Martin Schmetzer – 7 Design Questions Interview

Designer – Martin Schmetzer
Website – martinschmetzer.com
Behance – behance.net/PapperOPenna
Dribbble – dribbble.com/Schmetzer

1. How much time do you dedicate to learning design every day?
I work fulltime as a designer at Just Go Eventdesign and take on freelance typography commission on my spare time. So I guess I develop as a designer almost every day of the week.

2. What other designers do you have contact with on a regular basis?
Maxwell Lord (86era) and close friends who are Art Directors.

3. Who are the top 2-3 designers that you respect and why?
Aaron Horkey and David Smith. The detail and level of hand crafts in their work is mind blowing. I honestly almost feel like quitting drawing when I see their work.

4. What’s your favorite website or design you ever made and why?
I think my favorite design is my hand drawn typography ”We will always have Paris”. It is a personal design I made for my wife and it has quite a sentimental value for me. I even made it as a wall design in our living-room.

5. Have you ever been published in a book or magazine? What books or magazines?
Cap & Design, Sticker Bomb, and soon I´ll get featured in a book about ambigrams.

6. What’s your favorite color in hexadecimal? How often do you find yourself leaning towards it with design projects?
I have rarely worked with hex-color to be honest. And I don´t really have a favorite PMS-color either.

7. What’s your most recent project we can look at?
I just finished a typographic cover design for A+ Magazine, a French business publication based in Montreal, Canada.

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