{"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 Fred Kylander (Sweden) - crowdspring Blog","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"7Zsf5gwwJg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog\/12-questions-meet-fred-kylander-sweden\/\">12 Questions: Meet Fred Kylander (Sweden)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog\/12-questions-meet-fred-kylander-sweden\/embed\/#?secret=7Zsf5gwwJg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;12 Questions: Meet Fred Kylander (Sweden)&#8221; &#8212; crowdspring Blog\" data-secret=\"7Zsf5gwwJg\" 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 Fred Kylander (crowdSPRING username: fredK) today. Fred lives and works in Sweden. 1. Please tell us about yourself. I&#8217;m 43 years old, going on 24 \ud83d\ude09 Raised in a typical mid-70&#8217;s white middleclass suburb, the third of four kids (two sisters on either side, one older brother), imprinted with liberal ideals, learned to read and write at an early age, attended an English speaking kindergarten (not because I have English blood anywhere but because my mum and the proprietor of the school were good friends and my sister had gone there before me) and was fluent in English about the same time I was fluent in Swedish. Moved to the big city (Stockholm) around the age of 11. Did sports mostly at this time. Was an incredibly skilled left winger on the football pitch and did okay on the tennis courts. A bum knee put paid to any dreams I had of becoming the next great football pro. My favorite football team is, was and will always be Liverpool FC. 2. How did you start out as a designer? Well, I&#8217;ve always messed with design one way or another but I never had any real plan to make a career out of it. Mostly because my brother is a great designer, much better than I am, so it seemed pointless to try and compete with him. But I&#8217;ve always messed with design one way or another and I&#8217;ve always had a passionate interest for typography, and little by little, via a number of office positions, I found myself doing graphic design part time while simultaneously working with customer service at Preem Petroleum, one of Sweden&#8217;s largest oil companies. Oddly enough, as large as the company is, it didn&#8217;t have any in-house marketing division until 1996 when I was hired along with one other artist. (Graphic design wasn&#8217;t really accepted as a profession in the Swedish industry world at the time, unless of course you worked for an ad agency. It&#8217;s improved since, but the situation still isn&#8217;t great, something that affects the freelance market.) I guess that&#8217;s where my &#8216;career&#8217; as graphic designer began. I say &#8216;career&#8217; because I still have a hard time seeing myself as a professional designer. It&#8217;s just something that I do. Like breathing. I am self-taught, in graphics design. That may also have something to do with it. 3. What great design(s) have you seen recently that you love? The latest design that made me stop and take notice \u2013 actually I oo&#8217;ed and laughed out.."}