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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

Consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation. Digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark. DG becomes a decade old with version 9. Soundtrack by Designgraphik.

The basic tenants of VIII are somewhat complicated, having to do as much with psychiatric strategies as mappings of the psyche. Moreover, many of the VIII concepts have, themselves, entered into the popular folklore in the guise of “DG,” “Father-Son Complex,” and so forth. Probably, the folk-preserved versions of this theory are [...]

Design and Architectural concepts commissioned by Hewlett Packard (HP). Various Architectural concepts were created by myself and the final design (the paper he is holding) created in collaboration with Michael Cina.

Architectural renders/concepts for greenhouse complex, later made interactive on Designgraphik.

Website, Illustrations and content management system designed for the Drum & Bass DJ Dieselboy. Final project created in collaboration with Michael Cina, Lance Sells and Casey Reas.

Unfinished is a custom typeface that was created for the 5th version of the online art project Designgraphik. It was then put to working function in 2001. Five type styles in family (Regular, Semi Bold, Bold, Extra Bold, and Black). Made functional, into five families and redrawn in collaboration with Michael Cina. Purchase

At age 23, there were two ways of distinguishing between these processes. First, was the fate of an impulse and, second, the relationship to the object. From this view point, we may see the primary process as being “objectively autistic.” The secondary process, in contradistinction, leads to language, contact and interaction with an digital object. [...]

Website and artworks created for the Drum and Bass tour, Planet of the Drums (2001).

Get away from the expectations, the discussion, the noise, the media, and the pressure. Whatever you do, move away from anything that distracts you from contemplating your life and where you want it to go. Soundtrack by NPFC.
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There are three classes, three stages of growth: little children, fathers, and young men. Others confirm this three-fold division, this three-fold step in fulfilling manhood. When the good seed falls onto good ground, it brings forth in three degrees - some thirty-fold, some sixty-fold, and some a hundred-fold. There are three stages of growth: little [...]

Original renders and sketches for the Archinect website cover, created in 2000. Final project created in collaboration with Bradley Grosh (Gmunk).

A online project designed and curated by myself from 1999-2001. Project won awards from Flash Film Festival, IDN Magazine, Dazed and Confused and Magma Books. Project no longer online, but included in the YouWorkForThem book One (out of print).

The usage of DG has been vastly associated with a horn of Westerners for many decades. Various countries, including America, Mexico, Italy and Poland have complained about the domination of the DG resources. The DG Initiative was one of the most important programs to promote peaceful cooperation between the people. Yet many scholars fear, the [...]