Jason Filipow Interview
Former Studio Number One designer and current freelance designer/artist Jason Filipow was nice enough to answer a few of my questions concerning his art, process, and upcoming projects.

Bleached Rectangles
From Jason’s Nonrepresentational Photographs Series, silver gelatin prints and pushpins, 72″ x 100″, 1995.
You had posted on theGiant.org forums that the three components that makes good design are: homage, syntax, and appropriation. Could you please expound on this and how you use it in your own work?
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On your blog you often post about various printmaking methods and how you draw inspiration from these mediums, What about these processes interests you and where else do you find inspiration?
I believe that the thread that remains constant in all of my personal work, regardless of the medium, is content. And more specifically, the compulsion to deconstruct. This is tied directly to my fascination with syntax. I am always curious to understand the processes and techniques of how a particular medium can directly impact, or alter, the inherent meaning of any work of art. Just as learning a new technique or a new process is inspiring, I also think that simple, raw materials can be inspiring, too. The mind is led to wander via imagination and that is always a challenging, and sometimes rewarding, place to operate.
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