How to make a living as an independent type designer

Perhaps now that music executive keynotes are explaining why voluntary payments are the most profitable way business can be done for artists, when I explain this people won’t laugh in my face. Ha!

the physics of the media space have changed and you artists they feel it, they feel an ability to take their careers into their own hands, to redefine what success means for them, and that is the emergence of the new music business … there is plenty of evidence that the new model can work for brand new artists, too … Topspin believes there is an entire middle class of artists for whom the system hasn’t worked in the past who will be empowered by this new model.
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November 24, 2008 |

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3 Responses to “How to make a living as an independent type designer”

  1. Miguel Sousa on November 24th, 2008 22:53

    I read the whole thing and didn’t find any part where the speaker explained “why voluntary payments are the most profitable way business can be done for artists”. Where are you inferring this from?

  2. David Crossland on January 9th, 2009 18:12

    What I mean is, artists who have not signed a label (or foundry, or whatever) and who are not yet famous.

    By permitting the normal behaviour of sharing, their work spreads and their fame increases, and with good marketing execution, they make more money because there are no middle men.

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