Interview: Joel Evey – Art Director Urban Outfitters
Joel Evey is a Designer based in Philadelphia and being Urban Outfitters print art director for a while now. He’s the man responsible for some fancy and high quality print products for them. Evey combines well thought out considered design and typography with images to create exciting pieces of work. PROFILE Name: Joel Evey Age: 29 [...]
Interview: Véronique Sutra – Eyes In Progress
Véronique Sutra, ex Manager of Multimedia at Magnum Photos, just created Eyes In Progress, which is a program of workshops and masterclasses provided by Masters of photography such as Patrick Zachmann (documentary), Jane Evelyn Atwood (storytelling), Joan Fontcuberta (contemporary) and other great names. Sutra says, “With Eyes in Progress, I wanted to create a program [...]
Interview: Aekae – Idea Driven Design
The work by Aekae (Aeberhard/Kaegi) goes beyond the fulfillment of a functional commercial brief. Ideas are translated to unexpected products and spaces surrounding a project. The idea-driven Switzerland based design studio founded by Fabrice Aeberhard and Christian Kaegi offer a distinctive, well made design. PROFILE Name: Christian Kaegi Place of residence: Zürich, Switzerland Profession: Industrial [...]
Interview: Jessica Hische – Don’t Fear the Creativity
PROFILE Name: Jessica Hische Place of residence: Brooklyn, New York, USA Age: 27 Profession: Illustrator, Designer “If I were a real German I would pronounce it “Hish-ah” (first syllable emphasized), but since I’m American and we have our own way of pronouncing foreign words it’s pronounced “Hish” (just like “fish” but with an H),” explains [...]
Interview: Eanna Freeney – Passionate About Urban Photography
Eanna Freeney is a Irish photographer based in London, UK. He’s also the founder of The Velvet Cell publishing house, an independent publisher of limited edition photography books. The Velvet Cell Books was established to give a platform to similar photographers who are passionate about urban photography. It was founded in 2010 and ran for [...]
Interview: Sandy Saffeels – Shop Owner and Film Editor
PROFILE Name: Sandy Saffeels Place of residence: Munich, Germany Age: 46 Profession: Shop Owner (Saffeels) and Film Editor Food: Lunch @ Embassy of Dreams Transportation: Whatever is appropriate Sandy Saffeels, half American half German, mother of two grown up daughters, is well known in the Munich and German film industry, where she worked for the [...]
Interview: Rui Camilo – Over the Islands of Africa, São Tomé and Príncipe
Where to start with an all-rounder like Rui Camilo? I got to know and appreciate Rui quite some time ago through my editorial activities at a marketing fair in Munich. Back then Camilo was co-founder of the photo agency Deepol, which he later sold to Plainpicture. We started chatting straight away and a bit later [...]
Interview: Meghan Martens – the Outerwear Wizzard
What’s important to design Snowboard Outerwear? How does different fabrics work together and what are the colors for winter 2011/12? Why is it important to stay dry, while you´re out in snowy regions? No clue? O.k. perfect. We had the chance to ask the “Outerwear Wizzard” Meghan Martens some questions. Before Meghan starts following her [...]
Interview: Nido Campolongo – Sustainable Practices in Design
“Nido Campolongo, who originally worked as a typographer with his father in São Paulo, is a graphic and product designer as well as a plastic artist. He uses paper, cardboard and their derivatives to construct his objects witch evolve from graphic pieces, into usual pieces and furniture. Campolongo recycles the industrial waste and cellulose by-products [...]
Interview: Erica McDonald – Perception of Photography
I enjoy the work of photographers who seem to be able to create their own universe through their photos. I get that sense while looking at the work of Erica McDonald. McDonald began working in the field of photography under the tutelage of esteemed photo dealer Joe Folberg at Vision Gallery in San Francisco, a [...]
Interview: Guillaume Le Guillou – Big Mountain Action Sport Photography
Guillaume Le Guillou is a La Grave-based – european freeride eldorado in France – photographer and he is sharing some big mountain action sport photography thoughts in the following with us. Le Guillou is studied architecture and after his exam he’s been running the web agency abstrakt graphics. After selling it he now spends more [...]
Interview: Stefan Trifan – Designer
Bucharest-based Designer Stefan Trifan is the creative director and owner at SilkEight Concept. Trifan has worked with some of the leading multimedia and design companies in Romania. He foresees himself in the future in directing and managing more projects and gaining new experience and techniques to propel himself higher in the new media design & [...]
