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WHAT IS RATED

Rated is a South London based magazine/ movement dedicated to promoting and supporting young creatives who do not have a big enough platform to promote their work on. We’re an organisation who believes in giving everybody an opportunity to reach their full potential regardless of external factors.

This is the first ever issue of rated. Here at Rated we believe “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” too many times have we seen young talent go to waste because of the lack of contacts. We’re here to inspire and innovate young creatives, providing them with all the relevant support. contacts and promotion needed.

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Modern Day Renaissance Man

Omar

Josh

Hiba

Joshua Bedion *

Maida

Dominique

Daniele

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Mez

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Tottenham born 19 year old young creative ‘Mez’, real name Joel Chukwumeziem Boateng, of Nigerian and Ghanian decent describes himself as a ‘creator’, he does music, art, architecture, fashion and photography.

What drives you to create? What drives me to be create is being sucessful. Not only for me but for my family, my sister, brother, my mum, my friends. What do you enjoy the most about photography? it will Probably have to be the fact that I can capture all these different moments in my life and kind of look back at it, almost like a mood board. How did you get into what you do? When I first started people were like ‘you shouldn’t

do everything, you should just focus on one thing, but I feel like that’s apart of my story, that has become apart of my story, me being some renaissance man, this person who does all these different things. It’s aparent that you’re inspired by so many things for your style, where did these influences come from? It really just comes from where I’m from, Tottenham, London, African parents [Nigerian & Ghanian]. Stuff like that, being really in touch with my family, where I’m from and being rooted like that. That definatly influenced my style, I try to incorporate everything that inspires me into one piece. I’ve realised for you to get really far, in some ways you have to be a dickhead. Not even being a dickhead, just putting

your foot down. People recieve that as being a dickhead or whatever, but you just have to put your foot down sometimes and be like “If it’s not like this, then we’re not gonna do it”, or if it doesn’t obide by these things that I believe in, then I’m not doing it. Many times if it’s meant to happen, it will happen, and other times it won’t, and maybe thats something that you shouldn’t have done anyway. What is your clothing brand about? I mean it’s still a working progress but ultimately I’m just trying to create greatness.

Words: Buket Erbas Photography: Buket Erbas

Omar

Omar Leslie rap newcomer hit the rap scene earlier this year, following the release of his mixtape titled Tales of SE.

21 year old South London rap newcomer Omar introduced himself at the begining of 2016, ending 2015 with a perfomance to remember at a party in Woolwich, quickly becoming viral online. Trap-leaning rapper with an aesthetically matched visual is what puts Omar up on the top artists to look out for. What is it about music you enjoy? EVERYTHING. There’s no limits, or anybody telling you what you can and cannot do. I can literally wake up at 5 in the afternoon and head up to the studio in my pj’s, if I feel like it. It’s so chilled. Music for me is a way of expressing myself. I mean I think it’s like that for everybody to be honest. People may chat shit about how my lyrics may or may not promote certain things, and I think thats crap. My songs speak a truth, they speak my truth. You know what I mean? I can’t rap about fucking unicorns, because I ain’t never experienced a unicorn, so that would all be lies. I don’t know what every other

persons been through, that’s their own. I can only talk about what I know and seen. What did you find hardest about starting out? Getting an audience. There’s so many MC’s out there swearing they the greatest, you know, why should they listen to me? It’s literally like Where’s Wally, so many look a likes, it’s hard for people to actually spot you and then listen to you. So what I would do, I HÄVE Ä VÖICE THÄT CÜTS THRÖÜGH BÜLLSH*T. WÖRDS THÄT SPEÄK TRÜTH.

