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Scenario

How creative friendships handle aesthetic competition and control

My best friend and I started a design studio because we complement each other perfectly but now every client project becomes a subtle power struggle about whose aesthetic wins. We're making good work but I can feel us keeping score in a way that's poisoning both the friendship and the creative partnership.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The intersection of personal intimacy and professional creative differences has created an unacknowledged competitive dynamic that threatens both relationships.

Your guide for this
Mura
Mura works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined creative life?”

Peri

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