Daring Creativity

A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with George Wu and Malika Favre (icantaffordthisbutmaybeshecan) ~
Daring Creativity. Podcast with Radim Malinic
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Malika Favre is one of the most recognisable illustrators working today — a master of bold geometry, reduced palettes, and images you feel before you decode. George Wu is a graphic designer, event director, product creator, and by her own admission, a jack of all trades. Together, they created I Can't Afford This But Maybe She Can — a curation account that started as a private joke between two best friends and grew into a 350,000-follower community, a newsletter with a 70%+ open rate, and a full concept store with over 300 products from 90 independent brands worldwide.
This conversation captures why that happened — and what it actually takes to build something meaningful without a business plan, a marketing budget, or any intention of selling out.
Key Takeaways
Friendship is a creative force. Malika and George's decade-long friendship is the foundation of everything — the trust, the honesty, and the courage to post without approval-seeking.
Curation is care made visible. Their process — going down rabbit holes, translating Japanese craft websites, following follower trails — shows the difference between sharing and truly giving a damn.
Ego is the first thing to go. George's journey from curating for approval to posting freely mirrors a shift every creative needs to make at some point.
Innovation vs. perfection isn't a conflict — it's a team. George chases the new; Malika pursues the perfect. Their output is both.
Building outside the algorithm is an act of resistance. No reels, no faces, no sponsored clutter — and 350k people followed anyway because the care was unmistakable.
Monetising without compromising is the hardest part. The shop, the newsletter, the auction house commission — each step has been deliberate, values-led, and brutally honest about what isn't working yet.
The last mile is rarely crowded. Their willingness to go further — to find the fourth-generation kite maker in Japan, to contact every one of 90 brands individually — is exactly why their audience trusts them.
Daring Creativity. Podcast with Radim Malinic
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A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with PJ Richardson from Laundry Studio ~
Daring Creativity. Podcast with Radim Malinic
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In this special live episode recorded in front of an audience at OFFF Barcelona 2026, Radim sits down with PJ Richardson — ECD and co-founder of Laundry, a motion design studio based in LA and San Francisco — to pull back the curtain on one of the most ambitious creative projects of the festival: the OFFF 2026 opening titles, the nine-and-a-half-minute projection mapping piece that lit up an entire building and stopped the crowd in their tracks. 
PJ Richardson takes us inside the full arc of that creative journey — from the initial spark of ambition, through the chaos of experimentation, to the emotional moment of standing outside watching it play with his friends and peers.
This conversation is about far more than motion design. It's about daring to ask, the courage to collaborate, the willingness to sit with discomfort, and the decision — every single day — to challenge the status quo with joy.
Takeaways:
Asking is its own creative act — PJ emailed Pep for three consecutive years before the timing aligned. Persistence without pressure eventually becomes a possibility.
Say yes, then figure it out — Laundry's working philosophy of committing first and problem-solving second is what makes ambitious work happen at all.
The process is the art — PJ's conceptual framework for the titles treated the journey of creativity itself as the subject matter, not just the output.
Failure is the raw material — every experiment that didn't work became the foundation for the one that did. A thousand failed attempts led to one defining idea.
Collaboration is a cheat code — bringing in friends like Alex Liou, Alejandro R. Meija, and Josh Pierce wasn't a compromise; it was the creative multiplier that made the whole thing possible.
Challenge the status quo with joy — PJ's guiding theme for the titles, and for his creative life: the hard work is worth doing, but the intention to enjoy it matters deeply.
Community is the celebration — the moment the piece felt truly finished wasn't in the edit suite. It was standing outside in Barcelona with peers, watching it on the building together. .
Daring Creativity. Podcast with Radim Malinic
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A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Dora Drimalas from Hybrid Design ~
Daring Creativity. Podcast with Radim Malinic
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