Get inspired, before work.

January 27, 2012, 8:30-10:00am
Space with a Soul – 281 Summer St. 7th Floor Boston, MA

The January presenters are Daren Bascome and Peter Herman.
Tickets will be available Monday, January 23rd, starting at 7:00 AM.

These two gentlemen know a lot about a great cup of coffee (and origami). Peter Herman and Daren Bascome are creators of the Compleat cup, an ingenious disposable coffee cup that doesn’t need a plastic lid. They’ll share with us insights about product design, how an architect’s idea was brought to life by a designer, and their mission to entice folks to ditch sippy cups (and that extra plastic) and instead “fill, fold and drink.”

Peter Herman, AIA, is an architect by trade for the last 25 years, with a longstanding commitment to environmental stewardship and the responsible use of materials. He currently works at Ellenzweig, an architectural firm based in Cambridge.

Daren Bascome is founder of Proverb, an award-winning global brand-building agency in Boston, and has been named as “one of the most sought-after designers in Boston” by the Boston Globe. A former director of the Massachusetts College of Art Foundation Board, he is currently an overseer of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.


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Breakfast is generously sponsored by 48HourPrint.com. 48HourPrint.com is a leading online printing firm offering high-quality printing and mailing services to graphic designers, small businesses, and nonprofits that value quality, speed, and affordable prices. They offer 40 products, including posters, business cards, postcards, brochures, greeting cards, calendars, pocket folders, and booklets, all backed by the firm’s 48 Hour Turnaround Guarantee.


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Meeting space is generously provided by Space With a Soul, a shared workspace for non-profits. The goal of Space with a Soul is to help organizations allocate more time and money to mission, rather than operations. They achieve that goal by providing shared office space, developing shared services, and engaging companies with a track record of work with the nonprofit community to provide affordable services to their nonprofits. Space with a Soul calls what they do “Mission Acceleration”.


CreativeMornings is a monthly morning gathering for creative types. Each event includes a 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!

There are chapters around the world including Zurich, LosAngeles, NewYork, San Francisco and now Boston! Follow us on Twitter (@Boston_CM) to be among the first to hear about upcoming events. Missed a previous event? Want to check out what chapters in other cities are up to? Videos are available on creativemornings.com.

We’re asking for your help so we can continue these important programs. A year-end donation in any amount will directly support exciting and essential new programs in 2012.
Make your tax-deductible donation today.

Every donation counts! This past year, we made some exciting strides thanks to the support of friends like you. In 2011, we:

• Opened our most recent exhibit, Retail: Retell, Recycle, Rethink at the Prudential in Boston’s Back Bay to rave reviews;
• Acquired low-cost office space at Space with a Soul in Boston’s Fort Point neighborhood;
• Built relationships with design firms, designers, and artists across New England
• Were accepted into Catchafire’s founding Boston class of nonprofits. Catchafire is a great organization that pairs nonprofits with professionals looking to use their skills for social good;
• and we received a $50,000 planning grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for the purpose of strengthening the connection between the art, design, and business communities in Boston’s Innovation District.

You’ve had a hand in making these important programs become reality. Please help us jumpstart our 2012 programs with a year-end donation. We can’t do it without you! Here are just a few ways your donation will have an impact in 2012:

• Your support will help fund our next major exhibit, Beyond the Logo, opening in Summer 2012. The new exhibit highlights successful New England brand design projects and explores the creative process behind what makes a brand memorable. We’re opening at a very exciting location.
• You’ll help us continue our immensely popular Unite events and Creative Mornings breakfast events, offering designers and non-designers alike an opportunity to connect, socialize, and inspire each other. We need your help to continue to make these events possible!
• We’ll be able to complete our collaboration with smallbean, an inspiring Boston-based nonprofit teaches technology skills around the world. Through a partnership with Samsonite, we’ve developed a prototype solar energy system for powering smallbean’s rural computer labs.

We wish you and your colleagues a happy and prosperous year. Thank you for making a contribution to Design Museum Boston part of your year-end giving.

To make your tax-deductible donation click here.
Thank you.

Sincerely,

- The Design Museum Boston Team

Get inspired, before work.

December 13, 2011, 8:30-10:00am
WorkBar – 711 Atlantic Ave., Boston, MA

Creative Mornings are a monthly morning gathering for creative types. Each event includes a 20 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion, plus a light breakfast and coffee. 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!

The December presenter is Rachael Chong of Catchafire. She will be speaking on founding Catchafire and the impact volunteerism can have on social good. Rachael is the Founder and CEO of Catchafire, the world’s first and largest online pro bono service provider which was named #1 in Huffington Post’s Innovators Series and has appeared on New York Times, Mashable, and NPR. Catchafire makes it easy for every professional to use their skills for good, and to make it easy for every nonprofit and social enterprise to access and effectively use pro bono as a way to build capacity within their organization. Rachael has a Masters of Public Policy Degree from Duke University and graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College at Columbia University.

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Breakfast is generously sponsored by our sponsor: 48HourPrint.com. 48HourPrint.com is a leading online printing firm offering high-quality printing and mailing services to graphic designers, small businesses, and nonprofits that value quality, speed, and affordable prices. They offer 40 products, including posters, business cards, postcards, brochures, greeting cards, calendars, pocket folders, and booklets, all backed by the firm’s 48 Hour Turnaround Guarantee.


