Michael Paul Young was invited to be one of the creatives involved in the fashion label Diesel’s Only the Brave perfume launch. The final result was a room design titled Discolored & Battered Bravery: Physical pain or the threat of death will never overcome the ability to see into the lion’s mouth and ask for seconds with [...]

A work of art that explores the relationship between nature, motion and sound, The Interpretation takes us on a languid journey through a slowly flourishing forest. Hinting at vague memories of microbiology and rotating through a cool organic spectrum of greens, blues, browns, blacks and whites; this motion-based work will entrance its viewer as the forest evolves. The Interpretation is set to a minimal score filled with authentic sounds of nature, complimenting the environmental essence of the visuals.

The Buamai app was created to grab random images from our server to cure your boredom from time to time. Images found on our site are mainly of Graphic Design, Art and Architecture interest, but with some random strange images thrown in for variety. Buamai is available via iTunes.

nterviewed by Garrick Webster in January of 2009 for Computer Arts, issue March 2009 (159). This is the final body of text of my interview based on Garrick’s questions and interest in the daily renders project in 2008.

Interviewed by the online design magazine, Digital Abstracts. Read Interview

The goal of Buamai was to gather a select community of authors to begin creating an interesting image archive relative to art and design. Try it today, and just start clicking from image to image, keyword to keyword, link to link.

Resistance, it’s the point of equilibrium between the whole album. It sustains all the purposes in one. Means equity. The point of perfection, holding everything on its shoulders. Peace.

Kenya gains its independence from the United Kingdom. Rhodesia changes its name to Zimbabwe. Russian Federation gains independence from the USSR. The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore, becomes first well documented election failure and theft in American history. Ike Turner, American singer, former husband and wife beater of Tina Turner dies.

This is Agostina was developed as animation experiment for YouWorkForThem’s release of the font, Agostina. The font was designed and coded with extra swash like characters in the open type format. This is Agostina explores those swash like features and it’s options in 3d and other experimental animation methods.

On Wednesday night the King had a sore throat and difficulty swallowing. His temperature was slightly higher than normal. His doctors gave him medication to treat the conditions. His Majesty still had a sore throat when he woke up on Thursday morning, according to the statement. He had difficulty swallowing his food, so his doctors decided on intravenous feeding and a saline solution.

Did you ever ask yourself about the bailout? No problem, not many people ask anymore, it is the new way of dealing with things. Hidden in an act of theatrics, we get lost in the show. Just as the one who stole my golden egg. Not many people asked about that either, but one person benefited greatly from it.

November 3 is the 307th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 58 days remaining until the end of the year. Poland declares its independence from Russia.

The United States introduces an income tax. Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time. The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America.

King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal . Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers. American President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Ling (MPY) was a idea conceived while composing our short movie The Mountain of Ling in August of 2007. The idea was to create our own alphabet and language, but still inspired by the 26 alphabet character English structure. This idea has been modified a bit and composed into this working font version, Ling. The font generates a more pattern and numerical system then communication in todays world, but it might be useful to others. Continue to download free font.

OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria. The first commercial nuclear power station was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England. At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline. Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the US. There are 75 days remaining until the end of the year.

Michael Paul Young’s short film The Mountain of Ling was selected to be apart of the DOTMOV Festival (Japan). DOTMOV is a digital film festival organized by an online magazine “SHIFT”, aiming to discover unknown talented creators and provide an opportunity to show their works. We had a total of 289 works from 37 countries [...]

October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 78 days remaining until the end of the year. Thailand’s University Students protest for a democratic government; 77 are killed and 857 injured (1973). U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs (1982). Palestinian leader [...]

Works commissioned for Todays Art 2008 (The Hague, Netherlands). Curator Maxalot presented a selection of today’s pioneering generative artists, projecting new, dedicated pieces commissioned especially for the event, onto the VROM building alongside The Hague’s Central Station.

