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Interview with Underware (Vol. 02)

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Revealed, our interview with type designers, Underware for Bracket Vol. 02: Hunger. This issue is still available for sale, find out more here.

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1. Tell us about yourself and what you do.

We design type.

2. Describe a typical day in the studio.

Sit on our ass in front of a screen and work our butt off.

3. When you were growing up, what did you want to be?

Comic artist.

4. What was the catalyst for starting Underware?

Due to a lack of education we had too much spare time during our studies and started to create our own projects, which became our daily practice.

5. What is the biggest sacrifice you have ever made?

If you always try to make the best out of every situation, nothing is a sacrifice.

6. What is the biggest/most common misconception about what you do?

We had to explain to civil servants already too often we don’t sell lingerie!

7. What is the lowest point of your career?

Too many embarrassing mistakes too mention. Still sorry for all of them.

8. What is the best advice you have ever been given?

Never trust anyone who tells: it should be done like this. There are always multiple solutions for every problem.

9. and the worst?

It should be done like that.

10. Looking back now, what advice would you give to someone like yourself?

- Alles Geben

- Never give up

11. Being a designer is tough. What keeps you going?

Scoring with soccer. I remember all my beautiful goals, even those from 25 years ago.

12. What is your biggest fear?

An obscure animal comes out of my drain and bites off my dick when I’m sitting on the toilet.

13. Who/what do you have a bone to pick with?

God, but he is hard to reach.

14. If you were a designer, what would you have done?

Euhm… God? Finally humanity would have a humane, self-contemplated and communicative God.

15. What would your last meal be?

All drugs I never took.

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Underware for Bracket Vol. 02: Hunger
Den Haag / Amsterdam / Helsinki
www.underware.nl

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Interview with Timothy Saccenti (Vol. 02)

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Revealed, our interview with Timothy Saccenti, director and photographer, for Bracket Vol. 02: Hunger. This issue is still available for sale, find out more here.

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1. Tell us about yourself and what you do.

I live in New York City. I put many things in a room, point a light at them and press a button.

2. Describe a typical day in the studio.

Buy something. Break it open [void warranty]. Take photos of it, put it back together the wrong way. Cover it with viscous liquid – repeat.

3. When you were growing up, what did you want to be?

Taller. Astronaut. Scratch DJ for Herbie Hancock. Drummer. Scientist. Photographer.

4. What was the catalyst for starting out on your own?

Love : Fear

5. What is the biggest sacrifice you have ever made?

Deep Sea Diver.

6. What is the biggest/most common misconception about what you do?

That there is an off button.

7. What is the lowest point of your career?

Failing to invent an empathy machine.

8. What is the best advice you have ever been given?

“Create your own system or you will be slave to someone elses”

9. and the worst?

“Just fix it in post (production)”

10. Looking back now, what advice would you give to someone like yourself?

If you feel it, then do it. Asking for permission is like requesting for denial.

11. Being a photographer is tough. What keeps you going?

Fear: Love

12. What is your biggest fear?

Death of magic. And evenly bright rooms.

13. Who/what do you have a bone to pick with?

I generally eat bones – marrow is a delicacy.

14. If you were not a photographer, what would you have done?

Psychic detective. I see what you are thinking.

15. What would your last meal be?

My words.

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Timothy Saccenti for Bracket Vol. 02: Hunger
New York (United States)
www.timothysaccenti.com

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Interview with Theme & Emeht (Vol. 02)

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Revealed, our interview with John Lee and Jiae Kim of Theme & Emeth for Bracket Vol. 02: Hunger. This issue is still available for sale, find out more here.

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1. Tell us about yourself and what you do.

Emeht is our creative agency / Theme is out creative endeavour.

2. Describe a typical day in the studio.

The only constant is our daily cup of coffee / Everyday is different!

3. When you were growing up, what did you want to be?

An artist, but my mom threw away my paintings at 16 / A quadra-lingual spy.

4. What was the catalyst for starting Theme?

We were getting bored / We needed a new adventure.

