My design partner and I started our studio because we were tired of corporate creative compromise, but now we're recreating the same dynamics with each other, where every client project becomes a territory battle about whose aesthetic vision gets realized. We escaped external creative control only to create internal creative conflict.
More people experience this than they realize.
Liberation from external creative constraints reveals that the impulse to control aesthetic outcomes lives within each collaborator, not just in institutional structures.
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