Venice Biennale Interview: Helle Jetzig – True Enough!
“In taking photographs, Helle Jetzig – a German-based artist who is living an working in Osnabrück – lays the foundation stones for the de-spatialized spaces he has set his sights on. It is still the paint that shortens and widens the proportions, that deepens the incisions and opens up the prospects, that pushes something into [...]
Interview: Xavier De Le Rue – Ride as Much as Possible
Xavier de Le Rue is a name people tend to hear more and more (and miss-spelt just as much though!). Although he’s been charging for many years, recognition is only starting to catch up to his riding skills. One explanation might be because he has never been looking for fame and always been doing what [...]
Video Interview: Patrick Hoelck – Candid, Gritty and Simply Real
“Hoelck’s images seem at first to be random, thrown together, an accidental assemblage, but they provide a narrative of our cultural landscape, a series on contemporary urban life.” – Gisela Getty Patrick Hoelck is an American filmmaker and photographer based in Los Angeles and New York City. He is popularly known for his unique artistic [...]
Teasing Out the American Dream with Jeff Brouws
The Highway Landscape: Motel Drive, Fresno, California 1991 Jeff Brouws, born in San Francisco in 1955, is a self-taught artist. Pursuing photography since age 13, where he roamed the railroad and industrial corridors of the South Bay Peninsula, Brouws has compiled a visual survey of America’s evolving rural, urban and suburban cultural landscapes. Using single [...]
Silke Sieler Motion Graphics Artist
Silke Sieler is a motion graphics designer based in Hamburg, Germany. She’s currently working at motion design agency Sehsucht. Sieler loves abstract things, strange details, loud music and lots of ice-cream and her vision of motion design is food for eager eyes. Her last short abstract movie is dealing with metamorphosis and transformation, connecting art [...]
One Of A Kind Photographer Michael Jang
Cowboys, punk scene, LA movie premieres and heroes. Michael Jang’s photographs are among a lot of collections, like his photograph of David Bowie signing autographs at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, which is among the SFMOMA collection or like his photograph of Frank Sinatra at the March of Dimes “Man of the Year” in 1973. Hamburger [...]
Matt Belzile Interview
“Matt lets his riding speak for him. Quiet and humble describes him best off the hill. But put him on a snowboard, and he’ll destroy everything in front of him. In the park or an urban setting, it’s apparent that he honed his skills in the icy terrain of Quebec since he stomps like a [...]
Roberta Mancino – What A Fly Girl
Italian Roberta Mancino was born 1980 in Anzio, a small city from the coast south of Rome. She perfectly combines the beauty (Modeling) and the beast (Skydiving). Some weeks ago she was voted sexiest woman by Men’s Fitness sexiest woman in sports. About her modeling job, she doesn’t speak much and Skydiving is still her [...]
Fons Schiedon Moving Images
Fons Schiedon is a dutch filmmaker and artist. Currently he resides in Berlin. His work consists of moving images of various dimensions and characteristics. Schiedon has worked for clients such as MTV Asia, Nickelodeon and de Volkskrant. Schiedon’s captivating visuals always have a deeper purpose and he’s cooking up a variety of projects that are [...]
Tim Humphreys Interview
Snowboarding is his escape from everything that is troubling him. “No matter what I’m stressing on, the second I strap my back foot in at the top of the chairlift, it all goes away”, Humphreys says about himself. Let’s have a closer look at this 22 year old Humphreys from New Jersey … PROFILE Name: [...]
Riley Blakeway Film Maker
Aspiring Central Coast filmmaker Riley Blakeway has his own style surf filming. He has a great eye for visual art and finding some amazing camera angles and lifestyle filming. PROFILE Name: Riley Blakeway Place of residence: SYD Australia Age: 20 Profession: Film maker Food: Mexican! Transportation: Fixy Sponsors: Anon, Analog, Stab Mag Your debut film [...]
Stefan Sagmeister – Design has to work, Art does not
Sagmeister Inc. (recently won the Lucky Strike Award and was awarded with a Grammy in the category ‘Best Recording Package’) is a graphic design company in New York City and Rockstar Designer Stefan Sagmeister worked some time ago on his most enjoyable book project “Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far” (published by [...]
