Not so long ago, I found out about the blogger community here in Luxembourg, which has a group and a page on facebook called “Blogger_LU”.
As a blogger myself, I joined in, and it turned out to be a great & friendly place for meeting new people and discovering new things. The mindset was also very collaborative, as the bloggers there aim to help and support each other, while trying to promote the community as a whole and a reference for luxembourgish blogging. As some point, they wanted to create a logo for themselves, in order to have an identity they could use in their social networks and so on. I came up with a proposition to design a logo (as you’ll see below) and getting some exposure in return. Blogger Betty wrote an article about my work first (link), and then blogger Véronique came up with the idea to do an interview about me, which was something that I hadn’t done before.
It turned out to be a really interesting experience, as I was confonted with questions that I may have not asked myself before. It was a great exercise of soul-searching and putting structure in the “whys” and the “hows” of my life.
Here is an excerpt of the inteview:
Hello Linda, you’re well present in the blogging sphere. Your website ‘DISH’shares your work and portfolio and Orla Collective is a collective blog as well as an online magazine. So tell me,
WHEN DID ALL OF THIS START? HAVE YOU ALWAYS BEEN INTO DESIGNING AND ILLUSTRATING?
When I was a little kid, I loved to hide under tables and scribble little sketches. When I was a teenager, I was very introverted and would live in my bubble. In high school, while others used highlighters or pens to keep notes in a study book, I would scribble all over it and not even remember what the teacher was talking about. I was really, really bad at concentrating.
But I’m lucky to say that by the time I was an adult, it was an evidence: I wanted to do something creative for a living. I just didn’t know what yet and wanted to find out. In my late teens I started getting interested in posters, design and so on, so I thought I’d go to a design school to figure myself out. We had all sorts of graphic design courses and projects that were very based on practice. I went from introverted to extroverted and started to open myself to the world, getting inspired by everything that surrounds me. It was a lovely time. But by the time I got my diploma, I still didn’t know what I wanted to do. People asked me: “So, what do you want to work in? Graphic Design? Web design? Illustration? Advertising? Art?”. This was the most dreaded question for me but I learned to answer it correctly: “I just want to be creative”.
CAN YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT YOUR JOB? WHAT DOES YOUR JOB LOOK LIKE ON A DAILY BASIS?
Let me tell you, I’m so grateful to be able to do what I love for a living. I really wish that everyone would be able to do that for themselves, because the world would be a happier place.
It seems that all I had to do was to keep doing what I love and then one day it started paying off. I have such a complicated mind but my life came together so simply, what a coincidence.
I am living my own dream and I’m not hired to live someone else’s. My days are all completely different and I have the freedom to choose how I want to spend them. For me, creativity doesn’t work on a 9 to 5 schedule anyway. I’m happy to have a lot of variety in my work, too. I can be doing a mural illustration in the morning, go fuel some inspiration in the outdoors after lunchtime and then be working on a web project in the evening or prepping a blog post at night. I typically work from home on my desk but I can choose to do that anywhere I want if I feel like it. I also like to co-work with people or just have someone else working by my side, it helps. Of course, it’s a big responsibility to keep this together. But it’s totally worth it.
Read the rest of the interview HERE
