LEARNING NEW WORDS
Welcome
to our latest issue of streetwear today magazine; No.21. This
time we are very proud that we had the chance to talk to Futura
and get an inside view into his live as one of the most influential
artists of our time. In our interview with him he mentioned the
quote "learning new words" which fits perfectly as
our cover theme. Learning new words… What does that mean?
Sure everybody has to learn and learns more words since they
pop up out of nowhere, but it is not only about learning "more"
words. It's about "new" words like end2end, pointman,
skype, collateral damage or, for some, even the word love. Like
Futura said, new words sometimes mean creating language, to originate,
to develop your everyday life, to improve your surroundings and
to reinvent yourself from time to time. To moult like a snake
and create something new or just do things you have done before
a thousand times in a completely different way.
Somehow it seemed that Futura felt we wanted to change the layout
of our magazine, which also meant for us to renew ourselves and
start new times and chapters. So I really want to take the chance
to give big props to our big time supporter and pixelmaster Oliver
Funke who was responsible for the layout of 20 issues of streetwear
today magazine. It was a pleasure to work with him but now we
decided to change it and get the graphics done in-house. Therefore
we would like to introduce Marius G. P. Katter, who has been
with streetwear today since day one and is now responsible for
the layout. He has a big talent for design and artwork, has learned
a lot in the past and grew with the magazine - you hold his work
in your hands. Number 21 is the first issue he designed and we
are proud to say that we even boost our magazine up to 164 pages.
Marius had the challenge to come up with this brand-new layout
within 16days. It has been a big step and challenge for all of
us. So for us this issue was about learning how to place new
words and create new graphical languages and we're curious about
your opinion.
You can't see into the future but keep on having visions of the future and shape them in your own language, like Futura.
Martin Magielka for streetwear
today