Design Feast Series: Designer’s Quest(ionnaire)

Jennifer Kinon & Bobby C. Martin Jr.

Designers and Founders of OCD | Original Champions of Design

Primary design concentration:

Graphic Design and Brand Strategy

Most preferred tool for designing:

Heart / Head / Gut

1. How and why did you choose to become a designer?

Design is empowering. If you believe in something, you have all the tools to champion the cause.

2. Challenges you encounter as a designer and how do you deal with them?

Most people prefer to go with what’s comfortable. New is unfamiliar. It’s a challenge to get something new and different made. People are scared to be bold.

3. Your definition of an “elegant solution,” that is, good design?

Completely unexpected but totally appropriate.

4. From skills to values, what makes a designer successful?

Being nice while being relentless.

5. How do you stay motivated and grow personally and professionally as a designer?

We like testing limits. We push, push, then push some more.

6. For those aspiring to become a designer, whatever the discipline, what is your advice?

Find someone you admire and work with them.

7. What is your quest in design?

To take over the world.

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