http://www.printmag.com/ In-depth portraits (Inspiration) en-us Copyright 1997-2002 F+W Media Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:04:40 -0500 http://printmag.com/Article/Kenzo-Minami At the end of this yet-to-be-named decade, designer Kenzo Minami wants to look forward. The dominant theme of the 2000s has been repetition, remaking, looking back. But there hasn't been anything totally new Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:41:00 -0500 http://printmag.com/Article/Kenzo-Minami http://printmag.com/Article/NVA2009_Josh_Cochran Josh Cochran, one of Print's 2009 New Visual Artists, combines realistic and cartoon-like elements with a quirky humor. “It’s good to have a recognizable look," he says. "It’s even better if I can transcend it.” Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:57:00 -0500 http://printmag.com/Article/NVA2009_Josh_Cochran http://printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Hannah_Cho The first thing you notice about Hannah Cho is her unshakeable joy. She calls herself “blessed,” “grateful,” “thankful”; she describes others as “wonderful” and “the best.” Endearing, exuberant, and prone to hyperbole Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:17:00 -0500 http://printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Hannah_Cho http://printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Josef_Reyes Josef Reyes’s favorite project won’t be in his portfolio. It won’t be in a magazine, and it won’t be on a bookshelf. Only a few dozen people will ever see it. “It’s certainly not the most glamorous project ever,” he says Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:17:00 -0500 http://printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Josef_Reyes http://printmag.com/Article/NVA2009_Franklin_Vandiver Franklin Vandiver grew up in a design-conscious household in Huntsville, Alabama. “In school, I was the kid who could draw,” he says, “so I always ended up doing the album covers for friends in bands.” Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:17:00 -0500 http://printmag.com/Article/NVA2009_Franklin_Vandiver http://printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Eleanor_Davis Eleanor Davis insists that she’s no prodigy. “I think because I was never particularly a good artist, I was always aware that it wasn’t something I was good at naturally. I had to work at it really hard.” She had a head start, though. Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:17:00 -0500 http://printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Eleanor_Davis http://printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Labour “The American spelling wasn’t pretentious enough,” says Ryan Dunn—one half of Labour—in a studio near Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal. Dunn shoots a glance at the other half of the team, Wyeth Hansen, and they both Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:17:00 -0500 http://printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Labour http://printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Renda_Morton If you look at the web as an extension of print, you’re going to be disappointed, according to web designer Renda Morton. “You have to accept the web’s constant evolution as a positive thing; then you can really Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:17:00 -0500 http://printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Renda_Morton http://printmag.com/Article/NVA2009_Zigmunds_Lapsa Zigmunds Lapsa isn’t easily fazed. He grew up in Riga, the capital of Latvia, which he describes as a “country with 2.3 million people and 5.4 graphic designers at that time.” After two years in a local design program Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:17:00 -0500 http://printmag.com/Article/NVA2009_Zigmunds_Lapsa http://printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Jason_Tam Bold, imaginative forms and inventive typography course through Jason Tam's work, along with carefully framed, striking photos, and flourishes of his latest obsession: metallic gold. It seems logical, then, that Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:17:00 -0500 http://printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Jason_Tam