Born in Rockford, Illinois in 1980, Virgil Abloh is an artist, architect, engineer, designer, musician and DJ, chief creative director, and artistic director. Throughout his career, he has focused on inclusivity and philanthropy across these disciplines.
Life lesson when someone is speaking, listen not just the words but everything involved. Think, out of the two kids who had the privilege to speak to abloh both of them missed by not having an end goal. they had good visions, but incomplete ideas. When they spoke you could get the concept but you weren't 100% in. I bet 1 of the kids in this class who didn't speak had everything they needed to go live. But instead of wasting 30 sec they just absorbed. If I was in this class I wouldve said 1 sentence to describe my brand. The two students didn't have a signature brand, logo, or even a complete idea just a hook and I truly wonder if they ever took the concept to creation. Someone who didn't speak up, did take their vision live, someone who is listening now or reading this comment, will take their vision life, but of course some will view, they will talk about their ideas, this video, or what they learned without ever applying it. As he said less is more, how will you apply it.
20:15 be urself 22:30 importance of community building 27:00 when someone looks at your shirt they know its your brand , ez navyon fontos. Pl off whitera is ranezek es tudom
29:30 scrapines is where the diamond is made from 31:00 32:40 U gotta be able to elevator pitch your brand. In Less than 15 words U should be able to summarise Ur brand to someone. Someone outside of yourself got to understand the idea of your brand that's why being concise is key The name should tie back to the brand Yongang, it should tie back to courage and shit color for braveness? The font is about bravery, and shit. This lays a solid foundation for your brand and that's very important 41:50 best piece of advice from Virgil is being able to throw your ideas into the trash and restarting 47:40 49:40 what seemingly doesnt make sense will prepel you forward. 53:30 building brand identity ,separate to the hoodies and shit. And living the brand 57:20
I comeback every so and so still shocked this video only has anything under a million views. This man has so much knowledge on this page and people don't know, I kinda like it that way tbh.
He was such a beautiful person wow. His focus on community really resonates with me. Forming good, genuine connections with people is so important. And just having fun in life!!
