Articles by: WMC: Off-The-Grid
WMC 6: Meet Jay and Nathan from Cotton Bureau
Jay & Nathan from Cotton Bureau We are thrilled to introduce our friends Jay Fanelli and Nathan Peretic, co-founders of Cotton Bureau. They are sponsors of our WMC Fest Vendor Village, as well as speakers at the Fest. Sunday Tickets to See…
WMC 6: Meet Moonshot Lab from Barkley
Mark: Hi, I’m Mark and we are Moonshot, the innovation lab at Barkley. And we help clients explore the future and design new experiences and products using sort of a combination of human centered design practices, emerging technologies, and just the right amount of weirdness.
Joe: I’m Joe, I’m the programmer kind of guy in the lab. My background is in software development and I do electronics and stuff like that.
WMC 6: Meet Ian Zeigler from Photonic Studio
Ian Zeigler from Photonic Studio IZ: My name is Ian Zeigler with Photonic Studio. I went to CIA, and actually all the guys here went to CIA, but I run Photonic Studio with Matt and Tony. We have a little studio…
WMC 6: Meet Jordan Schiller from Real Thread
Jordan is returning to sponsor your favorite graphic design conference in the world, Weapons of Mass Creation Fest. We sat down to talk to Jordan a few weeks back to catch up and talk about what we might see out of the Real Thread gang at this year’s fest. You can read on to find out, or listen in over at our Go Media Graphic Design Podcast archives on Soundcloud.
Adventures in Design Podcast – Ep 204: Weapons of Mass Creation Fest Speakers – Mark Brickey and Antonio Garcia
Adventures in Design Podcast What? Another two-for-one special over at Adventures in Design Podcast, WMC Fest Fans! Following in AID Episode 203’s footsteps, we’re being treated to yet another podcast featuring two of this year’s Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 2015 speakers.…
Adventures in Design Podcast – Ep 203: Weapons of Mass Creation Fest Speakers – Mark Brickey and Jay Fanelli
Design Podcast 2015 It’s a two-for-one special over at Adventures in Design Podcast, WMC Fest Fans! AID Episode 203 includes two of this year’s Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 2015 speakers in one delicious podcast. Not only do you get…
7 Reasons You Need to Attend Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 6
This, above all summers, is the one to head to our annual creative conference, Weapons of Mass Creation Festival. Why? Well, now that we’re in our sixth year, we feel like – more than ever – there’s something to prove. We want to tell the world that WMC Fest is indeed a movement in the making – one dedicated to providing opportunities for attendees to grow and challenge themselves at every turn. Not only are we upgrading our venue this year – but every aspect of our programming.
Announcing our WMC Fest 6 Host: Aaron Sechrist, OkPants
Cover Image by The James Douglas Studio | on Instagram Announcing our WMC Fest 6 Host: Aaron Sechrist, OkPants Thrilling news upon thrilling news. Our venue and date have been announced, our site has been launched and now this. Yes, we’re…
WMC Fest 5 Video and Podcast: Martine Syms – Lesson of the Tradition
Video and Podcast by Speaker Martine Syms Today’s Weapons of Mass Creation Fest video and podcast is brought to us by conceptual entrepreneur Martine Syms. Martine’s moving talk, “Lessons of the Tradition,” took place at Weapons of Mass Creation Fest…
Gender in the Design and Creative Industries: A Panel Discussion
Gender in the Design and Creative Industries Today, Go Media, Cleveland’s home for brand design services is adding to our series of captivating panel discussions from our annual design, art and music conference, Weapons of Mass Creation Festival. This discussion, entitled, “Gender…
Beyond Collaboration: A Talk by Jolby and Friends
Today’s talk, held at our annual design, art and music conference, Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 2014, comes to us from Jolby and Friends. Jolby and Friends is a collaborative studio based in Portland, Oregon dedicated to telling stories through…
How I Founded One of the Cleveland’s Most Respected Rock Venues: Cindy Barber of Beachland Ballroom shares her story
Video and Podcast: Cindy Barber of the Beachland Ballroom Next in our line of engaging speeches from Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 5 comes to us from Cindy Barber, one of Cleveland’s Most Interesting People (2011, Cleveland Magazine) and founder…
Racial Diversity in Graphic Design: a Panel Discussion
Racial Diversity in Graphic Design: a Panel Discussion Weapons of Mass Creation, a design, art and music festival held annually in Cleveland, Ohio, takes great pride in being a festival characterized by it’s dedication to diversity. This past year in particular, 2014,…
Graphic Design Video Inspiration: Leaving a Mark by Eric Natzke
Eric Natzke, Principal Designer for Adobe Experience Design group, joined us on this past summer at Weapons of Mass Creation Fest. As he took the stage, we were moved by his talk, Leaving a Mark, as he shared the obstacles he’s faced, risks he’s taken and joys he’s found and is finding in his career as an artist, designer and programmer.
What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?
There is so much pressure behind the age-old phrase ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ Don’t you agree? Weapons of Mass Creation Fest speaker Kumar Arora took to our stages, tackling this phrase to see if it is actually a valid way of finding one’s life work.
Designer’s Debate Club: Is the phrase “Do What You Love” ruining design?
Is The popular refrain “Do What You Love” ruining design?
“Do what you love” — it feeds the soul but will it pay the bills? As this dreamer’s mandate has spread from an idealized dream to the driving force in work/life decisions, we are left to wonder — is it ultimately ignorant of life’s harsh realities: that doing what you love and making what you want requires a lot of unlovely doing. Is this popular refrain a privileged ex-post-facto for the already successful? Is it a comforting hymn we all sing as we walk away from that well-paying job into the dark unknown? Or are we really on the verge of a brave new world where doing what you love is the fastest way to getting what you want out of life?
Cultural and Historical Influences in Design and Creativity: A WMC Fest Talk by Veronica Corzo-Duchardt
Veronica Corzo-Duchardt, Cuban-American designer and artist behind Chicago-based creative studio, Winterbureau, is the next-in-line to treat us to engaging, enlighting real talk, Weapons of Mass Creation Fest style.
Here, Veronica discusses cultural and historical influences in design and creativity. And the intersection of design, art and archeology in her work.
Watch This Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 5 Highlight Video
It never fails. Weapons of Mass Creation Fest, one of the top graphic design conferences in the US, is life-changing. It draws us together, challenges us, recharges us, motivates us to go off and create more authentically, purposefully. Weapons of Mass Creation Fest reminds us that we aren’t alone; that the adversity we face are universal. The Fest simultaneously highlights the beauty of diversity. It celebrates our differences.
Video Inspiration: Do The Things That Scare You by Grace Bonney of Design*Sponge
Real Talk Grace Bonney, founder of the Design*Sponge, was one of the speakers to treat us to an inspiring talk at this past year’s Weapons of Mass Creation Fest. This incredibly talented author and entrepreneur encouraged the audience to acknowledge,…