One thing I noticed about your work is its focused personality. I don’t want to mischaracterize it, but to me, the work is gritty, earthy, urban, tough, and consistent with a hip-hop sort of look.
It makes me emotional to even read some of these comments I thank God I found this place, you all have been absolutely inspiring. Seriously this is the community I have been seeking for most of my adult life.
So lets talk real talk… Why you notice this niche in my work is because I grew up in the project buildings of New York City. I grew up around Hip hop culture, the music the 80’s were the pinnacle of it and I was there learning to walk as dancers spun on cardboards and played their boomboxes loudly.
The reason my passion is design, is because I grew up loving graffiti culture, in its raw artistic forms. The train stations and busways were mixed between the dripping paint of the lost child and Helvetica’s beautiful clean cut forms dancing together on signs and walls. That is why that is my favorite font as well. It showed discipline amongst chaos. 2 opposing forces in typographic war for viewer space.
I am a child of the streets whom turned it all around, from chaos and gangs, guns and drugs all around me, to moving to Miami Florida and trying my hand at my hobby. I never got a shot to go to a real school or work at a real agency, but it didn’t stop me from trying to learn and find clients.
I will follow your mentorship and double down on what is obviously (To you) my niche. God bless you for that insight!