{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"crowdspring Blog","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog","author_name":"Ross Kimbarovsky","author_url":"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog\/author\/ross\/","title":"12 Questions: Meet Graham Smith (United Kingdom) - crowdspring Blog","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"GKdky2vYHn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog\/12-questions-meet-graham-smith-united-kingdom\/\">12 Questions: Meet Graham Smith (United Kingdom)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog\/12-questions-meet-graham-smith-united-kingdom\/embed\/#?secret=GKdky2vYHn\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;12 Questions: Meet Graham Smith (United Kingdom)&#8221; &#8212; crowdspring Blog\" data-secret=\"GKdky2vYHn\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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We&#8217;ll pick people who add value to our community &#8211; in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly &#8211; activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we&#8217;ll take notice. Really. We&#8217;re very proud to feature Graham Smith (crowdSPRING username: imjustcreative) today. Graham lives and works in the United Kingdom. 1. Please tell us about yourself. The start of anything like this makes me feel I am being interviewed for a dating show or something, not that I have ever been on TV, but something about talking about myself unnerves me a little. But I have been asked so here I am. For better or worse. My name is Graham Smith (aka \u201cImjustcreative\u201d). I live in a small town on the south coast of England. I\u2019m 36 and have lived here all my life (something about that unnerves me as well, but I&#8217;m not the only one still here). I stay partly because of the location which is by the sea, with a nice beach, huge white cliffs, a long river, plenty of hills and a big forest to the back. All of this is a maximum of 5 minutes from my house. I live with my insane Lurcher dog, Dylan, and my wonderfully supportive girlfriend Anna, who has 3 young children of her own, which I seem to be inheriting. Not a surprise in itself, but what it brings is. She is a consultant lawyer, specialising in flexible working issues, representing women who get fired from high-end jobs because they are pregnant, and advising companies and individuals about working from home etc. My studio has a view of the South Downs and the sea, so I regard myself quite fortunate in this respect; I have worked in some dire hell holes in my life, so am more than qualified to say what makes a great working environment and a not so great one. Being self employed and working from home, poses problems but is far preferable to the problems created in an unhappy workplace. My profile on crowdSPRING really lists my professional life, but very simply, my whole career from 18 until now has been in Commercial Print, Design, Marketing Advertising and High End Drum Scanning &amp; Repro (Pre-Press) Graphics. I have risen from lowly apprentice paste-up artist, through design agency, through Repro House, through another firm of designers, to a large Commercial Printer, where I worked for 8 years, starting as a designer in a studio of 20. I worked my way up to Technical Manager, responsible for overseeing Apple Mac users, software, staff retraining and solving the myriad of technical problems associated with a busy pre-press (bureau), customer supplied files and the like. I was tempted not to include this next part but it has been so.."}