out on Woolwich Common, some crazy old Jamican guy would always have beats blasting through his speakers, and I’d just spit over it. I did get into some trouble from police but fuck it, init. Where did inspiration to create your music come from? I think it really just comes from where I’m from, both my parents are from the Caribbean. My friends, and

just the music I’ve been listening to from young. Stuff like that definatly influenced my style. Coming from a Jamaican household, Jamaicans are already very in tune with music, it’s a big thing for us, so from young I’ve been listening to people like Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley some old school Jazz and Hip Hop, Dr Dre The chronic was one of the first albums I ever purchased with my own money. I love all these different genres, combining everything together in my own way was the best way. Who do you want to work with most? I don’t base who I want to collab with on how well they’re know or if they’ve got the p’s [money]. If the music don’t feel right, then I’m out. It is what it is. There needs to be chemistry, so someone simillar to me. I mean I’m really into Nehmy at the moment, he’s so dope, but so underrated. I’d love to work with him on a little something something. If we’re talking more famous wise, I’d kinda like to work with Party Next Door or TYuS - the Canaidan

music scene is up right now. Do you have any advice for anyone trying to make it into the music industry? I mean I’m still trying to make it in myself so I’m probably not the best person to ask. But think with anybody trying to make it into any industry, no matter how cliche it sounds, it’s all about believing in yourself and your craft. Nobody is gonna take you seriously if you don’t even believe you can do it. Why am I going to give you a job if you don’t even try persuade me you know what you’re doing. Bruv, I don’t even know what I’m doing most of the time, but what makes me different to everybody else in the same situation is that, i know where I want to be, and what I need to do in order to get there. Everything else inbetween just comes day by day. How would you describe your style of music? My style of music is whatever I want it to be, I’m a scatter brain, so my music is scattered all over the place. Like I mentioned about my background, it’s a mix of different genres and different things that

inlfuence my life. I like to experiment with any genre I want. Besides rapping and music what else do you do? I love photography. Me and my boys whenever we’re out one of us always has a camera and we just shoot whatever we like. They’re all memories but photography is lit. Love playing with the colours and lighting. I also skate a lot, not so much recently because of pushing this EP

What’s your work ethic? Turning up and not giving a fuck, sometimes you need that, to not give a fuck. I don’t give a fuck about anything that I do, I mean I do but I don’t, if you know what I mean. I care about I’M NÖT TRYNÄ BE THE GREÄTEST, I’M JÜST my craft but I don’t care about making mistakes or TRYNÄ BE ME. what other people who are irrelevant to me think. Unless out. Travelling is something you’re a fan or my mum, I I do a lot, like Novemeber don’t give a fuck. I’m heading out to Japan for 2 weeks and I’ll probably end up shooting some film work and maybe put out a music video, that would be sick. Literally been wanting to go Japan since young man, growing up on that Dragon Ball z, other anime Words: Buket Erbas and being a big Bape fan. Photography: Buket Erbas I’d love to work with Nigo Top: Billionaire Boys Club some day, on clothing or something, but for that to Omar Leslie for happen I really need to be RATED magazine 2016 up in my game.

JOSH

Visual Artist

Creative visual artist Josh, works within photography and fashion, particularly fashion promotion, including print and film.

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Pulling from a year’s worth of travel, insight from some of the world’s most influential curators and collectors, and early intel on upcoming exhibitions, we’ve skimmed the top of emerging art to bring you the 16 artists to look out for in 2016. Dora Budor, The granddaughter of a television and theater actor and one of the first-ever female television directors, Budor was a child of the silver screen who spent her days holed up in cinemas. Upon moving to the United States, she became fascinated with the anthropology of American cinema as a means to understand her new culture. Today, that means incorporating the film detritus she scores from movie auctions—like rubber frogs from Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia and chest prosthetics worn by cyborg Bruce Willis in Surrogates—as raw material for her sculpture. For an art-world audience, these objects are even more beloved offscreen. In 2014, the same year Budor took home the Rema Hort Mann Foundation New York Emerging Artist Grant, the artist exhibited her “Action Paintings” at 247365, videos (and accompanying prop paintings produced through the films), which pulled their stunts and scenography from films like Mission: Impossible and The Hunger Games. It’s also the year she—with artists Alex Mackin Dolan and Olivia Erlanger—opened Grand Century, their artist studio-turned-project space

