Justin Ware of Creativeware is the swiss army knife to make all your creative dreams a reality

How would you describe your practice, your craft, your “cash machine”?

Creating. Making physical forms of someone’s ideas. We create everything from a physical sculpture to the full production of the artwork, the video to promote it all the way to producing the event. A little bit of a production house with its roots in fabrication. A creative agency that actually makes something.

Where do you look for inspiration? A place, a person, a book, an action?

There's plenty of artists work I like. I have a few people that I really look to for process and inspiration in technique. But if there's one thing I look to that actually makes me want to do something it's the engineering world. Pick an arbitrary competent used in aerospace, far more beautiful and inspiring than any piece of artwork I've seen. It's perfect just by form.

Who is someone that has helped you get to where you are now? How were they impactful

I would have to say my pops. I didn't look at it that way at the time. But he made me work from a very young age. I don't think he had a choice about it but I easily got 10 years experience as an electrician by 18. I was welding at 10, table saw was fair game at 8 or 9. I just thought that's how life was for everyone.

““If you don’t enjoy the process then you’ll be disappointed with the entire project.””

What's the best advice you've gotten from someone?

If you don't enjoy the process then you'll be disappointed with the entire project. It was in a micro perspective though. The enjoyment of the mechanical operation of a switch. The general idea of results will never be fulfilling if that's the focus.

How do you define success? What are the goalposts you look out for?

Is there momentum. Could be financial, excitement around projects, general interest from clients, am I making things I haven't made before. But is there some forward momentum?