Professional hell-raiser, author, designer, MoMA & Louvre artist (Texas, USA)
Highly regarded for his provocative style, James Victore is a graphic designer, art educator, dynamic high in-demand speaker on creativity – and a professional hell-raiser. His lectures, talks and workshops, including the transformational ass-kicking experience Camp Victore, have been heard around the globe, inspiring people to illuminate their individual gifts in order to achieve personal greatness.
Described as “part Darth Vader, part Yoda”, James is widely known for his timely wisdom and impassioned views about design and its place in the world. As well as founding his own design studio in 1990, James taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
His hard-edged honesty and cowboy authenticity have found its way to the world’s most prestigious museums – Victore’s posters have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), and are in the permanent collections of the Palais du Louvre in Paris, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the Design Museum in Zurich, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
James Victore: Hey, Weirdo!
This talk is for anyone seeking creative freedom and autonomy of their lives, people who want to fully understand the power of their weirdness as their greatest gift — one that can change themselves and the world. If you're that anyone seeking the ultimate power to move forward — the freedom to suck — make sure to join this talk and learn how to fail better, fail forward and make sucking your superpower, because on the other side of failure is authenticity.
James Victore: Feck Perfuction or, The Things That Made You Weird as a Kid, Make You Great Today
No great story ever began with the line “I played it safe and did what was expected of me”. According to James, the best line to begin any story is “When I was a kid” – because what made you weird as a kid makes you great today. The eminent Robin Sharma explained James' philosophy best: "James Victore is a dangerous man. His ideas on optimizing your creativity, doing wow work, and building a life that inspires will devastate your limits." In his talk titled Feck Perfuction or, The Things That Made You Weird as a Kid, Make You Great Today James will teach the DK audience how to beat the habit of perfectionism that’s holding you back from creating the life and career you want, reconnect with and celebrate your weirdness and finally break the blocks to your creativity.