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While the name “Jon Phillips” may not be instantly rec­og­niz­able to you, if you attempt to keep your thumb on a gen­eral pulse of the web design com­mu­nity, chances are you’ve come across him already, or at least his online mag­a­zine Spyre Studios.

I recall the day that the idea of inter­view­ing him came up. Selene M. Bowlby and I were talk­ing and I went to my twit­ter list to see who I could inter­view next. Jon’s pro­file showed up and to me, approach­ing him felt like aim­ing for the stars. I men­tioned the idea to Selene and she was for it 100%, She sug­gested to men­tion her­self in my intro­duc­tion email since her and Jon had con­versed a lot in the past. Thank­fully, Jon agreed to par­tic­i­pate and here we are, about to get to know Jon Phillips.

With all due respect to both past and future inter­views, I con­sider this one to be my most impor­tant. With this inter­view, I am hold­ing up a mir­ror to your pasts. When you look into this mir­ror, you do not see your­self, you see Alex Cook. “What do you mean” you say? Alex is fresh out of Uni­ver­sity, and at the start of her path to her career.

It really should come as no sur­prise that I’d have an inter­view with Rachael at some point. If you’ve read over pre­vi­ous entries in the blog, *cough* My Time, So Far, as a Min­ion post *cough*, you know I have a long stand­ing his­tory of work­ing with her on var­i­ous projects. You can fol­low her on twit­ter at caf­feinat­edelf (Twit­ter) or find her at The Caf­feinated Elf It’s with that won­der­ful rela­tion­ship that I am very happy to present her responses to the fif­teen ques­tions I posed to her. Lets get to them. (con­tinue reading…)

I will be the first to admit here, that think­ing of unique and cre­ative ques­tions every cou­ple weeks can be a bit dif­fi­cult. How­ever, some­times they just flow out of me. It’s even eas­ier when I can play off char­ac­ter­is­tics of the inter­vie­wee. I do what I can to frame my ques­tions in ways that show that I’ve done my research and show that I had each inter­vie­wee specif­i­cally in mind for that ques­tion. I am proud to say that I was able to do that a num­ber of times with Emtay­lor (Twit­ter). Shall we get started and get to know Emma a bit better?

Yeah, you’ll learn a bit about Amy below. What started out as a free­lance job ended up being a new friend­ship for Amy and I. I feel lucky to know her and sadly can’t get you to know her as well as I do. Nonethe­less, lets get this going!

Could you please list your name and occu­pa­tion for those who do not know you?