“Regardless of the medium, I start with an inspiration board. I have a magnetic wall in my office that I use to hang images. I pull a lot of film stills, images from the library’s picture collection and scans from my books.”
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The shop is very collaborative. All the printers weigh in on new designs, and for the most part we all know what the others are working on. Kara and I design together and are joined at the hip. We tried sitting in different offices in our new space (because we suddenly had so much more room) but we lasted less than a week.
“I work at a mid-century Steelcase tanker desk that I’ve had since I graduated in 1998. It’s probably 60 years old but, in the years it’s been in my possession, it’s developed a lot of unique character.”
“I try to decompose the borders between authenticity and thought, South American folklore, mythology, religion, history, and geography. More than anything else my work explores the opposition between imagination and reality in the context of western cultures.”
Almost everything I’ve written has started out on sheets of the brown paper that we use to cover the dining room tables and are written in black sharpie like we use to label containers in the walk-in refrigerator.
“My studio is located on the 3rd floor in a building right by a train station. Since the station is on an elevated railroad, you can see the platform, which is almost level with my studio. There is a steak restaurant on the 1st floor, an Italian bar on the 2nd floor. My studio is […]