CreativeMornings in Zurich, Switzerland

CreativeMornings is crossing the Atlantic and will take place in Zurich, Switzerland on July 9th 2010, from 8.30am-10am in the courtyard of the Swiss National Museum. (picture below)

S P E A K E R

Rolf Hiltl will be our July speaker.

In Europe the name Hiltl is well-known for the famous vegetarian restaurant located in the heart of Zurich.

The original restaurant opened 112 years ago (!) and is considered a gastronomic highlight in Zurich. Representing the fourth generation, 45-year-old Rolf Hiltl took over the family business in 1998, exactly 100 years after Europe’s first vegetarian restaurant was founded. Rolf Hiltl admits that his approach on running the business has always been both American and Swiss. He works on the trial and error principle: try something out and then improve on it.

Today the Hiltl brand includes a cooking studio, cook books, a bar, a club, take-away outlets and a catering business. Rolf Hiltl is also co-owner of tibits with 4 restaurants in Switzerland and one outlet in London.

– About Rolf Hiltl
– swissinfo article: Where vegetarian cuisine is making history
– Hiltl Vegetarian Cookbooks

H O S T

This month’s event will be hosted outdoors at the Hiltl WM Lounge in the impressive courtyard of the Swiss National Museum , across the street of Zurich main station. (Scroll down to see an image of the courtyard)

Swiss National Museum
Hiltl WM Lounge

A T T E N D I N G

Click over to eventbrite to R.S.V.P for the event! Please let us know if you r.s.v.p’d but can no longer make it. Our events fill up quickly and we usually keep a waiting list.

BREAKFAST SPONSORS

Breakfast will be generously sponsored by our main sponsor MailChimp, and Switzerland based companies Tube and Binary Design:

MailChimp is a fantastic service that makes it easy to send email newsletters to your customers, manage your subscriber lists, and track campaign performance. A big yay-hooray to the team over at MailChimp!


Tube Products are almost entirely made out of recycled bicycle tubes. The Switzerland based company turnes used tubes into unique, handmade products such as belts, iPhone cases, key chains and USB sticks.


Switzerland based Binary Design creates custom made, modern and sustainable internet solutions. webdesign . onlineshops . webapps”

ABOUT CREATIVEMORNINGS

CreativeMornings is a monthly speaker series and morning gathering of creative types. Each event includes a 15-20 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. The gathering begins at 8:30am with the topic presentation starting at 9:00am and everyone taking off for work at 10am. CreativeMornings are free of charge!

Be the first to know when r.s.v.p’s open up, follow CreativeMornings on twitter!

Check out pictures of previous CreativeMornings over at Flickr.

View all the taped CreativeMorning talks we’ve put up on the web so far over at Vimeo.

This is a picture of the WM Lounge in the Landesmuseum Courtyard. Pretty darn cool, no?

Zapfino

Please meet my friend’s son. His name is Cooper. He is 3 and I am his biggest fan. Cooper has been into typography ever since I can remember. The below video just put the biggest smile on my face.

Oh, and by the way, his parents are as cool as he is. Please meet Matthew and Lori. And yes, they are quite type savvy!

Godzilla

Are you on Flickr and use the Tweetie 2 iPhone app? Then you might want to know about Godzilla. It let’s you skip the image services like twitpic or yfrog when tweeting. When you send a tweet from Tweetie 2, Godzilla uploads the image to your Flickr account. Excellent.

UPDATE: Works like a charm. First upload. YESSS!

Bookshelf Porn

A site entirely dedicated to bookshelves. Amazing.

#ihearttheinternets

(via samdeluxe)

Tube

I am currently researching USB-Stick-Keychains and discovered this swiss product called USB-tube. (I wrote about the iTube a while back). Tube uses pre-used bicycle tubes for their products. (Belts,iPhone Cases, Keychain, USB sticks) Cool idea, no?

What’s your Keychain-USB-stick of choice?

Hair



Just discovered this photo over at iam.curiousabout.ch and I couldn’t help but chuckle. Renato Soldenhoff, writer behind curiousabout, discovered the photo in a window of an office on the Sihlfeldstrasse in Zurich. Now, let’s see if we can find out what the story is and who’s behind this. Any of my swiss readers know?

#guiltyofabusinghashtags

I am totally guilty of abusing #hashtags on twitter and more recently on my blog. Yes, I somewhat started a personal hashtag obsession. I keep wanting to use them while talking to friends.

HASH, by Susan Orlean

(thank you @EugenePhoto)

MenuPad

I wonder what our upcoming CreativeMornings speaker Rolf Hiltl thinks of this idea of using iPads in a restaurant as the menu and to put in your order.

(via @roitsch)

30 Years Of Macs In 2 Minutes

(via the Huffingtonpost / via brainpicker)

Doorstopper

This doorstopper made me laugh. Fun for a kid’s room, no?

(Oddly enough the product is only visible on the german version of the site.)

Erik Spiekermann’s home

I was completely mesmerized by this Dwell Article featuring Erik Spiekermann’s house. What a stunning place to call home. I could move in as is. (I don’t say that often) It seems like him and his wife also follow the same no-clutter policy G and I subscribe to.

What a cool idea about having cloth panels hide messy outlets and plugs.

The kitchen, did you see the kitchen? (nearly faint)

The little detail that sealed the deal for me is the remote-controlled mountaineer’s harness that let’s you peruse the two-story bookshelf. Now that is *cool*!

