1.0crowdspring Bloghttps://www.crowdspring.com/blogRoss Kimbarovskyhttps://www.crowdspring.com/blog/author/ross/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="SPze5npoDF"><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=SPze5npoDF" width="600" height="338" title="“12 Questions: Meet Shubho Roy (India)” — crowdspring Blog" data-secret="SPze5npoDF" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://www.crowdspring.com/blog/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js /* ]]> */ </script> https://images.crowdspring.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/27132050/shubho-236x300-1.jpg236300This is the second in what will be a regular series in our blog where we’ll feature interviews with someone (a creative and/or a buyer) from the crowdSPRING community. We’ll 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. Really. We’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’s a pretty place for lazy people like me – life is slow…nice creative atmosphere…you find musicians and artists and writers around. Lots of trees, and there’s also a river nearby you can go down to on a bicycle…I’ve lived here all my life save a few times when I thought a job in a city like Calcutta would be better – 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’t have TV channels changing their looks every day, I have lots of time to do other things… 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. ‘Artist’ 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’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’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…and before long I was part of the core..