Ray Masaki Interview For FORGE. Issue 4

On an incredibly hot and sunny Friday afternoon in April, we took the 6 train up to Harlem. It was just a couple days before we were set to table at the Brooklyn Zine Fest, and our arrival into the city the day prior was dreadful. Despite the setback and overall exhaustion, we were really excited to meet up with graphic designer, typographer, and illustrator, Ray Masaki at his apartment to film an interview. Once we finally arrived at his stoop, he buzzed us up and offered the two of us some much needed glasses of water.
Ray graduated from Parsons The New School For Design just a few years ago, and is currently studying typography and lettering at Cooper Union. Ray has been doing his own independent design work for years now and started websites such as Emceez Ansari, clothing company LowdTown, and a new magazine called Atlent. Now, after studying design more intensively at school and on his own, he has several new directions he’d like to take his work. Although Ray is concerned with taking his art in a more serious direction and producing work that’s reverent to the masters of design that he looks up to, he still retains a youthful spirit towards projects, like his dream of creating his hot sauce label.
*Disclaimer- Ray occasionally says “typographers” in the video, when in actuality, he means to say “type designers”
You can read the entire interview in Issue 4 of FORGE. online now!
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For more of Ray's work visit
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Forge, as in forgery? Oh how fitting this magazine's name is for Raymond.