By Trolljegeren10 About 7 months ago, YieldStreet, a rapidly expanding investment platform acquired Athena Art Finance, a company providing loans collateralized by artwork to art collectors and dealers. They basically buy people’s art for up to five years, and loan them 50% of the arts appraised value. Athena was founded in 2015 to help art … More The ethics of financing art

Written by Trolljegeren10 In today’s society, design and branding is everything. You can have a killer business idea and a great product, but if your logo, branding and overall design doesn’t live up to the standards of today’s design quality, people most likely will prefer other brands to yours. This applies especially to brands targeting … More Cooperating design in products and branding

Trolljegeren10 In this post, I am to comment on the “nothing can stop the claw” text written by LilleVoffsen. The title itself is catching and intriguing, which is an efficient way to make the audience interested in reading the blog post. The author continues to intrigue the reader by having a funny and interesting sort … More Comment on «Nothing can stop the claw”

Surviving as an independent designer in today’s design industry is not an easy career path. It’s a business market in constant change, and everyone is competing for the same clients and projects. The Norwegian design market is starting to develop into a thriving industry but is nowhere close to being a safe career path for … More Grafill – a designers helping hand

There is no secret that there is a lack of female artists exhibited in modern museums and galleries. If we look at museums in the US, only 13% of the art on display is made by women, which would be an acceptable number if we lived in the 19th century. But in 2019, there is … More A call for diversity