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outlet to the many people submitting work to Coupe in hope of possible collaboration to be a part of the magazine. We thought we would perhaps dedicate 12 or 16 pages of an issue to the best 20 or so entries. I was blown away by the response the competition received and it just keeps growing and growing so now we publish one regular issue in the spring and the Coupe International Design and Image Annual in the fall. Because of this the spring issue tends to be more personal now. Basically each issue of Coupe is a whole new ball game. Our readers expect this and it keeps me from getting bored! Each issue takes a theme and plays around with words and
images to create a stimulating, highly visual, but largely unstructured mood board. The early issues of Refueled also played upon being more "art installations" than a magazine. Where do your loose themes come from, and what was your favorite to explore? Themes can come from anywhere I suppose. Advertisers (we consciously don't have many) will occasionally ask for an editorial schedule and I have to tell them there just isn't one. Themes are like inspiration, they can strike me when I least expect it. The usual suspects; travel, culture, politics, art all fuel the fire. But a theme is usually a response to how I'm feeling within my world or the world at large. Issue 20 for instance, consists of a poem I wrote that runs
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