can i get a witness? some testimonials:
the most productive, creative, helpful, enjoyable, enlightening day my team spends together, learning about ourselves and our imaginations. i’d do it every month. my team would, too.
-brian collins, chief creative officer, co-founder, collins. d&ad design firm of the year, adage design agency of the year
“playing with the studio 360 staff for an afternoon under laurie rosenwald's supervision was, like eating a certain candy bar, indescribably delicious. and unlike eating a candy bar, it was also sublimely useful."
-kurt andersen, co-founder, spy magazine, co-creator and host of studio 360
“this experience loosened up my uptight
intellectual mindset like nothing else.”
-ellen lupton, curator emerita, cooper hewitt, smithsonian design museum, founding director of graphic design m.f.a. degree program at maryland institute college of art
“by encouraging me to make mistakes on purpose, laurie showed me how to embrace my inner failure-turning a perceived weakness into something personal, unique, and powerful. woe shall befall my pathetic enemies now!"
-alex isley, creative director, alexander isley inc., aiga medalist
"fun, cool, a wrong-thinking, crazy, intuitive, inspiring, top brain, collaborative, bottom brain, and definitely not business as usual.”
-john bielenberg, co-founder, c2, project m
“how to make mistakes on purpose! you can do them virtually, via zoom! an invigorating team experience that kept our heads buzzing with ideas, filled our desks, floors and virtual folders with creative reminders! thank you, laurie, for a wonderful experience.”
-svenja leggewie, director, insights and experience strategy, johnson & johnson
“one of the most creative evenings i’ve had whilst being wrapped in black plastic."
-robert nightingale, vice chair idsa nyc
"well worth it. we got great feedback-we are using the work for our new manifesto."
-steven b. cook, eden_spiekermann_ berlin
“let go of preconceptions. this workshop magically reveals that the worst way to solve some problems is to set out to do just that. like a rabbit out of a hat, laurie reveals this surprising insight: start with an answer, -then you will find the problem is solves.”
-greg galle, co-founder and managing member, c2
"the laurie experience is an unexpected, rousing and compelling oratory - a spinning class for the mind."
-stephan j. clambaneva, idsa
“in a single word: wowza! the mistakes on purpose workshop was exactly what we need to loosen our creative bones without looking at a screen...thank god! it was 60minutes (our team had the abridged version) of sheer insanity in the best possible way. we were so loose & inspired afterwards that it felt like we collectively had a creative awakening of sorts, it was just such fun. “
-hajdeja ehline, art director, adobe
“an important, unpredictable injection to our creative process”
-björn kusoffsky, ceo & founder, stockholm design lab
“this workshop gives even the smartest student a totally new view on visual force and speed. fun, fast and very useful!”
-tom hedqvist, director, röhsska museum, sweden
“laurie rosenwald takes no prisoners. make no mistake though, it works. students have great fun, but be afraid, be very afraid.”
-professor lawrence zeegen, dean of design, ravensbourne,
vice president ico-d / international council of design trustee
