Name:
Jay David

Harsh Patel

Age:
24

17

Location:
St. Louis, MO

Austin, Texas, USA

Mac or PC:
MAC

pc

Site(s):
www.final.nu and from there that should take you to many other things i have done.

www.final.nu
www.bloop.org/choco

The Boss:
Hugo

Bruce springsteen.

Design education:
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Webster University in St. Louis.

None yet.

Hunk, spunk or flunk:
Ask harsh

Ask jay.

Disgusting personal habits:
I often forget that i have fingernails

I haven't done my laundry in two and a half weeks. that's disgusting.

Nice personal habits:
I'm punctual.

I keep my desktop really clean.

Hobbies off the net:
Print design, font making, movies, photography, sleep, no sleep, hanging out, concerts, travel.

Eating good food, music, sleeping, street fighter games

Favourite quote:
"It's not the band I hate, It's their fans" -Sloan

What do you know about Australian web designers:
I know that they have a lot of energy, from what i have seen. From the few Australian web designers i have seen (or noticed were from Australia) I'd have to say that they are constantly churning out cool work. I love to see that kind of motivation.

They probably sit in kangaroo pouches and type using a boomerang haha duh huh duh no, really -- i know that tintin's one, so is caryn gillespie, so is jade from sweeperonline, and so are you, so they're pretty cool with me

How did you first learn of the internet:
When one of my friends got sucked into the world of IRC. I wanted to see what this thing was all about and wanted to know how to make web pages happen and have my own territory online. I miss the fascination I had when i first discovered the internet, only good web design fascinates me like that now.

An aol floppy disk that was in my mail the first year it was out. after that, i learnt about carpal tunnel and chronic eye strain. and radiation-induced sterility.

What do you like/hate about the net:
I hate dead sites. Too many well designed sites never change. I love seeing sites evolve, like watching a young designer slowly grow and constantly change and improve their work. I love that i can see that easily by typing in a url. I love type on the net.

i like creative, dynamic sites that show pride and effort on the part of the creator. i hate sites that resort to pale imiation or blatant ripping off for the sole purpose of getting hits or money.

What drew you to web design:
The interactivity and exposure you can get. It just seems like a medium every designer needs to grasp, it's done nothing but help me out and i think it's made me a more motivated designer.

i ran a band site a long time ago, after a while i figured out i liked designing it more than putting up actual info on the band. and so here
i am today.

What is your working style (Photoshop, etc):
It's usually a sketch pad, photoshop 5, maybe illustrator if i need it, mountain dew, gif builder and my eudora light text document to type out all the crap lingo.

Photoshop 3.0.5 is best for me because it doesn't add a layer for every damn thing like 5.0 and .5 do. also, a beta of fireworks for gif and imagemap stuff. the rest is all chopshop ethic.

Do you think that Flash is cool or overused:
If it adds to the content then it works for me. Though it's often used when it's not necessary. I love a lot of flash work and I am planning to learn a lot more about it and experiment with it. So i guess I'm cool with it for now.

some ways of using it are cool - fabrizio schiavi modeled his site like a big gameshow using flash, which was very innovative and pretty. but then other people use it as a "convenient" way of plopping down 2 meg movies into my browser, which is really annoying.

Do you prefer technologically advanced sites or sites with simple but good design:
Good design. Good design sites that are technologically advanced work great too. But if i had to take one or the other, good design conquers all.

Any site i make personally is very simply structured - basic html with tables and mouseovers for now. i like css stuff, but that's as far as i'll go right now in terms of learning nuts and bolts. in terms of other people's work, as long as it loads fast and serves it purpose well, i'm okay with it. i think a particularly amazing example of a good mix of html and design work is superbad, which puts me to shame on a daily basis.

Do you have any cool design tips:
Not really except to do more work. Know your type.

Yeah - don't rip anyone off.

Favourite sites:
I don't think i have seen enough to make a final list. I don't really spend to much time looking at sites. But I'll say that Miika does some great work at smallprint.net, and I've always been a fan of Peter Bruhn's work at fountain.nu. There are so many more. I usually wait for harsh to make a links page and go to those places.

It changes every three weeks, but i've been stuck on bionicarts, tomato, shift japan, famewhore, turux, dextro, and futurefarmers for a long while now.

Favourite designers: (Web or otherwise)
I have always been a fan of David Carson, Vaughn Oliver, Mike Mills.

David carson and tomato.

Design styles you hate:
I hate any style that's done poorly.

Any style that rips off another without adding something fresh to it. i mean, if you're going to steal something, at least change the pricetag before you sell it to someone else. that's called tact.

Do you think web designers will become the design elite:
No. There will always be the elite web designers and the elite print designers. It's all in how you make the product/design work. There are pros and cons to both, web and print both have their own way of being interactive.

They already are, in my opinion.

Do you see yourself as an influential web designer:
I'd like to see myself that way, who wouldn't. But i think i have a long way to go before i feel comfortable in saying that.

Nope.

How would you like to be remembered:
As that one guy who used to do that one thing.

Question doesn't apply. i'm never going to die.

Any final comments:
Jesus rocks me.

i'm hungry, please send me food -- i don't have a car and the grocery store is three miles away. the campus overcharges in their stores and i'm dying.
thank you.

Thanks Jay & Harsh!