DESIGN Johnny Dowell aka King Nerd
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first met Johnny also known as ‘King Nerd’ virtually (after all this is 2020), back in April after chatting online to Phil Toledano (@misterenthusiast). Phil had shown me the Rolex collaboration he was working on with Johnny, an image of which you can see within this article.
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After a bit of research I then stumbled upon the Leica Johnny engraved for photographer Gavin Bond, and I just knew I wanted to feature this amazing work in an issue of b500. Well here it is and sorry it’s taken so long, such is the fact that both myself and Johnny have been so busy over the last few months that we have only recently caught up again on the phone to discuss ‘getting it done’.
Johnny has a lot of different projects on the boil right now, a couple of which I have been given a preview of, and although I’m sworn to secrecy I can say they look bloody amazing! Johnny began his journey by studying Art with the plan of one day studying Fashion at Central Saint Martins.
