Why Screen Printing?

After being laid off in 2001, I turned to screen printing to stay busy and because I love working with my hands. Since the early 90s graphic design has become very computer-driven. Anyone with a Mac or a PC and access to a graphics program is suddenly a designer, and that has made ideas and craft nearly obsolete. Screen printing, however, has been around since the early 1900's and hasn't changed much. Screening requires no expensive technology making it the ideal craft for hands-on expression. So I began working old school to balance out all the computer-driven, slick-looking digital stuff. The advertising/design world is loaded with talented people, most jaded with the business and sick of seeing their ideas constantly being shot down, watered down and shredded for the masses. Once word got out I was screen printing my own stuff, graphic designers — never ones to miss something deemed "cool" — started seeking me out and jobs began rolling in. I started with under $100 and a rebellious DIY aesthetic which is seen throughout my work. Then things got out of control and morphed into a business, and I went with the flow: printing and designing, and particularly making hip hop and rock posters.