1.0crowdspring Bloghttps://www.crowdspring.com/blogRoss Kimbarovskyhttps://www.crowdspring.com/blog/author/ross/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="5UR5OTbtS2"><a href="https://www.crowdspring.com/blog/12-questions-meet-marc-kohlbrugge-the-netherlands/">12 Questions: Meet Marc Köhlbrugge (the Netherlands)</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.crowdspring.com/blog/12-questions-meet-marc-kohlbrugge-the-netherlands/embed/#?secret=5UR5OTbtS2" width="600" height="338" title="“12 Questions: Meet Marc Köhlbrugge (the Netherlands)” — crowdspring Blog" data-secret="5UR5OTbtS2" 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, and in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others respectfully, help us build something very special, and we’ll take notice. We’re proud to feature Marc Köhlbrugge, (crowdSPRING username: marckohlbrugge) today. Marc lives, studies and works in the Netherlands. 1. Please tell us about yourself. My name is Marc Köhlbrugge, I’m 21 years old and live in Nuenen in The Netherlands. I travel to Breda daily, the city where my school is located. There, I follow a study called “Communication & Multimedia Design” which is focused on everything related to new media. Graphic design, philosophy, technology, marketing, psychology, interaction design, the whole shebang. Basically I’m being trained to be a jack of all trades, but in a good way. Jobs get increasingly specialized, creating a demand for people who can communicate with those specialists and have a good overview of the whole project. Well, that’s me. That’s the idea anyway. I’m expecting to obtain my Bachelor of Arts degree later this year. We’ll see how everything works out in the real world. Talking about the real world – I’m in the process of getting serious about freelancing. I already do some client work on the side, but because of my study I’m not yet able to devote myself entirely to freelancing. With only a couple of months of study to go, the time is coming to get serious about it. Graphic design will probably be part of the of projects I’ll work on, but I’m more interested in guiding creative processes. I’m not sure which way, but I like thinking more than doing. We’ll see how that works out. 2. How did you start out doing graphic design? I started drawing when I was young. When I got a little older, I started taking toys apart and later building weird constructions with Lego™. Then, when I was around 11 years old, my brother brought home a copy of Adobe Photoshop. I already knew my way around computer back then so I learned Photoshop pretty quickly from an early age (with a little help from my brother). While other kids had just found out about “Word Art”, I was designing my school documents in Photoshop. It wasn’t until a couple of years later when I really started designing new stuff versus manipulating existing photos. At that time I was really fascinated with the idea of hacking into computers. I read an article that said you had to know at least one programming language to become a hacker so I started learning HTML (which isn’t really a programming language, but I didn’t know that at the time). I kinda stuck creating websites and never got into hacking (fortunately?). The thing about websites is the combination of technology and design. They go..