99% Conference

The 99% Conference: Scott Thomas on Designing the Obama Campaign [video]

Cool Hunting — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:05:09 -0400

At the recent, The 99% Conference, Scott Thomas took the stage to talk about what it was like to design Obama's digital campaign on the fly. This video culls the highlights from his presentation and catches up with him afterward to find out more about his theories on simplicity and his plans for working in politics in the future.

Best of Behance's 99% Conference: 13 Tried and True Practices For Making Ideas Happen

Linda Tischler — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:16:16 -0400

The Behance "99%" conference wound up on a high note with Pentagram designer Michael Bierut offering five sane and simple principles for maximum productivity.

Behance Best Practices--The 7 Principles of Success

Linda Tischler — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:00:16 -0400

After surveying a large number of successful people, Behance found that those who have made things happen share several common principles. Midway through the conference, Scott Belsky, Behance's CEO, took the stage to summarize them:

Save the Twin Towers! Ji Lee Preserves the WTC

Linda Tischler — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:59:43 -0400

Walking down the street a few months ago, Ji Lee, a creative director at Google Labs, noticed a funny thing. Many New York businesses still had logos with the silhouette of the World Trade Center in them. It was, he thought, both a wonderful, joyful--and sad--moment. So he took a picture. Of the New York magazine logo. Of the CitiStorage logo. Of the Burritoville logo. Of butcher shops and shoe repair places, all of which had those two iconic towers--ghostly silhouettes of a pre-9/11 world--still hovering in their identity.

Six Traits That Separate the Achievers From the Wannabes

Linda Tischler — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:54:07 -0400

Cheryl Dorsey, president of Echoing Green, a social entrepreneurship funder which has dispensed over $27M to projects such as City Year and Teach for America, says the people who make things happen share certain common traits.

Behance -- the Sweat Conference -- Kicks Off

Linda Tischler — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:48:01 -0400

The Behance conference, which calls itself the 99% Conference is about--well, how to say this nicely--well, sweat. As in Edison's quote, "Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration."

The 99% Conference: How to Make Ideas Happen

Fast Company Calendar — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:24:26 -0400

"The most important thing I learned in grad school is that there are no new ideas, just great executions. At Cool Hunting this is one of our underlying editorial principles. Being in the business of helping creative people get stuff done, Behance is incredibly well aligned with our perspective," says Josh Rubin, editor of Cool Hunting.