Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Creativity is an organic, otherworldly, ever-mutating, metamorphosing act of wonder-wrangling. It doesn’t adhere to hard-and-fast rules, and it doesn’t care who you are or what you’re working on as long as you are willing to collaborate with it. It doesn’t require fancy materials or a giant worktable or endless resources of space and money and
... See moreConsider a classic public good: a public park. We might say park visitors are generically "users" of this public space, or that anyone within driving distance is adequately served. But this categorization feels distinctly unsatisfying. "User" does not capture meaningful detail about a population that collectively values free access to protected
... See moreWhereas in the past a person wearing a Nirvana t-shirt was probably a fan of the band’s music, today no such guarantee exists (and many more shirts are sold). This often precludes one of the original purposes of merch, a signaling of belonging to a certain (sub)culture.
Still, the meaning-making of merch has not disappeared, but merely shifted. A
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