Learn to be a better designer from over 112 Global creatives
We’ve been interviewing your favourite designers to learn how they started, how they grow and what makes them successful
Andrew Dobbie
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...
Ryan Tym
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...
Jamie Ellul
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...
Nick Rees
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...
Callum Lumsden
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...
David Pearman
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...
David Palmer
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 -...
Jamie Bridle
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...
Kirsty Minns
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...
Tim Easley
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...
Jeremy Mura
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...
Martin Simpson
When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? As kids, my brother and I would spend hours drawing together, side by side at the dining room table. We imagined worlds, sweeping stories, scrawled across large rolls of paper with cheap wax crayon. I think our Mum...
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