Wear Many Hats

Hush Forte is a producer, composer, rapper, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. I met Hush with friend and guest of the show, Jonathan Richetts out in the Lower East Side then crossed paths with Hush at The Hoxton with friend Bobby Whigham. Lo and behold I ended up creating music with Jonathan at their studio and in the other room I could hear Hush cook up new sounds. I was instantly hooked. Lo...

Erik Carter is a graphic designer, art director, illustrator, animator and creative director. I've always been involved with design twitter but when it goes off, Erik is on the scene. Typography. Color. Capitalism. Chaos. images4cash. Design Harder. Erik Internet. Please welcome Erik Carter to Wear Many Hats. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/erikinternet ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Avery Trufelman is a podcaster and radio producer.  Avery is best known for her work on 99% Invisible and her podcast, Articles of Interest. Is this the collab show we've all been waiting for?  Articles of Interest is a show about what we Wear Many Hats. Podcast and it's the same but there's three more episodes so it's not. Please welcome Avery Trufelman to Wear Many Hats. x.com/trufelman ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

David You is the founder of the coffee and tea room, Balue Stockholm. I first met David when he was in New York working with the Lichen family.  You can feel the calmness in his captions with the beautiful photos he takes of Balue and its environment along with the wonderful offerings he presents. Pop up and tea experience. Showroom for catering and events.  Moon is in charge. Beautiful, like pyra...

Thor Kimmell is a designer and illustrator. I first met Thor over at Round Two where we bonded over vintage, design, and history. Thor has done illustrations for friend and guest of the show Sudan Green from Spirits Up! Extra Butter, Timberland, and Round Two. Thor likes to ride bikes and make bootlegs. The perfect combination. Loser Vandross. Heavy Graphix Brain Machine. Please welcome Thor Kimme...

Daisy Alioto is a writer and the CEO of Dirt Media. Daisy also co-founded the NFT funded newsletter, Dirt. Daisy's journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine , The Wall Street Journal , The Paris Review Daily , TIME, New York Magazine , GQ, among others. Daisy's tweets have appeared on my timeline every time I open up the app and it's so good to hear those hot takes come to life. Let's...

Jean Pierre Consuegra is a designer and record label owner. Jean runs Working Title Studios which focuses on design for the NY underground music scene. Jean runs Somersault Records which hosts friend and guest of the show Jialing and other amazing musicians. Jean was formerly at Vinyl Me Please but is crushing it at Jupiter Disco as head of design. Jean has some of the best hot takes on design Twi...

Julia Shiplett is a writer, performer, and comedian. Julia was named a Comedy Central Up Next Comedian, a TBS Comic To Watch and a Vulture Comedian You Should Know.  Julia has a newsletter something shiny* where you can read her love for Marketplace, her reasons on running, and self promotion for where she's doing stand up next. Julia is also a Freelance Senior Copywriter. Comedy Creative. Please...

Ares Maia is the founder of Bloom Playground and a Multidisciplinary Designer and Visual Artist. Ares infuses her work with vibrant colors and symbols influenced by her cultural heritage and immigrant experience.  I first heard of Ares by inviting her to be a part of the first ever Commercial Type and Dahsar Zine Fest that Wear Many Hats put on. Ares has participated in many exhibition and zine ev...

Drew Kaufmann is the founder of Million Goods. Million Goods is a space fusing menswear and music subcultures to form a broader sense of community. I first learned of Million Goods through pop ups and remember Drew handing me a flyer way back when and seeing them all throughout Brooklyn. We love fliers over at Wear Many Hats. Have you not seen our stickers? Drew has worked in the fashion industry...

Greg Jackson is a New York based freelance apparel design director specializing in, but not limited to, technical sportswear and performance clothing. Greg has worked in apparel for NikeLab, Yeezy, Saturdays NYC and Gap along with working with collaborations that Wear Many Hats is inspired by. New Balance, Aimé Leon Dore, but let's not forget that he is the creative director and consultant for his...

Marleigh Culver is an artist and independent designer.  Marleigh's has a few different dream projects that Wear Many Hats align with such as anything with music, residential murals, restaurants, wine labels and brands, and the list goes on and on. Marleigh has an impressive playlist curation called Marleigh Radio where you can find over 300 playlists in rotation. Marleigh has worked and collaborat...

Isaiah Carter is a multi hyphenate creative and the founder of Natal Space. Natal Space works in film and television productions, as well as digital shorts. Isaiah oversees the visual and conceptual of all Natal Spaces projects from early development through execution and release. His production credits include short films "Kinfolk" and "Borrowed Time." Isaiah is a visual artist with a practice in...

