99U Local: Honolulu

As the legendary inventor Thomas Edison famously said, “Genius is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent perspiration.”

99U was created to help you make your ideas happen, an effort to provide a “missing curriculum” to make good on the ideas you already have. And 99U Local Honolulu is part of global event (http://99u.com/articles/51148/announcing-99u-local-a-one-night-event-hosted-in-28-cities-worldwide?utm_source=99U&utm_campaign=004593a434-Weekly_08_14_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bdabfaef00-004593a434-149064309) in 30 cities around the world to address Hawaii's creative community and our needs.

We’re thrilled to invite you to join us for an intimate, new 99U talk series about how to kill it in your creative career.

The program will feature three short talks offering practical creative career and business advice from exceptional local creatives who are making ideas happen.

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Matt Tapia (Oahu)'s letters have been featured by Maxim, Nike, Sixpack, Huf, and the cover of Honolulu Magazine. A self-taught graphic artist born and raised in Hawaii, Over the past decade Tapia has honed his specialty in hand-lettering and design working in New York and Honolulu for a diverse group of clients. Along the way, he has leveraged the web and social media to share process and sketches while continuing to infuse new inspiration into his work by taking on side projects ranging from incredible sand lettering to painting murals with Pow Wow.

No matter the project, each starts the same way–with pencil and paper, always by hand.

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Denby Freeland-Cole (Maui) has incorporated lessons from her family’s gallery artist perspective to translate the traditional Hawaiian practice of kapa making into a modern art form. Her kapa has been featured in galleries and shows around the state and used to dress Merrie Monarch performers.

Her career has involved the arts and environment in Hawaii including positions at the Hui Noeau Visual Arts Center, Hawaii Nature Center and the Hawaiian Islands Land Trust. Graduating from Punahou school on Oahu, with a BS from University of Washington, and a Master's degree in Education from Heritage College in WA, she is a member of a new generation of Kapa makers that use the traditional Hawaiian methods, but in completing all stages of kapa making herself, develops solutions in a contemporary environment.

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Jamie Makasobe (Big Island) went from selling to T-shirts in the back of a pickup truck in 2006 to having collections featured in high end boutiques, native bookstores and hotel shops today. Jamie and her partners in and fashion collective Kealopiko's concept of "fashion with Mana'o" (thought, idea, belief, opinion, intention) manifests itself in products that feature hawaiian language, lunar cycles, and ethnobotany.

Makasobe is from Kaneohe, Oahu and currently resides in Keaukaha. With a BS in Public Relations & Electronic Media from the University of Oregon and an Interior Design Certificate from the Art Institute of Seattle, Makasobe's work is inspired by the stories of her ancestors, and the natural, cultural and historical landscapes of Hawaii -- her clothing challenges wearers to rethink the past to better understand the present.

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Join us at 99u Local Honolulu on Sep 17 at 6PM. Come for the road-tested, no-bullshit advice. Stay for the drinks, food, and networking!