Predominantly working under the pseudonym 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚞𝚔𝚘𝚖𝚞™ 「 マルコム/ 」, I am 𝙼𝚊𝚕𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚖, a West Coast based American contemporary visual artist, professional graphic designer, electronic music producer, and sound curator originally from Chicago, Illinois, now based in San Diego, California.

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With a unique perspective and willingness to experiment, I conceive and develop original concepts and works that connect across multiple industries and mediums.

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Professionally, I am a self-taught illustrator with a degree in graphic design who specializes in promotional and marketing design, but my practice has evolved into blending traditional, digital, and experimental techniques, exploring experiential graphic design/branded environments, including three-dimensional forms, multiprocess printmaking, lite fabrication, and human-driven mechanical or traditional production of mixed media work that explores creation beyond the screens or the two-dimensional planes, into reality and extended reality as interdimensional alchemy.

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As an artist, I observe what I do in the aforementioned and think beyond fleeting trends. I rely upon my own ideas, human experiences, observations, and natural creative intuition that reveals a style and more to explore from craftsmanship and technology thrown at ideas I've already conceived which were ahead of their time and make them into informed, forward-thinking innovative concepts.

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Of course, I aim to stay relevant and am a bit of design nerd, a wannabe DIY artisan and an eclectic mad scientist who is always thinking beyond the initial task, sketches, or  problem... typically, my original concepts consistently aim beyond the paper or the screen and I am driven by the natural curiosity and willingness to figure-it-out. I create to render an idea into a suitable solution or as close to the vision as humanly possible and most of the time this requires collaboration and fusion. To make anything imagined into a tangible, meaningful expression often requires more than one, but how I think of this is that my work shows how I thought about the final forms and made them more than the initial solution. My legacy projects and ongoing work may often stem from another world of endless desire to cultivate art through design work, but the point is that I try something new and refine.

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Alongside client work, I am lifelong vinyl connoisseur collector of vinyl records who originates from Chicago and naturally evolved into a selector (DJ) over 30 years of cumulative experience digging and living in other scenes and cities around the world. I dig, trade, create, and collaborate globally to curate and produce some original and naturally rare recordings on vinyl and other things that make sense as a person who is not a fan within several interests within the greater underground/urban art community

 

In 2019, I quietly founded my own entity and currently oversee a handful of small brands and independent labels on my annual budget. I produce and publish self-initiated and collaborative projects as limited-edition cultural and lifestyle objects. It started with sound because of my deep history and passion for vinyl records, but as an interdisciplinary artist, I held a lot of interests at bay and as I began designing the packaging, producing prints, art books, and making a few object d' art, I started to think about ephemeral work, and my fixation with the experience so, other things that were not foreign to my main focus/practice began finding their way into the experiential umbrella and I am now balancing the art of design through making, curating, and trading amazing original work.

 

My love the craft and modern technology often finds me devoting a significant amount of my time experimenting with more than design or music—I am celebrating living and doing, producing physical and digital original works under the beauty of being creative and productive across my timeline.

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