Here is a little interview with my ex-partner, Damon Dash I arranged with Dazed and Confused.
Thanks Terrence for doing such a great job, Phil Knott for shooting the original images and Mr. Bevans for connecting the dots.
Dame Dash Talks Exclusively
The hip hop mogul returns in 2010 with a Warholian flair
Interview on DAZEDDIGITAL.COM
One of the most creative and inspiring cities on our tour was Amsterdam. The city has an obvious rich history, but I was most intrigued by the relationship between the history and modernity. There is a rich retail culture that consist of inspiring new stores selling the latest fashion labels, mixed with outdoor markets selling anything from Pot Lollipops to knit sweaters and small antiques.
We visited the market at Waterlooplein several times and found some interesting fashion for the SVSV archives.
We found several inspirational vintage fashion and various military and workwear items at waterlooplein market. We also had a chance to visit the Droog flagship store and the incredible Frozen Fountain design boutique. One of our favorite new design boutiques is Gem Baby – filled with exotic little creations.
http://www.frozenfountain.nl/
http://www.droog.com/
http://www.gemkingdom.nl
Our final day of exploration in Amsterdam started sunny but brisk and ended up in a crazy blizzard that shut down most of the city.
The strange part was the Dutch people refused to stop riding their bikes in the cold and even during the blizzard. The frozen canals gave the city a strange surreal glow at dusk.
On a warmer note, our favorite store of the day was 290 Square Meters.
It was fun to explore the canals and boats. I grew up on the Chesapeake Bay in Baltimore, Maryland and have always been drawn to nautical graphics and typography.
Later this week I will post some more nautical type images from a recent trip to the Oregon coast.
David Gensler
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Special thanks to ISH magazine in Singapore for featuring the Keystone Design Union and SVSV.
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Long before the KDU, there was this thing called Native DBG. These images were creative directed and designed by David Gensler, photographed by Albert Watson.
We notice these images in a lot of portfolios floating around the web… funny. On another note, it was nice to see some of the images from this campaign be used in the recent ROC anniversary campaign. Out of all the images from all the years… it was an honor to have these selected. Thanks for the respect Tim – we see you.
And for all those that get the story twisted… go visit the dude that showed up to work each day and actually built the ROC.
blakroc
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Early Exploration into Pinhole Portraits for SVSV. Before Business, Strategy and Design my passion was photography. Each image took no less than 5 minutes to produce and was shot with Kodak T-Max 400 on a Zero Image 6 x 12 camera.
www.zeroimage.com
www.svsv.net
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While shooting 88 Keys at the KDU studios for Urb Magazine, David Gensler played the roll of stand in for some light painting experiments.
Eric Vogel was the shooter.
www.ericvogelphoto.com
Single Exposure, 7 minutes, Multnomah falls outside Portland Oregon. Shot on my Zero Image 6 x 12 pinhole with Agfa 25 asa film.
-David Gensler
The above 4 images of Shawn Ross were shot at the KDU in Brooklyn with David Gensler’s art direction and treatments/typography by Aerosyn-Lex Mestrovic.
