When I am not such a poor boy anymore, I would like to travel with Johanna. Go to all the famous ports and the big cities. I could watch the sun set from all the corners of the world. Yes I could.
The words were added in Photoshop- it’s a font by Eduardo Recife
When I was a kid I’d swim out into the ocean and stop just when everything became quiet.
Away from the chatter of mothers and boys and girls running around on the warm, soft sand. Away from the sound of surf and the smell of grilled pork and San Miguel Beer. Away from the laughter of fathers and grandfathers and uncles who talked of sports and the president.
I’d bob up and down as the waves came and watch everyone from a distance, and if I turned around I could see the large passenger vessels moving ever so slowly before a grand sky.
When I felt brave enough I’d dive down into the dark where everything was blue and cold, and I would see what I thought were sea creatures, little fish, big fish, grassy things, creatures with tentacles. Sometimes I’d scare myself and think of giant hammerheads or mermen, then surface back up again, where the water trickled down my hair and into my eyes and roll across the bridge of my nose.
The wind would press down on my face and make ripples beside my arms and shoulders, and it would be wet around the edges of my earlobes and the skin around my fingers shriveled.
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One of my posters has been selected to be exhibited by 100% Design Tokyo at Tokyo Designer’s Week! Hoowee! (I’ll post the poster here after the event is done)
A few event details from the official site:
100% Design was established in London in 1995, growing from a small marquee in the Kings Road to become the world’s most influential contemporary interiors event, attracting the attention of the press, encouraging product innovation, hot-housing new design stars, and educating the taste of consumers.?Bringing contemporary design into the mainstream.