FSHBWL

Greetings all from the fashion boot of the world.  I just wanted to catch you guys up on some of the things I have been getting up to in the past year or so.  It came from a need to do something out of school that let me start making stuff and getting it out there, I was tired of designing with no manifestations.  

So, last year I started a magazine and an organization that let me do whatever I wanted.  It started with a friend and I, and evolved into about 30 or 40 friends who all put our kickass-ness together to make a magazine, installations around our campus, and who knows what in the future (we have big plans).   We call ourselves FISHBOWL, and its random, but I like it.

We put out our magazine called MEANS for the first time in the spring semester of 2007 and have our next one coming out this semester.  It was the first publication to come out of our school in 10 years and was better than we could have expected.  We put out 5,000 copies which were sold in multiple book stores, sent to all the architecture schools in the US, mailed to incoming freshman, given to our Architectural Guild, and many other things.  

We kicked it off with a large public revealing of the magazine  hosted at a prominent designer chair company KNOLL's showroom and had upwards of 300 people show up with our dean and numerous architects from the LA area among them.  It was a hit around the school, seen everywhere for weeks,  and we gained some sway in the up and up in the faculty as well as gained some infamy for evading the school's power and doing it ourselves.  So now its time for the second issue, and we are in the process of putting it all together.  We are editing and designing and all that fun stuff at this very moment.  It will be put out by the end of April or May and hopefully it will top the last one.  Here are a few of the possible layouts we have been working on at the moment. The asian man is our dean. 

If you want to get an issue, let me know and give me an address, and as soon as I am back in the US, I will get my 

hands on some and send them your way.  It is a great little shiny black book of fun full of great stuff and the mistakes of 

people putting together a magazine for the first time because really, we had no idea what we were doing.  Strangely enough, when you get a bunch of smart people together doing stuff, people will throw money at you, and we raised $12,000 to get us on our way through just asking for it and selling our magazine.  So go out there make something, and take the people's money, they want to give it to you.