The New York Public Library
presents
Artist Career Development Series Event
Breakthrough!
Alex Cornell
in conversation with
Paula Scher, Douglas Rushkoff,
Debbie Millman, Khoi Vinh, Blake Whitman
Wednesday October 17, 2012
6:00 p.m.
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
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?
In 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 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 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 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 is a writer, educator, artist, brand consultant, and host of the radio show Design Matters.
Khoi Vinh 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 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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