{"id":6495,"date":"2010-06-15T17:18:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T22:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crowdspring.wpengine.com\/?p=6495"},"modified":"2021-02-27T15:07:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T21:07:42","slug":"12-questions-meet-tiffany-reed-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog\/12-questions-meet-tiffany-reed-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Questions: Meet Tiffany Reed (USA)"},"content":{"rendered":"
In our <\/em>12 Questions<\/em><\/strong> blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community \u2013 in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly \u2013 activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we\u2019ll take notice.<\/em><\/p>\n We\u2019re very proud to feature Tiffany Reed (crowdSPRING username: iamtiff)<\/a> today. Tiffany lives and works in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.<\/p>\n 1. Please tell us about yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n Hello, party people! My name is Tiffany Reed, but you can just call me Tiff (as you can see from my username). Getting a chance to answer CrowdSpring\u2019s \u201c12 Questions\u201d is so exciting! I\u2019m a 25 year old starving artist turned graphic designer, turned web designer. Whew! I wonder what I\u2019m going to morph into next! I\u2019m a Navy brat that was born in Japan and has lived in various places along the East Coast. I now live and work in a small cave in Norfolk, Virginia and I\u2019m hopelessly addicted to reality tv (fist pump!).<\/p>\n 2. How did you become interested in design?<\/strong><\/p>\n After getting BFA in Drawing & Design, I needed to make a living and, well, selling my artwork wasn\u2019t working too well. So after a failed t-shirt business, I decided to give graphic design a try which I had really been doing all along, and began making logos for my church, friends and family. Those projects led to other projects through word of mouth. I started studying as much as I could along the way and became very passionate about the industry and community. Then I stumbled upon crowdSPRING one day while searching for design competitions, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3<\/strong>. Which of your designs are your favorites and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n 4. W<\/strong>ho\/what are some of the biggest influences on your design work?<\/strong><\/p>\n My peers are the biggest influence, I have to say, on my work. Especially the community here on crowdSPRING. There are a handful of creatives who seem to up the ante and successfully complete awesome designs regularly that make the rest of us work even harder to improve our design skills. I also pull inspiration from other disciplines like interior design and music. I sit back and listen and then try to translate these other forms of creativity into what I do. I love it!<\/p>\n Well, when a creative brief is four sentences long it can be tough to get any ideas. But thank goodness most briefs aren\u2019t that, well, brief. After reading them I usually print them out, take a few notes, and start sketching out my ideas. This is also a way for me to get away from the computer for a bit. If I can\u2019t re I\u2019m a Mac trapped in a PC\u2019s body! I have most Adobe CS products and PC-equivalent software that you can find on a Mac, but alas, I work on a HP Laptop that my parents gave as a present a few years ago. Sorry Mom! I just really want a Mac. By the way, if anyone has an iMac that they don\u2019t want I\u2019ll be glad to take it off your hands in exchange for a dozen cupcakes. Nom nom:)<\/p>\n 7. What is your dream design project?<\/strong><\/p>\n I never really thought of a dream project. My dream has always been to to be able to make a good 8. How do you promote your work?<\/strong><\/p>\n I meet with my Marketing\/PR team every week to discuss our goals and throw around promotion ideas. SIKE!! I actually leave my business cards in random places around town, tweet about recently done work on occasion, and have my Mom mention to everyone she meets about my site iamtiff.com\u2026 I repeat, iamtiff.com. So, most of the work I get is by word of mouth, but if I could afford a PR team, it would be on like Donkey Kong!! Schedules\u2026schmedules! I go with the flow. Ok, not really. If I don\u2019t have some sort of order I\u2019ll go nuts. I usually wake up at 6am, but don\u2019t actually get up until around 6:30am. I work from home, however I\u2019m a I\u2019d have to say that web design is my favorite type of design I do. Although I have experience in almost all forms of design, I do get more gratification out the challenging and ever-evolving nature of designing for the interwebs:)<\/p>\n 11. If you weren\u2019t designing, what would you be doing?<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019d probably be traveling with various carnivals ( I love carnie food), or fixing watches which I was really good at for a few years, or teaching Art as a Professor\u2026 Professor Reed sounds awesome!! To be honest I really don\u2019t know what I\u2019d be doing, although the professor thing might be something I could do in the future.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Hmmm\u2026 I\u2019m emotionally attached to a lot of my designs so it\u2019s hard to choose favorites. But, if you had said, \u201cTell me your favorite designs and I give you this delicious cupcake\u2026\u201d I would have to choose the Venture22 logo design<\/a> for its simplicity, the Foody Two Shoes logo for the fun I had creating it, and the Silverhooks website design because it was also fun and the buyer is a loyal client to this day.<\/p>\n
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\n5. How do you come up with ideas for concepts after you read a buyer’s creative brief?<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/a>ally think of a certain part of the design or any of it at all I\u2019ll go for a drive and blast some music. I get some wind in my hair and usually get some great ideas. Although, I wonder if designing while driving is as dangerous as texting. Oops!<\/p>\n
\n6.Mac or PC? <\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/a>living and be able to support my family while in a career that I love. I\u2019m living that now!<\/p>\n
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\n9. Please describe your typical work day.<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/a>lso a single mom and the Princess has to be at that bus stop on time. When she\u2019s at school I make my pilgrimage to the Holy Starbucks for a latte. After that I go home to check emails and browse my Google Reader until around 10am when I\u2019m ready to rock. Before then I\u2019m pretty much useless because I am NOT a morning person, I just pretend to be. My tasks vary from day-to-day but after the Princess gets home I go into Mom-mode and when she goes to bed I\u2019m up and working my tail off. It\u2019s hard but it\u2019ll be worth it when I have my summer home in Italy. Woot!
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\n10. You seem to be experienced in many types of design – which is your favorite?
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