Matt Pecina is a DESIGNHEAD
Blog — 8.24.22
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Name: Matt Pecina
Age: 33
Location: NYC
Instagram:
@studio.guapo
Website:
www.studioguapo.nyc
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Guapo Sport Tee and Cap
Are you a designer? Why or why not?
YUP, I am a designer. I design because I believe we have the power to change our reality through the things we create. plus, working on projects with people I like is just my ultimate safe place.
One word to describe your take on design:
collage
The last thing you made:
I just dropped a new Guapo Sport Logo tee in my website
The next thing you want to make:
Well I want to make a lifesize finished version of the GUAPO ottoman im developing.
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Guapo Rockers
A designed object you adore:
I absolutely love my yeezy foam runners.
A designed object you can’t stand the sight of:
MINIVANS need to be innovated because they aresuper practical for families, it would be dope if they looked cleaner.
A moment of pure creative joy:
During my daughters sleep routine, there are 3 stuffed animals that have little voices and say good night to her and we have a whole little moment together where I can see her eyes light up as she believes they are real and she puts them to bed ... that moment is absolute creative joy.
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When we say “designing the future,” what comes to mind?
Designing the future requires a religion, like faith, that the objects and systems and experiences we make can shape the world around us. when I hear designing the future, for me its like a verse or a prayer.
If you could show your work to anyone in the world, who would it be?
Ye.
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Your aesthetic embodied as a...
sound?
strange lights by deerhunter
color?
charcoal with guapo yellow accents (its the contrast for me)
texture?
maybe like a waxed canvas that’s been lightly sanded for a bit of grit
Your *grail*: if you could own one iconic design work, what would it be?
I want a De Sede DS-600 sectional, but I’d reupholster it in like charcoal denim with guapo yellow stitching.
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De Sede DS-600
Blog — 8.24.22
Name: Matt Pecina
Age: 33
Location: NYC
Instagram:
@studio.guapo
Website:
www.studioguapo.nyc
Guapo Sport Tee and Cap
Are you a designer? Why or why not?
YUP, I am a designer. I design because I believe we have the power to change our reality through the things we create. plus, working on projects with people I like is just my ultimate safe place.
One word to describe your take on design:
collage
The last thing you made:
I just dropped a new Guapo Sport Logo tee in my website
The next thing you want to make:
Well I want to make a lifesize finished version of the GUAPO ottoman im developing.
Guapo Rockers
A designed object you adore:
I absolutely love my yeezy foam runners.
A designed object you can’t stand the sight of:
MINIVANS need to be innovated because they aresuper practical for families, it would be dope if they looked cleaner.
A moment of pure creative joy:
During my daughters sleep routine, there are 3 stuffed animals that have little voices and say good night to her and we have a whole little moment together where I can see her eyes light up as she believes they are real and she puts them to bed ... that moment is absolute creative joy.
When we say “designing the future,” what comes to mind?
Designing the future requires a religion, like faith, that the objects and systems and experiences we make can shape the world around us. when I hear designing the future, for me its like a verse or a prayer.
If you could show your work to anyone in the world, who would it be?
Ye.
Your aesthetic embodied as a...
sound?
strange lights by deerhunter
color?
charcoal with guapo yellow accents (its the contrast for me)
texture?
maybe like a waxed canvas that’s been lightly sanded for a bit of grit
Your *grail*: if you could own one iconic design work, what would it be?
I want a De Sede DS-600 sectional, but I’d reupholster it in like charcoal denim with guapo yellow stitching.
De Sede DS-600
What’s next for you?
working on a "soft"ware update for the GUAPO Rocker V1 and trynna knock out this ottomon v1. A showcase of my work thus far before the end of the year would be sick. Lemme manifest that real quick. #theshapeswemaketheshapeswetake
working on a "soft"ware update for the GUAPO Rocker V1 and trynna knock out this ottomon v1. A showcase of my work thus far before the end of the year would be sick. Lemme manifest that real quick. #theshapeswemaketheshapeswetake
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