More than Skin Deep: Legacy of Horiyoshi III

The art of Irezumi (入墨), Japanese term for “tattooing”, also literally meaning injection of ink, can be traced back to Japan’s Jōmon period (approximately 10,000 B.C.). The craft of body branding with ink by hand had since then segued through countless social stratas and donned numerous cultural…

The Market Makers - A Conversation with Fraser Cooke and Hiroshi Fujiwara

“Influencers” worked within the perimeters of a market, setting trends based on predetermined standards. “Market makers”, on the other hand, established new markets with ease. Breaching against tested trend formulas and creating genres unlike others in the marketplace. One example is Fujiwara’s Fragment…

An Interview with the Designers of the Nike Air Maxim 1

Certainly the term above is a familiar one, then there is a more recent terminology coined by Nike, “re-evolution”, a hybrid process where new modifications are conjoined with pre-existing elements instead of replacing them. An ideal example of this is the new Air Maxim 1…