Sideline Collective

Sideline Collective We are a small collective whose sole objective is to make great creative work. Non-conventional work. Stuff people like to talk about. Stuff people remember.

SIDELINE: We are a small collective whose sole objective is to make great creative work. Work that comes out of nowhere and cuts through all the noise. We use creativity to solve problems, to educate and inform, and to promote products or services. We don’t do things just for the money. We’re motivated by creative opportunity. We are outsiders - artists and designers, programmers and writers, crea

tive directors and filmmakers. We stand on the sidelines of a $579 billion advertising industry, looking in. From here we have a unique point of view on how things are, and how they could be. We create bespoke one-off projects for products or brands, working with whatever media and technology best suits the idea. We do a little bit of everything, but everything we do, we do really, really well. We take our time. We experiment. We craft. HOW IT WORKS: Our business model makes very little business sense, but it does allow us to consistently make great work. We do not have clients. We devise non-conventional creative projects that address potential problems or opportunities in the world, and then we find partner brands to commission them. In short, we work backwards to the entire commercial arts world. We look for intelligent and confident partners who are not afraid to take small calculated risks, in order to make high quality creative work for their product or brand - work that will get recognition and praise around the world. We approach each potential partner with a single creative proposal - a Sideline Project that can work alongside their current brand positioning, a time frame to produce it, and a breakdown of the costs involved to make it happen. We don’t normally take briefs, but if you like the work that you see here, and are curious to know what kind of Sideline Project we could make for your product or brand, drop us a line and say hello at [email protected]

 x Sideline CollectiveGreat article about Fake News and what companies can do to address it, illustrated with some of ou...
11/08/2025

x Sideline Collective

Great article about Fake News and what companies can do to address it, illustrated with some of our work from the “Nothing in the News” series and the “Nothing on the Internet” series. Big thank you to the whole HBR team.

https://hbr.org/2025/09/how-to-counter-fake-news

THE SMALL PUBLISHERS FAIR RETURNS TO LONDON THIS WEEKEND! If you are in the Russel Sq / British Museum / Holborn / Chanc...
24/10/2024

THE SMALL PUBLISHERS FAIR RETURNS TO LONDON THIS WEEKEND! If you are in the Russel Sq / British Museum / Holborn / Chancery Lane part of town, pop over to Conway Hall to see some great independent publishing projects from around the world. And when you do, please stop by the stall and say hello to the fabulous Tanya Peixoto. Amongst the numerous books she is showing will be a bunch of copies of our “Nothing in the News” newspapers and some of our Alphabetical Order books too.

WHEN: 25+26 October 2024, 11am to 7pm, free entry -
WHERE: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, United Kingdom WC1R 4RL

Image: Yellow Album by Conrad SchnitzlerNEW GROUP SHOW: Today is the opening of a new group show at the Weserburg Museum...
07/09/2024

Image: Yellow Album by Conrad Schnitzler

NEW GROUP SHOW: Today is the opening of a new group show at the Weserburg Museum for Modern Art : MONOCHROMY: On the aesthetics of published art, curated by . It features a few of our pieces by .projects, alongside a ton of incredible artists who work with monochromatic themes. Take a look at some of their profiles below. Exhibition runs until the 28th of September.

Rozbeh Asmani .asmani / Robert Barry / Eric Baskauskas / Pierre Bismuth / Irma Blank / Doro Boehme / Christian Boltanski / Hugo Bonamin / Stanley Brouwn / James Lee Byars / John Cage / Leif Eriksson / Joseph Ernst .projects / Hans-Peter Feldmann, Irene Friedman, Heinz Gappmayr / Michael Gibbs / Mathias Goeritz , Fernanda Gomes / Daniel Göttin / Nan Groot Antink / Kristján Guðmundsson / Paul Heimbach / Parker Ito / Jean Keller / Yves Klein / Imi Knoebel / Ferdinand Kriwet .kriwet.estate / Jean Le Noble / Sol LeWitt / Sergio Pesutic / George Maciunas / George Meertens / Felix Meyer / Bruce Nauman / Louise Nevelson .nevelson / Olaf Nicolai / Jean-Michel Othoniel / Pratchaya Phinthong / Ad Reinhardt / Boyd Rice / Winston Roeth, Allen Ruppersberg / Karin Sander / Conrad Schnitzler / Yann Sérandour / Ettore Spalletti / Diana Sprenger / Endre Tót / Jiří Valoch / Bernard Villers / Jan Voss / herman de vries / Peter Willen / Euan Williams / Ian Wilson and others.

