WE LAUNCHED
THE CREATIVE
INDEPENDENT…
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Albert Einstein Font
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Wynd
Dual Universe
Flying Tent
FRIDIS
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Letters For Lucardo
The Unappropriated Recipes
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Slow Dance
Magic Mountain
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Oi Bike Bell
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The Yearnling
Janice Magazine
The Citizens Advertising Takeover Service
WOVNS
Bento Lab
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Waterloop
The Marshall Project
The Arctic is Paris
Doomocracy
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The Glassworker
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That Dragon, Cancer
Meow Wolf Art Complex
ASIYA
Blaze Laserlight
The Bolted Book
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De La Soul …and the
Anonymous Nobody
URI Led Light Bulb
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The Smog Free Project
THE YEAR IN
KICKSTARTER:
2016
YOU HELPED KEEP
11,500 CYCLISTS
ON THE STREETS
OF LONDON SAFE
Emily Brooke Blaze Lazerlight 782 Backers
BUILT FLUORESCENT
MOUNTAINS IN
THE DESERT
Art Production Fund/Nevada Museum of Art Ugo Rondinone: Seven Magic Mountains 258 Backers
De La Soul De La Soul …and the Anonymous Nobody 11,169 Backers
AND PUSHED
DE LA SOUL’S
FIRST ALBUM IN
12 YEARS TO #1
ON THE RAP CHARTS
Creative Time Doomocracy: A Haunted House with Pedro Reyes & Creative Time 398 Backers
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YOU TURNED OUR
POLITICAL NIGHTMARES
INTO A HAUNTED HOUSE
AND YOU
REPLACED EVERY
AD IN A LONDON
TUBE STATION
WITH CATS
Glimpse The Citizens Advertising Takeover Service (C.A.T.S.) 683 Backers
AND YOU
REPLACED EVERY
AD IN A LONDON
TUBE STATION…
IT WAS A YEAR FOR
TRANSFORMATION
AND A HEARTBREAKING
TRAGEDY INTO A HEART-
WARMING VIDEO GAME
Ryan Green & Josh Larson That Dragon, Cancer 3,687 Backers
Meow Wolf Meow Wolf Art Complex ft. The House of Eternal Return 880 Backers
YOU CHANGED
A BOWLING ALLEY
INTO IMMERSIVE ART
SMOG INTO
JEWELRY
Daan Roosegaarde The Smog Free Project 1,557 Backers
IT WAS A BIG YEAR
FOR REACHING OUT
MEXICO
SINGAPORE
KICKSTARTER
LAUNCHED IN:
HONG KONG
AND THE LONDON DESIGN
MUSEUM ADDED SIX
KICKSTARTER PROJECTS
TO THEIR PERMANENT
COLLECTION
A NEW WAY FOR CREATORS TO
SHARE THEIR PROCESS AND
PROGRESS WITH THE WORLD
WE LAUNCHED
KICKSTARTER LIVE
AND WE LAUNCHED
KICKSTARTER LIVE
FUNDING FOR FASHION,
FOOD AND PUBLISHING
PROJECTS EACH SURPASSED:
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The Sioux Chef™ THE SIOUX CHEF: A Native American Restaurant 2,358 Backers
Designers & Books The Bolted Book Facsimile: An Exact Copy of Depero Futurista 1,315 Backers
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FILMS AT
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Madera Latino
by Brian Lynch
4
and the Anonymous
Nobody…
by De La Soul
GRAMMY
NOMINEES
God Don’t Never
Change by Blind
Willie Johnson
401 Days
by J.Views
Conserve Dorothy's Slippers
RUBY SLIPPERS
FROM THE WIZARD OF OZ
PRESERVED FOR POSTERITY
2
AND
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EXPEDITION TO MARS?
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FUN
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CONNECTED
BEAUTIFUL
ECCENTRIC
VIBRANT
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INSPIRING
ANIMATED
YOU HELPED MAKE THE
WORLD MORE
COLORFUL
WEIRD
INTERESTING
SO TO YOU BRAVE
CREATORS
YOU GENEROUS
BACKERS
THANK
YOU
LET’S KEEP FIGHTING
THE GOOD FIGHT
2017
HERE’S
TO
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TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT
THE YEAR IN KICKSTARTER 2016
YOUR PROJECTS
HAD CREATIVE IMPACT
HAD POLITICAL IMPACT
HAD SOCIAL IMPACT
THIS YEAR YIELDED A LOT
OF IMPRESSIVE NUMBERS
THE YEAR IN
KICKSTARTER:
2016
Emily Brooke
Blaze Lazerlight
782 Backers
Art Production Fund/Nevada Museum of Art
Seven Magic Mountains
258 Backers
De La Soul
De La Soul …and the Anonymous Nobody
11,169 Backers
AND PUSHED
DE LA SOUL’S
FIRST ALBUM IN
12 YEARS TO #1
ON THE RAP
CHARTS
YOU TURNED OUR
POLITICAL
NIGHTMARES
INTO A
HAUNTED HOUSE
Creative Time
Doomocracy
398 Backers
Glimpse
The Citizens Advertising Takeover Service (C.A.T.S.)
