minneapolis MINNESOTA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

michael CINA: Focus: As of late, I am dividing up my time between art and design. My art was my main focus for three months and the next three months design will win out. Then I will return to art full time. It is a balancing act of great proportions.

In a larger scope, my main focus is doing the best work I can and exploring. That is very important to me, that I am constantly learning from myself and others. This year I signed to the new gallery, Artifact, in San Francisco and will be having a show there. It will be my only show of the year unless something major happens in the near future. As far as design goes, I have never had a better year.

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minneapolis MINNESOTA

the prolific duo of michael cina and michael young form the creative collaborative of weworkforthem. by dabbling in diverse fields from architecture to performance art as well as entertaining a myriad of clients, weworkforthem has created an aesthetic that moves beyond that of the simply graphic. line overlaps pattern and image melts into symbol in their complex creations. weworkforthem’s method is that of excess in both the density of their work and the amount of work that they produce. their creations and overflow have found a home in their offshoot site youworkforthem where they sell the various manifestations of their designs.

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