Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Sean for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
My name is Sean Farrell, and currently I work remote in Ann Arbor Michigan for Fixel as their identity designer and illustrator. I also own and operate my own freelance design company brandclay. I am 25 years old, married to my wonderful wife Katie Farrell, and also own a few franchises of the ice cream company called Dippin’ Dots.
What are you working on?
I’m never working on just one thing, but right now most of my time is being spent on my wife’s site’s redesign (she’s a slave driver). Happy wife = happy life right?
Choose a favorite shot of yours. Tell us why it’s a favorite.
I would say that this is my favorite shot that I’ve done.
Most of my work is logo work and this one has always been one of my favorites. The client gave me a lot of free reign and only one concept was needed in the end.
Tell us about your setup. What tools did you use to create the shot(s)?
Well as some of you already know, I actually used to design from my Dippin’ Dots kiosk. Selling ice cream and logos at the same time! However, since then, things have picked up at both places allowing me to work from home… although I’m not sure where I got more work done from. My current set up is an iMac / Macbook Pro / Magic Mouse / Moleskine / #2 Pencil. I don’t have a nook in my apartment so I’m right next to the TV, xbox, couch, etc… I can get distracted quite easily.
Choose a favorite shot from another player. Tell us why you dig it.
Wow, this was hard. I have spent a lot of time curating shots on dribbble (1000+) and organizing them into buckets. Browsing through them for this interview reminded me just how much talent there is on Dribbble. I could have probably picked around 50 that I like equally, but as of this very second I am leaning towards two different ones. This shot by Eric Mortensen:
I love the colors and I’m a sucker for great dog illustrations. It’s got a retro vibe to it, and just love simplistic styling to it.
Even though it’s 90 degrees out in most places, this one, by Bobby McKenna has always been one of my favorites:
Again, just love the simplicity of the illustration and the colors are spot on.
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