Gusto NYC & Gavin Alaoen on Making Art, Keeping the Internet Weird
Up-and-coming NYC artists Gavin and Gusto NYC What do you get when you take two MTV creatives and let them collaborate on personal projects? Magic, apparently. Gusto NYC and Gavin Alaoen may work as...
View ArticlePhotographer Travis Hodges Profiles Interconnectivity in “Follow Me”
Not only has Twitter transformed how we connect, it’s also become a powerful medium for creating and sharing art. UK-based portrait photographer Travis Hodges playfully illustrates our...
View ArticleMegan Nakata: From Marketing Assistant to Up-and-Coming Model in Under a Year
Taking action — it’s what we all need to do succeed and accomplish our dreams. We talk about preparation, doing our research, and being ready when the opportunity knocks, but sometimes it’s just about...
View ArticleMeet JK Swopes: The Master of the Maschine
Five years ago, a ground-breaking production system that combined the endless possibilities of software with the feel of real, physical instruments and hardware hit the market — and changed music...
View ArticleChase Jarvis’s Mom on How to Raise a Creative Kid
How do you get to the be the CEO of a company like CreativeLive? We could’ve asked Chase Jarvis himself…but instead, in honor of Mother’s Day (and because we wanted to see some of his old soccer...
View ArticleJulie Klausner on Hard Work, Making Stuff, and The Urgency to Be Heard
Photo by Mindy Tucker. Julie Klausner, a performer, comedian, writer, and podcaster based in New York City, tells stories with an infectious joie de vivre and a commitment to entertainment. She is the...
View ArticleKatie Hunt-Morr and Etsy: Cultivating Values-Based Culture
via ArtandAroma. Etsy is a retailer in an unusual position. Although it was founded in 2005, Etsy’s value proposition harkens back to the older, more egalitarian promise of the Internet. The wild...
View ArticleGraffiti: The Untold History of The City’s Truest Art Form
Growing up in the ’90s, the only things I really cared about were music and graffiti. Although I grew up in the Seattle area, I was always drawn to the Southern California scene, devouring every...
View ArticleWhy Great Album Covers Still Matter (and Always Will)
Image: Album art by Renegade Chihuahua When Apple first started selling music via iTunes and the whole industry started moving towards digital downloads, I held out a lot longer than I should have....
View ArticleTony Gambino: From Metal Musician to Breakout Wedding Photographer
Whether it’s the photos on classic album covers or fans taking pictures at shows, photography and music are inextricably linked. Even though the two industries often overlap, rarely do you find...
View ArticleLandscape Photographer Thomas Heaton on his Passion and Creative Drive
There is an old saying, “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men and women to gather wood, divide orders, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” That...
View ArticleThe True Story Behind Comic Sans (From the Guy Who Designed It)
There may not be a designer on the planet who hasn’t heard of Comic Sans. In fact, there may not be any computer-using non-designers who aren’t familiar with — and don’t have an opinion about — Comic...
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