WHAT ABOUT GRAPHIC DESIGN DO YOU
FIND MOST EXCITING?
Well I guess the most exciting thing in graphic design
is the emotional response that you can get from
other people, that’s always a great feeling when you
see other people excited by your work. As for the
most challenging part, it’s not to give up when you
start learning graphic design, it’s not easy, it takesDYNAMIC RANGE READER INTERVIEW
Cutouts are crucial in Muller’s compositing style. “I create a new layer on top of the images,” he explains,
“stack the layer in the images, then I take a Round brush with 0% Hardness, I put the Flow at 10-20% and
start painting the fringe of the selection with colour that I picked close to the edge. Try to regularly pick a
colour as you go around the image. It’s a fast way to get a clean selection without having to spend ten
minutes to refine the selection.”
And be confident, Muller says: “You have to trust that you will be able to do the work that you want to
do. I can guarantee that athletes like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant believe when they take a shot that
they will score and I think that the same can be applied to graphic designers.”DESIGN TIPS
HAVE YOU ALWAYS LOVED SPORT AND IS
THAT WHY YOUR WORK IS FOCUSED ON IT?
I’ve always been passionate about sport, when I was
young I loved rally cars, then I started following my
home football team, I also watch a ton of basketball
and football, so when I discovered Photoshop, the first
thing I wanted to do [was] visuals about my favourite
team or players. And after [that] I just tried to perfect
my craft so I kept doing sports visuals. I’m learning
[about] other aspects of graphic design like
typography, brand identity, composition [and] layout.
WHOSE WORK INSPIRES YOU?
When I started I was really inspired by the work of
other masters of sports design like Caro Blanchet,
Tyson Beck or Ishaan Mishra, now I’m less inspired by
the work of sports designers. I guess that when you
attain a certain level of skills you’re are not easily
impressed by the work of your peers. Today I get more
inspired by illustrators like Alexis Marcou, Orlando
Arocena, Ivan Belikov, or great agencies like Ars
Thanea [and] ICON Advertising. But my main source of
inspiration is sport, I’ve always admired the effort
made by players to win for their team, for the city, for
the fans. You can’t find that bond anywhere else.
Well I guess the most
exciting thing in graphic
design is the emotional response
that you can get from other
people, that’s always a great
feeling when you see other
people excited by your work
time to get good at Photoshop just like anything
else, you have a lot of setbacks and the key is to just
keep going forward, try over and over again and
one day you look up and you’re doing as good a
work as anybody else. For me I’ve started doing
decent work after one year spent in Photoshop.
There is no shortcut for great work, but you will
make it if you put the hours in.Joakim Noah, the raging bull: “The paint splash was
made by an addition of paint brush,” says Muller Poster basket mondial