Ash Thompson — 9 November 2017
Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing typographer, author, designer and typographer Dominique Falla about her work, life as a creative and how disruption contributes to her creative process.
That I make a living from creativity and by inspiring people to make their living from creativity.
I feel disrupted every day. My routines and schedules and ways of doing things are regularly disrupted. Life is a constant battle of taking new information on board whilst trying to stay on course.
I love text-based logos and hand-lettered ones in particular. I’m going to have a crack at the Creative South logo in paper soon, which was lettered by Bob Ewing. In terms of a logo I would like to create in string art, Coca Cola would be fun because of the shapes. NBC because of the many colours. Starbucks would be a real challenge, but I’m up for it!
It needs to be something quite chunky and bold otherwise it wouldn’t work.
I’m obsessed with my white lines link notebook and app. I write in notebooks and lose them all the time. Photographing the pages straight into Evernote is just such a time saver. I also downloaded Eyejack and bought the book of art prints which goes along with it. Augmented reality is so exciting to me and the possibilities right now are endless. This is one of the best examples I’ve seen so far of what’s possible with the animation.
Everything!! I’m systems-focussed. I do so many things day-to-day that without systems and processes I would be lost. I would love my entire life to be on auto-pilot so that I could just sit around in coffee shops writing and creating, knowing that everything else is taken care of. Maybe I just need an assistant? Images sourced from: www.dominiquefalla.com