on New York’s Lower East Side. In 2015, she’s seen even greater momentum. Following a solo show with New Galerie in Paris, Budor mounted her first solo institutional exhibition at the Swiss Institute, where original props and miniatures from ’90s blockbuster films (a rooftop from Batman Returns; three garage doors from The Fifth Element), after being dusted with artificial dirt and grime, are wreathed in twisted steel sculptures akin to both arteries and heaters, bringing new life to old relics. Villa Design Group, Last March, the artist collective comprised of artists Than Hussein Clark, James Connick, and William Joys (they formed the group as students at Goldsmith’s College in 2011), presented their first works at Mathew Gallery’s Berlin space. Their debut show, “Blue Moon,” addressed the group’s transition from performance into other mediums through a boardroom-like installation of neon lights, sculpture, and photography. A subsequent show at Mathew’s New York space—in which the trio presented a murderous allegory of themselves—won them a near-cult following overnight. Things have only improved. Their spring 2016 schedule includes a solo show at MIT List Visual Arts Center, inclusion in the Liverpool Biennial, and a group show at Museum Ludwig. “They told me they are working with MIT to create a tragedy machine,”

TIMING IS I M P Ö R T Ä N T WHEN YÖU’RE DÖING ÄNYTHING BECÄUSE YÖU WÄNT IT TÖ BE RIGHT.

Last March, the artist collective comprised of artists Than Hussein Clark, James Connick, and William Joys (they formed the group as students at Goldsmith’s College in 2011), presented their first works at Mathew Gallery’s Berlin space. Their debut show, “Blue Moon,” addressed the group’s transition from performance into other mediums through a boardroom-like installation of neon lights, sculpture, and photography. A subsequent show at Mathew’s New York space—in which the trio presented a murderous allegory of themselves—won them a near-cult following

overnight. Things have only improved. Their spring 2016 schedule includes a solo show at MIT List Visual Arts Center, inclusion in the Liverpool Biennial, and a group show at Museum Ludwig. “They told me they are working with MIT to create a tragedy machine,” says Mathew’s David Lieske, who recently let the group take over his Art Basel in Miami Beach booth with a gruesome series of neon-lit security doors. “I don’t think they even know what it will look like yet, but like with everything they do, I am excited to find out.”

Yngve Holen, After rounding out 2015 with a solo exhibition at Stuart Shave/ Modern Art (and following his showstopping presentation at Frieze London in the gallery’s booth, awarded best in fair), 2016 will see the Norwegian-German sculptor cresting to new heights with a spring exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel—his largest institutional show to date. “His presentations are unique and edgy, sometimes embracing new technologies or found objects,” says collector and art philanthropist Anita Zabludowicz, who began acquiring Holen’s work a couple of years ago.

18 Article found on Artsy net. [https://www.artsy.net/article/ artsy-editorial-16-emergingartists-to-watch-in-2016]

The work that caught Zabludowicz’s eye at Frieze London—model aircrafts resting on washingmachine plinths—pulled from the new materials and progressive technologies of the aviation industry. Shortly thereafter, his solo exhibition at Stuart Shave/Modern Art, “Earthlings,” was equipped with glowing, wall-mounted lamps fashioned from the headlights of scooters. “I connect with the way he looks at the world,” Zabludowicz says of Holen, whose materials are often sourced from his surroundings. “He is voyeuristic and picks up on contemporary cultural

anthropology.”

her solo New York debut at Thierry Goldberg Gallery in May, and was followed by inclusion in “A Constellation,” a group exhibition up now at the Studio Museum in Harlem, where her canvases hang amongst work by peers like Andrew Ross and Cameron Rowland. Feminine and strong, Self’s bold compositions have made her a standout amongst curators and collectors alike. “I liked the complex sexiness of the work, it’s kind of an anti-Picasso,” says L.A. collector Dean Valentine of Self’s work.

Tschabalala Self, After receiving her painting and printmaking MFA from Yale this past spring, Harlem-born Self traveled to Los Angeles for the La Brea Studio Residency, before returning to settle in New York. While on the West Coast, she created a new body of work that was shown this past summer at L.A. gallery, The Cabin; “Tropicana” continued Self’s investigation of the black female body through figurative collages composed of paint, fabric, and dry leaf. The exhibition opened on the heels of Artsy.net

19 Young aspiring fashion promoter Hiba spent the day with Rated magazine, giving an insight into her life, creative passions and problems she faced breaking into the industry.

