Local partners
The Design Conference is a event designed to support a growing, thriving and sustainable creative industry in Brisbane, Australia.
Showroom is a retail and event space owned by creative entrepreneurs. We’re re-thinking traditional retail with a new collective model that supports creative entrepreneurs and provides customers with a destination shopping experience quite unlike any other in Brisbane.
Wacom wants to inspire people and make the world a more creative place through its natural and intuitive line of digital pen tablets, pen displays and styluses. Whether a creative enthusiast seeking a new artistic outlet or a high-end professional making the next big animated movie or industrial design, Wacom allows people to explore creativity at a level they never dreamed possible.
Little Peach Co. is a letterpress printing and design studio in Woolloongabba, Brisbane, specialising in hand-made celebration stationery and business cards. Our love of design combined with enthusiasm to create beautifully handcrafted goods is poured into everything we do. We like to work the old-fashioned way and cherish our in-house 1965 Heidelberg Platen, affectionately named Bertha.
Australia’s only independent, family owned paper merchant with national reach. We’ve been in the paper biz for over 40 years (that’s 280 dog years).
Mallow Sustainability is a Brisbane based company collecting organic waste from Cafes and other businesses to help them reduce their waste to landfill. Organic material is a valuable resource which is composted at the Mallow farm and used to regenerate the soil and grow food sustainably. This local produce is then sold back to the community creating a closed loop process.
Outfit turns your style guide into a set of flexible repurposable templates on a cloud-based platform that empowers your marketing and creative team to produce more on brand materials whenever and wherever they need to.
A team of Australian creatives, designers and die-hard print lovers! Digital garment printing, screen printing, embroidery and vinyl printing - they’re the guys and girls who always finds a way to customise your garments no matter what! All services are performed in Australia by a well trained team of graphic designers and print professionals with over 30 years experience.
Urban Beekeepers using rooftops to re-introduce the honey bee to urban environments, we sell honey and run educational workshops.
Founded in the inner south of Brisbane, Sum is dedicated to the production of speciality coffee of the highest quality. We are conscious of the immense effort required throughout the transition from origin to cup, and as such, aim to celebrate the stories behind each coffee we source. Above all else, we cherish the experience of delicious coffee and seek to share it through ethical and honest means.
West End Tea Co. is a locally owned and operated organic tea company located in Brisbane, Queensland since 2012. We entered the organic tea industry with a love and strong sense of connection to the culture and ritual that is tea drinking.
Welcome to Kiss the Berry! Brisbane’s very first store that focuses on Açaí Bowls, smoothies and coffee. Each one of our bowls has been carefully designed in a way that collaborates and accentuates the flavours in our blend and fruits, so that each mouthful is as good as the last.
Avant Card is Australia’s leading out-of-home (and some would say out of the box) media specialist, with an exclusive distribution network of over 1,550 venues across Australia reaching more than 6 million people per week. From one leading arts company to another, Avant Card is proud to partner with the Brisbane chapter of Creative Mornings in 2016.
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Whether it’s love for another person, love for our work, or a simple love like watching the sunrise or going for a walk, it is an emotion that is the lifeblood of our being. It can confuse and hurts us, but equally true, it can lift us up into a place where meaning and fulfillment pulsates like a heart. Love is simple, but naturally as human beings, we make it complex.
Rachel Burke is a textile artist, clothing designer, and stylist. She is the founder and artist behind Apomogy, a communal art project encouraging people to anonymously apologise through a handmade pom pom. First gaining recognition in 2012 for her 365 dress-a-day project i make. you wear it., she has since gone on to pave an exciting career as a full-time creative, currently working as the fashion editorial stylist for Frankie Magazine, DIY blogger for BONDS, and the Senior Womenswear Designer at Universal Store.