Sometimes, we just need a little prodding to make something incredible. Other times, things just need to be created for their own sake. They shout at you, turn you into a frenzy, and eventually just sit you down and force you to create them.
GOTHAM.BLACK was one of those things.
My name is Jonathan Lu, and I am a designer currently living in Southern California. I usually work under the moniker of jonny gotham, an identity I created as a nod to my roots and the home that I was never officially a resident of, New York City. Someday, I’ll move back there…
The readers, the believers, the dreamers, the doers… The intellectuals, the philistines, the stabilizers, the vagrants… May you wander in life or the lives in your mind. May you never settle for for adventures of imagination, but seek them out in every day.
This is Grifter. I do most of my experimental work under this nom de guerre, bouncing between street art and music making. I also do more traditional work: paintings, illustrations, and my songs drift from hip–hop to acoustic stuff, though I’m just learning and starting out with everything…