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PROFILE

365 video tutorials in a year? Meet

the Bournemouth-based company

setting itself eye-watering goals

in its quest to educate designers

YES I’M A

DESIGNER

yesimadesigner.com

Starting out in 2010 as a design

blog, Bournemouth-based creative

company Yes I’m A Designer

(yesimadesigner.com) has since grown into

a fully-fledged design education hub. Not

only does it offer creative and innovative

online courses, tutorials, live streams and

events but this year it’s running its most

ambitious scheme yet – a series of 365

daily video tutorials entitled 365 Days of

Creativity. We spoke to the team to find

out how they do it and how they plan to

follow such an enormous undertaking.

Hi there! Can you tell us a bit about what

your backgrounds are?

Martin Perhiniak: I realised early in my

design career that I got a real rush from

teaching people techniques and skills.

There’s something about the look on

someone’s face when they do something

for the first time. That’s when I started to

pursue creative teaching. First by

becoming Adobe Certified, then getting

loads of classrooms and online experience,

which luckily took me all over the world

and helped me to build a big follower base

online. The combination of these led me to

start producing specialist online courses

for aspiring designers.

Shumi Perhiniak: I actually never expected

to be a graphic designer. When I was

SHOWCASE
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Photo: Loïc Salan (

https://www.loicsalan.com

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