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Interview with María Cecilia Brarda
María Cecilia Brarda
“I don’t lock myself into a style or carry out the same process”
Interview with Antoine Goulet
Artistic Director of Récréation
“Sometimes a simple idea with a different angle can make all the difference”
Interview with Rui Ma
Senior Designer And Art Director
“I always get inspired by designs from different cultures”
Interview with Ivan Khanet
Branding Partner of Ivan Khanet Studio
“Design is a creative and strategic process that seeks unique and effective solutions to meet client objectives”
Interview with Mervin Tan
Co-founder of Plus Collaboratives
“The softer side of things other than design is as important as the design itself”
Interview with Tamer El-Menyawi
Designer & Creative Director
“Be positive and optimistic, learn from your mistakes, and stay away from frustration and despair”
Interview with Peiyao(Heather) Tang
Freelance Graphic Designer
“It’s essential to maintain sensitivity to the world around you”
Interview with Timothy Ames
Freelance Graphic Designer
“Design is one of those rare professions where you can always get better seemingly without end”
Interview with Tom Dabner
Creative Director of SomeOne
“I think that I’ve always been aware of design in the world even before I knew that’s what it was”
Interview with Efe Ozalp
Senior Design Lead at Revolve Impact
“Don’t be shy about adding alternatives to your designs and solutions”
Interview with Gregory St.Fleur-Dubois
Senior Designer at Paramount
“I like to think the problems through and figure out the best ways to approach them. That really makes the design part easy”
Interview with Ghazal Foroutan
Freelance Designer
“I can’t live without my laptop, the internet, Adobe products and my sketchbook”
Interview with Crystal
Graphic & Web Designer
“The little things I collected as a kid were secret windows”
Interview with Bruno do Nascimento
UX/UI Designer
“In my opinion, we must literally get our hands dirty making initial sketches on paper collages or clay models”
Interview with Marina Braem
founder of Viz
“The best design combines sophistication analytics clarity and liveliness”
Interview with Anna Dai
Graphic Designer
“Working as a dentist, I definitely feel that it’s helped me develop that deeper understanding of people and funnily enough how to design for people”
Interview with Joke De Winter
Graphic Designer
"Besides growing things it's also a great time to think through and develop new ideas or solutions"
Interview with Ruining Zhang
Multimedia Designer
“I always face perpetual culture shocks throughout my life”
Interview with Yan Yan
Product Designer of Captiv8
“Design is the truth that I use to explore the world and observe the internal universe”
Interview with Preejarumon Kaewmanee
Digital Brand Designer
"A good strategy will guide us to a good final design"
Interview with Jenny Rudziensky
Artist and Designer of L+R
“In my experience, asking someone to trust you is a useless exercise”
Interview with Enrico Putra Widjaja
Creative Designer of BEAT
“I take a lot of inspiration from my home country Indonesia, where the rich cultures and history are diverse”
Interview with Hsiao-Wen Hu
Designer of TED Conferences
“The variety and diversity of work is always very inspiring”
Interview with Keitaro Sugihara
Graphic Designer
“I like to do things one step at a time and look at all possible variations during each stage to choose the best direction”
Interview with Tiare Hernández Payano
Senior Graphic Designer of KIND
“I always try to find ways to include a bit of this wonderful culture I love into my work”
Interview with Pablo Ladosa
Art Director and Artist of Pablo Ladosa
“My aesthetics are inspired by a digital world”
Interview with Younho Park
Motion Designer
“I took a motion design class for the first time and found myself staying up all night to figure out how to animate and create fun motion graphics”
Interview with Giulio Patrizi Design Agency
Giulio Patrizi Design Agency
"Their ultimate goal is simple, to help brands grow with great design"
Interview with Cindy Kurniawan
UI/UX Designer of Bibit.id
"In creating concepts your idea can be out of the box but the execution must always be inside the box"
Interview with Noni Devora
Senior Designer of Ashton Design
"For better or worse, design is always evolving"
Interview with Bryan Louis B. De Ocampo
Founder @Palladius Studios
“The best piece of advice I ever heard was believe in yourself and chase your passion”
Interview with Jack O'Sullivan
Founder and Principal Designer @ Side By Side
"The solutions we provide can potentially take them to heights they never thought were possible."
Interview with Jon Beattie
Chief Digital Officer @ Apolinar
“I feel like it’s helped me be better at having empathy, particularly when we have to put ourselves in the shoes of the end user and client.”
