About Dyse One
Even as early as the fourth grade, Dyse was getting in trouble for drawing instead of doing his schoolwork. At the age of twelve he was arrested for vandalism in a San Diego city-run truck yard and the system branded him a juvenile delinquent. Like so many others graffiti writers who get arrested, he was ordered by the courts to stop drawing or participating in any form of art. Naturally, he did not listen.
At 16, his artistic persistence paid off when he and a group of fellow graffiti artists working for Fox Television won a Grammy Award for creative advertising. With television exposure, Dyse was able to legitimize his talents (at least on a part-time basis) in the newly emerging street clothing industry and brought a new style to local tattoo shops. One was so impressed, they offered him an apprenticeship, which Dyse was forced to turn-down because he was still 16 and too young to legally work in a tattoo shop.
The 1990’s brought both opportunity and chaos. Dyse drew for companies such as Tribal, Rollin Hard, Viscious, and a number of record companies and bands, but found mixed success with his own company Ruen Kloze. Inexperience and a street mentality taught him the hard way that running a company is more than a hustle. However, over the past 15 years Dyse has learned his way around the clothing industry.
Now in 2006, with a new company and a more refined business sense he is once again bringing style to the world on his own terms. DyseOne Enterprises mixes class with authenticity, retains a familiar style while creating a new tradition, and most importantly focuses on design excellence.
