Today I have interviewed a visual identity designer called Alen Pavlovic, known as type08.com. Alen is a visual identity designer who has his own business in Croatia, but targets a global market. He is widely featured on logopond, and has built up an amazing portfolio of his work over at type08.com.

First off, whats the typical day in the life of Alen Pavlovic?

It’s a bit ‘nasty’ lately because I work almost 16 hours a day. I wake up around 9AM, start my ‘machines’ and start to tangle with the projects. I work whole day til around 4AM next day, with just a couple of short breaks in. I have clients from all over the World and those different times zones simply force you to be reachable almost 24/7. I won’t tell what I do during breaks!

How did you get into this field? Did you study anything?

My father is a product designer. I fell in love with the design probably since I could spell that word. After my education I got Project Manager degree, I studied Project Management on Civil Engineering section of Zagreb University, Croatia.

Why did you choose to go into visual identity building?

I love logo design. As simple as it looks, I think it is probably the hardest area of the all graphic design spectrum. When I started my company Artra 11 years ago (1998) that deals with much more areas like interiors or marketing, few of the initial projects were exactly from the field of visual identity development. I had a vision of working outside my country’s borders so I decided to offer that services to the much bigger ‘global’ market. Read more…

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Today I have interview an amazing web designer called Josh Tilton. Josh owns his own web design company called Grip Creative. Some of his work is outstanding, and his weblog design is on many different web galleries across the internet. If you have any other questions for Josh, feel free to drop a comment and he might just answer!

How Did You Get Into Web / Graphic Design?

I started getting into graphic design when my parents bought my brother and I our first dell computer as a christmas present. I was 14. I quickly discovered the website DeviantArt.com signed up for an account and started experimenting with Photoshop creating digital art. I started to get into web design with my band (all 15 year olds have a band right?). I really liked working with HTML, so I kept creating sites. Read more…

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Today I have interviewed Todd Garland from BuySellAds.com. Todd is the founder of BuySellAds, and has worked on many other web projects.BuySellAds is an advertising network that makes it easy for both publishers to sell ads, and advertisers to purchase ad spots. Its a win win situation. Publishers just sign up, register their site, create their ad placements and insert the code within their website, and BuySellAds sells their adverts, so publishers can focus more on site content. Todd has worked very hard to make BuySellAds what is is today, so read below to find out about Todd’s story.

Ps – Even we use BuySellAds! Check out our page, more ad spots coming soon!

Tell us a bit about yourself?

Let’s see… well, I’m 28, happily married, I have a trusty dog, and I live in Boston. I’m from Maine originally, and I once lived in Porto Alegre, Brazil for a year. If I’m not in front of the computer you can usually find me relaxing with my wife and family. I really love to surf, but we just don’t have easy access to good waves here in Boston. Before BuySellAds.com I was Lead Designer and SEO Guru at HubSpot.com (hubspot.com), an internet marketing company. And before HubSpot I was a partner at a Boston based interactive agency Mindfire (mindfire.com). I love startups, and I love trying to build stuff that is actually useful. There’s no greater reward than being able to make a person’s life easier with a software app or interaction. Read more…

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