Taking a look at achievement through relationships is a new, and even radical, idea. Collaboration yields so much of what is novel, useful, and beautiful.

Below are a few more creative duos in action.

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Robbi Behr and Matthew Swanson create books together and publish and distribute them through a subscription service. Matthew Swanson writes the books and Robbi Behr illustrates them. The books range across subjects from the Christian god to seventh grade, French imperialism to donkey slaughter, and funnel cakes to traffic theory.
Manzai is a traditional style of stand-up comedy in Japanese culture, which usually involves two performers (manzaishi) —a straight man (tsukkomi) and a funny man trading jokes at great speed. Most of the jokes revolve around mutual misunderstandings, double-talk, puns and other verbal gags.
Mark V. Olsen is a U.S. TV producer and screenwriter. He is the co-creator and executive producer of the HBO series Big Love along with writing and life partner, Will Scheffer. In 2007, Olsen and Scheffer won a TV Writers Guild of America Award for the pilot and first episode of Big Love.
The songwriting partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney is one of the best-known and most successful musical collaborations in history. Between 1962 and 1969, they wrote and published approximately 180 jointly credited songs, of which the vast majority were recorded by The Beatles and form the bulk of their catalogue.
With a $12,000 investment ($4,000 of it borrowed), Ben and Jerry open their Ben & Jerry's Homemade ice cream scoop shop in a renovated gas station at the corner of St. Paul and College Streets in downtown Burlington, Vermont, on May 5.
Simon & Garfunkel is an American duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel. As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, backed by the hit single "The Sound of Silence". Their music was featured in the landmark film The Graduate, propelling them further into the public consciousness.
Brian Grazer first met his longtime friend and business partner Ron Howard when he was executive-producing TV pilots for Paramount Pictures in the early 1980's. Their collaboration began in 1985 with the hit comedies Night Shift and Splash, and in 1986 the two founded Imagine Entertainment, which they continue to run together as chairmen.
Jane Wagner is an American writer, director and producer. Wagner is best known as Lily Tomlin's comedy writer, collaborator and life partner.
Gilbert & George are two artists who work together as a collaborative duo. Gilbert Proesch (San Martin de Tor, Italy, 17 September 1943) and George Passmore (Plymouth, United Kingdom, 8 January 1942) have become famous for their distinctive, highly formal appearance and manner and their brightly coloured graphic-style photo-based artworks.