Hi,
Tim studied in Cross-Media design and Bram in
Saint Lucas. How was your experience in the school, what have you learned form
that schools and how much helped the education on that places for your career
and experience?
Tim – Actually Bram didn’t finish his course because
he was always in conflict with his teachers. He didn’t want to give up his
style which was crap according to them. But he’s gonna try again in another
school next year. I in the other did finish Cross-Media design. To be honest I
didn’t learn to design at school. I think that’s something you need to learn
along the way. It’s a huge process where you’ll need to develop your style and
learn to use the available tools to execute. In school I learned a lot about
printing techniques, color management, accounting and some web design
languages. All stuff you don’t really want to learn by yourself. But as
freelance designer you have to have that knowledge too. So that was very
useful.
Where do you get the inspiration
for making such great works? Your dreams and life experiences inspires you too?
Tim – We listen a lot of music. Actually I run my
own music blog “phase02.org”. I guess music unconsciously influences our
designs. We also read a lot of blogs and magazines to stay up to date with the
current trends. But basically random events during the day inspires us the
most. Sometimes an idea just pops up in our head. We don’t know where it came
from. It had to be linked to something we saw or did earlier that day. And of
course we can’t deny that other amazing designers can inspire us.
You are one of my favorite designers but
talking about you... Who are your favorite designers and why, if a web portfolio
is available, show the URL?
Tim – Hard to say… For that would be Niklas Lundberg
(diftype.com), Theo Aartsam (sumeco.net) and David Waters (ishbu.com). But
that’s just the graphic design part. I’m also a big fan of motion graphics.
Bram – I’d say Dougles Alves (nacionale.net),
Radim Malinic (brandnu.co.uk) and Ilk (ilkilkilk.com) to call three of my
favourites.
What are your toward goals and great projects,
do you have a big plan for your future life?
Tim – Currently we want to make into1 as successful
as possible before Bram goes studying again. Our dream was to run our own
design studio together. And we started doing that already, but it’s not easy
and we’re far from there yet. Besides that we’re running wallpaperart.org which
also a project we want to get as big as possible.
As freelancers and professional
designers... Tell us about some bad experiences and good experiences with your
clients and how you deal with them.
Tim – Bad experiences are easy! You’ve probably heard
this like a trillion times. But the most common difficulties are clients who
think they’re designers. Here’s a comic that I’ve recently found that perfectly
illustrates what I’m talking about: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
How do you
deal with it? Well, you just do what they want but you never show it on your
portfolio. We’ve got tons of work we’ve never shown to the public, because
we’re ashamed of it. Good experiences? Well, I guess that would be working for
an advertising company who had allowed us to make super trendy artwork for a
boring political party who thought it was way to refreshing, but the
advertising company didn’t care. That was kinda fun. But yeah, it’s basically
the jobs where you can do what you want and the clients like whatever you do.
On the other hand you’ve also got clients who allow you to do whatever you
think is best but at the end, they’ve had an idea in their head and they turn
out to be the clients from the comic I’ve shown you earlier.
What is exactly your perfect workstation
to design, how is yours? :-\
Tim – For us I think it should be a very bright
(white colored) space with some simplistic, fresh-looking furniture. Some great
speakers to play our music, ours and other artists’ prints on some of the
walls, two iMacs, some paper to scribble on and we’re off. I said “should”
because we don’t have our own studio yet. But our rooms look kinda similar.
Mine is completely white with some black elements, some prints on the wall, my
computer and some magazines on my desk and my turntables and mixer, right next
to me on my lil DJ setup.
Bram – I also have a white room, with one black wall,
another wall completely filled with a3 prints, a punch bag right in the middle
to punch some steam off and my desk with some empty papers and my iMac on it.
You should check out our into1 blog. We’ll be posting some exclusive pictures
behind the scene.
What kind of design type you like to do
more, branding, logotypes, posters, webdesign, typo art or illustrations and
why?
Tim – I think I speak for us both that we prefer
doing posters, typo art and illustrations an such. They all kinda link
together. But we both love working with photographs, typography and
illustrations, mixing them all up, making a nice a composition. Web design is
less fun but very important for the business of course. Logotypes too actually,
even though that’s probably the most difficult part of graphic design.
What would you tell to those young
people who wants to be Designer, study the career of Design? Some tips for being
a good freelancer?
Tim – Have fun! You really need to be passionate
about it and love what you do. Of course there’re difficult clients, but if
you love what you do, you’ll get through
it. It’s a huge cliché but it’s true.
For you... ¿What is the difference of Art and Design? And the your own concept
of Design (many people still don´t understand the right meaning).
Tim – I’d say “design” is having the feeling of
colors, typography and composition to translate that in various commercial
media. Make communication look nice. Know to communicate with colors and
look&feel, understand the goal, target audience and translate that into
your design.
Art is more
a way of telling people a story without any rules or trends. A certain way of
being free and express what’s on your mind in whatever media you like.
That’s our
opinion on this matter. Hard to explain in English though.
Where comes the "Into1" name of your
studio and how did you decide to start that project?
Tim – As I told earlier we always wanted to run our
own creative studio together. And this is the first step. The name “into1” is
based on the idea of two brother, two visions, two different styles bringing it
all together into one.
And finally just for knowing: Who is Tim
and who is Bram in this photo http://into1.be/images/into1_brothers.jpg?
Tim – I’m on the left (I’m 21) and Bram is standing
on the right (He’s 19)