Every brief on this page
is building itself.
A brief is a definition of something that needs to exist in the world. Anyone can write one — a brand, a student, a researcher, an individual. It is published here, and then it assembles its own team: sponsors take seats, a maker is found, supporters back it with any amount.
Each card below shows you exactly where a brief is in that process — how much funding has assembled, which seats are filled, and whether it has found its maker yet.
Reading a brief card
Status badge
Open = accepting maker pitches. Seeking Producer = a maker has a vision and needs a brand to fund it. In Progress = maker selected and working. Completed = brief closed, credits locked forever.
Funding bar
Shows the minimum needed to start (from the producer) and the current total from all sources. If it has exceeded the minimum, the surplus goes to the maker as reward.
Team seats
Producer seat (main sponsor), co-sponsor seats (workspace, tools, or financial), and the maker seat (solo independent). A dot shows whether each seat is filled.
Community
Anyone can support any brief at any amount. Community support counts toward the brief total and every supporter is credited permanently in the final work.
Open — accepting maker pitches
(5)Producer
Meridian (automotive)
The Voice of 2027
“We need the language our brand lives in for the next decade. Not a slogan. A voice. We are looking for the person who can find it.”
£420 above minimum — extra goes to maker
Team
Producer
Aldworth House
Stone Memory
“The knowledge held by stone craftspeople is at risk of disappearing within a generation. We want it documented — not romanticised. Simply witnessed.”
£340 above minimum — extra goes to maker
Team
Producer
Lumen Infrastructure
Beneath the City
“Every city sits on a layer of infrastructure that shaped it — tunnels, pipes, buried rivers, forgotten stations. We want someone to go and find it.”
£720 above minimum — extra goes to maker
Team
Producer
Altus Outdoor
First Ascent — Visual Archive
“Document the routes that shaped mountain culture — not the famous ones. The ones that only the people who did them remember.”
£980 above minimum — extra goes to maker
Team
Producer
National Maritime Museum
Harbour Voices
“Working harbours are dying. The people who built their lives around them are aging. We want the last voices — before the silence.”
£510 above minimum — extra goes to maker
Team
Seeking Producer — maker has a vision, needs a brand
(3)These briefs were created by independent makers. They have a vision, they are ready to do the work — they need a brand to take the Producer seat and fund the brief into existence.
Brief by
Marcus Adeyemi
Urban Mythologies
“Cities accumulate mythology faster than concrete. Manchester, Tbilisi, Medellín — three cities in transition, and the stories people tell each other to explain where they live.”
Team
Brief by
Fatima Özdemir
The Alpine Dialects
“Eleven Alpine dialects are on the UNESCO endangered languages list. I have access to the last native speakers in four of them. This brief documents what will not survive another decade.”
Team
Brief by
Kwame Asante
Night Shift
“Night workers sustain every city — they are invisible by design. This is a year-long portrait of the people who keep things running while everyone else sleeps.”
Team
In Progress — work underway
(2)Producer
Thornfield & Co
The Last Sounds
“Sounds that will not survive the next generation of development. Not as nostalgia — as record.”
£1,200 above minimum — extra goes to maker
Team
Producer
Hinterland Textiles
A Decade in Cotton
“A decade of photographs inside a cotton mill — from its last working year to its conversion to flats. The people who stayed the whole time.”
£870 above minimum — extra goes to maker
Team
Completed — credits locked
(2)Producer
Quiet River Press
The Names We Gave Things
“Language holds place. When a place changes, the language that described it becomes untethered. We wanted someone to write about that.”
£600 above minimum — extra goes to maker
Team
Producer
Soil Foundation
The New Farmers
“A generation of young people returning to farming — not as tradition, but as choice. Portrait of a movement that does not yet know it is one.”
£1,900 above minimum — extra goes to maker
Team
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