Haruko Hayakawa is a CG artist and creative director. Haruko considers herself an artist who loves to explore the intersection between commercial creativity and pop art. She has a deep passion for the world of consumer products and how brands shape our culture, leaving a lasting imprint in our memory. I found Haruko through friend and guest of the show, Rich Tu, when he had her on his podcast. Har...

Rachel Krupa is the founder of Krupa Consulting and the owner of The Goods Mart. Rachel has been in the best of both worlds elevating emerging brands through press and retail. We love a local community that's better-for-you, a place that provides better-for-the-planet products, showcasing and launching emerging, primarily female-, BIPOC-, and LGBTQ+ founded brands and that's what The Goods Mart gi...

Anna Sing is a multidisciplinary designer in Brooklyn. We love the way she uses type on her projects and with clients. Greenhouse type is one of my favorite typefaces of all time. It suits us very well over at Wear Many Hats. ‘It’s Nice That’ featured her when she created a “bouquet” of typefaces inspired by houseplant history. Plants, flowers, colors, the great outdoors, horse girls and fantasy....

Dan Esberg is a Creative Director, Copywriter, and content creator. Dan has a show on YouTube called Dansplaining where we bonded over coffee when crossing paths at Colbo. Dansplaining is where he creates explainer videos that give substance to nostalgia. Some of his videos include “Why “Bad Graphics” Make You Feel Good…” & “Explaining and Assembling a Masterpiece” and “Where did the term “Cit...

Lee Eisenberg is a writer and producer in Hollywood, writer on The Office, the creator of Jury Duty as well as the founder of Nuvet. Lee hails from Boston, comes from a family of ideas and lives with his family in LA. We chat about hotels, duvets, starting companies, and intertwining it with his writing. Lee’s wife jokes that he comes from a place of yes but yes it’s hard to say no. The art of lea...

Dương Gia Hiếu is a founder, designer, and maker at Ném. Photographer and multidisciplinary artist Dương Gia Hiếu is based out of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) and originally from Gia Lai in Vietnam. Don’t worry I found out where he originally was online but I did meet Hiếu at Ném while in Vietnam for the Wear Many Hats World Tour. Ném is a space filled with objects, conducts workshops, and also serve...

Fumee Lee is a creative director, matcha connoisseur, and musician. Fumee is the vocalist for Fifth Flow, what he calls a matcha fairy but the owner of Maison Hime and the director of the social media agency, Neko Natch based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Fumee works with many brands and restaurants in KL that does design works • social media • branding • packaging • photos • videos creating little b...

Lee Zhan Tzeh is an entrepreneur. Lee runs the bakery, Flaaah, and the natural wine bar, Small Shifting Space, both based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I met Lee at the Petaling Street/Chinatown area of where Small Shifting Space lives and we had a good time going down the menu and trying new desserts. Pastries and desserts is all I’m into these days. Please welcome Lee Zhan Tzeh to Wear Many Hats. i...

Zak Klauck is a Founder & Creative Director at A — Z by Zak LLC Zak LLC is a multi-disciplinary studio focused on creative direction, identity and experience design for a wide range of institutions, individuals and brands. Zak is a graphic designer known for his work on photobooks, zines, identities and posters. Zak is the former founder and creative director of Wax Studios, Wax Magazine and w...

Apollo Baldoz is a Designer and Motion Graphics Animator based in New York. Apollo has worked on Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour visuals, HBO’s SHAQ Docuseries, and Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj on Netflix. I met Apollo at friend and guest of the show Rich Tu’s  ‘Human Response’ exhibit and knew I was with good peoples. Emmy, Peabody, Cleo, we’re going for EGOT of design. Yo it’s showtime. Please wel...

Albert Chang is a Designer and Art Director based in Brooklyn.  Albert’s work revolves around brand identity and is currently design lead at Squarespace where he oversees a team of talented brand creatives. I met Albert IRL at Hester Street Fair when Commercial Type and Dahsar hosted our first ever Zine Fair and he pulled up to the Wear Many Hats table. Fast friends later I knew we had mutuals in...

Abby Jones is a Music & Culture Journalist from Austin, Texas based in Brooklyn, New York.  I found Abby via Twitter because music Twitter is the last good tweets to read. I connected with her tweet “it’s cool that strawberry switchblade is going viral on TikTok” but hones ting every tweet she writes I get. Abby has written for Pitchfork, Consequence, Stereogum, NPRmusic etc Abby literally eat...