{"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 Shubho Roy (India) - crowdspring Blog","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"x0doHDhZqH\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog\/12-questions-meet-shubho-roy-india\/\">12 Questions: Meet Shubho Roy (India)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog\/12-questions-meet-shubho-roy-india\/embed\/#?secret=x0doHDhZqH\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;12 Questions: Meet Shubho Roy (India)&#8221; &#8212; crowdspring Blog\" data-secret=\"x0doHDhZqH\" 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 Shubho Roy (crowdSPRING username: shubho_roy) today. Shubho lives and works in India. 1. Please tell us about yourself. I grew up in a small university town called Santiniketan in Bengal (India). It&#8217;s a pretty place for lazy people like me \u2013 life is slow\u2026nice creative atmosphere\u2026you find musicians and artists and writers around. Lots of trees, and there&#8217;s also a river nearby you can go down to on a bicycle\u2026I&#8217;ve lived here all my life save a few times when I thought a job in a city like Calcutta would be better \u2013 I was wrong. Now, I am back in my hometown, living with my wife and my four-year-old son. I am 29, by the way. Professionally, I am mainly into broadcast designing, specializing in low-cost solutions for channel packaging (from logos to look-n-feel to channel IDs). And since you don&#8217;t have TV channels changing their looks every day, I have lots of time to do other things\u2026 2. How did you start out as a designer? As far as I remember I was always going to be an artist of some kind. I was trained in the art college as a painter in my hometown university. Side by side, I also nurtured a passion for filmmaking and writing. I was doing designing too (posters, cover-design etc.) as student, but was not being paid for it. Still I do a lot of work for nothing more than grateful smile! I love doing that. But I still have a hard time imagining myself exclusively as a designer. &#8216;Artist&#8217; is better word. How I professionally started out as a designer is a minor accident. I made a short film in 2003 in which I, naturally, did the graphics bit as well. It was early 2005, and STAR News, one of India&#8217;s biggest news networks, was preparing to launch the first 24 hours Bengali news channel. I remember I went to Calcutta to try my luck there as a video editor. An American gentleman called Ken Tiven (former CNN vice-president) was conducting the interviews in his capacity as a consultant. After talking to me and seeing bits of my film, Ken advised me to join as a graphic designer instead of an editor! At first it seemed crazy. I wasn&#8217;t sure if I could do design professionally. And there were more experienced designers applying for the job. But Ken was somehow convinced. Secretly, I was excited too, because surely graphics was more fun than editing\u2026and before long I was part of the core.."}