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Interview: Joel Nakamura
Illustrator
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Santa Fe illustrator and fi ne artist Joel Nakamura is immersed in graphic
design every day. Designers love Nakamura’s remarkable and complex
illustrations imbued with symbology, myth, and history. Nakamura, in turn,
loves design and has a great understanding of what kind of design works
and what does not. “Most of my friends are designers...but don’t hold it
against me,” deadpans Nakamura.
When do you know a design is good?
When it arrests ...