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
Ian Anderson
1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? I didn’t train to be a designer… I studied philosophy. I’m not sure I ever wanted to be a designer. My ambition is to communicate, to provoke dialogue, to question answers on my behalf and on that of my clients. Bit...
Martina Flor
1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? I guess I grew into it while studying graphic design. Getting started was relatively intuitive to me, I was 18 after all, what did I know? I just thought that working in something visual, that involved working with...
Lauren Gonzalez
1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? I have a background in illustration and really wanted to work for Disney or Pixar. When other kids were at the movies, I was in life drawing classes, at the zoo drawing animals or buried in my sketchbook practicing...
Armin Vit
1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? Around the second year of my college design education. The first year I didn’t care. I actually started studying graphic design because it seemed the path of least resistance at the time. I was a terrible student in...
David Airey
1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? I was 15 when I was introduced to graphic design as something people did for a job. I knew that people drew comics, and created art, but the term graphic designer wasn’t really in my vocabulary. I’d enrolled on an...
Will Paterson
1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? I had a friend in school that would create amazing YouTube banners in Photoshop. I loved what he created and wanted to do this myself. So from the age of 16 I started learning through limited videos online, books...
Jason Knight
1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? At the end of year 12 when I had to select a UNI degree. I excelled at art and woodwork and looking for some way to blend these together I stumbled across Industrial/Product Design. It was about 5 years after...
Hoodzpah
1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? Jen: I think we started doing it before we even realized what “it” was. We were drawing as soon as we beheld the majesty of a deluxe set of Crayola Crayons (that 64 color set was a game changerrrr). So we grew up...
Ksenya Samarskaya
1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? The definition has evolved, but as long as I can remember, starting at perhaps four or five or six, I knew I wanted to be an artist. It was the allure of the lifestyle. A space where I could think on different...
Simon Dixon
1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? I loved drawing and art as a kid. I was helped by being educated at home through what would have been in secondary school, so I had a lot of freedom to experiment. I drew a lot, including self-publishing comic...
Gday Frank
1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? Year 10 Art Class (2003) when I was introduced to Photoshop. Prior to that I'd wanted to be an animator for Pixar, Industrial Light and Magic or Animal Logic, but once I got to my final year of high school I was...
Joel Kelly
1. When did you realise you wanted to be a designer? From a very young age, I have been doodling on scraps of paper, and in academia, it was my school work. I seemed to always be drawn to visual elements and wanting to improve on the concept. It wasn’t until 1997 that...
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