This is Richard. He’s a menswear designer and artist who runs a fascinating blog entitled “What I Saw Today,” a visual record of all the inspiring outfits he sees while roaming New York. Recently, he was employed by J.Crew to help launch their new Men’s Shop in Manhattan – his artwork was used in their storefront display and he was on site doing live sketches of customers.

Several months ago, we commissioned Richard to help us with our FW09 campaign. We held a live sketch session with him and chose our favorite rendering to be used in a wheatpaste campaign covering lower Manhattan (as seen in our previous post). We brought on the talented Hilton Carter to document the session and also to capture a short interview with Richard, where he was able to talk about how his background and inspirations have influenced his illustration work.  With that said, we’d like to present to you one of the most talented people we know:

Click here to watch the video in HD. For more of Richard’s work, please visit his site at http://designerman-whatisawtoday.blogspot.com.