Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

1. What are some traits that you believe are necessary in a graphic designer?
2. Does type ever play a role in your designs? Why?
3. What importance do you place on type in designs? Or do you believe it changes based on what you are designing?
4. When working on posters, do you ever come up with your own hand drawn font design, or do you stick to already existing fonts?
5. What importance would you place on photos in your designs? Why?
6. In some of your designs, are pictures ever the determining factor in how you make a design work?
7. Have you ever had to work with a design where only bad photos were available? If so, how did you deal with it? If not, how would you deal with it?
8. White space is pretty key in making almost everything graphical. Have you ever had to completely remake a design because some parts of your design just didn't fit?
9. What importance do you place on white space?
10. How do white space and typography work together on your posters? (How do you make typography work with all of the elements present on the poster?)
11. Does color play an important role in your designs?
12. Do you ever use color for its meaning (red for valentine's) or do you simply use it for being a nice color?
13. How important is color in your designs and why?
14. Have you ever had to make or work with a color palette? If so, how was the experience?
15. How many different graphic styles have you worked with? (Such as Minimalism)
16. Do you believe that a cleaner, emptier look is better for designs or should you have a nice amount of content?
17. What design style do you tend to stick with? Or do you mix it up/not stay constant?
18. When you look at [iPoly's 2013] yearbook, what are some graphical issues you see?
19. How would you have dealt with these issues?
20. Other than Typography, photos, white space and color theory, what are some other important elements in your designs?

Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

1. What is the best way graphic design could be used to augment a yearbook?
2. What importance do you believe white space plays when designing?
3. How do you balance out your designs if you have several different elements on it?
4. Do you place more importance on type or visuals in your designs and why?
5. What role do you believe typography plays in designing?
6. What is your opinion on having color be a major role in your design, with companies such as Coca Cola?
7. Do you find large amounts of white space in certain company designs to add to the 'high end/expensive' effect that companies, such as Apple, are going for, or do you find that thinking to be unreasonable?
8. When you design, is there ever a go to design that you try to emulate, or do you start off every design fresh?
9. What designs do you look to for inspiration?
10. Does the layout of a design ever make an impact on you? Why or why not?

Second Interview Questions

1. My second mentor, interviewee for this interview, is Ron Martinez, my friend Ronnie's father. He is a freelance designer.

2. What was one of the first things you worked on as a designer?
Did design always interest you, or was it something that just came up in the recent stages of your life?
Did you take classes for design or did you just design and learn from feedback?
Why did you not pursue a main career in graphic design?
What is it like working freelance designer rather than for a company?
What do you think is the best design you've come up with?
What do you like about design?
What are the most important skills in being a good designer?

Blog 4: Interview Preparation

1. I plan to interview Mimi Orth. She is very knowledgeable when it comes to graphic design and typography. She definitely helped us when it came to designing for the yearbook and she was also the biggest factor in deciding one of our main design element for this year.

2. What do you think of the current design standard versus older designs?
What makes a design work?
What do you think we can improve on in terms of design?
Going chronological for out small school is quite the leap of faith. Any advice?
Why did you choose to become a Herff Jones Rep?
What are your thoughts on the field of graphic design?