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PEOPLEText: Mariko Takei

Anarchic T-shirts have been the must-have item not only in the rave scene but also in the club scence. Do you recently do T-shirts design at all?

I haven’t done any T-shirts for a little while. The last T-shirts I did were the design I did for Wired. It is called “SHIFT”. It had all Mac icons on it with using sort of desktop metaphor, ideas about technology and society. That was last thing I did.

But I’ve got some ideas now for some new shirts and content that we are gonna do, based on post-human ideas. So we actually talked to some people here in Tokyo. Maybe doing something.

When we are back in america we gonna work on that. It’s weird. I really think that t-shirts are really good medium to get messages across about whatever is happening. so I don’t like to do them just because I can do them. I easily wipe for ideas, set ideas coming to my head and then i will do it. I will be thinking for a while and i’m starting to get enough ideas now where I kind of visualize it into..like little t-shirts lines or some. Maybe next year I might do it.

You do Dj constantly and actually djed in Tokyo. Like T-shirts design, music and computer graphics, you work with a lot of medium.

Yes. I worked on a lot of different medium. I’ve done t-shirts, print, skate board design, clothing. I even worked on movies, multimedia, video…

To me ideas trancsend media. If you got a good idea, you can express it through a lot different thing. For me all these different media are just different vehicles for ideas. That’s what they are.

If you can hook up with specialist in those areas and learn from them, work with them, and collaborate with them, then you can find a way to express your ideas through those medium. Most people stay specialized in one area.

So there’s always out there and so you can learn a lot from. I’ve been lucky I got a chance to work with a lot people who are specialized in that field. I’ve been able to tight in my ideas and express them in different medias.
To me ideas are the most important.

What’s your plan for next projects?

The End of Man is a kind of the main theme for next projects. We gonna do some music, interactive animations, maybe DVD, and gallery installations as well. We just gonna do work inspired by that idea.

Text: Mariko Takei

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