Hiba

H Emerging fashion promoter Hiba has been featured in several modelling shoots including her own work and blog dedicated to fashion and promotion, currently studying at Ravensbourne college on a Pre - Foundation course Hiba is looking to expand into the industry and make a name for herself, working with the best of the best. We got to spend the day with Hiba, who actually turnt out to be a rather intresting character.

How would you describe your style? I wouldn’t say that I have a particualr style, more just a bit of everything, I really like to play around with different styles and shapes, colours, textures, just mixing and matching really. Fashion shouldn’t be taken seriously, its all just a bit of everything, kinda like fancy dress. What is fashion to you? A movement. This isn’t fashion, it’s a movement. What I do isn’t just fashion, it’s a lifestyle, an extention of your personality, a way of

E expressing yourself. I feel like you can really tell a lot about a person through their clothes, whether it’s just the colours or something more complex like the cut, shape or texture.

Where do you shop mostly? I don’t shop in a specific place regularly, I find that very boring, you’re limiting yourself to just one place and one style. I jump around from vintage store to vintage store, even charity shops - you can find some real gems if you look close enough into the piles. The best thing about vintage pieces is that the numbers are very limited, so you’ll never end up in an awkward situation wearing the same outfit as someone else, a lot of people now days tend to be clones of each other. As I’m always travelling in and out of London I find really cool stores and markets, Camden however never fails to impress, everything there is so inspiring to me in terms of style and inspiration for future shoots. Feel like theres this big hype on designer or branded clothing.

“Alot of people now da be clones of each other a logo onto a plain tee they’ve started up a clo Where’s the originality

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Designer doesn’t equal style, cheap second hand clothes can be just as good, if not better.

Do you remeber when your first memory, or encounter with fashion came along? Was it in a magazine, where did you discover fashion? Yeah, um, it wasaround when I was 14, I realised there was this other world of high fashion, just floating on a cloud above the world that I had already kind of understood, things that were at stores. It was actually in iD magazine, they were showing so much. It was the mix, the street pictures of kids wearing the clothes on the street and how they really dressed themselves. There was the high fashion runway elements, the things that were mixed together by stylists for shoots and all of it was fell in love with this world and I was just determined that that is where I belonged.

How did you prepare yourself for working within fashion? When I went to school I was definitely not prepared for the amount of hard work that it takes to be in the fashion industry, because I didn’t really know what it involved, I just liked clothes and I liked style, I didn’t know all the in’s and outs of pattern making, cutting, all that stuff. What did you find most difficult about getting into the creative industry? I really wanted to emerse myself into this world of high fashion that I had always imulated in the magazines and imagined about. I just wanted to go and get an internship, even pick pins off the floor, just getting to work with a designer that I respected, fell in love with this world and I was just determined that that is where I belonged. making, cutting, all that stuff.

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I remember this one time, some guy was like “Well if you’re so great, just do it yourself.” and I thought well yeah f*ck you, I will and that’s kind of my attitude , I took that challenge and I just thought okay I’m going to put on my own show and I’ll do this. Not really thinking about it more as going forward or where it would end but just that immediate momement

of how, immediate it was for me to be able to express myself because it was buring inside of me, it was wearing anything I could to express what my thoughts were about fashion, and I wasn’t having any outlet to kind of further that until I could show it as a collective. So I pulled everything together, I pulled my resources, there were friends that said they

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could do certain things to help, and that’s when I created my blog and started posting up my work onto my social media accounts, instead of just selfie after selfie.

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I’m definitely different to everybody else, the way I act, think, my style, it’s just the way I’ve always been and I would never change for the world. This is who I am, this is what I want to do and

I believe I can do it as long as I’m putting in the work and staying true to myself and my style. Ultimately I’m not trying to sell people this false identity of who I am, instead just trying to be straight and honest.

