ROLAND LIFESTYLE ‘909 DAY’ MERCH
BPM MUSIC
2021
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‘909 Day’ celebrates the legendary TR-909; Roland’s first drum machine to feature MIDI. In partnership with the Roland Lifestyle brand, we were tasked with creating new apparel designs in honor of ‘909 Day’ 2021.
I wanted to lean into Japanese origins of the Roland brand for my contribution to the new ‘909 Day’ apparel. I have always had a fascination with the aesthetics of kanji, and saw this as an opportunity to explore utilizing it in my own design. Up to this point in the Roland Lifestyle brand, there had not been any usage of kanji in any of their products. I was breaking new ground for them as well as for myself.
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