Interview: Vinay Venkatraman

The India-raised, Italy-educated and Denmark-based designer on his value systems and love for found objects

Vinay Venkatraman may not be your typical Danish product and interaction designer, but he’s an influential one. A quick glance at his CV shows that he was educated in India and Italy, co-founded the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and is now the CEO of his own consulting firm, LeapCraft. Watch his TED talk at TEDxSummit, however, and you’ll see how Venkatraman is taking the …

Charged: Sougwen Chung

A conversation with the experimental artist who blurs the boundaries between light, sound, space and software

Sougwen Chung has always had an affinity for computers and digital technology. The artist had her first website at the age of ten—”an oddly personal site,” she recalls. In addition to the language of code, Chung is also conversant in music. Her father, an opera singer, made sure that his children had instruments in their hands at a very young age. Growing up in Toronto, …

Interview: Joseph Ari Aloi aka JK5

The artist reveals his secret for creating a great tattoo, his new book and more

by Hugh Hart Joseph Ari Aloi graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1994 armed with dozens of sketchbooks, self-described ADD, a set of tattoo implements and a headful of eye-popping mythologies inspired variously by Star Wars, Sanskrit calligraphy, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jackson Pollock and Viking iconography. Working as a tattoo artist, Aloi (aka JK5) propagated his ornate letterforms by word of mouth, forearm, back …