Jack Dahl

Intermission: Title?

Jack Dahl: Creative director – Homework, graphic design & creative consultancy.

IM: What do you wear the most?

JD: My burden – and navy blue cashmere sweater these days.

IM: What is the best thing about your work?

JD: Creation (…) when you learn to say no. Freedom (…) when you learn to let go.

IM: What is the first thing you do when you wake up?

JD: Snooze, shower, coffee, oatmeal with raisins, email – and when at my best, meditation or push and sit ups.

IM: Your 10 essentials?

JD: In mixed order;

1. Spotify – the future music service

2. Dirty Vodka Martini – ice ice cold and strong makes your head warm and lips vibrating

3. Love – love, love, love

4. Quality Street candy – because it is the holiday season. But I only want the caramels in yellow paper.

5. Friends – that inspire you, motivates you and make you face your shit.

6. To do good design – to make things happen, sometimes even to make a difference.

7. To do list(s) – recently divided into too many categories.

8. Double duvet – 240×240 cm crackle free with only the very best bed cover.

9. Intuition – emotion and intellect going together.

10. Being polite – will take you far.

IM: Currently Listening to?

JD: Cruising spotify – Christmas classics, dub step and the Fantastic Mr. Fox soundtrack.

IM: Best Party You Have Ever Been To?

JD: Yet to come – or Summer of 2010, one long party, for my standard that is.

IM: Tell us one surprising thing about yourself?

JD: No – I like secrets.

IM: What are you working on right now?

JD: Artwork for Casey Spooners new solo album, pop book for Japanese GAS, a furniture collection book, a few monographs for Galerie Perrotin (Daniel Firman, Claude Rutault and Lionel Estève).

IM: What is the craziest thing you’ve ever experienced?

JD: Falling in love – among other things.

IM: Stocked in the refrigerator:

JD: Gin, vodka, ice, fruit from another decade – and my neighbor’s dog.

IM: Do you have any nicknames?

JD: Jack ass – and too many to mention.

IM: What’s your hidden talent?

JD: Perhaps interior, perhaps – definitely and unfortunately not the art of cooking.

IM: And what are you saving up for at the moment?

JD: I wasn’t aware that I was supposed to save up – well, maybe my own summer house.

IM: Most Excited about for the New Year?

JD: New challenges, surroundings and surprises …

IM: Where do you see yourself in ten years?

JD: Imagine Bali; spiritualized, tanned and happy – working less, new passions blossoming …

IM: What means the most to you?

JD: (Dreams) – and that I am happy and healthy.