What is RISERVE?

This newsletter aims to spotlight best-in-class creative talent who use football as a source of inspiration. It’s an extension of RISERVE, a submission-based directory developed by Nonsense Projects with the goal to level the playing field for creative talent within the international football community.

How does it work?

This editorial space wants to serve as a window into the work of underutilized talent to encourage the industry to diversify its roster. It’s a place to spotlight creative work across various media and spotlight the various artists who made the beautiful game their subject matter.

What about the directory?

The idea behind this project is quite simple. It’s the answer to a widespread phenomenon in the creative industry, which has now inexorably spilled over to the business of football: Gatekeeping and lazy recruiting.

Campaigns are predominantly shot by the same photographers and directed by the same 11 creative directors; match-day posters all look the same due to the homogenization of the talent hired to produce them; the names penning articles about art and football stay the same, publication after publication. It’s time we make space for fresh, new talent.

Instead of continuing to complain about the situation, we decided to do something about it. RISERVE started as a crowdsourced compendium of names and portfolios on a shared Google Sheets page. Within 2 weeks, the list broke the hundreds. The need for such a resource proved to be dire! And now here we are!

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What about the job board?

In 2024 we released a new version of the platform and added a job board designed to make it even easier to access opportunities. Every week (or as they come) we will send the hottest job in newsletter form through the new segment “TRANSFER MARKET”. What are you waiting for? Subscribe now!