2023 Indigo Award in Georgia - the country, not the state :)
Interview with Jaspriya Sahmey
Multidisciplinary designer & Senior Designer at Lippincott
“One of the greatest gifts of being a creative person is that you do not need tools to express yourself, ideas can be communicated in the simplest of ways.”
Interview with Shannel Lee
Freelance designer
"No challenge is too big if you take it step-by-step.”
Interview with Jian Sun
Founder of SunDesign
“Strive for long-term relevance. Keep it real, and don’t let your ego influence design decisions.”
Interview with Natalie Wong
Design Director of Chello
“Listen to understand rather than listening to respond”
Interview with Natasha Mozz
Freelance creative director
"Naturally, we tend to stay in our comfort zone of normal, and any good design is always kind of uncomfortable in a pleasant way. Normal is boring."
Interview with Lisa Liljenberg & Nathalie Anna Gill
Swedish NGO Unite 2 Learn campaign
“When in doubt, be yourself”.
Interview with Becky Gillis
Senior Designer, Chello
“It’s rewarding and exciting being able to turn a client’s vision into reality and see both digital and physical transformations.”
Interview with Amer Alissa
Graphic Designer
"When you have a talent, you should be responsible for it. You must work on it and develop it every day, all the time."
Interview with Adrianna Bilas
Creative Direction
“The best pieces of work are created when we stand for something. It’s impossible to stay truly neutral.”
Interview with Miranda Mora
Freelance Graphic Designer
“One of my long-term dreams is to create a design school in Mexico City to help young national designers with incredible talent get recognition and create fantastic work”
Interview with Elif Ergur
Owner of Elif Ergur Studio
"A great idea is nothing without great execution and vice versa".
Interview with Vilia Ingriany
Co-founder and product strategy and design lead at Sixty Two
Growing up in Southeast Asia and working as a designer in North America gave me an interesting perspective on being adaptable as a designer and ensuring that we’re designing solutions effectively for diverse cultures and contexts.
Interview with Fabrizio Ferrante
Senior Designer at Luminary Digital Agency
“The best piece of advice that I’ve ever heard is that perfection in design is not achieved when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove”
Interview with Sara Badovinac
Founder of Studio Prapra
“If you learn how to take time, focus, observe things, and remember the parts that excite you, you will have one of the greatest tools that you can have as a designer.”
Interview with Bas de Koning
Founder of Studio Duel
“Our goal is never to do the same thing twice. By holding onto this idea, you get to reinvent yourself in every new assignment.”
Interview with Kees Bakker
Founder of Kees Bakker Studio
“I try to look for ‘clever’ solutions with a bit of fun in them.”
Interview with Lucia Guillen
Lead Product Designer at Z1
"Efficiency when building a digital product is vital, and this approach helps us design based on certainties and not on assumptions.”
Interview with Casey Sheehan
Design Partner at Work & Co
"If you don’t push yourself to go forward, you’re never going to know your full potential.”
Interview with Iliana Sergeev
Head of IS Design Labs
“We stay informed by submerging ourselves in the culture and bustling life all around, by embracing the vibe and all the new and innovative experiences.”
Interview with Matt Darczynski
Independent designer and head of madade.xyz
“It took me a long time to find what I love, and it is design. Even though this is a paid job, I don’t look at it that way. I get to create things that other people need.”
Interview with Site Ma
Interdisciplinary designer and illustrator at Paperwhite-Studio, New York
“If I can face the fear of the worst, I won’t feel too much pressure."
Interview with Moe Selwaye
Founder and Creative Director at Selwaye Branding & Design Studio
“Pressure challenges me and becomes the motivation I need not to lose my passion.”
Interview with Belfug Sener
Senior User Experience Designer at Motorola Solutions
“I like to observe how end-users engage with the product by themselves”
Interview with Maria Bilinska
Freelance designer and Illustrator
“Good design is the most minimal design possible”
Interview with Mark Garcia
Vice President and Creative Director of Majestyk
“I’m always thinking of creative solutions to simple problems in our day-to-day life and how we can design those experiences better.”
Interview with Damjan Krajacic
Principal and Creative Director at ActiveColor
There is nothing more gratifying than knowing that a product you designed and built had such a positive impact on humanity.
Interview with Jacob Beckett
Executive Creative Director of Multivitamin Design Studios
“The Indigo Design Awards are validation for the hard work we put in. You definitely help curtail imposter syndrome and spur us on to do our work even further, and anyone who tells you that winning awards doesn’t feel nice is a liar.”
