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A new release from Metalabel Press on the creative life

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

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

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

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

Seven things we want from a new creative era

New Creative Era episode 11

DOOM -> BLOOM — S/S2025

New season, new creative era

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

This isn’t the end, this is the beginning

Welcome to the Creative Century

What we wish we knew then

New Creative Era episode 10

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," "

The most important work is antimemetic

What you don't see can hurt you

Podcast

How to develop a creative career

New Creative Era episode 09

Releases we love

Making the leap

The world around us feels increasingly turbulent. It's hard not to wonder how to keep going and whether where we're headed is worth it. But standing in the unknown has always been part of the creative process. What's changed is the noise surrounding it.

Q&As

Q&A with Pierce Day

At the tail end of last year, something magical happened—a young writer named Pierce Day from New Zealand published his first-ever work: a hefty novel exploring one man's complete and utter obsession with his phone and curating his outward perception. There's nothing quite like witnessing

New Creative Era

The path not taken

Life is full of paths not taken. Here’s one of them. A group of writers begin independently writing about the same strange idea. They don’t plan this. It just happens. Something in the air, in the water, in the culture. They’re tuned into the same signal. At

Podcast

Is there such a thing as artist-format fit?

New Creative Era episode 008

Releases we love

If you want to know how the creative world works, read these twelve things

An unofficial creative education

Podcast

Economic case studies (with actual numbers!)

New Creative Era episode 07

New Creative Era

Doom now and forever?

Sending posts into the void. Refreshing notifications for validation. Competing most intensely with the people most like us. These are the hallmarks of creative life today. Cycles we all know too well. We’ve come to associate these feelings with the creative process. But what if they’re not creativity