{"id":4129,"date":"2011-09-22T14:10:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T18:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andysowards.com\/blog\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2011-09-22T14:14:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T18:14:23","slug":"chad-mueller-creative-interview-web-designer-freelancer-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andysowards.com\/blog\/2011\/chad-mueller-creative-interview-web-designer-freelancer-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Mueller Creative Interview – Web Designer, Freelancer & Blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we have the pleasure of interviewing an awesome, and well known Designer & Blogger. He is a great guy – I hope you enjoy the interview and learn a lot from someone who has been in the freelance design trenches for years!<\/p>\n

Tell us about yourself!<\/h3>\n

I am a 26 year old creative professional, I have been a freelancer for 6+ years now. I am the owner and creator of Inspiredology – a design inspiration blog, as well as Projekt19<\/a> – which is my freelance company. Recently, I have partnered up with Nick La of N.Design Studio to help run BestWebGallery.com<\/a>. I took on the role of Content Manager. As you can tell I am always looking to get involved in new creative projects. <\/p>\n

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I have been following your blog inspiredology.com<\/a> and I have to say the content is impressive! What was your motivation to first of all, start inspiredology.com<\/a> and how do you manage to keep the content quality so high?<\/h3>\n

Almost four years ago I was collecting inspirational images like business cards, screenshots, logos, cd covers etc… I was filing them on my hard drive, I had gained groups of folders and thousands of files. The only problem was that I wasn’t able to easily search, and organize them. I thought that if I started a blog – it would be a better way of getting organized. Before you knew it, I had bought the domain, designed the site and posted a bunch of articles. I had no idea that someone else would have found it as a good resource, after the first week I had received over 50,000 visitors. After that things just kept snowballing, the audience helped drive the content. Now Inspiredology is a three person team. <\/p>\n

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What is your typical day like?<\/h3>\n

Wake up early visit the gym, drag myself to my corporate 8 – 4 office job. I come home, that is when the fun starts – either I work on some Inspiredology posts, client work, collaboration projects or just waste my night playing around the internet. <\/p>\n

What is your favorite thing to do in any given workday?<\/h3>\n

Work on my own creative projects, being able to create something without working for money, or having someone tell you what you should do. <\/p>\n

Where does your motivation and Inspiration come from?<\/h3>\n

Being online, seeing the endless amounts of inspiration, and being able to interact with other creative professionals. We all challenge ourselves just by posting our work, we are basically saying – see this, can you do better? <\/p>\n

What are some of the tools, programs, or amenities you use everyday that you can’t live without?<\/h3>\n

I have been using Project Bubble for my project management tool. Managing clients, contacts, estimates, invoices, project – it’s an all in one tool that I would recommend to any small business owner. Twitter is my twitter app of choice, my iPhone and Mac of course. <\/p>\n

What other projects are you working on currently? What can we expect to see from you in the future?<\/h3>\n

Well we just launched V3 named “The Lab” for Inspiredology, at I am secretly working on V4 Re-Align, not a huge change but just adding small simple improvements. We are extremely pleased with the design, it’s not perfect but we believe we put together a great base, that we can work on making better. <\/p>\n

Also, Projekt19 is working on a few big collaborations with some big named designers. We created Projekt19 not just for client based work, but also for the ability to work with other creative individuals. <\/p>\n

BestWebGallery is a cool new project that I am super excited to be involved with. I have always been a huge fan of BWG, and Nick’s work so its a fantastic project to be involved in. <\/p>\n

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What advice would you give to someone starting out in the design industry?<\/h3>\n

Just jump in, be yourself and interact with others. Post your work, keep learning and you will get noticed.<\/p>\n

Name 5 people on twitter that have impacted your career as a designer and are Must Follows:<\/h3>\n

Not sure about whether they have impacted me, but they are great designer, and must follows.<\/p>\n

@nickla<\/a><\/p>\n

@Signalnoise<\/a><\/p>\n

@squaredeye<\/a><\/p>\n

@ryancarson<\/a><\/p>\n

And of course @andysowards<\/a><\/p>\n

Mac or PC?<\/h3>\n

Mac of course<\/p>\n

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Finally – If you guys have any positive feedback or questions, Please feel free to leave it below!<\/p>\n

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