683 Backers
AND YOU
REPLACED EVERY
AD IN A LONDON
TUBE STATION
WITH CATS
IT WAS A YEAR FOR TRANSFORMATION
i
Meow Wolf
Meow Wolf Art Complex
880 Backers
YOU CHANGED
A BOWLING ALLEY INTO IMMERSIVE ART
Daan Roosegaarde
The Smog Free Project
1,557 Backers
Ryan Green & Josh Larson
That Dragon, Cancer
3,687 Backers
AND A
HEARTBREAKING
TRAGEDY INTO A
HEARTWARMING
VIDEO GAME
IT WAS A BIG
YEAR FOR
REACHING OUT
AND THE LONDON DESIGN MUSEUM ADDED SIX KICKSTARTER PROJECTS TO THEIR PERMANENT COLLECTION
JIM HOSKING
PHILIP GLASS
IAN MACKAYE
BJÖRK
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MELISSA BRODER
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ANOHNI
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MATTHEW BARNEY
SANDRA BERNHARD
JOANNA EBENSTEIN
LEIOMY MALDONADO
EILEEN MYLES
KIM DREW
PEDRO REYES
ALEX ROSS PERRY
BRET EASTON ELLIS
POLLY STENHAM
ADAM FITZGERALD
CHLOË SEVIGNY
ROXANE GAY
KELLEY DEAL
ANN MAGNUSON
MORGAN PARKER
ARI MARCOPOULOS
JANA HUNTER
SAMUEL DELANY
CHRISTOPHER SHINN
MATT BERNINGER
CECILIA DEAN
SHANTELL MARTIN
MYKKI BLANCO
STEVIE NICKS
SHEPARD FAIREY
LAURIE ANDERSON
ADAM J. KURTZ
DEANTONI PARKS
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON
BRIT BENNETT
JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND
VERNON CHATMAN
AMY ROSE SPIEGEL
EDMUND WHITE
MYCHAL DENZEL SMITH
MIRA GONZALEZ
JACKIE BEAT
EMOTIONAL AND
PRACTICAL ADVICE
FOR CREATIVE
PEOPLE FROM:
WE
LAUNCHED
KICKSTARTER
LIVE
THIS YEAR
YIELDED A LOT
OF IMPRESSIVE NUMBERS
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100
FUNDING FOR
FASHION, FOOD
AND PUBLISHING PROJECTS EACH
SURPASSED:
Designers & Books
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1,315 Backers
The Sioux Chef™
THE SIOUX CHEF
2,358 Backers
401 Days by J.Views
and the Anonymous Nobody… by De La Soul
Madera Latino by Brian Lynch
God Don’t Never Change by Blind Willie Johnson
RUBY SLIPPERS FROM THE
WIZARD OF OZ PRESERVED FOR POSTERITY
EXPEDITION
TO MARS?
READY WHEN
YOU ARE, ELON.
YOU HELPED
MAKE THE WORLD
MORE
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SO TO YOU BRAVE
CREATORS
YOU GENEROUS
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OF TIME MAGAZINE’S
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Based on a study by the University of Pennsylvania
A
BIG
YEAR
YOU MADE
2016
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PHILIP GLASS
IAN MACKAYE
BJÖRK
SHIRLEY MANSON
MELISSA BRODER
RYAN HEFFINGTON
ANOHNI
CYNTHIA DAIGNAULT
MATTHEW BARNEY
SANDRA BERNHARD
JOANNA EBENSTEIN
LEIOMY MALDONADO
EILEEN MYLES
KIM DREW
PEDRO REYES
MYKKI BLANCO
STEVIE NICKS
SHEPARD FAIREY
DAVID BYRNE
ADAM J. KURTZ
DEANTONI PARKS
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON
BRIT BENNETT
JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND
VERNON CHATMAN
AMY ROSE SPIEGEL
EDMUND WHITE
MYCHAL DENZEL SMITH
MIRA GONZALEZ
JACKIE BEAT
AMBER TAMBLYN
ALEX ROSS PERRY
BRET EASTON ELLIS
POLLY STENHAM
ADAM FITZGERALD
CHLOË SEVIGNY
ROXANE GAY
KELLEY DEAL
ANN MAGNUSON
MORGAN PARKER
ARI MARCOPOULOS
JANA HUNTER
SAMUEL DELANY
CHRISTOPHER SHINN
MATT BERNINGER
CECILIA DEAN
SHANTELL MARTIN