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Adrian Madlener on Muck Rack

Adrian Madlener

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(He/Him)
  • Writer, Freelance
  • None, Freelance, Homes.com
  • None, Freelance, Homes
New York
As seen in: MSN, MSN UK, Yahoo Life, Issuu, Aol, Flipboard, ArchDaily, Curbed, Dezeen, Artnet and
Covers:  Furniture, Interior, Collectible, Experimental, and Exhibition Design; Material Exploration; Craft; Curation; Architecture; Conceptual, Installation, and Performance Art

Interview

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Photoshop, InDesign, InCopy, Acrobat, Voice Memos, Word, Excel, Pages, VSCO, Hootsuite, Sketchup, Wordpress, Google Analytics

What's your favorite social network?

Instagram

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

I was the art director and contributing editor of Nine Sides of a Box.

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

find your niche and excel at it. Balance your niche with other specializations.

When's the best time to pitch you?

any time

What's the best pitch you ever got?

Interviewing American artist David Salle

Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?

Architectural Digest, Architect’s Newspaper, Art Forum, Art in America, ARTnews, August Journal, Blueprint, Crafts, Current Obsession, Darc, Dezeen, Disegno, Dwell, Elle Decor, Eye, Frame, Hyperallergic, Icon Design, Ignant, Interior Design, Intramuros, McGuffin, Monomio, Metropolis, Modern, New Tendency, Numero, Object Interview, Surface, The Design Release, TLmag, T Magazine , Wallpaper, Whitewaller, Sight Unseen

What's the most common misperception about your beat?

That art and design is only intended for an elite of academics, curators, collectors, and the ultra rich.

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