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Joseph (Joey) is a Japanese-American graphic designer. He is currently working at Umbrella. His work has been featured in publications such as i-D Magazine, Los Angeles Times, and Hypebeast.

Joey is a Japanese-American graphic designer based in Los Angeles. He is currently working at Umbrella.
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Total Luxury Spa & Cauleen Smith

Fashion

2022


Total Luxury Spa's integral Artist Series, an ongoing quarterly fashion/editorial endeavor, invites American-born, California-based filmmaker, multimedia artist, Afrofuturist and educator Cauleen Smith (b. 1967). 


Smith is an artist who makes films, installations, and objects. She actively invites engagement, and with much of the work she employs a purposeful undermining of image and language to elicit contemplation. Smith’s films create worlds that expand on the discourse of mid-twentieth-century experimental filmmaking.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCLS6wUu-Qs
Creative Direction: Daniel DeSure
Artist: Cauleen Smith
Graphic Design: Joseph Abe

The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again. We’re drawn in — or out — and the windows of our perception are cleansed, as William Blake said. The same thing can happen when we’re around young children or adults who have unlearned those habits of shutting the world out.