Where should I have lunch?
My first big takeaway from this interview was how much he enjoyed what he was doing. After asking what the best part of work was he said, “..how fun it is interacting with all my employees and all the people I work with and it’s just an interchanging constantly changing of projects and designs.” To me I felt that he was explaining how it never gets boring, that there isn’t always only one thing he is working on and how it’s not only screen printing but also online stuff like webworking so it’s always something new. When I asked him the most difficult part of work, he didn’t know what to say, “Wow, I don’t know if I have a most difficult part. Deciding where to go for lunch.” There was nothing bad about it he said, only about deciding where to eat which is ALWAYS a struggle for everyone.
Another takeaway was that being a designer can be sometimes exhausting mentally. As an artist I understand this. When describing how him and Brandon go for lunch, he talked a lot about how they go out to de-stress because they are in there own think tank that could get quite overwhelmed with how many designs they do daily right after another. That sometimes they just need to go breathe and be out of there since they are so focused for so long. He described it as, “..constantly there in our think tank.” I know when I am drawing I’m in my own bubble and am concentrating on a single drawing for hours and don’t even notice how long I’ve been at it, after hours you need to walk around and take a breather because sitting down for so long and our creative juices and systems working for so long isn’t very healthy because like a computer.. We get overheated.
Something I like about the space I was in for internship is how mostly everyone has that artistic eye, and we all understand each other. It felt like I was with family. I just had so much in common with so many people and when talking to employees we just got each other and could talk about certain things for so long, and just someone understanding you and as an artist how we are perfectionists and someone there agreeing or just being okay with always trying to correct things felt nice.
Last takeaway was about how he didn’t know what he wanted to do right away. He didn’t even know what screen printing was in high school, “..four years after high school was the first time I even knew what screen printing was.” It was cool hearing how he just got attached to graphic design because of his love for art. I thought it was super interesting how he went for this career because he mentioned how it was rare path because it wasn’t as popular in the 90s as it is now. I liked how although that was the case, he still went out and learned and learned to do it. He would go out of his way to find resources and help to learn these skills. And doing so, now he is very good at what he does. He mentioned, “it’s stuck in my brain.”
Another takeaway was that being a designer can be sometimes exhausting mentally. As an artist I understand this. When describing how him and Brandon go for lunch, he talked a lot about how they go out to de-stress because they are in there own think tank that could get quite overwhelmed with how many designs they do daily right after another. That sometimes they just need to go breathe and be out of there since they are so focused for so long. He described it as, “..constantly there in our think tank.” I know when I am drawing I’m in my own bubble and am concentrating on a single drawing for hours and don’t even notice how long I’ve been at it, after hours you need to walk around and take a breather because sitting down for so long and our creative juices and systems working for so long isn’t very healthy because like a computer.. We get overheated.
Something I like about the space I was in for internship is how mostly everyone has that artistic eye, and we all understand each other. It felt like I was with family. I just had so much in common with so many people and when talking to employees we just got each other and could talk about certain things for so long, and just someone understanding you and as an artist how we are perfectionists and someone there agreeing or just being okay with always trying to correct things felt nice.
Last takeaway was about how he didn’t know what he wanted to do right away. He didn’t even know what screen printing was in high school, “..four years after high school was the first time I even knew what screen printing was.” It was cool hearing how he just got attached to graphic design because of his love for art. I thought it was super interesting how he went for this career because he mentioned how it was rare path because it wasn’t as popular in the 90s as it is now. I liked how although that was the case, he still went out and learned and learned to do it. He would go out of his way to find resources and help to learn these skills. And doing so, now he is very good at what he does. He mentioned, “it’s stuck in my brain.”