5. What is the biggest sacrifice you have ever made?

Selling my B.M.X bike. Sometimes you have to let things go / Having a kid. It was worth it.

6. What is the biggest/most common misconception about what you do?

We just never sleep / That we’re a big team.

7. What is the lowest point of your career?

When I had a corporate creative director job. I hated going to work! / Can’t think of one. When it gets bad I move on.

8. What is the best advice you have ever been given?

Don’t be complacent.

9. and the worst?

Be good at school.

10. Looking back now, what advice would you give to someone like yourself?

Remember to have some fun / Know yourself. Your strengths and weaknesses.

11. Being an editor and creative director is tough. What keeps you going?

Being inspired by the people we meet. / The community of amazing people.

12. What is your biggest fear?

Being afraid to fail.

13. Who/what do you have a bone to pick with?

Don’t hold grudges. You’ll live longer. / My ego.

14. If you were not an editor or creative director, what would you have done?

I have no idea. / Start a non-profit.

15. What would your last meal be?

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Theme & Emeth for Bracket Vol. 02: Hunger
New York (United States)
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Interview with Seth Godin (Vol. 02)

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Revealed, our interview with author and entrepreneur, Seth Godin for Bracket Vol. 02: Hunger. This issue still available for sale, find out more here.

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1. Tell us about yourself and what you do.

One thing I don’t do is write by hand. I don’t know how anymore. But I do write. I write a blog every day, I’ve written more than a dozen books and now and then I start companies.

2. Describe a typical day in the studio.

The entire point is that there is no typical day. Sometimes I give a speech. Sometimes I’ll lead a team on working on the Domino Project. Sometimes I’ll make them lunch. Now and then I’ll spend a day going to the city to have soba noodles.

3. When you were growing up, what did you want to be?

Is there any chance at all you’re going to believe my answer? When I was growing up, I wanted to do this. Exactly this.

4. What was the catalyst for starting out on your own?

Because no one would hire me to do what I do. I tried. I tried to get publishers to pay me a fraction of what they were paying me and just put me on the retainer. No go. Since I want to live this life and create this work, I really have no choice.

5. What is the biggest sacrifice you have ever made?

Most of us don’t make sacrifices, we make choices.

6. What is the biggest/most common misconception about what you do?

That it’s only open to a few. That you need some sort of gift. I think it merely requires persistence, passion, guts and luck.

7. What is the lowest point of your career?

From an external point of view, it was probably when I couldn’t make payroll, had no money, few prospects, clients angry, projects due and almost no support. It was no fun at the time, that’s for sure, but it definitely focuses your attention and reminds you that you’re alive.

8. What is the best advice you have ever been given?

In my high school yearbook, my English teacher wrote that I was the bane of her existence and that I would never amount to anything. This gave me a critic that was worth proving wrong, pushed me to amount to something.

9. and the worst?

See above. She was wrong.

10. Looking back now, what advice would you give to someone like yourself?

Go to google and type in “seth”. I have 4000 blog posts of advice to myself. And then to go to Amazon and type in my name. There are now 13 books of advice to myself.

11. Being an author is tough. What keeps you going?

It used to be the fear of giving up and what I’d do if I couldn’t do this. Now, it’s #12.

12. What is your biggest fear?

Not using the platform wisely. Letting people down. Not doing the work I’m capable of doing, not sharing enough, not pushing enough.

13. Who/what do you have a bone to pick with?

People who are mostly vegan are lucky, in that we have no bones.

14. If you were not an author or entrepreneur, what would you have done?

I’d be a canoeing instructor at a summer camp in Algonquin Park.

15. What would your last meal be?

I think we should assume it would be breakfast, and I have the very same thing for breakfast everyday, made in a Blendtec blender: Hemp powder, banana, walnuts, almond milk and dried plums. Can’t go wrong with that.

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Seth Godin for Bracket Vol. 02: Hunger
New York (United States)
www.sethgodin.com

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Interview with Sam Valenti IV (Vol. 02)

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Revealed, our interview with Sam Valenti IV, the founder of Ghostly International for Bracket Vol. 02: Hunger.

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1. Tell us about yourself and what you do.

