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2011 Events // 06.06

Design Week Breakfast Breakout with Nick Campbell

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06 June 2011
Intelligentsia Chicago Roasting Works & Training Lab
1850 West Fulton Street, Chicago, IL 60612
7:30-8am Registration
8-8:30am Tour
8:30-9:30am Presentation and Q&A

Ticket Options

  • Member: $10.00
  • Non-member: $20.00
  • Student: $5.00
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Breakfast Breakout with Nick Campbell
Event Review By Daniel Lopez
 
The kick-off event for Chicago Design Week 2011 took place in the wee hours of a Monday morning inside the roasting warehouse of Intelligentsia Coffee. An especially fitting environment for the hour, this spacious and colorful warehouse provided Nick Campbell of Greyscale Gorilla a backdrop for discussing his unusual career path from motion artist to creative business owner. 
 
Prior to the talk, attendees were given a tour of Intelligentsia’s roasting facility and baristas were on hand to jump-start the group with fresh coffee. Nick’s talk focused on how designers can use their talents to promote their own products and to make the transition from working for clients to working for themselves. He also discussed how he was able to turn some of his interests into forms of revenue that allowed him to eventually leave Digital Kitchen and work for himself. 
 
With Greyscale Gorilla, Nick has turned his passions in motion graphics and photography into a successful business of iPhone apps, web tutorials, and speaking engagements. As the audience quickly departed for work, each member was given a poster that was screen-printed in the warehouse.
 
 

Event Overview
During Chicago Design Week, everyone has the chance to be a morning person. Two Breakfast Breakout sessions will give you a high-octane jumpstart to your Monday and Wednesday—and what venue could be more suitable than Intelligentsia?

Developed in response to our members’ areas of interest, the sessions will offer both continued education and valuable exposure to a variety of professional practices. Each breakout will begin with a 30-minute tour of Intelligentsia’s roasting facilities, followed by a local speaker addressing a topic with an intimate and dynamic group discussion. All the while, our host baristas will be busy brewing drinks for attendees, helping keep the energy high.

Please note that hats are required on the tour. So unless you’d care to greet the day with your peers while wearing a hairnet, you might consider bringing headgear of your choice.
 

About Nick Campbell
Nick Campbell is a motion designer, and photographer from Chicago. He graduated from the Illinois Institute of Art with a degree in Design and Fine Art. Nick spent three years at Digital Kitchen, where he worked on the Emmy-nominated TV show Dexter and with such clients as HBO, Showtime, Target and most recently with The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. His creative portfolio can be found at CreamyOrange.com In 2008 he founded Greyscalegoriilla.com/blog where he posts articles and videos on how to be creative and get paid. He also has a successful Photography iPhone application called ShakeItPhoto.
http://greyscalegorilla.com/

Topic Description
Many Chicago creatives and creators have made the transition from making things for other people to marketing, designing, and building products and sites for themselves—but how do they do it? Nick has the answers and will discuss how you can take steps to move away from client work and into your own.

 

Location: Intelligentsia is accessible by the Grand and Damen buses and the Green line stop at Ashland/Lake. Plenty of free street parking is available. The building is on the Northeast corner of West Fulton & Wolcott streets.


AIGA Chicago would like to thank members and volunteer event chairs Kara Kotwas and Gregg Bochat for planning our Breakfast Breakout series.

This event is sponsored by Intelligentsia.

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