I’ve been obsessed with Madonna lately. I think she is one of the most fascinating people alive today. People are very quick to dismiss her, but her level of creativity is something that is very aspirational to me as an artist. Everything is always fresh, yet familiar, poppy and explosive, but greatly controlled. Try to label her and she’ll go from a hot pink to a mars black in a heartbeat. Madonna’s creative processes are very exciting to study.

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Ghostly is a design-based music and art brand that works with artists we love, regardless of genre or medium. I had the great pleasure of interviewing our collaborator Michael Cina on our site. Cina talks about his inspiration, in particular the fearlessness an artist must face when staring into the face of uncertainty.

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Juliana Dadalto, a multi-discipline artist from Brazil, can make the simplest detail of make-up become something magical. Her work also involves paper-craft and face painting and were nominated in two categories at the Conexion Beauty Art 2011.

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The Credit Counselling Society is a registered non-profit service based in Vancouver. We created this unique business card for them by reproducing a plastic “credit card” and then cutting it in half. The name of the client and telephone number were embossed on the business card in the same way they would appear as a card holder’s name and credit card number on a real credit card.

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In February 2011, Konstfack and Stockholm Business Region hosted a six-course dinner for over 150 guests, called ‘Composite Dinner’, featuring a twelve-meter long table of food presented in all the colours of the visible spectrum, as a part of Stockholm Design Week. There are a few simple rules of the night: make a combination of three to have in one bite, you can never have the same combination twice, but do tell other guests about your experience.

This dinner presents a stage where individual creativity morphs into collective knowledge creation. Like Konstfack, the dinner assimilates and distributes products of its wondrous assemblage. Konstfack aims to create an innovative interpretation of interdisciplinarity by rendering an artistic approach and design-thinking to an ever-widening dining discipline. Composite Dinner is the third iteration in the Mixology series, in collaboration with Master Chef Fredrik Eriksson of Långbro Värdshus. A work of Prang Lerttaweewit, Josefin Vargö, and Anders Mellbratt of The Experience Design Group, the newest discipline represented in Konstfack’s MFA.

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This vitriolic rant by author and screenwriter Harlan Ellison (from the upcoming documentary about him called Dreams With Sharp Teeth) really hit a nerve with me. As someone who works in creative fields, I’ve encountered countless people/employers who think because I enjoy art and writing, I will be happy to do it for free. A friend of mine who I showed this to said, “I work on children’s cartoons. People think I work in a puffy cloud where bunnies do the work for me.” In a post-2.0 media landscape, companies think that anyone can write, make films, draw pictures, and do graphic design, so they are less willing to pay for quality work. I’ve known some web publishing companies that, when the recession hit, cut their editorial staff before anyone else, assuming that editing and writing aren’t real work, and not vital to a publishing company. I’ve also known videographers who used to make a living doing internal corporate videos but now can hardly find such work as YouTube has convinced companies that they can easily produce videos themselves. Any of you creative types encounter the same sorts of frustration?

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