{"id":7317,"date":"2019-11-20T11:48:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T11:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/?p=7317"},"modified":"2019-11-20T11:48:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T11:48:58","slug":"community-focus-david-vujanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/community-focus-david-vujanic\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Focus: David Vujani\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Vujani\u0107 got his first taste of comedy videos in the early days of YouTube, through watching the likes of Lonely Island, Sacha Baron Cohen and Shadrack and the Mandem. \u201cThose were the guys that made me go like, \u201cwow\u201d, and then I started making funny videos online, expressing myself on YouTube and that was it,\u201d he told us. \u2018Have A Nice\u2019 (not to be confused with Borat\u2019s \u2018Is Nice\u2019) quickly became his slogan, after he picked it up from a drunk man on a train \u2013 \u201cI found it really funny, I just loved that there was no ending.\u201d With four Everpress drops now under his belt (or 11 campaigns in total), he\u2019s shown there\u2019s plenty of mileage in his merchandise. For his insights into why he runs his campaigns, read on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 1778px;\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GHX7z-wg5zY?rel=0\" style=\"border: 0; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;\" allowfullscreen scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"encrypted-media; accelerometer; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>ON WHY HE STARTED SELLING T-SHIRTS<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I like clothes and have always liked buying clothes and putting an outfit together. I\u2019d say I have quite extroverted taste (shout out to my mother!) and I\u2019ve always liked going to charity shops and trying to get a good deal; mixing vintage shopping with sportswear. I\u2019d describe the way I dress as trying to make it work with the money you have, and then with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">merchandise it becomes a part of your profile once you build something.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7387\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7387\" style=\"width: 4632px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7387 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/davidv3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4632\" height=\"3706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/davidv3.jpg 4632w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/davidv3-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/davidv3-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/davidv3-1024x819.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4632px) 100vw, 4632px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of David Vujani\u0107<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Merchandise becomes part of your profile once you build something<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>ON SEEING PEOPLE IN HIS T-SHIRTS:<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People have sent me photos from around the world, or they\u2019ve seen someone on the bus or in the street. For me, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was on the tube once and I looked across the platform and there was someone across the platform wearing my hoodie \u2013 I was mad excited, proper gassed<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B0oIWSnAFlb\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Have a Nice (@dvujanic)<\/a> on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2019-08-01T15:51:19+00:00\">Aug 1, 2019 at 8:51am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A guy recently broke his hand, I think, and he sent over a photo of him wearing the T-shirt and said, \u201cI\u2019m having a nice &#8211; got a lot of morphine in my body.\u201d And there was this other dude actually in hospital and I don\u2019t even know what he broke, I think both hands? But he was in hospital bed wearing the \u2018Have a Nice\u2019 T-shirt and that was pretty lovely. Not that he was in hospital, but the fact that he was getting light from the merch and the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7421\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7421\" style=\"width: 919px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7421\" src=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/David-Vujanic\u0301-photographed-by-Dean-Martindale-@deanmartindale-.jpg\" alt=\"David Vujani\u0107, photographed by Dean Martindale (@deanmartindale)\" width=\"919\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/David-Vujanic\u0301-photographed-by-Dean-Martindale-@deanmartindale-.jpg 919w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/David-Vujanic\u0301-photographed-by-Dean-Martindale-@deanmartindale--230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/David-Vujanic\u0301-photographed-by-Dean-Martindale-@deanmartindale--768x1003.jpg 768w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/David-Vujanic\u0301-photographed-by-Dean-Martindale-@deanmartindale--784x1024.jpg 784w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 919px) 100vw, 919px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Vujani\u0107, photographed by Dean Martindale (@deanmartindale)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>ON THE PRESSURES OF FREELANCING<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It works best when I don\u2019t overthink it. I can at times find it anxiety driven: there\u2019s a lot of self-doubt, there\u2019s a lot of questioning everything. It\u2019s quite a unique position but it\u2019s something that I\u2019ve gotten into. I\u2019m a bit of a perfectionist as well which can make the process even longer when I create something (hence why the merchandise comes out like once every 6 years!). But when my stuff does come out I like to think it comes out in the right way.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trust your intuition<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>SOME WORDS OF ADVICE\u2026<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think everyone\u2019s story is their own and everyone has their own path, but I guess I\u2019d say <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trust your intuition<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and try to be as true to yourself as you can. Those are the things that will be challenged &#8211; we live in a challenging world and those two things can be very powerful. Also, watch <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Matrix<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. All three. And get outside of yourself, try not to stress too much.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7423\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7423 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/david_vujanic_have_a_nice.jpg\" alt=\"david_vujanic_have_a_nice\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/david_vujanic_have_a_nice.jpg 900w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/david_vujanic_have_a_nice-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/david_vujanic_have_a_nice-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Vujanic&#8217;s &#8216;Have A Nice&#8217; merch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0Our series has seen us speak to\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/community-focus-joey-yu\/\">Joey Yu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kyleplatts\/?hl=en\">Kyle Platts<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/murkagedave\/?hl=en\">Murkage Dave,<\/a>\u00a0so be sure to check out the other interviews.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content creator David Vujani\u0107 tells us how the profits from his Everpress custom T-shirt pre-order campaigns have help him do what he does best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":7420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7317"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7512,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7317\/revisions\/7512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}