Welcome to CreativeConnects®
Our bi-monthly networking happy hours are free of charge and open to creative professionals of all levels.
CreativeConnects provides a forum for creatives to get together to network with other colleagues, discuss creative careers and industry happenings. This past year we asked established members of the creative community to attend happy hour and share with us their creative experiences and knowledge. Often our events are attended by featured guests from such companies as Match.com, CDIA-Boston University, The Art Institue of Washington, JC Penney, The Alternativepress.com, Broadview Security, Behringer Harvard, Annodyne, Inc., Capital One Bank, FedEx Services and Comcast.
If you or someone you know would like to be a featured guest at CreativeConnects, please contact us at info@creativeconnects.com.
Next Event
Wed., June 6th, 2012
5:30pm - 8:00pm
New Location
Princeton, NJ
Featured Guest
Andy Epstein
Author, "The Corporate Creative"
Join us for CreativeConnects® happy hour, a free social event hosted by The BOSS Group for interactive, creative and marketing professionals. Come network with colleagues, meet new people, keep up with industry news and get leads on jobs and business opportunities.
No formal program, no RSVP required, lite bites courtesy of The BOSS Group.
June's Featured Guest is Andy Epstein who started his career as a freelance designer and illustrator with clients as varied as Bacardi, Canon, Bantam Books and Merck. Jumping into the world of in-house in 1992, Andy created and grew in-house design teams for Commonwealth Toy and Gund. He later restructured and expanded the hundred-person creative team at Bristol-Myers-Squibb and consulted at Johnson & Johnson. After a three year stint at Designer Greetings, leading an in-house design team responsible for the company’s product lines and Point Of Sales materials, Andy moved back into pharma heading up a 45+ managed services team for The BOSS Group at their Merck engagement.
Andy has written and spoken extensively on in-house issues and published “The Corporate Creative," a book on in-house design, in partnership with F&W Publications in the spring of 2010. He is a co-founder of InSource, an association dedicated to providing support to in-house designers and design team managers and is currently head of AIGA In-house Design where he is continuing his efforts to empower in-house teams and raise their stature in the design and business communities.
CreativeConnects locations:
Philadelphia, PA
Baltimore, MD
Washington, DC
Dallas, TX
Atlanta, GA
Chicago, IL
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