Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

Author/Designer/Filmmaker/Artist/Firestarter James Victore has recently launched a brand new project, Take This Job and Love It: “A one day live event about work, life, and buck­ing the sta­tus quo” tak­ing place this September. He was kind enough to answer a few ques­tions for DWL read­ers who might be curi­ous about what the expe­ri­ence will entail.

DWL: What moti­vated you to cre­ate “Take This Job and Love It”?
JAMES VICTORE: I had been teach­ing and lec­tur­ing around the world for awhile, then my book (“Victore or, Who Died and Made You Boss?”) came out and changed every­thing. I found on my book tour I was no longer talk­ing about or even show­ing my design work, but I was talk­ing about ideas like per­fec­tion and brav­ery and risk. The response has been awe­some, so now I have a new role part teacher, part ass-kicker, that I love, and I want to teach about how to live a more cre­ative life to the many design­ers, artists, cre­ative peo­ple not liv­ing up to their cre­ative poten­tial. Voila, sym­po­sium! And because I am cer­ti­fi­ably crazy.

DWL: How will this be dif­fer­ent from a typ­i­cal design con­fer­ence or talk?
JAMES VICTORE: It’s spear­headed by one idea, that your work is a gift — when it is purely “you”, it can move so many oth­ers. As the day unfolds we will extrap­o­late this idea out wider from the value of your per­sonal tal­ents and thoughts, to your work, life and fur­ther, cre­at­ing a cul­ture of excel­lence — inspir­ing oth­ers and releas­ing great­ness out into the world.

DWL: Who should attend?
JAMES VICTORE: Anyone who wants more out of life and work. When trav­el­ing and teach­ing I find most of the ques­tions I get asked are about ways of lead­ing a more cre­ative and ener­gized life. I think we get involved in the cre­ative busi­ness for the right rea­sons, then “on down the road” we find that we’ve for­got­ten those rea­sons. I cre­ated this sym­po­sium for design­ers, edu­ca­tors, writ­ers, cre­atives who are inter­ested in keep­ing the light inside them bright and being more in charge of their cre­ativ­ity and their lives. I want to meet excit­ing folks who don’t want to sac­ri­fice their gift for a monthly pay­check, but want to be received and paid for what they bring to the party.

DWL: What do you hope atten­dees will leave with?
JAMES VICTORE: Of course, I’d like every­one to leave inspired, but that wears off too soon. What I’d really like them to take away is a new way of see­ing, new skills to elim­i­nate bad habits, con­fi­dence in their work and in them­selves, an under­stand­ing of how to deal with fear, and a com­mit­ment to incor­po­rat­ing more cre­ative play into their work and lives.

If that doesn’t con­vince you, maybe this lit­tle video will:

This sounds like it will be an amaz­ing expe­ri­ence. Don’t wait to reg­is­ter — if you sign up before July 18^th, you’ll receive $100 off the ticket price.

Thanks again James!