Quick fire questions with designer folk #1

Posted on August 14, 2009

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

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