At first, could you please introduce yourself?
Dmitry Utkin, 25 y.o. designer from Ivanovo City (http://factory512.com/ivanovo), Russia.
What do you do currently?
Now, I live and work in Moscow City. I'm currently a Creative Director of Novene Media Agency (http://www.novene.com), formered by Quantum Art, Inc. (NY, USA, http://www.quantumart.com), a leading ecommerce solution provider.
Could you explain your working platform and what tools you like?
I'm a Mac fan. Not dumb PCs. I've got a G4 with the basic but well-known effective graphic tools such as Photoshop, Ilustrator, Flash.
How long have you been doing web design and what made you do that?
I'm involved in webdesign about 4 years, but, i think, the really professional is about 2 years.
At first it was a money, but then becomes as a hobby. Hobby and money - what can be better?
Give me notice to your works.
Please explain each works briefly and send to me image files
It's hard and I can tell you why.
What I do for money is not a thing to describe about, becouse it's my job. It's not emotions or anything else. Clients gives a money, and I give'em a good promotions or another things they're payed for. And this is the same way that are most designers do. I'ts my food. And it's not bad, I think. But what about non-commercial works posted at factory512 (http://factory512.com) it's more and more hard to describe. Lotta people ask me to tell them about what I feel when I do this one or another work. I answer them that I don't know, it's just my imaginations and inspirations. They're not have to describe. People see my works, and they're think what they want to think and see what they're want to see. Nothing more.
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If any, what is your working style and unique habit?
Unique? Think, it's not. I'm still learning, trying another styles, combined styles, looking around and around.
Could you tell me what you try to communicate to the viewers of your sites?
If it's a commercial site, I have to communicate from the face of the client, not personal from me. But, what about factory512, I don't know. Everyone's choice is feel free.
The strong points and qualities of your sites?
Usability, colors and fonts.
Who influenced you most? why and how?
Who & what: Bradley Grosh, Martin Fewell, Mat Mejia, WDDG, Ant Kyriazis, Preloaded, TDR, my honey at e-lena.com, Biohazard, milk & russian beer, Mr. J. Widegren & Co., sun, bus trip, Surfstation & Kiiroi hard job, 50-60th love songs and movie posters, fuckin' russian political gangstaz, my friends, Mac, NASDAQ fallin' down, cool advertising, green grass, pizza, Google, VolumeOne, Matt Owens, K10K, Wired zine, Forrester, IKEA, The Beatles, gone home, my job, holidays, Attik, dreamings.
Why & how: so much. Cause, it's my current life.
How do you get some inspiration and source from? The 10 list of that stuff
a. Wake up in the morning
b. Dressed up, got washing & breakfast
c. Going to office
d. A road to office: underground shit and dirty streets
e. Stupid office security
f. Ok. Open a milk packet and cookie
g. Reading and answering emails
h. Do a job, surfing the web, eating, listening music
i. Gone home at night
j. Gone sleeping
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How would you like to be remembered?
It does'n matter how I want to be remebered at other people, but it's important how they're remeber me.
Did you know about Korea? If you know already, how and what?
Yeah, ofcourse, I know about Korea. Samsung, LG & Daewoo consumer electronics are very popular in Russia. I know about Tae Kwan Do, USA occupation of South Korea and the korean war.
Have you ever visited websites which are designed by Korean Designers?
Nope, I don't have a korean fonts at my computer ;)
What do you think about Korean designers and their sites?
Hm-m-m.... Maybe nothing... Becouse I can't remeber noone of corean designers, sorry....
Explain your life in your city
Whatta life? I can't see anything expect computer. Only a job in the office include weekends. But this is my way and my choice.But when I came to Ivanovo City to holidays I drink vodka and have to groove in nightclubs.
Can you give me any comments for who is to be designer?
Work harder. Read books but not only sit behind the computer. Gotta more inspirations from "real" life.
What is your plan in the future?
Make a business. If it'll be not an internet business, maybe another media, for example, advertising.
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It is fastly changing on web design trend, what do you think of the web 5 years after?
May be design for PDA ;)
Explain your personal history and education, please
Born In Ivanovo City. Graduate in school and Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology. I'm an angeneer of automatic controllers and the same shit. Started to work at city ad agency as a marketing manager. Soon agency closed and I was layed off (but there I met my wife [http://e-lena.com] on the new year party). Then I worked as a very very junior designer at one of the city ISPs (http://www.indi.ru) At the same time I don't know about photoshop but made some websites. Yeah, really. Then I came to Moscow to worked for a biggest publishing house. It was in 1997. There I've started factory512 and won my first russian webdesign contest. After that I've started to work as a designer in russian professional webdesign studio called Web Design (http://www.design.ru), then I gone to .dot Interactive (http://www.dot.ru) as a senior designer. Then comes the russian finance crisis. There is no money, all sucked and I developed my factory512 so much. At the same time I've been invited to work with Quantum Art Inc, at first as a designer then as a Creative Director and still working there.
By Izzy Lee
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