Joe Urban is a 22-year-old designer, producer, and entrepreneur from Shorewood, Wisconsin. Signed to his own label 1420b (@1420bmedia), Urban releases experimental hip-hop as a soloist. He is one half of the producer duo People, alongside his good friend and business partner Ethan Wendt. People has produced for artist such as Ayooli, Run Along Forever, Lavish Liam, varnish414 and Maz G. In 2022, the pair opened Niche Exhibit, a retail space offering "garments and collectibles curated to...

Artificial intelligence has seemingly appeared from nowhere, and is now capable of creating entirely unique imagery in a matter of seconds based on just about any prompt. This groundbreaking convenience opens the door to a vast series of issues; the largest being- what will happen to artists, architects, designers, marketing agents and virtually any worker who creates for a living, if employers decide to utilize a computer program over a paid worker. While this would obviously be horrible for...