DELAWARE

PEOPLEText: Naoko Fukushi

Delaware, who designed this issue’s cover, is a four person group who design rock and rock the design. Their working field is wide, incorporating music, CD-Rs, commercials, magazines, T-shirts, the web, mobile phones and live performances. They can’t be categorized in any existing frame. We interviewed them, asking about the two albums which they have just released after a three year hiatus.

First of all, could you introduce yourself and explain how Delaware is set up?

Personally, meeting with a computer was a big incident for me. Before I started using the computer I never thought that I could make music or draw pictures, but with the computer I can do it! Now I’m a creator! This excitement led me to form Delaware, which is a band and a graphic team. For more information please have a look at our profile!

Could you tell me about your current activities?

Making music, drawing, thinking of the writing, and mixing them up. This is our constant style. More specifically, we’ve just released two albums “dELAwArE_S+rikeS_bAcK” and “AmeN”. We are going to have a live and speech show at AGIdeas International in Melbourne in April and have another live show at IdN/My Favourite Conference in Singapore in May. Moreover, we’ll publish a book from ACTAR, a publishing company in Barcelona.

You define yourself as “Artoonist”. What does it mean?

We have a song titled “ARTOON”. This song’s lyric explains it the best so I’ll introduce the lyric here.

artoon toon artoon artoon toon artoon
artoon toon artoon artoon toon artoon
let’s go artootoo artootoo artoon
let’s go artootoo artootoo artoon
artoon toon artoon artoon toon artoon
let’s go artootoo artootoo artoon
let’s go artootoo artootoo artoon

minimal artoon
optical artoon
conceptual artoon
p o p !

artoon toon artoon artoon toon artoon
let’s go artootoo artootoo artoon
let’s go artootoo artootoo artoon

computer artoon
a h h h h h h
graphic artoon
a h h h h h h

artoon toon artoon artoon toon artoon
artoon toon artoon artoon toon artoon
let’s go artootoo artootoo artoon
let’s go artootoo artootoo artoon
artoon toon artoon artoon toon artoon

You can listen to short version Artoon from here.

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