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
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Photo: Loïc Salan (
https://www.loicsalan.com
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