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March 30, 2007

NIKE NO LIKEE

Or: Not Even Getting Asked to the Prom

Well, it's time for me to shut down the rumor mill. As many, many of you now know, at the start of this year I received a call from a friend of a friend who is a creative director at Nike. He was calling about an 'opportunity' for me. I expected it to be a possible freelance job (no doubt involving letterpress printing *sigh*) - which would've been very cool... That was not the opportunity.

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March 14, 2007

CREATING CULTURE?

Or creating brands?

As my design career continues to grow and expand, and as our studio makes more forays into the murky regions of "branding", I am becoming increasingly aware of my desire not to create a "brand" but to create (to contribute to) culture.

Is this desire admirable? Nonsensical? Megalomaniacal?

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