Designers Michael and Martellus Bennett are brothers who both used to play in the NFL, but in this interview they reveal that their creative approaches are vastly different.
The pair enjoyed successful, decade-long careers as football players in the National Football League (NFL), each with a Super Bowl win under his belt.
But after retirement from the sport in 2018 and 2020 respectively, Martellus Bennett and Michael Bennett both decided to take up design.
Martellus Bennett now practices from his studios The Imagination Agency and TOMONOSHi! i+d LaB in Houston, while Michael Bennett's Studio Kër is based in Hawaii.
Brothers Michael (left) and Martellus Bennett both transitioned from the NFL into full-time creative work
The younger brother but the first to enter design, Martellus Bennett is relaxed about his famous sporting days continuing to follow him in his practice. "When people try to say you're a football player, to them you're always a football player because they have to find you in that space," he told Dezeen.
"It's not my job to change their mind of how they see me."
He had already been animating, writing and making music with alternative hip-hop group Moonshine Kids on the side during his football career ? so says the transition into full-time creative work happened quickly.
"I've never not made things," he said. "Football was like my plan B."
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