While many of us are gearing back up for a busy season after a much-needed summer break, CCE’s 2011 speakers are already kicking ass and taking names.  Here are just a few of the ways our accomplished speakers are greeting fall:

• Tonight from 6-9pm at the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa, San Francisco), come celebrate the release of Kelly Wilkinson’s first book, Weekend Handmade.  It’s currently available on Amazon here, and has so far garnered exclusively five-star reviews!

 

• Speaking of accomplished craft authors, the Halloween silhouettes that Jeffery Rudell shared in his keynote have, in a naturally modified from, also just come out as a book. You can find it on Amazon.com here. If you’re a big fan of Jeff’s silhouette work, you can also pick up his Silhouette Your Pet kit.  Stay tuned for his much-anticipated paper craft book in the coming months.

 

• Not to be outdone, Grace Dobush (whose second book is also due to be published in the spring) was just hired as executive editor of HOW Magazine’s new interactive design community.  Along with occasionally contributing to the magazine, which is an amazing business resource for creative people, Grace will be managing a new website (launching soon) and HOW’s new interactive design conference (happening in San Francisco in November!).  Says Grace: “I’m incredibly stoked to join the HOW team — I’ve admired the magazine for years (and was an editorial intern there back in 2004), and I love that I’ll be supporting and working with creative professionals full time.”

Thank you all for continuing to inspire us to get off our duffs and be awesome. Your accomplishments serve as a wonderful kick in the keister.