Letters I never sent to my younger studio
Six years of invoices, three bad contracts and one friendship that survived. What I would tell the studio I ran at twenty-six.
Tomas Birkeland
Ran a four-person studio for six years. Now writes the posts he wishes someone had handed him on day one.
Start with these
The posts Tomas Birkeland would point you at first.
Everything by Tomas Birkeland
Newest first. 3 posts in total.
What I would hand someone on day one of running a studio
Six years, four people, and a short list of things that would have saved me most of the first two years. None of it is about the work.
Letters I never sent to my younger studio
Six years of invoices, three bad contracts and one friendship that survived. What I would tell the studio I ran at twenty-six.
The library that fits in one shelf
A constraint I set four years ago and have not broken: one shelf, forty books. Everything else is borrowed, lent or let go.