Browse: Interviews
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Interview: Mark Todd
MS: How did you get into drawing / illustration? Were you creative as a child?
MT: “Like a lot of kids growing up in the late 70’s and early 80’s in the U.S., things like comics, the Star Wars craze and heavy metal hair bands had a huge influence on me and my friends. One of the [...]
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Interview: Scott Hutchison of FRIGHTENED RABBIT
Technically speaking Frightened Rabbit are a band comprising Scott Hutchison (vocals/guitar), Grant Hutchison (drums/vocals), Billy Kennedy (guitar) and Andy Monaghan (keyboards), but put them in context and you have one of Scotland’s finest indie exports. Like fellow Glaswegians Shitdisco and Franz Ferdinand, the band are the next in line of students of the Glasgow School [...]
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TEN KENS: Interview & video for Bearfight!
PICTURE: [TEN KENS: Dean Tzenos (guitar), Dan Workman (vocals), Lee Stringle (bass), Ryan Roantree (drums)] VIDEO: [BEARFIGHT! PROMO VIDEO]
Meet Ten Kens, fresh out of Toronto, Canada. They want to avoid being stuffed in a genre pigeonhole, but for sake of explanation, their sound translates roughly as intelligent indie-punk, loaded with crunchy riffs, ethereal vocal [...]
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Design Q&A Part 2: NOPATTERN
For the second and final part in our series talking to young graphic design geniuses [link to part one- an interview with Diftype] we caught up with illustrator, photographer & photoshop trailblazer Chuck Anderson, known mostly to the design world as NOPATTERN. With a resume of clients that would make even the most established designers [...]
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Design Q&A Part 1: Diftype
In part 1 of this series of Q&As with talented young designers we spoke to Niklas Lundberg- better known to the world as 20 year old graphic design prodigy Diftype. A self-taught freelancer Based in Umeå (Sweden) Diftype- like the other artist in our series- has built a fierce reputation for his work through the [...]
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Yours, Sighned “Its OK”
Cutting 1,000,000 “ITS OK” in wooden blocks has become a lifetime’s preoccupation for artist maverick Sighn (real name unknown to the masses) and he has already filled galleries and weirded-out friends with his ambitious project. I spoke to him right before he embarked on a 24 hour “cut-a-thon” in the name of DIY resolve and [...]
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Interview: Chris Gray
Works by designer Chris Gray from Weshallsee.co.uk, “Seymour” & “WWW Project”.
Chris Gray is a graphic and digital designer hailing from Manchester in England, and amongst others he’s done work for Absolut Vodka, Umbro and Doc Martens; either under his own design motif ‘We Shall See’, or as a collaborative efforts with his design buddies such [...]
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Music: Dufus Interview
“Freedom” by Dufus, from the album “Ball of Design”.
Fudsu. I mean Dufus. A band with more wild abandon than a bull on heat goring a matador in a china shop, Dufus have combined improvised playmaking and carefully-crafted chaos over their decade-long career, which began amongst the antifolk hustle in New York’s music [...]
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Music: Diane Cluck Interview
Music: “1/2 a Million Miles From Home” from Oh Vanille / Ova Nil
Diane Cluck has been sampled by Prefuse 73, described by Devendra Banhart as his “favorite singer-songwriter in all of New York City”, and lauded by music fans, critics and contemporaries alike for her rootsy folk abractations and spellbinding performances.
I caught [...]
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DJ Vadim Interview
The following is an interview conducted with the highly prolific and proficient DJ known as Vadim.
Known globally for his turntable and production skills, Vadim has also made his name through work with Ninja Tune, One Self, the Scratch Perverts and DJ Krush, to name a few.
Labels and artists have struggled adapting to the changes [...]
