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[Intro]

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[What is your favourite font? What font describes your personality?]

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So I seem to have a favourite font or colour, like every six months to a year. Um, right now my favorite font is Petrona.

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So it's a serif, it's professional yet modern. It's got a little bit of personality. Uh, it's variable. So, um, very easy to work with as well. 

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[What inspired you to pursue graphic design?]

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So I wasn't necessarily inspired to pursue graphic design, it’s something that I kind of was actually pushed into by someone I know.

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I had been wanting to go back to school and I had a little bit of history taking psychology and business, and it just wasn't for me.

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So I ended up working in retail management for quite a few years and then finally applied for graphic design.

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So even going into it, I, I still wasn't really sure about it, but after only a few classes, I started to understand what graphic design truly was about

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and the ability to solve problems and create purposeful design. And, um, I'm really happy to have found it. 

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[What other passions and hobbies do you have aside from graphic design?]

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I do enjoy a lot of different, you know, hobbies and passions. Um, I like doing stuff outside, uh, like gardening and, uh, this year I picked up cross country skiing.

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I'm also really excited for the gyms to open back up ‘cause I had really gotten into, um, weightlifting. Um, I like cooking and making healthy recipes.

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Um, but I guess the thing that is maybe most design-related is I really like nature and macro photography.

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So I just think it's nice to capture the the really small details and, um, the things that maybe a lot of people miss.

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[What influences your work as a designer?]

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On a surface level, I'd say I'm inspired by uh, other designers work that I see on Dribble, or Behance, or Instagram, even.

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I think there's a lot of really great and influential work out there. Um, but as a whole, I'm influenced by the designs that I see out in the wild,

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um, from a, you know, user experience standpoint, when you’re using something or going somewhere and it just, there's a friction point.

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And now for me, I'm able to understand that that's a friction point. And so I catch myself thinking about how it could be better designed.

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And, uh, so I do base some of my projects around those types of things. And then, um, on the other hand, you know,

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you see good design out there and you take note of why it's a good design, why it's worked and just appreciate it for what it is.

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[Outro]