27 17 year old young entrepreneur, fashion designr and stylist, Joshua Bedion started his clothing line at the begining of 2015 following the success of his blog. Giving us an exclusive interview into his new upcoming releases and future plans.

Bedion

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17 year old social media fashion icon Joshua Bedion, owner and founder of clothing brand Simplicity Unlimited spent the day with RATED magazine discussing his future plans and upcoming releases as well as providing his own advice into breaking into the industry and gettin started based on his own experiences. Following the success of his blog which started off at the begining of 2015, dedicated to his own personal style and fashion, Bedion decided to launch his own clothing line after reciving an overwhelming number of messages and comments on his clothes and where others with similar style like him could purchase from. With every passing season streetwear’s definition becomes increasingly broad and imperfect. Yet, despite being so difficult to pin down succinctly, it’s also a badge that has, in fashion terms at least, become a bit of a dirty word. Fashion is all about names. Everyone knows the ones that have been around for years – Armani, Versace, or Lagerfeld. Bedion might not be quite there yet but,

he’s just as famous on social media sites such as Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram. You’re famous clothes that are super exclusive and sell out right away. What was appealing about doing something that everybody can buy? Being exclusive back then was the nature of the beast in a way, but we always had ambitions to take it as far as possible, you know, start small and grow and work with your strengths. So, in terms of ambition, it wasn’t like a big jump to switch to Uniqlo, but what was interesting was working with a brand with global reach. It’s a challenge to have it translate to everyone—it has to appeal to a much wider base of people, which is something I’ve never really had to worry about.

I don’t give a f*** about other people, I just do me and hope for the best. and a t-shirt. That kind of thing has really vanished from the world. So, I guess for a younger generation of people that have grown up in a world where that wasn’t the case, it’s not a big deal for them, it’s not even a factor.

Streetwear has become such a big force in fashion recently, a trend you were definitely ahead of. What your’s take on this new generation of streetwear? Again, it’s like a generational shift. When I started out, there was really no respect for that stuff and even to the level where it actually dress codes: like, you can’t come in here wearing jeans

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How did you first get started with your brand? Um, yeah, it started with my blog on blogspot. I did posts that got a lot of really high views and comments, like ‘where did you get this’, ‘where did you get that’ and I just thought to myself if I can get this and a bunch of other colours that I like and it will sell and be able to set up a shop. And I just took it from there. Where did the inspiration come from to start a brand? It was basically me wanting to make the blog into something profitable, as in my first customers were already followers of my blog, and I thought so they like what they see, let me give them an option to buy the outfit or recreate it themselves. Are there any brands that you want to be as big as? In the UK, probably, Zara. I liked their old collection but I’m not a big fan of their new stuff.

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What would you say your brand is mostly about? The good thing about us is that you can wear everything with loads of styles. I always relate back to my blog, because I like wearing a lot of styles, so I could wear one of the jumpers in a more formal and smart way or wear it as a vintage street wear outfit. They’re very versatile pieces. Colour wise, what sort of colours do you go for? Normally I’ll go for two sets. One that’s predominantly popular in the market at the moment and then one that’s different. For example with the white and beige tracksuit I wanted to make my own summer colour, so I thought let me mix these two colours together, because they complement each other very well and with the sunlight, that’s when you get the real beauty out of light colours. What’s your favourite part about designing and doing what you do? The best part is basically just getting the name out, because on the logo it has the surname, so whenever someone asks where did you get this from, ‘Simplicity’ and then you see the Bedion bit.

I DÖNT CÖNSIDER MYSELF ÄS Ä DESIGNER BÜT MÖRE Ä CREÄTÖR

How do you think you can progress as a designer within the industry? To progress I think you need to continuously ask the customers for their opinions and advice and not be afraid of criticism because two minds are better than one. At the end of the day they are the ones who are purchasing your products so you need to give them what they want and something different. Would you consider yourself as a fashion designer? I’ve never really given myself the title ‘fashion designer’ or considered myself to be one, I’ve always seen myself as an owner and founder. I just like to create new things and experiment. I’m definitely going to keep my blog up and running, it gives audiences and future customers inspiration of how to style particular pieces. You’ve got tracksuits, hats, t-shirts as well as trainers that are coming up. Is there anything

