Chris Cadaver is a Designhead
"design is placing things where they belong in this chaos, it feels instinctual."
Designheads is a profile series featuring members of our community and their relationship to the world of design.
Ok—we’re beginning to notice a pattern: the average designhead does, in fact, love design, but it turns out that they also love a lot of other things as well. Music, fine art, good food, strange films, particular habits, hard-to-find textiles, out-of-print books, retrofuturist technology—the list goes on. To be a designhead means your love for designed furniture and objects is inseparable from the rest of your life and your world: everything is interconnected.
For interdisciplinary visual creator Chris Cadaver, a love for design is only one facet on the wide and diverse volume of his work, which ranges from print (see his contribution to the most recent issue of Cult Classic, which our Pink Essay team was lucky enough to be in), to apparel, to food products, to album art, to film direction, and includes collaborations with artists like Yeek, Frank Ocean, and Bad Bunny.
Even with this impressive CV, Chris’s demeanor is always effortlessly kind, personal, and connected, and we’re grateful to count him a member of our designhead community. Chris sent over his answers to our collection of designheads queries + some sweet photos of his life and world—read more below:
Name: Chris Cadaver
Age: 30
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Instagram: @chriscadaver
Website: chriscadaver.com
Are you a designer? Yes, i see life as an unorganized chaos. design is placing things where they belong in this chaos, it feels instinctual. it's as primal as picking up a rock over here and placing it down over there.
One word to describe your take on design: intentional
The last thing you made: a song
The next thing you want to make: a food truck
What does being a designhead mean to you? to be a designhead means to understand yourself and why you output into the world the way you do.
A design object you love: noguchi coffee table in white oak
A design object you can’t stand the sight of: macbook pro with touch bar
A moment of pure creative joy: one time
When we say “designing the future,” what comes to mind? time travel
Your aesthetic embodied as a ...
song: “Garden of Life” - Special Touch
color: Red
texture: Canvas or White Oak
If you could own one iconic design work, I would buy: Pioneer DJ C/O OFF-WHITE DDJ-1000-OW
If you could show your work to anyone in the world, it would be: My soulmate
What’s next for you? solo art show
