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to read: "How to be Influenced" by Ian Leslie

Mar 06, 2023
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quick read with great provocations for a creative.

tl;dr — we’re all influenced, so know what your influences are and how to manage them (Ian gives some good bullet tips at the end of the article). for artists, saying something like “Virgil Abloh was influenced by ‘The Red Balloon’” gets the agency reversed; it paints “The Red Balloon” as the actor, the …

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