If you consider yourself a graphic designer, you’ve probably heard of Joshua Davis. As one of the first adopters of Flash, a significant new media artist, an author, and one of the design world's weightiest members, Joshua Davis is a name that rolls off many tongues during discussions regarding progression, experimentation, and development. A pioneer in the word's most technological sense, Joshua has never been one to find a niche and stick with it, instead choosing to find what's next — or in what's often his case, to create it. We chatted with Joshua about things like Praystation, philosophy, and his plans for the future, and wound up feeling a little bit like we do when we look at one of his mathematically composed graphics. In other words: utterly enthralled.

Joshspear.com: For our readers who aren't as familiar with your background, can you give us a brief rundown of your life up until today?

Joshua Davis: My name is Joshua Davis, born 1971 in San Diego, California, moved to Littleton, Colorado where I pretty much grew up. I had always been interested in art and in high school I entered a statewide competition and took second place in the state for painting. After spending ‘89, ‘90 in Huntington Beach, California skateboarding and ‘91, ‘92 moving back to Colorado living in Frisco to do some snowboarding, I moved to New York in November 1992 and eventually attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. At Pratt I worked on Design and Illustration and through fellow classmates got into working on the web in 1995 (Netscape 1.1). When Netscape 3 was released (at the end of 1996) I had a moment of clarity to use technology and the web to create my work. 13 years later I run Joshua Davis Studios where I use design and technology to create work for corporate clients, private collectors, galleries, museums, and personal exploration.

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Australian street label Young Lovers has just launched it’s third collection of limited edition tees, and just like seasons before, their slightly kooky, run-of-100 shirts are well worth the overseas shipping rate. Dubbed MIDNIGHT TWILIGHT, the new series “celebrates the madness of midnight love” (an apparent reference to what happens when grown ups hit the pillows and kids take over the world) and features plenty of tongue-in-cheek Aussie sass. Even though we’re pretty crazy about Young Lover’s graphics, our number one favorite thing about the company is their commitment to small batches of great tees, so if you know or someone you know thinks that’s as awesome as we do, head here to see what you can find.

Aussie clothing company Young Lovers recently dropped a few more of their extremely limited edition shirts, and the designs for this set of tees pack just as much freshness as you’d expect from a company based in the land of Heather’s birth. Because only 100 of each shirt are ever printed, you can rest assured that you won’t want to burn yours after seeing it on a fourteen year-old…or on a cougar. Actually, once you do the math (like I just did because I’m brilliant and incredibly gifted in the area of mathematics), the actual possibility of you seeing this shirt anywhere other than on yourself works out to about 000086%, which obviously wouldn’t even matter if the shirt sucked — but they don’t, at all. And for about $50, that’s sounding pretty good.