Please raise your hand if you think Erik Spiekermann’s home is quite stunning! (raisinghand)

See the full slideshow.

dpi Series

Now here’s a refreshing idea: Applying the screen resolution metaphor to lighting design. This dpi Series made me smile. Very cool idea by Guillaume Delvigne.

Why Design-By-Commitee Should Die

There’s a saying I love: “a camel is a horse designed by committee.” A variation is “a Volvo is a Porsche designed by committee.” Some of the best product advice I’ve ever heard goes something like “damn what the users want, charge towards your dream.” All of these statements are, of course, saying the same thing. When there are too many cooks in the kitchen all you get is a mess. And when too many people have product input, you’ve got lots of features but no soul.
– Michael Arrington, founder and co-editor of TechCrunch

Taken from an interesting read over at SmashingMagazine: Why Design-By-Commitee Should Die, by Speider Schneider

Fluffy McCloud

First there was a ‘birds’ trend, then came the ‘mustaches’ and now we arrived ‘clouds’. But hey, how charming is Fluffy McCloud? Seriously!

(via campsite / kitsunenoir)

weiners are hilarious

Chris Glass‘ studiomate Tom humorous approach of launching his letterpress career: weiners are hilarious

Which reminds me of Brooks Stevens’ quote: “There is nothing more aerodynamic than a wiener!”

Freitag WYSS



Oh, hello there, RO99 WYSS, beauty of a Freitag bag. How are you today?

#wishlisted

COOL BEANS™

What better is there on a hot summer day than a Ice Coffee? Well, there’s Ice Coffee and there’s Ice Coffee. Last year I discovered the Porsche of Ice Coffee’s when I ordered one at Love Lane Kitchen on the Northfork and it was served with Icecubes that were made out of coffee. Duh! Such a simple idea! As the ice melts, the coffee doesn’t get watered down. Ever since, I cringe at getting an ice coffee with regular icecubes. I’ll have to pick up some of these Cool Bean Ice Trays.

#wishlisted

What are you?

Made me chuckle. Couldn’t make up my mind yet which category I belong to. (Tempted to redo this graphic with a less painful font choice)

Found this over on Red’s photostream. Can anyone point me to the original source so I can give proper credit?

Felt iPad Case

I keep coming back to this iPad Felt Case and am tempted to hit the purachse button. I own the original Apple iPad Case and while it is superpractical I miss holding/handling the iPad sans case.

Wanted: CreativeMornings co-sponsor

I am currently looking to find a co-sponsor for the upcoming CreativeMornings on July 9th with Rolf Hiltl at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich, Switzerland. The event is taking place in the courtyard of the museum in the supermodern Hiltl WM Lounge. The venue is stunning to say the least. (Event info)

Our attendees range from Designers (web and print), UX experts, Marketing, CEO’s of any kind of design related business, to writers, PR people etc. It’s an amazingly diverse group but I would say with a tendency to be more on the creative/designer side.

This month’s Breakfast Co-Sponsorship is $800 and includes:

A co-sponsor mention on the swiss-miss.com announcement post with a visual banner like on this announcement.

A mention and thank you at the beginning of the event with a screenshot of your site or any graphic of your choice, projected onto the screen. If you would like you can set up signs and can hand out print material during the event. We had Mailchimp hand out T-shirts in the past or Behance handed out their actionpads. You can really do whatever you’d like, or let’s say, almost anything! :)

More about the CreativeMornings:

Talks over at vimeo.

Pictures of previous CreativeMornings on Flickr.

swiss-miss.com gets an average of 30k unique visitors a day, and about 900kuniques a month. Your brand exposure would be quite big.

Interested in co-sponsoring the event alongside with our main sponsor Mailchimp?
Email me.

One Village Coffee

Greg of Able pointed to one of their most recent projects, a Coffee Packaging design: “One of our goals was to package the sentiments of “a village” into a customer experience. The bag was printed in white + two colors with a matte finish and gloss trapping over the logo. Because the budget didn’t allow for more than one type of bag, a different label with a customized icon is used to identify each type of coffee.”

Lovely. Made me smile and I’d definitely gravitate towards this packaging would I peruse a coffee shelf in a supermarket.

More photos over at thedieline.com.

The LEGO® Store

New York City just got a little bit more colorful and playful: LEGO opened it’s first retail store in NYC and I can not wait to take our little Ella there. It’s open for business already but its grand opening is on June 29-July 1st!

Mommy Poppins has a thorough post on all the happenings during the opening.

Bounce App

All of you webdesigners and developers, listen up, here’s a fabulous little app that will make your life easier. Bounce is little app from ZURB that let’s people quickly add feedback to any webpage and toss that back and forth with other people. This is fantastic. #yay

To see a quick example I just created, visit this link.

bounceapp.com

Wireless in the world 2

Visualizing wireless networks in the physical world – @TimoArnall is back with round 2

Wireless in the world 2 from timo on Vimeo.

“Utopian and radical architects in the 1960s predicted that cities in the future would not only be made of brick and mortar, but also defined by bits and flows of information. The urban dweller would become a nomad who inhabits a space in constant flux, mutating in real time. Their vision has taken on new meaning in an age when information networks rule over many of the city’s functions, and define our experiences as much as the physical infrastructures, while mobile technologies transform our sense of time and of space.”

from: laboralcentrodearte.org/en/735-concept

(via brainpicker)