This website sits at the intersection of creativity and economics. It explores how value is created and sustained across creative work, independent projects, and cultural spaces.
The focus is on real creative practice. From pricing time and ideas to navigating growth, uncertainty, and long term direction, the site looks at the everyday decisions behind creative work and independent careers.
Through short essays, insights, and resources, the site connects economic thinking to lived experience, offering clarity and practical perspective.
The site is built for exploration, with links guiding readers toward focused themes, deeper reflections, and useful tools.
Turning data into insights, economics into strategy, and challenges into opportunities.
Creative value
Time and capacity
Project growth
Key decisions
Explore creative economics
Creative economics looks at how value, decisions, and systems shape creative work and independent practice. These categories bring together insight, reflection, and practical thinking, helping you understand how creative projects develop, adapt, and sustain over time.
Independent Practice
Commercial Sense
Long Term Focus
Mellissa Rees-Howell 