Im sure many of you don’t know this but one of my FAVORITE artist / designers of all time has to be FUTURA, his style has been copied by almost everyone and yet he still manages a way to stay ahead of the curve. His clothing line FUTURA LABORATORIES has done some epic collaborations in the past 4 years and the FUTURA name continues to grow internationally.

Guillotine caught up with Futura while he was in France for a quick interview of what life has been like for him over the past 40 years of making art and what he has planned for the “future” ..

You started writing your name as a graffiti writer out of a strong desire to communicate. What’s driving you 40 years later?

I still want to communicate, I really do, yeah! It’s just that today it’s not happening that way. Today it’s happening online. What I’m trying to do with my Flickr, my own site, which is just, you know, nothing special, is share my personal experience, which I think is just as interesting as my work, maybe more actually. I mean today it’s easier to communicate that we once did with a marker and spray paint; it’s not limited to writing on the wall. Everyone’s doing it in a different way. Some people communicate through their sense of fashion, some people are writing, some people take photos. I’m trying to make a creative medium. For the moment, I find myself really into this whole photographic period.

for the full interview (all 4 pages of it) click here:

http://glltn.com/futura-2000-interview-english-version/

STYLE OF EYE – GROUNDED (ROUND TABLE KNIGHTS EDIT) (via youcancallmepelski)

JAZZ LIBERATORz – MY STYLE IS FLY (FEAT. FATLIP) (via undomondo)