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Practical advice and inspiration to help artists and creators build value from their work and sustainable creative practices.

collecting as creation with Justice Hager
Audience Building

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.

Network Archives
Release Strategies

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

price
Release Tools

Tips for pricing your release

Some tips and prompts to make assigning values to creative work a part of the story

Print and circulate
Release Strategies

Tips for printing and circulating your work

Our living guide to getting your self-published work printed

economics
Release Strategies

The economics of self-publishing a book on Metalabel

A deep dive into the Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet

Collector card
Audience Building

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

NYC Garbage
Release Strategies

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
About Metalabel

Rethinking labels

The origins of Metalabel and the future it can enable for creative people

Factory records
Release Strategies

Five creative lessons from Factory Records

How world-building, lore-making, and creative releasing helped make a label legendary

Trainz
Release Strategies

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
Audience Building

Promotional principles for creative people

A collectively shaped guide on promotion on our own terms

How culture is made
Release Strategies

How culture is made

Four stories that span centuries, geographies, and worldviews that reveal how to shape culture and the world around us.