A couple months ago, members of The SHHO met with the KDU president and founder, at the agency headquarters, taking courtside seats at a large worktable, to what can be described by many words; a conversation, the most sensible choice. Whatever the case, it became obvious to all, that David Gensler is larger than life. He is unapologetically transparent, with shame seeming to have walked out on him many years ago. He is brash, even in first impressions, just as those who do not give a fuck usually are. And he is as opinionated as a man whose home is a soapbox. It was admirable.

“We were just having some big meetings today with some big, new partners and nobody wants to consult anymore.”

Being the court jester is something that entails as much concentration from one individual as king does if not more. Some say we’ve all been branded fools but I tend to disagree, our hunger is from a fall, language is primitive – chaos is silence. See the wooden bowls for food on the right, this […]

In my humble opinion, this is what it means to be Global or International. For someone to merely state this w/o the status would be preposterous. This almost makes time and space irrelevant. 12,065 visits came from 122 countries/territories. We’ve touched all fifty states. Algeria, Angola, Congo, Egypt and Senegal in Africa. This is our […]

Annie Leibovitz via: art+commerce Her portraits of leading actors, directors, writers and political figures — including every President of the United States of the last two decades — are lasting documents of contemporary culture. She has created campaigns for HBO’s The Sopranos, American Express, Disney, Dove, Tudor, and Gap.

via: link JM – In your pictures you’re always holding this huge camera. KAREEM BLACK – That’s probably my Mamiya RZ. I’m about to sell it. There are a lot of new digital cameras, which are just much better. But I’ll shoot with anything really. I really like the Canon 5D. There are two generations […]

The KDU recently took over creative direction for URB Magazine. This is the results of the beautiful aesthetics. Aerosyn-Lex Mestrovic of Nontype handles the girth of editorial, and does a fine job w/ the typography. Many other member works are scattered throughout ie. Black-Marmalade & MWM Graphics. Get one.

link Fashionation, an alternative fashion universe where fashionistas, photographers and creatives can get their weekly fix of the best fashion editorial from around world. Never before has the world’s best fashion editorials/photography converged in one great central hub. Each day we scan the globe’s top fashion magazines – from every international edition of influential glossy […]

via: design observer One of my first bosses taught me an important lesson. Good designers are a dime a dozen, he said. Coming up with a great design solution is the easy part. The hard part, he said, is getting the client to accept the solution.  “But if the work is good, don’t the clients […]

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