I'd grown up mostly in West London actually, but East London has this really nice feel
at the moment.
It feels like you can do stuff, it doesn't feel like it's locked, whereas I would say
West London feels more difficult to penetrate.
You almost have to, you feel like everybody else, whereas East London promotes being different.
It celebrates youth, it celebrates creativity.
Everybody just feels so compelled to be themselves.
You feel like anything's possible, you see, I don't know, for example you walk down the
street one day and then a week later you might see a new shop that's just opened up, an independent
coffee shop, you'll see some new posters, you'll see a new event, there's always something
going on.
I love magazines, they're really great.
The smell of it, the ink, all those sorts of things, they're really also a pain, depends
on which part of it you are.
And now I publish my own magazine with two colleagues.
With Port it's taken a while for me to actually enjoy myself when I get the issue back because
my heart is about to jump out of my mouth because I'm so scared of a printing error
or something like that.
But now that I've come to relax a little bit, it's really enjoyable actually to see the
advertising in the front, to know that, you know, I've shaped every single element of
this magazine with my colleagues.
Well, actually the truth is that my score wasn't very good.
I would say that the people that were there came from troubled backgrounds or a vast majority
of them.
So it was quite a difficult place to be.
But then there was this amazing teacher in the art department, Mr. Silk.
And I don't know, I just, I loved going into that part of the building and it was almost
like an escape from all the other things that were in the school.
And he was just such a wonderful man actually, he was just kind of, you know, a big cuddly
bear.
And he was great.
I remember when I was a kid, my dad was flicking through a magazine and it had all those glossy
Marlboro adverts in the beginning and F1 cars.
The paper looks so shiny and I loved advertising, it looked really cool.
And what is advertising?
Advertising is imagery and typography put together.
For me, photography is number one and then you have typography but when you put them
together, photography looks a million times better when it's done right.
If you want to do something, it's always quite useful to learn everything or as much
as you can about what it is that you're doing so that you can maybe try to be the best at
it, but learn first, learn as much as you can.
Urban lifestyle people.
