Event<http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2012/10/17/artist-career-developement-breakthrough>

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*Breakthrough!*

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*Alex Cornell*

* in conversation with *

*Paula Scher, Douglas Rushkoff,*

*Debbie Millman, Khoi Vinh, Blake Whitman*

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Wednesday October 17, 2012

6:00 p.m.

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Margaret Liebman Berger Forum

Room 227 (2nd Floor)



The New York Public Library

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

5thAvenue at 42nd Street

New York, NY 10018

917-275-6975

 *www.nypl.org*

(directions) <http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/36/directions>



*Room 227 opens to the public at 5:30 p.m.*

All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation.


All of us struggle at one time or another with creative block. Inevitably
striking at the worst moment, it can leave us feeling completely paralyzed.
Take solace in knowing that you are not alone. It happens to every creative
person and is an unavoidable part of the creative process. So what do top
creative people do when they run into a block? When all seems hopeless, how
do they get the ideas flowing again?


I*n this panel discussion, an all-star line-up of designers, writers, and
entrepreneurs reveal their own terrifying experiences with creative block
and share their personal strategies for overcoming it. This panel offers a
rare opportunity to learn hard-won secrets from Paula Scher, Douglas
Rushkoff, Debbie Millman, **Khoi Vinh and Blake Whitman*.

The book *Breakthrough! *is a lively compilation of strategies for
combating creative block offered by a who’s who of leading designers,
typographers, photographers, illustrators, musicians, writers, and other
creative professionals including Paula Scher, Debbie Millman, Christoph
Niemann, Douglas Rushkoff, Nicholas Felton, Jamie Lidell, Ji Lee,
Experimental Jetset, and Khoi Vinh. Because every block is different, they
provide a wide variety of solutions—from cleaning the house and eating
spicy food to making a plaster cast of your hands and feet—that are
surprising, amusing, at times weird, but always inspiring. *Breakthrough!:
Proven Strategies to Overcome Creative Block and Spark Your Imagination* is
rocket fuel for any creative individual in need of a catalyst to get ideas
flowing again.

*Copies of the book are available for purchase and signing at the event.*

*Alex Cornell <http://alexcornell.com/>* is the author of
*Breakthrough!*He currently works as cofounder and designer at
Firespotter Labs and Nosh,
a Google Ventures–funded startup. He has also worked for IDEO, Plancast,
Signpost, and many other Bay Area companies as a UI/UX and brand designer.

*Paula Scher <http://www.aiga.org/medalist-paulascher/>* is an American
graphic designer, illustrator, painter, and art educator. She was the first
female principal at Pentagram, which she joined in 1991. Scher has created
designs for a wide range of clients including Citibank, Bausch & Lomb,
Coca-Cola, Tiffany & Co., Jazz at Lincoln Center, and The Daily Show with
Jon Stewart.

*Douglas Rushkoff <http://www.rushkoff.com/>* is an author, teacher, and
documentarian. He is the technology columnist for the Daily Beast and the
author of numerous books including Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the
World and How We Can Take It Back.

*Debbie Millman* <http://debbiemillman.com/> is a writer, educator, artist,
brand consultant, and host of the radio show Design Matters.

*Khoi Vinh <http://www.subtraction.com/>* was formerly the design director
at nytimes.com. He is now the cofounder and CEO of Lascaux, makers of the
world’s first social collage app, Mixel, for the iPad.

*Blake Whitman <http://blakewhitman.tumblr.com/>* is the vice president of
creative development at Vimeo.

Initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni, *Artist Career Development
Series*have addressed the growing needs and concerns of independent
creative
workforce in New York City since 2006.


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