Here's the part of the interview in which Chuck talked about creating the Food & Liquor cover together with Lupe:
Many of our readers might not know, but you were the designer of the critically acclaimed album "Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor." Could you walk us through the whole process, from being contacted to creating the cover. And did you work hands on with the artist? Or did he give you a specific outline for the cover?
Chuck: Lupe is a really visionary artist who is in a great position to promote fresh art and design. He contacted me after I met with him several years to do photos of him for LTD Magazine - we met in person in Chicago at St. Alfred's for that photo shoot and stayed in touch after.
As for the process, he had this crazy skateboard with an illustration on it that inspired the whole look of him floating in the air with things around him.
We met up at a studio in Chicago, I did all the photography of him for the cover and back cover of the booklet, then shot all the photos of his belongings that are floating around him.
So the vision and concept was all his - as for the aesthetic, production, and execution, that was all mine, inspired by his words and thoughts for it. Turned out really cool - a very memorable cover for a unique artist.
