Profile of Paul Frank on Famous Like Me

Paul Frank is a well-known designer. He serves as the creative director for Paul Frank Industries, which produces clothing and other products, many bearing the face of Frank's well known character, Julius, a monkey. Frank created the famous animated series Julius & Friends based on these characters with writer/director Obie Scott Wade.

During the 1990's, Paul Frank was an art student at Orange Coast College. He bought a sewing machine in order to complete small projects such as attaching patches to sweaters. One day, he used some spare orange vinyl to create a wallet. After seeing his work, his friends expressed interest in other accessories, so he began to sew items such as guitar straps and backpacks.

A few years later, Paul Frank Industries formed in order to keep up with the demand for his products. Frank worked during the day, but sewed and sold his products during his spare time. After his friend Ryan Heuser borrowed money($5000) from his family (stepmom) to help Frank quit his day job, they obtained a business license and a resale number. Their corporate offices are currently located in Orange County, CA. The company's stores are also popular with domestic locations in Southern California, New York City, Dallas, Texas, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Chicago, Illinois. International locations include London, Athens, Greece, Seoul, Korea, and a group in Japan.

In 1999, Paul Frank collaborated with The Aquabats. Since then, he has worked with Bad Religion, Radiohead, The Vandals, Alkaline Trio, the Coachella festival, and KROQ. Also Oscar Mayer, Elvis Presley, John Deere, nirve Bicycles, prokeds, pretty girls make graves.

In 1972, Paul Frank attended Sun View Elementary School in Huntington Beach, CA. The building was painted in bright colors -- rusty orange, light blue and gold-yellow -- and Frank acknowledges this influence on his subsequent work. He also says that he is inspired by industrial designers: "...whoever designs schools, desks, chairs, office furniture, bicycles, cars, blenders, toasters from the '40s through '60s, stuff like public buildings." Further, Frank says that much of his style has developed as a result of his love for music such as The Who, The Rolling Stones and The Velvet Underground.

Other well-known Frank characters include Skurvy, a skull and bones, Clancy, and Worry Bear. His designs have been featured in numerous movies, more notably in the third installation of the Austin Powers series. Paul Frank also plays electric guitar in a band called the Moseleys and wishes he had a wiener mobile in his driveway.

Paul Frank Industried is currently in discussion with Warner Bros about extending a series of cartoons found on the Paul Frank website (as previously seen at the Sundance Film Festival) These cartoons were written and driected by Obie Scott Wade credited in each episode.

He is happily married and leads a quiet life with his wife Susan and their two dogs, Jasper and Dusty.

External link

• Paulfrank.com
• Julius and Friends
• obieco.com

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