Interview with Lisa Winstanley
Designer and Assistant Professor at the School of Art, Design & Media in Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University
“It’s important for me to try to make positive changes to society through design, or at the very least do no harm. Empathy is always my starting point.”
Interview with Simon Khalil
Creative Director of Arab News
"I've always been fascinated and excited about the relationship between powerful words and powerful visuals."
Interview with Vanessa Castiglione
Graphic Designer
“The most rewarding part of my work is collaborating with clients and seeing their visions come to life.”
Interview with Leandro Amorim
Creative director at Café.art.br, Founder and curator of the DatavizRio community
“Everything starts by falling in love with the subject or the potential impact the work has. If we fall in love, then everything else is just a consequence.”
Interview with Fanny de Bray
Founder and Creative Director of Made for You
“Never rest on your laurels. Don't take your past achievements for granted and always keep working hard and putting yourself in question.”
Interview with Kendra Beavis
CEO of MOKA Creative
“Being a great designer is part creative talent and part psychology”
Interview with Anthony Wood
Global Managing Director of Shillington
“Design is all about collaboration for me, and I want to work with people that I can learn from, be challenged by, and create better work.”
Interview with Sarah Louise Kinsella
Creative Director of Louise Agency
“Designers aren’t rigid. We sell change”
Interview with Wenjia Zong
Creative Manager of Limvi Studio
Interview with Kinda Ghannoum
Freelance graphic designer
Interview with Albert Salamon
CEO at ttmm
Interview with Chun-Hui Chang
Visual Designer
Interview with Beck Storer
Founder of The Cutaway
Interview with Ming-Hsuan Lee
Multi-disciplinary Designer and Illustrator
Interview with Vicente Gasco Gomez
Product designer, fabrication lab director, and 3D printing professor at Atlantic University College
Interview with John Gheur
Founder of Signature Creative Inc.
Interview with Ellen Bruss
Owner and Creative Director of Ellen Bruss Design
Interview with Lee Yew Chyuan
Founder and Lead Designer of Leadlab
Interview with Molteni Marco
Co-Founder of Jekyll and Hyde
Interview with Gabriel Celuque
Founder and Director of Hover Creative
Interview with Merril Cledera
Graphic Designer and Art Director
Interview with Meaghan Dee
Graphic Designer and Chair for the Graphic Design program at Virginia Tech
Interview with Evelyn Tran
Creative Designer
Interview with Irina Nosova
Founder of Lettering by Irina
Interview with Camille Muller
Art Director at OZWE Games
Interview with Clement Young
Founder of Bdworkshop
Interview with Lee Selsick
Chief Executive and Creative Director of Next Brand
Interview with Mathew Sage
Yoyo’s Creative Lead
Interview with Secret Location
An Emmy® Award-winning virtual reality studio
Interview with Matteo Bonera, Benedetta Signaroldi & Giacomo Bettiol
The Visual Agency
Interview with Simon Dunford
Typeface Designer and Graphic Designer
Interview with Dino Franke
Freelance UX/UI Designer @ GROHE AG
Interview with Marcos Chavez
Co-founder and creative director of TODA
Interview with Michelle Tang
Visual Designer
Interview with Michael Parson
Founder of Typogama
Interview with Karl-Magnus Boske
Founder of Boske Design
Interview with Sumayya Alsenan
Art Director of Neoscape
Interview with Alex Donne Johnson
Creative Director of Dazzle Ship
Interview with Celina Oh
A recent graduate of the Academy of Art University, School of Graphic Design and Digital Media in San Francisco
Interview with Gabriela Pérez Ponce
Graphic Designer at Datawheel LLC.
Interview with Tobias Wibbeke
co-founder of Persuaid Design
Interview with Stefano Marrone
Nucco Brain
Interview with Daniel Coutinho Ferreira
Buck Creative Studio
Interview with Kimberly Cruickshanks
Founder and Lead Branding Designer at Fuze Branding
Interview with Alia Bazzi
Founder of Manifest Design Inc
Interview with Iris Morales and Joel Martinez
Creators of Eme Design Studio
Interview with Jonathan Chan
A Digital Director @ Convey
Interview with Huei-Tai Chen
Graphic designer based in New York
Interview with Kitamoto Koichiro
Founder of CICATA, Inc.
Interview with Jaye Kang
a Dusseldorf based illustrator and visual designer
Interview with Davide Colla
Digital Branding guru of 150UP
Interview with David Schwen
Founder of Dschwen LLC.