We had a quick chat with him whilst he dropped a piece in Notre Dame.
what inspires you?
Anything and everything creative. This can be
music, cartoons, low brow art and fine art, bad graffiti, good graffiti,
graphic design, exhibitions, books, magazines etc. I try to surround
myself with things that help me to spark new and
interesting ideas.
Have you studied art or design?
I did art all the way through school and am
currently studying visual communication (graphic design) and aim to get a
degree out of it. But for the last 30 odd years Ive been self taught.
How do you approach creating a concept? Examples?
With every concept you should try to create
something new and interesting, if it can be beautiful - even better. So
with this in mind new concepts generally come from the idea of merging a
few ideas together.
As an example I’ll talk about a font I
designed called “Astrotip”. The idea came from having really nice and
simple letters and merging them with fat cap style graffiti flares, as
this plays on the fact that I have been a writer for the
last 16 years and enjoying playing with letters and styles. I felt I had
not seen this before and therefore could present something new and
original to the world.
What clients have you worked for?
Graffiti: New Balance, Puma, Edgars clothing retail, 8ta
cellular network, Paramount Pictures, Engen Petrol, A wide range of
festivals, Truworths clothing, Flexfit caps..
Design:Red Bull, Mountain Dew, Olmeca Tequila,
Hellocomputer design agency, Coca Cola, DJ Jakob Snake, Shelflife street
store, Puma, Nike.
What are you looking to do in the future?
One day I’d like to work for myself and to
have a lot of side projects on the go. The ultimate is finding a balance
between actual corporate design work and personal work, and hopefully
having more paid personal work than corporate.
Some early Econ action
Econ, Mace in Retreat
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