1. Hi , who are you and what do you do?

Hi, I am a graphic designer who got into web design and blogging. Most of the time you’ll find me working for some client work, mostly on catalogues and brochures, or publishing something on Designer Daily. I’m currently trying to escape from client work to spend more time blogging and designing on personal projects.

2. Describe a typical day at work?

I usually wake up at 6:30, grab a coffee and go straight to work. From 6:30 to 8:00 I’ll do some RSS reading, social media stuff and blogging. From 8 to 17 I work on projects for clients, then I try to take a walk or do some sport to change my mind. In the evening I work on my blogs, either by writing articles, tweaking design or promoting. In the week-end I spend some time blogging, that’s when I write most of my in-depth articles.

3. What do you enjoy most about your work?

The freedom I guess…

4. What do you like least about your job?

Being in front on the computer pretty much all the time, I find it quite tiring sometimes and try to change this by doing some writing or drawing work outside.

5. What is your worst enemy of creativity?

To me, the worst enemy of creativity is… creativity. I noticed that highly creative people often face one big issue: spreading themselves too thin. Having ideas all the time, these people will often want to jump from one project to another, thus never achieve any.

6. What do you do when you start a new project and you have NO ideas?

It doesn’t happen to me to have no ideas when starting a new project. However it does happen that the ideas I have are not satisfying, in those cases I just start working even if everything I do is lame for an hour or two, the ideas will come sooner or later.

7. What inspires you the most?

For personal work, I find that the best inspiration source is to take a walk or relax a little. For client work, I think that the most important is to focus on the topic, take the time to get “in the zone”.

8. Do you listen to music while working?

I don’t listen to music while working, I find it too distracting. If I work on repetetive or boring tasks I will listen to some jazz (Nina Simone, Billy Holyday, John Coltrane,…), french music or classical music.

9. How do you deal with criticism?

If it’s pointless criticism, I just ignore it. For most argumented criticism, I’ll take notes and give myself some time to think it. From experience, taking time is the most important to take the emotion out of the reaction and respond the best to critics.

10. What does your workspace look like?

Hard to tell, I’ve moved my office four times this year so I really didn’t get time to install my office properly.

11. Do you remember the very first web-project in which you were involved?

The first personal web project I worked on was a shitty flash website I did while in school. On the professional side, it was a website for a bar (no links, too painful to share that).

12. Is there any advice you would give our readers?

To find some way to always push their skills further and think about what they do. My blog contributed to this a lot, but I know that blogging isn’t for everyone.

13. What has been the most fun project to work on so far?

Obviously my blog, I really enjoy publishing it. I enjoy working for clients too, but I’m not sure it’s exactly “fun”.

14. Imagine yourself in 15 years… what do you see yourself doing?

Huh… 15 years? I guess I’ll be old enough by then to grow a moustache or something like that. Seriously it’s hard to answer that question, knowing myself I will probably take some unexpected path.

15. Please tell us 3 people who we should do this interview with (why them? :-) ).

John Boardley of  “I Love Typography“,  Daniel Scocco of  “Daily Blog Tips” & one of the fine editors of the “Lovely Package” blog.

Mirko…thank you very much for answering our questions :-)

So if you want to visit Mirko you should do that now: Visit http://www.designer-daily.com/ or leave him a comment here! :)