Artist Series: Rasmus Svensson
Our Art Department asked some of their favorite designers to show us their take on Urban Outfitters by creating a limited edition shirt for us. Meet the men and women behind the collaboration!Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I'm Rasmus Svensson from southern Sweden. Living in Berlin. Mid-twenties.
Describe to us the inspiration behind the design you used for your shirt.
“Photoshopping in Dubai.”
Are you working on anything else at the moment?
Yes! I am involved in a number of publication projects with artist friends: Administrating the data-haven PWRSHARE.INFO, working on the next issue of the phuturist zeitung PWR PAPER, working on a project involving stone-carving, working on a romantic multimedia-collection called DEEPSTREAM, etc…
What do you find most challenging about the work you do?
Getting people to give you money to do it. And in general, finding a position in the merciless stream of global post-millennial post-internet culture.
How did you get started in design?
I got into design through music —making record covers, show posters, stuff like that.
What was the first thing you created?
Skipping over my pre-pubescent years I'd say it was the cover for a band I had when I was 15 called Chaos Through Programming. It was a printout of the code of a simple program generating random results.
Where did you go to school?
I went to school in Sweden and Denmark.
What is a typical weekend like for you?
As I do not really have a job every day is more or less the same. Work/life balance. Yin/yang.
Describe your style for us in five words.
Cutting-edge, serious, team-player, reliable, on-time.
Who are your five favorite artists?
Caspar David Friedrich, John Bauer, April Greimann, Andy Kaufman, and Hakim Bey.