Anger is an emotional state that may range from minor irritation to intense rage. The physical effects of anger include increased heart rate, blood pressure, and levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline. Some view anger as part of the fight or flight brain response to the perceived threat of pain. Anger becomes the predominant feeling behaviorally, [...]

Online portfolio system designed/coded by Michael Paul Young. One of the highlights of the site, is the website can be completely controlled by Commonwealth themselves. This means the colors, sizes, random on/off and of course section content. The random options generate endless composition arrangements on each page refresh/load, so each user always gets different views [...]

Michael Paul Young was interviewed by the online Design Magazine, Monarkh. Read Interview

Projection of my short movie March in Thonburi on display at The Graphic Design Festival in Breda, Netherlands (2008). At different sites around the city exhibitions, lectures, seminars, workshops, presentations and unexpected confrontations take place. Not only at the known cultural institutions but also in public space. Bus shelters, projections and installations fill Breda’s city centre with [...]

Sentence is a limited edition (1000) newsprint zine created by YouWorkForThem. The zine was concepted and created by means of distant collaboration between the Minneapolis studio and the Bangkok studio. The zine can be read from two different viewpoints. Page through it like a book, or unfold to reveal compositions in full poster-like pages. Text [...]

Michel Paul Young’s short film The Mountain of Ling was screened at the AIGA (Florida) event, re:Charge08 in the Circuits section. Curated by Doug Grimmett.

ZINE2WO was a PDF project composed to help show customers how to use YouWorkForThem’s fonts and stock art in a new light/perspective. Since YWFT create a different style/take of stock, sometimes the products can be hard to understand. Designers involved included Michael Paul Young and Lee Suetorsak & Off Jiropaskosol.
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The final artwork for Maomao’s book, The Atlas of Graphic Design. “I am the egg man, I am the universe, welcome the world of Graphic Design and whatever the hell it is that lives in it…” Final artwork created in collaboration with Michael Cina.

A distortion is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of an object, image, sound, waveform or other form of information or representation. Distortion is usually unwanted. In some fields, distortion is desirable, such as electric guitar (where distortion is often induced purposely with the amplifier to achieve the electric guitar’s desired, electrifying, [...]

March 29 is the 88th day of the year (89th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 277 days remaining until the end of the year.

Intermission with minimal changes.

March 25 is the 84th day of the year (85th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 281 days remaining until the end of the year. March 25, Lady Day, was New Years’ Day in many European implementations of the Julian calendar, preceding by exactly nine months Christmas Day.

March 24 is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 282 days remaining until the end of the year. March 24 was the 365th and last day of the year in many European implementations of the Julian calendar.

This summer I traveled with a group of students to work with a wonderful Mexican organization called Armonia. Armonia has been working with the urban and rural poor towards community transformation for the past twenty years. We worked for the first two weeks in a community called Santa Cruz. During the last week, I had the opportunity to travel with three other Americans and the directors of the program, Senor and Senora Cruz, along with their family, eight hours south to the town of Yalalag. Yalalag is a beautiful village on the side of a mountain. I have never been to a place more beautiful or remote…

March 18 is the 77th day of the year (78th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 288 days remaining until the end of the year.

Saint Patrick was a Roman Britain-born Christian missionary and is the patron saint of Ireland along with Brigid of Kildare and Columba. When he was about sixteen he was captured by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Ireland, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family. He entered [...]

Various shirts designed for YouWorkForThem in 2008. Final designs created in collaboration with Michael Cina and YouWorkForThem Bangkok. Purchase

The work of Michael Paul Young was featured in Fashionize 2. Artwork featured was the collaboration with Michael Cina on One Tall Tale.

Michael Paul Young was interviewed by the online Japanese Design Magazine, HITSPAPER. Read Interview

The beginning of abundant sweat and lack of energy, this project began the race in the warmest time of 2008 in Thonburi. This is what I soon begin to call and refer to as home, these become my first sketches.

Searching and modifying the thoughts to find the actual placement of where the project will arrive. Two weeks later and arrival of the next calendar month we find ourselves in Thonburi as the focused settlement.