NEW GROUP SHOW: Today is the opening of a new group show at the Weserburg Museum for Modern Art : MONOCHROMY curated by ...
07/09/2024

NEW GROUP SHOW: Today is the opening of a new group show at the Weserburg Museum for Modern Art : MONOCHROMY curated by . It features a few of our pieces by .projects, alongside a ton of incredible artists who work with monochromatic themes. Take a look at some of their profiles below. Exhibition runs until the 28th of September.

Rozbeh Asmani .asmani / Robert Barry / Eric Baskauskas / Pierre Bismuth / Irma Blank / Doro Boehme / Christian Boltanski / Hugo Bonamin / Stanley Brouwn / James Lee Byars / John Cage / Leif Eriksson / Joseph Ernst .projects / Hans-Peter Feldmann, Irene Friedman, Heinz Gappmayr / Michael Gibbs / Mathias Goeritz , Fernanda Gomes / Daniel Göttin / Nan Groot Antink / Kristján Guðmundsson / Paul Heimbach / Parker Ito / Jean Keller / Yves Klein / Imi Knoebel / Ferdinand Kriwet .kriwet.estate / Jean Le Noble / Sol LeWitt / Sergio Pesutic / George Maciunas / George Meertens / Felix Meyer / Bruce Nauman / Louise Nevelson .nevelson / Olaf Nicolai / Jean-Michel Othoniel / Pratchaya Phinthong / Ad Reinhardt / Boyd Rice / Winston Roeth, Allen Ruppersberg / Karin Sander / Conrad Schnitzler / Yann Sérandour / Ettore Spalletti / Diana Sprenger / Endre Tót / Jiří Valoch / Bernard Villers / Jan Voss / herman de vries / Peter Willen / Euan Williams / Ian Wilson and others.

28/01/2022

The document’s text has been re-organised alphabetically to show “statistically” what it actually included and what has been removed.

03/04/2021

In his project “Nothing in the News”, Joseph Ernst – an Anglo-Portuguese artist, filmmaker and creative director – presents newspapers from around the world with, you guesse…

*NEW PROJECT* Did you know ‘Money’ is mentioned 6 times in the US Constitution – double that of ‘Liberty’ (3), double th...
01/11/2020

*NEW PROJECT* Did you know ‘Money’ is mentioned 6 times in the US Constitution – double that of ‘Liberty’ (3), double that of ‘justice’ (3), and 6 times that of ‘Freedom’ (1). ‘Power’ on the other hand, features 22 times. But there is no mention of ‘jobs’ or ‘economy’, only 3 mentions of ‘labour’, and just one mention of ‘work’. ‘Welfare’ appears twice, ‘Servitude' appears twice, and ‘slavery' once.

The US Constitution, including all ratified amendments, reorganised in alphabetical order, available at: https://sidelinecollective.com/acoosttu
By Joseph Ernst and Jan van Bruggen at Sideline Collective

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We are a small collective whose sole objective is to make great creative work. Non-conventional work. Work that comes out of nowhere and cuts through all the noise. Stuff people like to talk about. Stuff people remember. We use creativity to solve problems, to educate and inform, and to promote products or services. We don’t do things just for the money. We’re motivated by creative opportunity. We are outsiders - artists and designers, programmers and writers, creative directors and filmmakers. We stand on the sidelines of a $579 billion advertising industry, looking in. From here we have a unique point of view on how things are, and how they could be. We create bespoke one-off projects for products or brands, working with whatever media and technology best suits the idea. We do a little bit of everything, but everything we do, we do really, really well. We take our time. We experiment. We craft. We do not have clients. We devise non-conventional creative projects that address potential problems or opportunities in the world, and then we find partner brands to commission them. In short, we work backwards to the entire commercial arts world. We don’t normally take briefs, but if you like the work that you see here, and are curious to know what kind of Sideline Project we could make for your product or brand, drop us a line and say hello at [email protected]