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 [...]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, [...]

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 [...]

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.

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

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.

Discovering works of January 2008 inspired by previous exhibits in New York and Holland. New discoveries are acquired through various senses and are usually assimilated with pre-existing knowledge and actions. Questioning is a major form of human thought and interpersonal communication, and plays a key role in discovery. Discoveries are acquired through questions. With reference to [...]

Prints created for the traveling exhibit, Current. The exhibit was looking for original methods of printing from many artists. Michael Cina discovered a printing method using films from screen printing to transfer the image to paper, instead of using them to burn the screens. In November of 2007 we started exploring taking the alpha channels [...]

A journal or archive per say, starting around 2006. Considered by many the biggest let down due to the lack of naked women and tit shots, this continual stream of imagery and ideas is best served during free time and after late dinners. Visit the MPY Flickr stream.

Sketchbooks come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, with varied covers, and differing numbers of pages. Sketchbooks began as a way to provide a readily available supply of drawing paper in the convenient form of a book. Finish of the work found in the sketchbook varies widely from artist to artist, with some [...]

Artworks commissioned for Todays Art 2007, curated by Maxalot. Project consisted of two commissioned works. One was a static image project, created in collaboration with Michael Cina. The second work was an seven minute video projected onto the building created exclusive for this event. All projections were onto Richard Meyer’s City Council Building in The Hague, Netherlands.

Artwork exhibited in Madrid, Spain at Madinspain’s Psicotipografia on September 21-22, 2007. Final artwork created in collaboration with Michael Cina. Final artwork was printed into a massive 150×100 (centimeters) print. Curated by Wenceslao Sanz Alonso.

Invited to created original artwork for IDN Magazine’s “where do you see design in 15 years.” My answer, full circle…

Various works shortly after relocating to Thailand. Upon arrival I dabbled in various stomach flu symptoms and more unpleasant health issues. I felt it was a perfect time to illustrate my stomach problems and new found eating habits.

Illustrations composed for the Washington, DC band Greenland members Michael, Jess and Tony.

This was the print that dropped Atomic bombs over volcano’s in the year -3,000BC. You forgot? Maybe because we lazer beamed up your souls, boxed em up, made you watch movies in 3D at Le Cinema. Don’t worry, we put all the souls back into cavemen and we are clear. This poster in your house [...]

Two page spread for Romanian art publication Omagiu. A problem is an obstacle which makes it difficult to achieve a desired goal, objective or purpose. It refers to a situation, condition, or issue that is yet unresolved. In a broad sense, a problem exists when an individual becomes aware of a significant difference between [...]

In physics, displacement is the vector that specifies the position of a point or a particle in reference to a previous position, or to the origin of the chosen coordinate system. When the reference point is the origin, this is better referred to as a position. Displacement vector versus distance traveled along a path. Notice [...]

Artwork created for the ‘Todaysart 2006′ exhibit on Richard Meyer’s City Council Building in The Hague, Netherlands on September 23-24 2006. This part of the event was produced and organized by our good friends at Maxalot. Created in collaboration with Michael Cina.

Commissioned artwork for the book Two Faced. The works objective was to cover “Portraits of some of the most Talented and Influential Creatives of the last decade.” Our work was completed as a portrait of Tomm Muller (Muller Design) and in return he completed a work of our (Michael Cina & Michael Young) portraits. Final [...]

Approximately 5000 years ago, an ink for blacking the raised surfaces of pictures and texts carved in stone was developed in China. This early ink was a mixture of soot from pine smoke, lamp oil, and gelatin from animal skins and musk. Other early cultures also developed many colors of ink from available berries, plants [...]