else there anything else you’re planning to start designing? I’ve always planned stuff three seasons ahead. So season two releases trainers and then the jackets. I’ve always thought about bags, such as duffle bags. The Fred Perry duffle bag is my favourite bag ever, I don’t go anywhere without my Fred Perry bag or my back up Ralph Lauren duffle bag. They’re such iconic staple pieces and really good quality so they’ll last forever. What would you say is your brand identity? What sort of thing are you trying to show and represent about your brand? That’s simple. You don’t have to be a millionaire to be a fashion icon. What current designers inspire you? I don’t really get inspired by designers in particular or looking into them myself, I’ll just look at certain products by a certain brand, not thinking ‘who designed this, who

created this’. Like I don’t only wear my brand and products, I shop a lot in ASOS or Topman and see an item and just think of ways I could change it to suit my preference. Let’s say the pockets were designed differently or another colour way. But mostly for me it’s about finding a gap in the market, what isn’t there already. What does success mean to you and for you personally how would you know when you’ve made it? I know I’ve made it when I walk into Westfield and see the Simplicity Unlimited store all sold out. Words: Buket Erbas Photography: Buket Erbas Top: Simplicity Unlimited

Maida

Photographer and graphic designer Maida spoke to Rated about her artistic style and inspiration behind herself, as well as current projects and struggles she faces within the industry.

IT’S BEST NÖT TÖ THINK ÄBÖÜT IT TÖÖ MÜCH Graphic designer Maida Based in London and Seoul, Royal College of Art graduate Yeni Kim is an illustrator whose beautiful work is attracting client work from some top names - including Nylon magazine and many book publishers. Her talents were rewarded with an Adobe Design Achievement Award in 2012 - and we expect to see much more of her and her distinctive style in 2013. One of the new wave of illustrators, and a big name in the doodle art movement, Stewart’s distinctive style is rapidly winning her praise across fashion, editorial and music clients.

German edition of Interview magazine, where she drew overand her distinctive style in 2013. One of the new wave of illustrators, and a big name in the doodle art movement, Stewart’s distinctive style is rapidly winning her praise across fashion, editorial and music clients.

One of our favourite projects is her ‘doodlebomb’ for the German edition of Interview magazine, where she drew over recent covers. See her previous doodlebombs on her site where she has customised a number of high fashion magazines in her own special way. Stewart’s animation work is also very cool. A 2012 graduate from One of our favourite Havering College of projects is her Further and Higher ‘doodlebomb’ for the Education, Dodds

has carved out an intelligent, originalrecent covers. See her previous doodlebombs on her site where she has customised a number of high fashion magazines in her own special way. Stewart’s animation work is also very cool.

DÖN’T GRÖW ÜP FÄST

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What made you want to create images for a living? I don’t remember a specific instance but I do remember making art as a way of getting praise and attention from my mother in a pretty competitive environment growing up – there were four of us; my sister was the only girl, my older brother was deaf and my younger brother was a trouble maker, so art was my way of getting attention. How would you describe your approach to design? I’ve been trying to answer this question my whole career and still can’t do it. I think design is reactionary by nature and as a result my work is hard to characterize. there is always a graphic component and there is usually typography involved, but beyond that, I view what I do as reacting as a way of creating. I take situations not of my own making and make them my own. thinking is also important to me and I’m fascinated by composition. Who or what has been the biggest single influence on your work? Everything that has ever happened to me. What would you say is your

strongest skill? Persistence. I played a lot of sports growing up and learned the benefits of practice. the harder you work the better you are at pretty much anything. to a fault, I’m not a ‘it’s good enough’ type of person. anything that I have that might look easy, wasn’t. What are your thoughts on specialization vs generalization? I would definitely fit into the generalist category. I’m not sure it’s ever a choice really. for me the problem solving aspect of design was always the thing that interested me, not so much how something looks. that said, some of my favorite designers are specialists. Do you draw very much and do you think it’s important for a graphic designer to be able to draw? yes I draw, but I don’t know if I actually like drawing. it’s hard. obsessive. painful even. I drew a lot as a kid but then happily left it once I found graphic design. I’ve only come back to it recently. drawing is what led me to design, but I don’t think it’s essential. drawing can teach you all kinds of things but you can also learn things from other ways of creating.

