1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? As a teenager in the late 90s, which was a time famous for its cultural (or, to be precise, subcultural) trends. Back then, I was listening to nu-metal and dreaming of playing bass and having a pair of aggressive...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? The creative arts were neglected to the point of irrelevance throughout my (grammar school) education. Growing up disliking school immensely, there was always an anti-establishment aura around art, music and design...

1. When did you realise you wanted a career in design? My interest in art and languages began at a young age. Growing up in Italy everyone starts to decide their career paths at sound 13 years of age. I thought about pursuing languages as my best career option. I...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? I remember it was in my later years of high school. We had an IT project to setup a database for a local business. I selected a local Golf Course and spent more time redesigning the crest and colour scheme than the...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? I was 12 years old when I told my mom that I would like to “make a billboard.” At that time, she didn’t understand what I was talking about, so she asked me “Like… you want to be a construction person?” ? So, we dug...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? I always had an element of creativity within me growing up. I loved exploration through music and expression and naturally excelled at subjects like art. There was a point that I realised traditional art, at least...

1. When did you realize you wanted to be a brand strategist/designer? For most of my life, I’ve been fascinated by building things - from legos to forts and all sorts of make-believe. Receiving a bootlegged copy of Photoshop and Illustrator (Sorry, Adobe!) was my...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? I can’t ever remember there being an alternative to creating images in some form. I was always drawing or playing around with software as far back as Deluxe Paint. The idea of moving from still images to moving...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? Very early on actually! We got our first family computer when I was eight years old. I quickly discovered Publisher and I got hooked on creating my own booklets and flyers for amusement parks and travel agencies I...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? I’m not a designer. I studied journalism at Falmouth University as I’ve always had a passion for creative writing. After a few years of working as a journalist, I decided I wanted to pursue a more creative...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? I was fortunate to have Product Design taught at my school. I absolutely loved it and the teacher encouraged us to consider continuing it at university. Every single person in that class went on to do a design...

1. When did you realize you wanted to be a designer? I had been interested in art from a young age but never felt truly at home in any specific field. In high school, I took a graphic design course and really fell in love with the subject. Later in...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? I’ve always loved drawing and writing, being able to start with a blank piece of paper and create something unique has always excited me, and I’m a firm believer that no sketch or word is wasted,...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be an illustrator? Pretty late actually 😉 Though I have been drawing since I was a child, I first went on to study physics and mathematics and changed path at 19 to study Advertising and graphic design in Paris. After a BA I...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? Grow up in San Diego and skating and surfing I always loved the skate, surf and snowboard industry art and design. I knew I wanted to work in that industry or at least do skateboard graphics or apparel.  2. How...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? I was always creative as a child and lucky enough to have a mother that saw that in me and nurtured it further. I was also musical at school, playing guitar in bands etc. I initially thought that I’d either do that...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? Looking back, even in Primary School, I had a real fascination with the layout and design of school projects. I loved finding interesting ways to set out things like summer diaries on my parent’s Amstrad. By the age...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? I don’t think I really understood a designer’s role until I did my first year of my HND in 1999. Before that I didn’t want to be a designer – I just wanted to be creative. But I guess...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? Honestly, I fell into design. I lost my father as a young boy and as a result, drove my mother mad. I was veering wildly off the rails but always had my love of art throughout. This manifested itself through...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? I used to copy cartoons from comics (Micky Mouse, Yogi Bear, Fred Flintstone, Batman) when I was a kid. That became my introduction to drawing with pen and pencils. I then started to redesign where we lived in...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? Perhaps unusually, at a very early age. I was already designing things like posters, flyers, and menus before I knew that it was a thing called design. I had always loved drawing and sketching. People used to ask me...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? I’d love to say it was something dramatic and profound like a parting of the clouds, a shaft of golden light and a divine voice from above summoning me forth to be a designer. In fact, it was a more prosaic voice -...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? Around four years old, believe it or not! I was fascinated with the covers of my parent's eclectic record collection from a really early age, and It soon became apparent to me that type and image was something to be...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? I always loved Design and Technology at school and was lucky to have teachers who gave me room to experiment. At 14 I did work experience for a luxury brand’s marketing team, shadowing a very talented designer...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? Quite late in life I think! I actually studied computer science, maths and physics at college, but had to drop out after a year due to financial issues. My first proper job was as a games tester, then I did various...

1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? When I first started using photoshop back in highschool around 2009 I had this class called multimedia and it opened my eyes to the world of graphic design and also 3Ds max. I loved the whole ideas of designing and...