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Practical advice and inspiration to help artists and creators build value from their work and sustainable creative practices.
Do's and Don'ts: Shirt
Rapper and conceptual artist Shirt shares thoughts on moving through a collaborative world with love and vulnerability.
How to speed up fulfilling orders
Some guidance on expediting your order fulfillment process, so you can have more time to make work.
Do's and Don'ts: Tamiko Benjamin
Artist business manager Tamiko Benjamin shares ten financial tips for artists culled from 13+ years of experience
Do's and Don'ts: Kirsten Chen, @hotgothwriter
Writer, creative strategist, and archivist Kirsten Chen shares her Do's and Don'ts on building worlds through creative work
Collecting as creation: Strengthening direct pathways to support artists
From theater to sculpture to curation to collecting, hear how this multi-hyphenate sees themselves and finds value in supporting artists directly.
Collaboration Stories: Network Archives
Twenty-seven artists and musicians come together to share their community building efforts in a project that itself is a community
Tips for pricing your release
Some tips and prompts to make assigning values to creative work a part of the story
Tips for printing and circulating your work
Our living guide to getting your self-published work printed
The economics of self-publishing a book on Metalabel
A deep dive into the Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
Supporting creative networks: from underground music to museum leadership
A museum director bridges institutional and underground culture with a growing collection fueled by memory and wonder
The $100 garbage cube that sold out in two hours
A designer turned New York City trash into coveted collectibles, proving that value is less about what you sell than how you sell it.
Rethinking labels
The origins of Metalabel and the future it can enable for creative people
Five creative lessons from Factory Records
How world-building, lore-making, and creative releasing helped make a label legendary
This zine just got 1,000+ collectors in 28 hours
An Instagram meme page dedicated to the bluegrass musician Billy Strings turns into a 1,000 strong collector community overnight
Promotional principles for creative people
A collectively shaped guide on promotion on our own terms
How culture is made
Four stories that span centuries, geographies, and worldviews that reveal how to shape culture and the world around us.