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Benek: How did you get started in the web/graphic design business?

Micael: My introduction to the computer was during my studies to produce models of products (product design). I started with the illustration. I missed it as I moved away from there more and more. I unceasingly try to bring myself closer, but that depends on the projects.

Benek: What area of design is your favorite? To put it another way: If you could get paid to design anything what would it be?

Micael: It depends on moods, of my centers of interest which evolve/move with time. In one way or another I always make what I like: I arrange myself to return to work to be carried out interestingly.

Benek: For you, what are the most important factors that go into a successful and original design? What is it about your work that sets you apart from other designers?

Micael: Important factors : to suprise people, to be innovative and original. It means to make harmonious and clean things. I work down to the level of the pixel, it is very important: it is in the completion that quality is achieved. Each detail must be clean. Also to be innovative: the concept is very important. The idea must be interesting, sexy and ludic (playful), and sensual (I mean it must create sensations: it is for your eyes, ears etc.). I try not to be scary, but it can be if it makes sense at a moment. To sum up, to be innovative and interesting is to create an atmosphere.

Why I am different from the others?...It is not my part to answer that !

Benek: What do you see as the future of web design? What technologies will be most important for a designer to learn over the next few years?

Micael: Future technologies: Internet and the high speed will develop video and streaming medias. So to work with video and tv. The future internet is a more a human internet: multi-users applications, communities, and interactivity. Websites will be more intelligent, more ergonomic and simpler for everybody. Flash applications: the technology is just a means but not an aim. Exchanges of data, dynamic technologies. There are many technologies one must know to last (in this industry). The designer must know more and more things: graphics (Photoshop), interactivity (Flash), video... All the technologies are mixing to create a good site. Flash needs that melting: code, sound, images, databases, video, 3D, high interactivity, animation... In a nutshell, to stay a designer one must be rich in all these areas.

Benek: Lastly, what advice would you give to young designers trying to get started in the web/graphic design industry?

Micael: I am one of them !
My advice: work about 20hours per day. Don’t think you have achieved something, that now you’re a good designer, but always try to learn, everyday get informed on what else can be done, what the others have done. Also, do things other than designing (take the time for your sleeping time!): travel, play music, taste love, whatever. Life is good for your work too!

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