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Dominique

Photographer Dominique Gabrielle has spent years behind the camera, this time she is in front, giving rated magazine an insight into her photography style, inspiration and aspirations.

Thirty-four years before the birth of this magazine, the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard sourly prophesied a banal fate for the newly popularized art of photography. “With the daguerreotype,” he observed, “everyone will be able to have their portrait taken—formerly it was only the prominent—and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same, so we shall only need one portrait.” The National Geographic Society did not set out to test Kierkegaard’s thesis, at least not right away. Its mission was exploration, and the gray pages of its official journal did not exactly constitute a visual orgy. Years would go by before National Geographic’s explorers would begin using the camera as a tool to bring back what is now its chief source of fame: photographic stories that can alter perceptions and, at their best, change lives. By wresting a precious particle of the world from time and space and

IT’S NÖT THÄT DEEP, YÖÜ JÜST HÄVE TÖ LÄÜGH IT ÖFF

holding it absolutely still, a great photograph can explode the totality of our world, such that we never see it quite the same again. After all, as Kierkegaard also wrote, “the truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught.”

moment) that help define a photographer’s style. Instead, the very best of their images remind us that a photograph has the power to do infinitely more than document. It can transport us to unseen worlds.

Today photography has become a global cacophony of freezeframes. Millions of pictures are uploaded every minute. Correspondingly, everyone is a subject, and knows it—any day now we will be adding the unguarded moment to the endangered species list. It’s on this hyper-egalitarian, quasiOrwellian, all-too-cameraready “terra infirma” that National Geographic’s photographers continue to stand out. Why they do so is only partly explained by the innately personal choices (which lens for which lighting for which

When I tell people that I work for this magazine, I see their eyes grow wide, and I know what will happen when I add, as I must: “Sorry, I’m just one of the writers.” A National Geographic photographer is the personification of worldliness, the witness

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Daniele

Italian Colombian graphic designer and illustrator has been leaving his mark around South London in recent years, with public displays of his work. Inspired by his diverse cultural

I’m in my öwn wörld 18 year old Italian Colombian graphic designer is taking South East London by storm. Born and raised in Rome, Italy, Daniele moved over to South East London at the age of 12 and ever since has been leaving his mark on the creative industry with his unique style. Inspired by his diverse cultural background and popular Japanese anime he has created his own personal art style. How would you describe your art style? I would definietly say It’s just an extention of me. Literally everything you see is something that’s either in my mind already or was once. My own little world. Daniele’s world. Where do you get your inspiration from? Probably my background and anime for sure! I’ve grown up watching anime and reading manga, for as long as I can remember, it’s been a massive part of

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my life. I’ve always adored the anime art style, it’s so unique and just amazing so distingishable, which is what i’ve always wanted for my work. I want people to look at a piece of work and straight away be like “Oh look, that’s Daniele’s!” Fairey’s work, which combines elements of graffiti, pop art, business art, appropriation art, and Marxist theory, has long been divisive. His supporters point to the viral nature of his images, the DIY ethic behind his operation, and the brute cultural impact of his work. His critics have accused him of everything from being the proverbial sell out (Fairey produces a clothing line, Obey, as a commercial extension of the Obey Giant project, and has done work for Pepsi and others) to exploiting politically charged imagery (pieces have depicted Black Panthers and Zapatistas) to

too closely appropriating the work of other artists and hastening the overcommercialization of street culture. But Fairey, now 40, remains ambivalent about both achieving art-world validation and retaining his street cred, aware that artists whose works hang in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.—as his own Obama portrait does— aren’t necessarily insiders, but they are no longer outsiders, either.

Shot and styled by Buket Erbas Daniele Monardo For RATED MAGAZINE 2016 CopyRights incl.

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