Getting in Contact with Professionals, Craig Cunningham - OUGD502

Craig Cunningham is new to me in my practice, I met and spoke to him at the Thought Bubble Festival. I went back to his booth a few times to purchase work and just for a chat. He was a very friendly person and made the whole meeting feel very personal, it wasn't a scripted response. His work drew me to him but his attitude is what made me come back and want to start up a conversation. I feel people like Craig could really help to push my work further and really branch out into new territories.

1st Contact via Tumblr:

Hi Craig,

I spoke to you at the Thought Bubble Festival in Leeds this year. I'm currently studying at LCA and we have been set a task to interview or talk to a professional in our are of practice who could or does inspire our practice. I was just wondering if you had any free time we could set something up in regards to this.

Getting in Contact with Professionals, Evan Eckard - OUGD502

Evan Eckard has been a huge inspiration to my practice over the years, he taught me nearly everything I know about graphic design and anything more has been from him pushing me to be a better designer.
I found Evan through his YouTube channel and used his tutorials to learn computer based skills and overall arching design skills. His name was first to pop into my head for this task and therefore I knew exactly what to say to him so I am currently waiting for a response.

Email:

Hey Evan,

I've been a big fan since very early on in your YouTube career. You're actually the reason I'm doing anything within graphic design, without your tutorials I wouldn't be where I am today so for that, thank you.

Currently I am studying at Leeds College of Art in England, we have been set a task to interview someone who, inspires or pushes our creative practice. You, are the first name I wrote down to get in contact with. I know this could be a daunting question or may even be you don't have time but I was wondering whether it would be possible to get in contact and sort some sort of interview or conversation out.

I would be very greatful for any sort of response, I have been in contact before via YouTube so I know already you are engaged with fans which is amazing.

Kind Regards

Josh Storey

Getting in Contact with Professionals - OUGD502

We have been set a task to interview a professional or studio that inspires or relates to our practice to push us further. I have already interviewed someone (Mike Mignola) very close to my practice or at least where I would like my practice to head towards. The second part of the task is to create some sort of response from the interview.

I plan to collect as much information as possible from a range of professionals that inspire my work. An interview would be ideal form any of them but as I already have one it is not the main concern so even if I can just start up a digital conversation with the person then I could at least create some contacts from that. 

Interview ideas:

Evan Eckard

Mike Mignola

John Pearson

Dan Watters/ Caspar Wijnaard

Craig Cunningham

Olly Moss

Marvel

DC

Dark Horse