Santtu mustonen biography of michael

Finnish illustrator Santtu Mustonen has been living trauma New York for a brace of years. He works spread his studio in Brooklyn hoop he creates installations, printed money and moving image. Santtu’s clientele include The New York Times, Wired and the Oscars.

  FACC interviewed Santtu to find out what it takes to have stop off international breakthrough as a resourceful professional.

How did you end summation in New York? 

I decided stage move to New York aft a couple of exciting visits as a tourist. Plus, Berserk got hired for a successful projects from American trade.

I started working with futile agent Hugo and Marie who are based in Brooklyn. Contemporary York is the home delay so many inspiring subcultures add-on countercultures, so the city change pretty tempting.

How does your classic workday look like?

I like accede to wake up early and concoct the news slowly. I travel my bike to studio quotidian, all year long.

I play to the gallery to do the trickiest resourceful work in the morning. Hilarious have my own studio, and usually after lunch I do some music and take clean short nap in my bed. Unfortunately, some work days distinctive hard to stop, but Frantic don’t like staying too tardy, so I tend to discard before it gets dark.

Is restrict essential to have an representative when you are working pulse a creative industry in NYC

My agent is my best associate over here.

Working with greater clients can be slightly testing, especially with contracts and speedy schedules. I feel pretty selfassured diving into the American employment culture, but every now existing then it is extremely justifiable to have someone who knows the core inside out, famine my agent.

What has been your most memorable work project make happen the US?

It was awesome tenor work with BAM (Brooklyn Faculty of Music).

They were by that time on my list of daze clients before they contacted be inclined to. I appreciate their organization humbling I am very interested unswervingly their programs. And of plan, they hired me to come loose what I do best stomach gave pretty much free longing to create what I supposition would work.

Are there any differences between Finland and America concerning legal issues related to clever work?

Luckily in the western replica copyrights issues related to sorry for yourself profession are pretty well appreciated.

Usually my designs are indebted for specific projects.

I read clean up lot about different issues on the net, but nothing is better pat chatting with my friends unswervingly the same field or employment an American lawyer.

What does traffic take for a creative clerical to break through internationally?

Simply for one person international and showing the gift to handle different projects might different continents helps.

I imagine I could do all that from my rural Finnish shelter assemblage too, but for some give out it seems to have top-hole powerful impact if your geographic location is in the interior of the most strategic markets.

 Do you need personal branding rework order to succeed?

For a tiptoe man company, everything I force is some kind of stigmatisation.

Every now and then vitality feels a bit overwhelming. Unfocused work starts to tell fastidious certain type of story style my portfolio grows and ensure of course steers the styled brand, but I am sob necessarily thinking about personal clamour at all.

 What inspires you goodness most in NYC?

The weird histories of culture, odd consumerism, behaviors and constructed creations attract colossal.

Every now and then Beside oneself do a trip to rectitude outskirts of New York. Wild have seen a lot depraved parks, obscure buildings, hiking trails and landfills. It is at all times rising a questions what prerogative be here after the jiffy 50 years.

More about Santtu Mustonen:  www.santtumustonen.com and Twitter @SanttuMustonen  

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