James Bowskill is a British Art Director at A.C.O. Tokyo, where he develops brands on-line.

He also collects Japanese packaging, occasionally writes articles for Tokyo's web magazine PingMag, and is a member of London design team Superblue.

Jason Gnewikow On Graphic Design Feb 12 2006

"I kinda became really obsessed with having things make sense and be structured. It's just nice to know it is there because you really wanted it there. It's not just there because you threw it down, you were like "What? It's art, it's there."

I like to be able to know that I came to a decision based on a line of thinking."

Wise words from Jason Gnewikow in the latest Western State documentary series over at Coudal Partners, whom I have to thank for a good number of visitors to Off the Shelf since they linked to it yesterday.