I have seen recently more and more people biting my graphics… Poor street wear companies for the most, but also uneducated designers that spend more time on the web looking for stuff to steal. For lucky people like me, I went to design school… For unlucky people like some of my friends, they learnt how to develop a unique style by working hard and being creative. Tee Shirt Design (that’s what I do the most) is like producing a Hip Hop beat. you can be like Dj Premier, Dj Shadow, Just Blaze, Timbaland, Notz, Dre, etc… or you can be Puffy. If you in the first category, you will find a 2 seconds dusty sample and make an amazing head nodder’s beat. If you like Puffy, you will take a Sting song and loop it. You feel me? All I am trying to say with my poor english is that it’s ok to “sample” a graphic as long as you flip it, chopped it and add your own touch to it. So please!!! Don’t be the Puffy of design. Instead of posting the last 5 lame mother fuckers that stole my art, I decided to take a positive approach and show people some of my “crates of graphics”. Those photos are my inspiration. Most of it represent stuff that I have been collecting for the past 15 years. It basically represent who I am as a designer… So if you do mascots, scripts, mexican looking shit, cartoons, etc....I don’t own any style neither invented any style...But please, do your own....I didn’t find my stuff online overnight...It took a great amount of time, traveling and diggin’ to come up with stuff I design… Blessing!
My tools
My trip to Mexico
My Dad’s scale models
My Varsity collection
Hip Hop as a culture
The Modernist
Grown ups Toys
My Friends Artworks
Posted on December 07, 2007 at 08:00 AM | Comment (8 comments)
