New Creative Era
A conversation is the start of something
A new release from Metalabel Press on the creative life
Yancey Strickler
Metalabel Director
The Creative Century
We’re now 25 years into the 21st century. A quarter of the way through. What will define it? The internet? Cell phones? AI? Sure. But there’s another one: creativity. Few ideas have reshaped our world more this century than creativity. We think of it as an eternal ideal
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This is the beginning of a new world
0:00 /0:36 1× As part of our continued Spring/Summer celebration, we invited Metalabel visitors to tell us what they think: are we more DOOM or BLOOM? In the first week, the people of the internet have spoken: When people vote, they're invited to leave a
New Creative Era
Together we will bloom
Last week on New Creative Era, Josh and Yancey discussed what we’d like to see in a different creative status quo. Tune in for a list of seven ideas from each of us. More people are making creative work — and being seen for it — than at any other point
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The dawn of our new world
This week we've been happy/nervous/relieved/excited to introduce Spring/Summer 2025 and the next iteration of Metalabel. Which, most importantly, opens up this universe for all of us together to release and express our creative output how we best see fit. All week we’ve been
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Seven things we want from a new creative era
New Creative Era episode 11
New Creative Era
DOOM -> BLOOM — S/S2025
New season, new creative era
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Culture is the frontier
Our societies are changing in immense ways. Time spins sideways, fast-forwards, and crashes back with each news whiplash. Every jarring moment leaves us a little more desensitized, a little more unmoored. In the middle of all this chaos, it’s fair to wonder: how much does creative work even matter
New Creative Era
This isn’t the end, this is the beginning
Welcome to the Creative Century
New Creative Era
What we wish we knew then
New Creative Era episode 10
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An instant classic from Other Internet
When we started working on Metalabel, a neighboring project was frequently at the forefront of our minds: Other Internet. A digital culture-obsessed crew of writers, researchers, and technologists, Other Internet’s ideas helped define the past and current half-decade of the web. Classic essays like "Headless Brands," "
New Creative Era
The most important work is antimemetic
What you don't see can hurt you