Many of my friends would describe me as being unique, different or even weird. I don't know whether it's my own personal style that they find interesting/weird or the fact that I am, by nature, out of the mainstream.
Sure, plenty of folks own a computer, the latest surveys have that percentage pegged at 89% of American households being in possession of a computer but I am not a PC guy. I despise the beige towers of days past and prefer the Mac. That probably has something to do with my graphic design and photography work. Macs just work better but that comes at a price -- literally -- they cost more too. (And I am drooling over all the new Mac stuff announced Tuesday...)
Music tastes are another thing. While everyone was still mourning the slow death of grunge in the early/mid 90s, I had never liked it and instead moved on to Weezer and, as I've described earlier, a wealth of music described as "alternative". I'd rather listen to a plethora of music from a variety of sources that tune in to the local Top 40 radio staton and be fed a repetitive playlist of the same 15 "artists" on a 90 minute loop.
Then there is my style of dress. Sure, lately I've been sporting a fauxhawk from time to time (alright, almost every day since before Halloween), haven't drug a comb through my locks since sometime in the last century and while I don't shop at thrift shops, my style says I don't exactly conform to what society as a whole would expect but I do dress appropriately for what is expected of an up-and-coming twenty-something designer who stays on the cutting edge of design trends but feels that a tie would severly stifle one's creativity.
With all that out of the way, what trends do you follow and what trends do you go against the grain of?
Sure, plenty of folks own a computer, the latest surveys have that percentage pegged at 89% of American households being in possession of a computer but I am not a PC guy. I despise the beige towers of days past and prefer the Mac. That probably has something to do with my graphic design and photography work. Macs just work better but that comes at a price -- literally -- they cost more too. (And I am drooling over all the new Mac stuff announced Tuesday...)
Music tastes are another thing. While everyone was still mourning the slow death of grunge in the early/mid 90s, I had never liked it and instead moved on to Weezer and, as I've described earlier, a wealth of music described as "alternative". I'd rather listen to a plethora of music from a variety of sources that tune in to the local Top 40 radio staton and be fed a repetitive playlist of the same 15 "artists" on a 90 minute loop.
Then there is my style of dress. Sure, lately I've been sporting a fauxhawk from time to time (alright, almost every day since before Halloween), haven't drug a comb through my locks since sometime in the last century and while I don't shop at thrift shops, my style says I don't exactly conform to what society as a whole would expect but I do dress appropriately for what is expected of an up-and-coming twenty-something designer who stays on the cutting edge of design trends but feels that a tie would severly stifle one's creativity.
With all that out of the way, what trends do you follow and what trends do you go against the grain of?
