Creative Juxtapositions: A Conversation with Jimmy Fallon and Sean Parker

It’s not often you get a geek and a comedian sitting opposite each other to talk about tech, but the exact thing happened at the NExTWORK conference when Jimmy Fallon sat down with Sean Parker to gain an insight into his life.

The pair talk about Justin Timberlake, hacking, the rise and fall of Napster and even Spotify, the music service that Parker wishes Napster could have been.

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A bit of tech meta surrealism to end the week. For two iconic individuals that just met they certainly had great rapport together and an easy camaraderie. Parker is surprisingly affable. Fallon is totally a font nerd.

IdeaFlight: A new app and a new way to present

Idea Flight is the only tool you need to share your ideas and direct the experience for your audience easily on the iPad. Just download Idea Flight, access a wireless connection, and you're ready for takeoff! Your FREE download includes a sample presentation you can use to test-pilot Idea Flight. http://www.ideaflight.com/app

While Condé Nast continues to work on their digital strategy for iPad magazines they have done something surprising with the tablet, they've released a brilliant non-magazine related app. 

IdeaFlight is a presentation sharing app that connects, via WiFi or Bluetooth, with other iPads letting you to have total control of your presentation while maintaining the focus on you and not the big projection behind you. I think this is an amazing idea, shifting presentations from PowerPoint decks that most of the time are poorly conceived and instead allowing for a conversation to take place with occasional support from materials on the iPad. I am going to give this app a try as soon as I can. 

Jared Spool - Anatomy of a Design Decision

The best designs come from not one, but hundreds of well-made decisions. The worst designs arise out of hundreds of poorly-made decisions. All that stands between you and a great design is the quality of your decisions. Where do they come from? For the last five years, we’ve been studying how designers make their decisions. When do they use outside information, such as research about their users? When do they go with their gut instinct? When do the designers look to past decisions and the lessons they’ve learned? What we found will surprise you. In this presentation, Jared will take you on an entertaining deep dive into the gut instinct of the best designers (without looking at all the gooey parts). You’ll learn five styles of decision making, from Self Design to Experience-focused Design, and which style produces quality results. Prepare to learn how to be a better designer, as Jared shares the secrets of the best and worst. Produced by Sean Carmichael

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In this presentation, Jared will take you on an entertaining deep dive into the gut instinct of the best designers (without looking at all the gooey parts). You’ll learn five styles of decision making, from Self Design to Experience-focused Design, and which style produces quality results. Prepare to learn how to be a better designer, as Jared shares the secrets of the best and worst.

Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories

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Short lecture by Kurt Vonnegut on the 'simple shapes of stories.'

Debbie Millman: Top 10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Graduated College

Our speaker at the February 2011 CreativeMornings/NewYork was wonderful Debbie Millman (http://debbiemillman.com/). The event was generously hosted by Galapagos Art Space (http://galapagosartspace.com/) in DUMBO, Brooklyn. ........ ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Debbie Millman is a partner and president of the design division at Sterling Brands, one of the leading brand identity firms in the country. Millman is president of AIGA, and chair of the School of Visual Arts master's program in Branding. She is a contributing editor to Print magazine and host of the podcast Design Matters. She is the author of How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer (Allworth Press, 2007),The Essential Principles of Graphic Design (Rotovision, 2008) and Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design (How Books, 2009). ........ ABOUT CREATIVEMORNINGS? CreativeMornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types. Each event is free of charge, and includes a 20 minute talk, plus coffee! You can currently join us in New York, Zurich, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. (http://www.creativemornings.com) ........ A big thank you to Sy J. Abudu (http://syjabudu.com/) for filming and editing the talk.

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Debbie Millman was the guest speaker at last February's Creative Mornings. The talk explores some of the ideas she wished she had known once she graduated from college. It is full of great advice and insightful anecdotes from her 30 years as a branding expert. You should also subscribe to her Design Matters podcast which profiles industry-leading graphic designers, change agents, artists, writers and educators.