This morning I attended The SF Creative Mornings event at the beautiful offices of Typekit. This was probably one of the classiest events I’ve attended in awhile, which I suppose isn’t saying all that much, but seriously, they had glass pitchers for milk and tiny little things of cereal! Very classy.

The sun was shining, there was food and coffee, there were tons of creative, nice people wandering about. The perfect start to a Friday. Oh, the talk was also pretty awesome. Seriously, Adam Tobin gave a great talk around the theme of “I have an idea… what next?” He spoke about what he’d done with his ideas, the toy companies he’d started, and his current mechanical/artistic work. Some of the awesome things he showed included: a marble set that you stick on your fridge, musical instruments you fill with water and play in the tub, and a contraption that tells time with Othello pieces. One of my favorite quotes from him was “That idea that you have, you don’t… you have the start of the idea.” – making a point that a lot of things he thought he’d invented morphed and changed through prototyping and iteration. (Photos from the creative mornings flickr set.)