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Making It

The Missing Project, by artist Deirdre Kashdan

The Missing Project: making the invisible visible

Deirdre Kashdan spent 27 years guarding a secret. Now she’s using her art to reveal it, showing it's never too late to make art that matters

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Anish Kapoor on his art, and creative routines

The Creative Life of Anish Kapoor

One of Britain's best-known artists on creative routines, meditation as a tool, and what he does with work that doesn't yet work.

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Brandon Sanderson on the Tim Ferriss Show

14 things Brandon Sanderson can teach us about writing

With over 40m book sales and a Kickstarter that raised over $41m, this author has lessons for all creatives

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What Lewis and Tolkien can teach us about creative work

The Mythmakers is a book about friendship, faith, and the power of creative community. Tolkien and Lewis still have wisdom to share

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DJ Paulette

DJ Paulette in the house!

A DJ pioneer who is still going strong, Paulette has done it all. With style.

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You don't need permission

You don’t need funding to make your art

You just need to begin. That's how the magic really happens.

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Artists at work

Artists at work (saving the planet)

Can art save the world? These artists are quietly trying, with a new book showing how they bring sustainability into their work and practice

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William Shaw

William Shaw on a life in crime

William Shaw is now a successful crime writer. But it took 30 years and three failed novels for him to find the audience his writing deserves.

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Tom Hodgkinson

Tom Hodgkinson: the hardest working man in slow business

The editor of The Idler magazine on his new book, and why we should all be a little more idle

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$100,000 a year from piano lessons

$100k a year from piano lessons

Ayana Webb has an impressive business teaching piano online. Whatever your skill, if you can teach it, you can do it too

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Spike Island

Spike Island, and the summer of 1990

The Stone Roses gig celebrated in a new photographic book. And what it means for creatives today.

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Quentin Tarantino on how he coped with failure

Quentin Tarantino on his first failure 

We all fail. What really matters is what we do next. Here's what Tarantino did, and what we all can learn from it.

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