http://www.printmag.com/ In-depth portraits (Inspiration) en-us Copyright 1997-2002 F+W Media Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:47:10 -0400 http://www.printmag.com/Article/Kenzo-Minami At the end of this yet-to-be-named decade, designer Kenzo Minami wants to look forward. The dominant theme of the 2000s has been repetition, remaking, looking back. But there hasn't been anything totally new Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:41:00 -0400 http://www.printmag.com/Article/Kenzo-Minami http://www.printmag.com/Article/NVA2009_Josh_Cochran Josh Cochran, one of Print's 2009 New Visual Artists, combines realistic and cartoon-like elements with a quirky humor. “It’s good to have a recognizable look," he says. "It’s even better if I can transcend it.” Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:57:00 -0400 http://www.printmag.com/Article/NVA2009_Josh_Cochran http://www.printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Lauren_Dukoff “They say you start out shooting what’s directly around you,” says photographer Lauren Dukoff. In her case, it just happened to be artist and folk singer Devendra Banhart, with whom she’s been best friends ever since Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:17:00 -0400 http://www.printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Lauren_Dukoff http://www.printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Josef_Reyes Josef Reyes’s favorite project won’t be in his portfolio. It won’t be in a magazine, and it won’t be on a bookshelf. Only a few dozen people will ever see it. “It’s certainly not the most glamorous project ever,” he says Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:17:00 -0400 http://www.printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Josef_Reyes http://www.printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Apirat_Infahsaeng Last year, Apirat Infahsaeng designed a series of T-shirts that remarked on the metaphysical conundrum of “feeling lonely in the universe.” The shirts comment on that solitude and the related proposition that Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:17:00 -0400 http://www.printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Apirat_Infahsaeng http://www.printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Labour “The American spelling wasn’t pretentious enough,” says Ryan Dunn—one half of Labour—in a studio near Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal. Dunn shoots a glance at the other half of the team, Wyeth Hansen, and they both Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:17:00 -0400 http://www.printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Labour http://www.printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Eleanor_Davis Eleanor Davis insists that she’s no prodigy. “I think because I was never particularly a good artist, I was always aware that it wasn’t something I was good at naturally. I had to work at it really hard.” She had a head start, though. Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:17:00 -0400 http://www.printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Eleanor_Davis http://www.printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Timothy_Goodman “It was the school of hard knocks,” says Goodman, who grew up in a single-mom household of modest means. He was encouraged to enroll in community college art classes, and in 2004, he transferred Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:17:00 -0400 http://www.printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Timothy_Goodman http://www.printmag.com/Article/NVA2009_Franklin_Vandiver Franklin Vandiver grew up in a design-conscious household in Huntsville, Alabama. “In school, I was the kid who could draw,” he says, “so I always ended up doing the album covers for friends in bands.” Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:17:00 -0400 http://www.printmag.com/Article/NVA2009_Franklin_Vandiver http://www.printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Jennifer_Daniel “I think what I’m good at is being funny,” says Jennifer Daniel. When asked whether she has any big plans in the works—say, a book or a gallery show, she thinks about it and says no, that she wants to stick with Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:17:00 -0400 http://www.printmag.com/Article/NVA_2009_Jennifer_Daniel