I attempt to wrestle with the incomprehensibility of art.

2. Describe a typical day in the studio.

There is a belief that what we do is important.

3. When you were growing up, what did you want to be?

A movie director or “the guy who makes the posters”.

4. What was the catalyst for starting Ghostly International?

Vision, Youthful naiveté, and a touch of heartbreak.

5. What is the biggest sacrifice you have ever made?

I’ve likely suppressed it.

6. What is the biggest/most common misconception about what you do?

That it can’t be done?

7. What is the lowest point of your career?

2005 was a bad year, I remember.

8. What is the best advice you have ever been given?

“Stay classy…”

9. and the worst?

Too soon to tell.

10. Looking back now, what advice would you give to someone like yourself?

Chill out. Probably still wouldn’t have listened.

11. Running a music label is tough. What keeps you going?

It’s still my dream. One of them.

12. What is your biggest fear?

Having to handwrite an interview.

13. Who/what do you have a bone to pick with?

You. See #12.

14. If you were not running a music label, what would you have done?

I don’t know. Seems inevitable.

15. What would your last meal be?

Probably something fast, would be worried about calling everyone I know. Is that weird? I think who the meal is with is more crucial.

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Sam Valenti IV for Bracket Vol. 02: Hunger
Michigan (United States)
www.ghostly.com

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Interview with Paul Belford (Vol. 02)

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Revealed, our interview with London-based creative director Paul Belford for Bracket Vol. 02: Hunger.

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1. Tell us about yourself and what you do.

Creative director of design and advertising agency ‘This is Real Art’ in London, UK.

2. Describe a typical day in the studio.

No such thing.

3. When you were growing up, what did you want to be?

Didn’t know so I spent 7 years at University.

4. What was the catalyst for starting This is Real Art?

The desire to pick and choose who I work with and what I work on.

5. What is the biggest sacrifice you have ever made?

Time.

6. What is the biggest/most common misconception about what you do?

That work which looks different is just trying to win awards. Absolutely no true, it looks different to get noticed.

7. What is the lowest point of your career?

I had a rough time as a junior — if you love the job don’t be discouraged.

8. What is the best advice you have ever been given?

If you do great work, everything else will look after itself.

9. and the worst?

If you do great work, everything else will look after itself.

10. Looking back now, what advice would you give to someone like yourself?

If it feels like work, you’re in the wrong job.

11. Being a creative director is tough. What keeps you going?

It’s only tough if you are not surrounded by good people.

12. What is your biggest fear?

Running out of time.

13. Who/what do you have a bone to pick with?

No one. Seriously.

14. If you were not a creative director, what would you have done?

I have a PHD in Biochemistry, so probably something to do with that.

15. What would your last meal be?

Hopefully that is a decision I will never have to make.

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Paul Belford for Bracket Vol. 02: Hunger
London (United Kingdom)
www.thisisrealart.com

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Interview with Paperfinger (Vol. 02)

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Revealed, our interview with Byrn Chernoff, the calligrapher behind Paperfinger for Bracket Vol. 02: Hunger.

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1. Tell us about yourself and what you do.

I am a calligrapher. I write by hand and draw in lots of different styles, for lots of different reasons.

2. Describe a typical day in the studio.

Tea, teudeux, write, wash nibs, email, repeat.

3. When you were growing up, what did you want to be?

Teacher, npr broadcaster, fly girl, person writes stuff.

4. What was the catalyst for starting Paperfinger?

Burnont + morning paper / artists way book.

5. What is the biggest sacrifice you have ever made?

Gave myself a part of my own rib to fuse my spine. Holler scoliosis!

6. What is the biggest/most common misconception about what you do?

That it hurts.

7. What is the lowest point of your career?

Sorry, too scared/young to jinx it.

8. What is the best advice you have ever been given?

If craft means you know how it will end up and art means that you don’t. Then live your life as art.

9. and the worst?

Nothing good happens after midnight.

10. Looking back now, what advice would you give to someone like yourself?

All the scary steps are so so so worth it!

11. Being a calligrapher is tough. What keeps you going?

I am my own boss!! So cool!!

