It’s exciting, but I am very nervous for what is next. KDA STUDIO will be making massive moves this year. I have already teamed up with good friends and fellow colleagues Taven and Nathan to help me out as we compete in a furniture design competition, and I am really excited to start. I would like to start right now, but I need some time to get adjusted in my new environment.
I have been thinking long and hard about the direction of this studio and where we will be in the next year and next five years. I know that the eventual goal is to work with clients and create actual built things, but I want to still keep that creative aspect and continue to be that weird yet interesting designer.
Here is what I know for certain. Now until January there are two projects I want to focus on the Architect’s Chair Competition and Type Graphic Activism with later competitions and projects planned for after January. After January, I want to embark on creating a long-term ambitious architecture-based project. It would never be built, but we would radicalize and change the way everyone perceives architectures. It is our mission to be a radical and guerilla studio; this future project will be that mission. We would participate in competitions and smaller projects, but this paper architecture project will be the main thing for while. The real problem will be establishing a program and project timeline.
Outside of that, currently, KDA STUDIO is operating as a sole proprietor mostly because I don’t want to deal with the tax requirements and headaches that come with an LLC and corporation status is never going to happen. Until a permanent address is established KDA STUDIO will remain a sole proprietor. However, I need to get a business bank account at the very least and set-up direct deposit so that I can pay people and not go through venmo because if you send a certain amount of money on venmo than you get flagged or I might just mail a check. Either way, I need to get payment set up.
I am on my own, and I want to continue creating and this studio with people keeps me in check.