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Tim interviewed.
By Fred on Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
My inspiration and friend Steven Heller has written what seems like his 1000th book on graphic design called Becoming a Digital Designer (with David Womack). He conducted a great interview with NNN founder Tim Shey. (Which was particularly inspirational to Tim, who’s been a Steve fan himself for years).
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Case Study: Small-screen Television
Timothy Shey, founder and head of network development at Next New Networks
Q: How did you get drawn into the digital world, and into design specifically? Did you train as a designer?
Tim: I grew up doing digital design, though I didn’t know it at the time.
As a kid in the 1980s, I would design and write software games on my Commodore 64, and was also pretty active on the BBSes (bulletin board systems) that were a precursor in many ways to the Web. Design then meant working in low-res pixel and ASCII art, but it was good training for what I’d end up doing in the nineties and beyond.
Design for me has always been about doing the best (more…)
