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Photos + Design for DriftFebruary 15, 2010
A new feature up on Drift, Andrew Smith interviews Manuel Caro. I designed and photo edited the feature and contributed photography (the shaping bay photos):
Lines Converge: Manuel C. Caro’s Prismatic Path
Interview: Andrew Smith
M.Caro Portrait: Jay Watson
Shaping Bay photos and Art Direction: Ed Fladung
Hand drawn type: Beth Fladung
Drift has a new feature up, Andrew Smith interviews Manuel Caro of Mandala Custom Shapes and it’s a barn burner. Amazing read. Mani Caro simply and beautifully illustrates how the dharmic knowledge of handmade surfboards is silently transferred from older generations to new generations of shapers, ensuring that surfing retains its soul and karmic traditions. If you have any interest in surf culture beyond potato chips and competition results, click on over and read Mani’s piece.
Art Direction for DriftJanuary 18, 2010
There’s a huge new feature up on Drift, Chris Preston interviews Ryan Lovelace. Morgan Maassen hook’d all the photos and I laced the Art Direction and photo editing.
Concept Crafts
Ryan Lovelace of Point Concept Surfboards adds a chapter to the Santa Barbara shaping tradition.
Words: Chris Preston
Photos: Morgan Maassen
Art Direction: Ed Fladung
Ryan Lovelace makes beautiful boards, he’s been specializing lately in hull making. His hulls have been making a lot of waves, lately. Chris Preston did an amazing job on the interview, it’s in-depth, entertaining and really gets in to what Ryan is doing, and how different that is. Morgan Maassen’s photos speak for themselves (kid has skillzzzz). And well, me? I just tried to make everyone look their best, like a nice jacket and tie. The pull-quote color blobs are a derivative of Ryan’s shaper mark, that appears on all his boards.
Updated Print Pricing!December 14, 2009
I’ve finally ironed out my print pricing, shipping, Mexico/US printing workflow and whatnot. I am finally/officially open for print purchasing business. So think about it and pick up a print.
Smashing MagazineDecember 13, 2009
Smashing Magazine have an interesting new series of articles called “Global Web Design”, where Smashing takes a look at web design across boundaries:
Throughout this series we’ll be covering various continents, featuring web developers and web designs from different countries of the world and taking a close look of what’s happening in the web design scene worldwide.
And whatdayaknow, they included my site as an example from Mexico. Pretty Cool! Go peep the article.
Incidentally, Mexico has a thriving design culture. Since I’m out in the boonies (whereby “boonies” I mean anywhere in Mexico that isn’t DF, Guadalajara or Monterrey), I feel a bit disconnected from it, but I see beautiful, vibrant design all over the place. Mexico have a really warm, organic take on modernism and post-modernism that is wholly derived from popular culture and folkloric traditions. Modernism is not dead in Mexico. It is very much alive.
¡Arriba Mexico!
Liquid Salt InterviewDecember 1, 2009
I was recently interviewed on Liquid Salt Mag, a newish online mag created by Glenn Sakamoto. Liquid Salt profiles surfers, shapers and artists from all sides of surf culture. Great site!
New Site!December 1, 2009
Welcome to my new portfolio site! It’s been a long time coming. years even! I’m still putting the photography galleries together and uploading as they are ready, so keep checking back for new batches of photo yum-yums. Have a look around the site, please do let me know if there are any inconsistencies in the interface or anything wonky due to browser issues and such. any feedback is much appreciated, hit me up on the burner.