Creative Interviews

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Freelance

I prefer to use the term commercial artist. In many ways, this encapsulates both design and illustration, and I don’t think I could ever simply be one or the other. In my thinking, I am a designer. In my feeling, my intuition, I am an illustrator.

12
TBA+D

I love print and all the joys that come from holding a printed object in my hands.

11
Weaymouth Creative

Building a brand from the ground-up is always exciting especially when you can integrate it across various platforms…

10
Freelance

I’m more confident in who I am and what and how I draw. I guess I also understand things now in a way that only comes from having done a lot of work and experiences with people and situations.

9
Freelance

I was first exposed to design through music—which remains a constant source of inspiration to my work and my life in general…

8
Sago Sago

We purposefully design apps that are fun and satisfying for boys and girls. As a parent it drives me crazy when I go to the toy store and everything is divided into boys and girls sections

7
Freelance

I practiced and experimented over and over and over and still do. It’s something I continue to work at and develop my skills in, challenging myself along with way.

6
Underline Studio

We believe that to reach a level of success in this market you need to first work for very good designers while treating this work experience as an apprenticeship…

5
Facebook (formerly at Teehan + Lax)

You want to launch with the thing that is your product’s core value, that thing you can do better than anyone else, and then you add to that.

4
Hambly Woolley

… we are a studio of personalities and passions. We are design focused, and of the 13 people in the company, nine of us are designers …

3
Polyester Studio

Bob and I started the studio for the same reason a lot of creatives start their own shop. We felt we could do a better job than some of the places we worked previously and wanted to have more say in the type of work we did…

2
Parcel Design

Because we believe that a brand lives in the subtext, we challenge ourselves to ensure we are always reflecting on our own subtext—the undercurrent that influences everything we do and why we do it…

1
Freelance

I’ve been full time independent since 2005. Before that I worked at an agency in England after my master’s. The first professional thing I did was for the Halifax Chronicle Herald which was an illustration about aids in Africa…