Born in NYC, 1967. Raised in many cities at the same time. By a close group of friends and family who all shared the common interest of collecting experiences and "Cultural Kapital". I now reside in Los Angeles, but am still, "Being-raised". By both new and old friends, family and people i have never met, yet. I am a Cook, Gardener, DJ, Artist, Designer and Cultural Critic. However, my job is Creative director of Stussy.
Stussy :http://www.stussy.com/
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.
Helvetica encompasses the worlds of design, advertising, psychology, and communication, and invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day.
The film was shot in high-definition on location in the United States, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France and Belgium. It is currently in post-production and is slated to begin screening at film festivals worldwide starting in early 2007.
Interviewees in Helvetica include some of the most illustrious and innovative names in the design world, including Erik Spiekermann, Matthew Carter, Massimo Vignelli, Wim Crouwel, Hermann Zapf, Neville Brody, Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Bierut, David Carson, Paula Scher, Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Experimental Jetset, Michael C. Place, Norm, Alfred Hoffmann, Mike Parker, Bruno Steinert, Otmar Hoefer, Leslie Savan, Rick Poynor, Lars Müller, and many more.
Rockers Galore: a project with Josh Cheuse and Stussy, part one of many...
March 24, 2007
Called Kosmo from the payphone outside my high school darkroom.
Joe just shoved me in the door. "Stop standing around !” he said. I could
just about keep up. Punk imploded over Manhattan. Rap was ours or so we
thought as they chased us out of the club and beat on the top of the limo.
"What’s wrong Elvis, don't you like it loud?".
I remember Mike D's mom's car in a ditch.
Beer helmets. Shots ringing out in the Reggae lounge. “Steady as Freddy.”
We go-go’ed to the junk funk from the chocolate city. Walked with Schooly D
down the Falls road in Belfast (it made him miss Philly). B.A.D. at the
Glasgow Barrowlands broke a record. Code $ said “Yo, Josh. that guy threw a
wine bottle at my head,”. Back in London Joe and I did a whole photo session
and developed the film while we waited for Mick Jones to wake up. Our
sharpies bled onto the white Lucite bar of the ‘80s. We got thrown out and
snuck back in. Bars closed their doors when they saw us coming. There were
car chases in the Hollywood hills. We built bunkers and watched the car park
asphalt ripple and the light poles wave. Stay cool, hang loose. Had a smoke
on the roof. Got back on the bus. Some of us never got off.
"So long Liberty." indeed. There was Brotherly Love and another needed shove into
the noise and confusion. Thank you, Manchester and Atlanta.
One last blast in Brooklyn in the smoke of everything before.
"That's my story and I'm sticking to it.” The fight goes on!
-Josh Cheuse
This project is one of the greatest that I have ever worked on.
Work if fun but some things make going to work a joy.
I hope you all enjoy it.
After a brief trip to Tokyo, it is time to regroup and design again.
What to do? What will people want next year?
Most blogs deal will the consumption of now.
It would be interesting if all the critics, collectors and media controllers could become forecasters.
Maybe not, it all works fine just the way it is.
I am not sure what makes a designer? However the article is interesting.
I still after reading it twice have no idea what makes a designer.
But i do like his ending about: "Vision and Innovation"....
Here's the speech I gave at Parson's on Thursday that deals with the backlash against design. I've edited it just a bit. It's designed to provoke design management students and show how I've redesigned my job at Business Week from the Voice Of Authority to the Curator of the Conversation on Innovation. We all live life in beta now.
Are Designers The Enemy of Design?
In the name of provocation, let me start by saying that DESIGNERS SUCK. I'm sorry. It's true. DESIGNERS SUCK. There's a big backlash against design going on today and it's because designers suck.
"There's been a ton of stuff written about Biggie since his death, but there'll never be a definitive account of his life and his work because we still don't understand how good he was. We'll never see his equal."
A blur of Tokyo in the end of a trip, time here moves @ strange paces.
It has been a trip in more ways than one.
In a very unsettling way Tokyo is the greatest city in the world.
Not just for the culture, information and attitude.
Its the people and their subtle but beautiful relations to everyday life that are very interesting.
It truly is a refined place.
My Tokyo home
Fruit, flowers and mayhem.
Ginza Calling
Leica Ginza: here is where sick cameras and lenses go to be fixed by the robed master.
Super DL section of Tokyo has unreal used book shops, amazing shit here....
Start saving your $$$$, Neighborhood sells bikes now. And fuckin sick ones at that.
This dude has ballz
Dj Bandit
As I was talking to Fraser about how it might be time to split, guess who??? Shadi walks in.
I was not sure where I was anymore?????
Was I at Save the Robots or some smokey Tokyo werido spot????
Super good last night in Tokyo, the city that really does not sleep.
Design Schools: Please Start Teaching Design Again
March 9, 2007
It’s that time of year when Adaptive Path wades through stacks of design school students’ resumes, looking for summer interns and potential hires. As I was doing this, a trend that that I had suspected became clear to me: quite a few design schools no longer teach design. Instead, they teach “design thinking” and expect that that will be enough.
Frankly, it isn't.
I was taught that design has three components: thinking, making, and doing. (Doing is the synthesis, presentation, and evaluation of a design; the bridge between thinking and making.) If all design schools are teaching is the thinking, well, they are missing the other two thirds of the equation. They have abandoned craft for craze. Thinking without the making and doing is almost useless in the job market, unless you want to work at Accenture or some other big consulting firm. It probably won’t help you get a job as a designer in a studio environment. You’d be better off getting a degree in Humanities; at least you would be well-rounded.
