The Blog
Finding a sense of calm is one of the hardest things to do in a city with as much visual and audible noise as New York. Kota The Friend is garnering a lot of hype already because of his ability to ...
Introducing The Odd, The Beautiful: KAMAU. Texture is the constant contrast of positive and negative space. In order to truly appreciate our successes, we must first have our fair share of failures...
Meet Kendra, 24, Regional Manager and head honcho at our Wellington flagship store. She loves fashion and dancing but will still probably beat you at Tekken. Also, a word to the wise, she's pretty ...
Back in early 2016, we featured Chester Watson for our “The Odd, The Beautiful video series”. Fast forward to 2017, where we catch up with Chester Watson to discuss his current lifestyle, musical ...
Ask Me Anything - Valentin Ozich
Earlier this month, I Love Ugly Creative Director and Founder Valentin Ozich answered a tonne of questions on Facebook & Instagram Live. The topics discussed included how to start a brand, how ...
We recently sat down with San Jose native Nafis Etemadi to discuss his ILU commissioned artwork, the trials and tribulations behind his pursuit of a career in Art, and his Goals for 2017. So go gra...
Introducing I Love Ugly x HashFinger: The Mixtape. In collaboration with UK Producer HashFinger we’ve compiled a seven track discography of the Bradford-based beatmakers work to date, including a y...
The Odd, The Beautiful: Tom Scott
The fourth instalment of our 'The Odd, The Beautiful' series. Features Tom Scott, rapper/producer from Auckland, New Zealand. If you don't know who he is by now, you're asleep. Associated with many...
I Love Ugly & POW Recordings Present: Chester Watson & Psymun
On Friday the 10th of June, I Love Ugly & POW Recordings collaborated together to host an exclusive in-store performance of Chester Watson & Psymun, in the I Love Ugly flagship store in La ...
The Second instalment of our 'The Odd, The Beautiful' series. Features @im_eno , a young producer from our own backyard Auckland, NZ. This series is our new platform to interview artists, musicians...
We are proud to introduce 'The Odd, The Beautiful'. An interview series on artists, musicians, creatives which profiles the struggle, hustle and motivation of trying to succeed in today's world. We...
I Love Ugly Future League by Jheryll Richardson
We've just released our first ever font, the I Love Ugly Future League. You can download this font here. We commissioned European based designer Jheryll Richardson to design and produce this on our...
Simon James talks to I Love Ugly
As you know we're interested in all types of design, particularly furniture design. Our Creative Director caught up with one of New Zealand's top furniture designers, Simon James. Enjoy. Could you ...
I Love Ugly x Urbis - Full Interview
I Love Ugly Creative Director, Valentin Ozich, caught up with Urbis on our garments and their connection with furniture and interior design. See the full interview with and editorial below. Where d...
LA CANVAS Magazine Interviews our Creative Director
Valentin Ozich our Founder & Creative Director recently sat down with LA Canvas Magazine to discuss the past, present and future of I Love Ugly. To accompany this, NE SENSE did an editorial. Ca...
An interview with Samüel Burgess-Johnson (LDN)
We recently caught up with London-based artist Samuel Burgess Johnson about his artistic style, his work, and his thoughts on creativity. ILU: Please introduce yourself... S: My name is Samuel Burg...
Dave Kinsey is an American contemporary artist who remains to this day a large inspiration for I Love Ugly. Critically acclaimed and revered by his peers and audience the world over, Kinsey's conte...
With a string of remixes under his belt and a recently released EP on the mighty HW&W label, Australian beat maker Ta-ku is quickly establishing himself as a guy making serious moves. We chat t...