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December’s Boston Creative Mornings event will be hosted by the generous folks over at WorkBar.WorkBar is a shared office space designed around the needs of today’s laptop professionals. Our affordable month to month memberships offers 24 hour access to a professionally managed workspace with spacious work areas, conference rooms, printing, faxing, scanning, and unlimited cups of fresh coffee daily all in a friendly energizing environment steps from South Station

Local artists and designers visited the new Design Museum Boston office at Space with a Soul for our latest UNITE event on Friday, November 18th. Co-hosted by Fort Point Arts Community (FPAC) and the Design Industry Group of Massachusetts (DIGMA), attendees filled Space with a Soul’s event space overlooking Fort Point Channel and Back Bay.

This particular UNITE event marked the public kickoff of the Our Town grant program, a partnership between Design Museum Boston, DIGMA, MassArt, and the City of Boston. With funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the program aims to elevate the presence and use of design in the development of the South Boston Waterfront.

With drinks provided by Harpoon Brewery and M.S. Walker, attendees mixed and mingled throughout the night. The delicious food from our new neighbor, Channel Cafe, was provided by Massachusetts College of Art & Design.

Karen Stein, board member for FPAC, began the evening’s presentation with a welcome message and introduction of FPAC. Throughout the night images of FPAC members’ artwork scrolled on the projector screen. Anne Marie Stein introduced DIGMA and their mission to raise the profile of Massachusetts as a worldwide leader in design. Derek Cascio, DMB Co-Founder, then introduced the museum and spoke about upcoming programs and events. He was followed by Co-Founder, Sam Aquillano, who outlined goals for Our Town including using design as a planning process, a cultural amplifier, and an economic driver. He mentioned the next step in the program will be to hold town hall meetings with residents and businesses to discuss upcoming projects.

Design Museum Boston is run by volunteers and our volunteers did an amazing job making people feel at home and facilitating a great time for all. Stay tuned for our next UNITE event coming in early 2012.

Photos by Ben Gebo

Photos by Liz LeBlanc

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Day 3 Gallery

Get inspired, before work.

November 18, 2011, 8:30-10:00am
Space with a Soul – 281 Summer St. 5th floor, Boston, MA

Creative Mornings are a monthly morning gathering for creative types. Each event includes a 20 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion, plus a light breakfast and coffee. 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!

The November presenter is: Rafael Luna, founding partner of PRAUD, will be speaking on the future of Boston; specifically its potential to intelligently grow from a city to a metropolis. His presentation is based on exclusive research which PRAUD is performing on behalf of the City of Boston for the upcoming book, I Want to be METROPOLITAN. Luna holds a Masters in Architecture from MIT. His work has been featured in numerous publications, and he has exhibited internationally. PRAUD, co-founded with Dongwoo Yim in 2010, is a research and design firm focusing on a contemporary approach to understanding the effects of urbanity and developing architectural process.

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Art & Design Unite in Fort Point.

November 18, 2011, 6:30-8:30pm
Space with a Soul – 281 Summer St. 7th floor Boston, MA

Join Design Museum Boston along with co-host, Fort Point Arts Community (FPAC), for our next UNITE event on Friday, November 18, 2011 at 6:30pm at our new office at Space with a Soul. Meet the creative people that make Fort Point one of the largest artist communities in New England and learn about upcoming FPAC events and programs.

This past summer, Design Museum Boston, along with the City of Boston, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, and the Design Industry Group of Massachusetts (DIGMA) received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to bring design related programming to the South Boston Waterfront. Museum founders Sam Aquillano and Derek Cascio will give a brief presentation on the goals of the grant program.

We’ll have snacks and Harpoon will be providing the drinks. There is limited street parking near Space with a Soul, but there are large paid lots very close ($13) on Congress St., or take the T to South Station and walk over the Summer St. bridge. See you there!

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About UNITE: In collaboration with local businesses and organizations, Design Museum Boston hosts a series of events at unique locations throughout the city. These events offer designers and non-designers alike an opportunity to connect, eat, drink and show their support for the museum. Check video from our last UNITE event. More info: designmuseumboston.org

The Fort Point Arts Community (FPAC) is a non?profit community organization founded in 1980 and run by neighborhood artists and volunteers. Our mission is to promote the work of our artists to a broad and diverse audience; to preserve the artists community in the Fort Point Channel area; to insure the continuance of permanent, affordable studio space; to build community; and to increase the visibility of the arts in Fort Point and the City of Boston. More info: fortpointarts.org

Get inspired, before work.

October 19, 2011, 8:30-10:00am
WorkBar – 711 Atlantic Ave. Lower Level, Boston, MA 02111

Join us on October 19 at WorkBar as we launch the Boston Chapter of Creative Mornings!

Creative Mornings are a monthly morning gathering for creative types. Each event includes a 20 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion, plus a light breakfast and coffee. 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!

We’re excited to have Richard Watson, founding partner of Essential, as our first presenter. Richard is a leading advisor to companies on product innovation and an authority in the field of design strategy. He drives innovation in organizations, helping them navigate complex design issues in rapidly changing environments. Watson believes that design strategy is about tangibility, delivering solutions an organization can understand, internalize and act upon. He strives to solve problems and envision solutions that enable organizations to get a clear vision about what’s next.

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