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1.0crowdspring Bloghttps://www.crowdspring.com/blogRoss Kimbarovskyhttps://www.crowdspring.com/blog/author/ross/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="VVMbnZWYSz"><a href="https://www.crowdspring.com/blog/12-questions-meet-david-w-nees-usa/">12 Questions: Meet David W. Nees (USA)</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.crowdspring.com/blog/12-questions-meet-david-w-nees-usa/embed/#?secret=VVMbnZWYSz" width="600" height="338" title="“12 Questions: Meet David W. Nees (USA)” — crowdspring Blog" data-secret="VVMbnZWYSz" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! 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For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we’ll take notice. We’re very proud to feature David W. Nees (crowdSPRING username: DWNees) today. David lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma (USA). 1. Please tell us about yourself. I am never good at trying to describe myself. I am 39, a Pisces, single and loving it. I am from Tulsa, OK. I have three degrees in art – BA in Art History (OU), MA in Art History (OU) and a BA in Graphic Design from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, OK. I have been teaching as an adjunct instructor at various colleges and universities throughout Oklahoma and am now working to get my career off the ground in graphic design. I am considering returning to school to pursue a MFA or PhD in 2009. 2. You are an academic, an artist and a graphic designer. How do you balance all three? Being under-employed allows for a great deal of balance in my pursuits. After graduate school, I spent four years trying to get an academic career off the ground. This culminatied in a change of careers alltogether and caused me to return to school to study graphic design. The Bush years have been very hard for my art career…  I was able to teach while attending school at NSU and that was great. Beyond that, I find that my love of art history and the joy of working as an artist and designer forces me to find time for everything. 3. Younger designers might not fully appreciate the importance of art history. Why is it important for designers to study art history? Most everyone can benefit from studying art history, because art history helps us to understand our visual culture. It allows us to see our cultural values. We can trace our development in the West by our most famous artworks and if we truly understand what they mean, we have the chance to truly understand ourselves. That is especially important for artists and designers because we are participating in that development – when we create something, we are in a dialogue with so many artists and designers such as Phidias, Michelangelo and David Carson or Chip Kidd. And like any conversation, you have to listen to what the other person is saying in order to thoughtfully add to that conversation. There are many great online resources and books about art history. If you are interested in reading about art history, let me offer a few resources I’ve found helpful: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html – Art History Resources on the Web – Professor Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe. Here you can find a little bit on just about everything. Fun even to casually scroll through and find an area you like..