12. What is your biggest fear?

Mostly the stuff thats guaranteed to happen sometime (like people I love dying)

13. Who/what do you have a bone to pick with?

Inconsiderate people

14. If you were not a calligrapher, what would you have done?

Pasty Cline cover band?

15. What would your last meal be?

Crepes. Avocado. Ravioli. So many cheeses. Pesto. Eggplant rigatoni. Kim bap. Fresh spring rolls. Bread and butter. Pannacotta. Cashews. Nem nyuia in Laos. Sweet Potatoes.

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Bryn Chernoff for Bracket Vol. 02: Hunger
New York (United States)
www.paperfinger.com

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Interview with Matias Corea (Vol. 02)

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Revealed, our interview with the Co-founder and chief designer of Behance, Matias Corea for Bracket Vol. 02: Hunger.

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1. Tell us about yourself and what you do.

Barcelona, Saxophone, Motorcycles, Typography, Jazz Vinyls, Brooklyn

2. Describe a typical day in the studio.

Coffee

Click, Click, Click…

Lunch

Click, Click, Click…

Break

Click, Click, Click…

Done!

3. When you were growing up, what did you want to be?

My mom said Football Player.

4. What was the catalyst for starting Behance?

Wanting to make a difference.

5. What is the biggest sacrifice you have ever made?

Leaving someone I loved.

6. What is the biggest/most common misconception about what you do?

That Behance is a large company.

7. What is the lowest point of your career?

Making Tommy Hilfger’s brand look cooler than it is.

8. What is the best advice you have ever been given?

“It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it.”

9. and the worst?

“Don’t fall in love” (WTF MATE!)

10. Looking back now, what advice would you give to someone like yourself?

Do not work in Advertising.Period.

11. Being a designer is tough. What keeps you going?

Curiosity.

12. What is your biggest fear?

Being Paralized.

13. Who/what do you have a bone to pick with?

Bad UI.

14. If you were not a designer, what would you have done?

Sax Player? Chef?

15. What would your last meal be?

I prefer not to think of that.

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Matias Corea for Bracket Vol. 02: Hunger
New York (United States)
www.behance.com

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Bracket Vol. 03 awarded at D&AD 2012

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The results are out, and we are proud to announce that the 3rd issue of our eight-part series is a winner at the British D&AD Awards 2012! Receiving an ‘in book’ nod from the Magazine and Newspaper Design category, Bracket Vol. 03 will be featured in the D&AD 2012 annual alongside nominees and yellow pencil winners.

We extend our greatest thanks to all our contributors and collaborators for their generous support — without which this issue would not have been possible! Thank you!

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Interview with Kuntzel+Deygas (Vol. 02)

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Revealed, our interview with visual artists duo Kuntzel+Deygas, for Bracket Vol. 02: Hunger.

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1. Tell us about yourself and what you do.

We use design to tell stories.

2. Describe a typical day in the studio.

3. When you were growing up, what did you want to be?

4. What was the catalyst for starting out on your own?

5. What is the biggest sacrifice you have ever made?

To skip dinner.

6. What is the biggest/most common misconception about what you do?

We are not dog breeders.

7. What is the lowest point of your career?

Right after our successful sequence for ‘catch me if you can’, people thought that we might become unavailable arrogant stars…

8. What is the best advice you have ever been given?

Work with pleasure.

9. and the worst?

Do only one thing, one style.

10. Looking back now, what advice would you give to someone like yourself?

Read William Morris earlier in your life.

11. Being an artist is tough. What keeps you going?

There are tougher lives than being an artist.

12. What is your biggest fear?

Fear: What is this primitive concept?

13. Who/what do you have a bone to pick with?

Waste.

14. If you were not an illustrator, what would you have done?

Everyone should have an artist feel in his work and life, being an artist is not about your work area.

15. What would your last meal be?

A picnic in the forest with our dogs, and birds, and giving crumbs to ants.

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Kuntzel+Deygas for Bracket Vol. 02: Hunger
Paris (France)
www.kuntzeldeygas.com

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