Is it improtant for you to work in NYC?

I think for now it is. I like what’s going on here, I have a small group of friends and we’re all into the same kind of things and motivate each other.
I don’t think I could be as motivated to do my own work in any other place.

What is your opinion about the current scene of the graphic design in NYC?

It’s kind of weird over here with the whole graphic designer scene. New York is such a big city and there are so many different scenes and groups that it’s real easy to be in your own little world with your own little group, and be completely oblivious to each other. Most of the scenes here I don’t really fit in to at all, it’s like an upper-class, lower-class sort of thing, they have their high-paying jobs and high-tech cyber parties and I have my leaky-roof and skateboard. It works out for the both of us.

Well, what do you think the most interesting happening in NYC now?

Probably the most interesting to me is that more and more people are starting to do there own thing, whether it be music, CD-Roms, magazines, web sites or whatever. I think people are realizing now more than ever that you don’t need the backing from a big company or something like that to press your own cd and build your own web site. I hope it continues.

You have been to Japan once or twice before. What do you think about Japan? Any favourite things in Japan?

I was in Japan last summer with my friends James “bigson” Gibson and Pete Fowler from London. I was there for a month, I stayed in Osaka for little while then Tokyo. I like it out there, I think it’s like New York in the super high-paced way, always getting things done. But culturally, it was so different for me, it took a while to adjust, but I got used to it. Japan is definitly one of my favorite places, I want to go back someday.

Now, you are working on an original CD-Rom. What’ll it be like?

I’m in the middle of that project now. It’s going to be a collection of different things, I’m focusing on the ramdomness of New York and things I find interesting about it. It won’t so much be directly about New York city, but I’m using all the elements I find inspiring here.