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On Moonlighting
We're designers who all have our own projects, all working in a way that bringing these projects to life is a calling. And we all have infinite respect for each other because of this. But it's futile to try to birth something alone. Feelings of ownership and protectiveness aside. So we work together on projects that are brought to the group (while individuals are free to not necessarily bring every of their projects to the group). We pay in with the help we provide for the help we've recieved. A bit of division of labour. The strength of a group, a company, a brand, with the capacity to live a life follow that calling. Only the best projects (or those that are truly ready) get done cause it's a bank of designers considering everything instead of one head in supreme control.
But it ABSOLUTELY does need (commensurate) altruism, that trust you spoke of. More like a tribe than a legally bound structure. And like a family there will be falling outs and those who go their own way. Not saying it's the only way, but it's a way. And until we at least mention this all-or-nothing model in synopsis' like yours we've not clicked over toward a proper fall away from the full-on corporate anti 'moonlighting' structure of getting design done.
I'll use Tom Mc's comment to highlight that it's not for everyone. Those not willing to break away from their corporate placemat won't have any use for my model. But it is at least an all-or-nothing manifestation so that Tom's valid point about partial freedoms simply not being possible in some instances just no longer applies.
How am I going to explain to my company that manufactures goods, that I need to 'spread my wings' and they have to be cool with that, when I have to wear dress pants and a collared shirt every day (except fridays), can't use a Macintosh computer or an iPad?
You neglect to notice that many successful and profitable companies are stuck in the stone age as far as corporate culture. It's sad but not much can be done. It's all about the Bottom Line.