for the sake of differentiation, and to make the lfb blog more useful, we will now be dedicated to interviews conducted with fellow graphic designers. we’ve tried several subjects over the years with this blog, the chief subject being the work of other designers. but there are already several blogs that focus on that subject much better, and with much more regularity than lfb (like the strange attractor, form fifty five and the best part). we think it will be interesting and useful, and helpful to those reading this blog to look into the world of fellow designers, and see how they go about solving problems very similar to the ones we have.

we’ve done a few interviews already, but we would try to write a unique set of questions for each interviewee, which really just took a lot more time than we have on our hands right now. so, we developed a standard set of questions to use. designers are coming from so many different backgrounds, that we’re sure there will be no shortage of variety of answers.

we’ve already got the questions out with several designers right now, and the questions are posted below as well. if you’re a graphic designer (define that as loosely as you want), we’d love for you to answer the questions and return them to dailey{at}livefrombklyn.local for us to review and post. in the meantime, enjoy the most beautiful chapel in the world.

1. what does your workspace look like? (send a picture please)

2. what’s you desktop wallpaper right now? (send the image file or screen grab)

3. what prompted you to pursue graphic design?

4. what kind of things do you do to ensure that you continue to grow as a graphic designer and improve/expand your skill set?

5. what’s one lesson that you’ve had to learn the hard way as a designer? how would you do it differently the next time?

6. when you’re not designing, what are you doing?

7. being creative and creating; what steps do you take to make sure that you are actually producing instead of just thinking up pie-in-sky ideas all day?

8. who are your top three design heroes and why?

9. what is your greatest fear (pertaining to design)? what haunts your dreams?

10. what, in your opinion, is the highest possible function that design can have?