14
Aug
Quick fire questions with designer folk #1
Posted by Benjamin Reid in Design, General
Ever wondered what your neighbouring designer is up to? Well I put out five quick fire questions to some of my faithful Twitter followers and Facebook friends to see what’s going on in their noggins.
First lets introduce them all, then get their answers and then show a bit of their work.
Who’s taking part
Rob Goulding
Melinda Marsh
Question #1 - What is your favourite hex value or colour?
#23ACFF- Ultramarine Blue
Any shade of Blue
#2097E7
#E4E417
#FF0000- #0066FF
#000000
#9900FF
Question #2 - What’s your speciality?
- The web
- Illustration
- Web design
- Site and Application Design
- Photography
- I love doing everything! why did i even suggest this? Ummm, These days i take more photos than anything
- User Interface Design
- Website management
- Traditional and observational drawings and digital character drawings
Question #3 - Where do you go for inspiration?
- Websites, magazines, out and about
- Other designers books
- The web - no particular favourite
- patterntap.com, deviantart.com, smashingmagazine.com, faveup.com
- Jamfactory the guys a legend!
- The internet! a never ending supply of goodness
- creattica.com
- Just browse favourite sites
- http://www.deviantart.com - various artists spark my interest to draw something, although usually I just get the urge to do something if I see a random item lying around.
Question #4 - What is your favourite tool of the trade?
- Coda!!!
- Adobe Illustrator
- Pencil and paper
- Notepad++ (the Coda for PC)
- Illustrator & Lightroom
- My camera
- Fireworks and Blend
- Transmit
- At the moment my graphics tablet and Artrage 2.5.
Question #5 - Your favourite artist or track to listen to while working?
- Gary Moore
- David carson
- Howard Shore
- I stick Last.fm on and let it play my recommendations, or my Loved Tracks
- Chicane - Poppiholla @ the mo
- It changes all the time, but at the moment, Jet
- Muse
- Hillsong
- Lately The Killers, but sometimes Muse or Franz Ferdinand
Some of their work
Jason Gorman
Sarah Gasby
Jamie Gregson
Yasmin Walji
Author: Benjamin Reid
My name is Benjamin Reid, I live in the UK and keep the magic locked into this site.
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Yasmin wrote on August 14, 2009
Woot
as I said on twitter - thank you Ben! aand omgosh wow at being among all you amazing artists <3
Luke wrote on August 19, 2009
Thanks for that Ben! It was great to be involved!