Interview with Ed Freeling

1. What got you into graphic design?
> I as well like and used to take pictures so i guess that led me to graphic design. Photography along with not liking to study from a book propelled me to design. Design is more practical and you can use your hands and that was way more appealing that reading from a book and it gave me the ability to use photography and explore the possibilities with photography.

2. What do you like to show? Do you have specific themes?
> I don't do much work on my own outside of class, i haven't had time to do much of that. Therefore i don't show much of my work besides the projects during crits in class. Same applies to themes i haven't been doing much on my own to have any set themes I work with.

3. Are you working on anything right now beside school work? How are you managing your time when having to visit the galleries?
> I guess if I had to choose something I work on besides work, it would be designing tee shirts. I love the company volcom and one of the shirts I bought had a volcom stencil of their symbol. With that I briefly made tee shirts in my apartment and a few hoodies. As far as managing time for gallery visits I have been using the allotted class time to get into the city and see the required things. When we don't have class that is biggest amount of free time, so I make sure to try and use it to get to the required visits.

4. Have you shown your work? If so, when?
> I have shown my own work once in a gallery show for the county college I transfered from, it was back in 2004. Oddly enough it was photography rather than design. The process was no where near as elaborate as what we have to go through now. It was nice seeing my work up on a wall, but having my work hang from a wall for a show is not my goal with design.

5. What do you plan on doing after graduation? Have you worked as an intern?
> I haven't set much of a goal for after graduation. More I guess I have a goal in say they work schedule I want more than a career goal. I guess to start my goal would be getting a job, in a design firm on the smaller side. I want to find a firm that works in collaboration with others to create design work. I want a job in a place where i can use my strengths and work with others to over come my weakness. The hope being collaboration will produce stronger more appealing design. Hopefully i can find this in a firm where i work Monday through Fridays and be off on weekends. So far I briefly worked as an intern at the recreation center for what they considered their design department, over on Busch in 2006. It was only for a semester and I wasn't there long enough to learn much or work on much.