Christian San Jose

"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case."

Chuck Close

"If you love gambling, swimming with sharks, spending hours untying knots and punching yourself in the face — you may be ready to start a company."

Jake Nickell, founder of Threadless

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Unscripted Press Launch at Fully Booked

Top Photo L-R: Publisher and Fully Booked’s Jaime Daez, Vicky Herrera, Sarah Meier, and Unscripted Art Director/ Create.ph’s Christian San Jose

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One of my illustrations made into a tattoo. So awesome.

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The Artisan published in Vogue Italia, Nov. 2011. Photographed in Hong Kong by Regine David.

A Visit to Create.ph

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Here’s a lil peek at our visit to Christian’s studio, Create PH, during the final weeks of the book production process of Unscripted.

Check out his organized blackboard with his detailed design plan. (The photos to the left and to the right are photos of his personal work.)

I’m sure you Dollhouse fans know what that word on the screen says :)

I spotted this lil drawing on the corner of the blackboard. Well, it was a few days before submission and we were under ALOT of pressure! Thanks for being positive guys! haha.

And not only will December bring our book launch, but also an amazing EXHIBIT by this group + photographer Roy Macam’s work. 

December will be beautiful. I guarantee it.

I was featured on MTV’s LiquidTV

Around HK

Check out the video from Status Magazine’s Sperry Top-Sider editorial. I was featured with Nikki Dela Paz (surfer), Revo Naval (designer), and Paul Soriano (film director).

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The Artisan is one of Shopify’s featured stores, along with Angry Birds, DODOcase, A Book Apart, The Heads of State, and CXXVI.

I’d say that’s good company.