Second Interview Questions

I will be interviewing my service learning person, Mimi Orth, who is the representative of Herff Jones Yearbook Publishing for iPoly. She has worked in this profession for very many years, working with schools in the LA area to help them produce great yearbooks. In addition to iPoly, she works along side many award winning staffs such as Brentwood HS and Walnut HS, whose work I really admire. Also having studied design at UCLA, I feel that with her experience, she will have great insight to this subject that would help me greatly with my senior project.

The questions I plan on asking, in no particular order, are:

1) What does your job at Herff Jones call for? What can you say from your observation about the transformation of graphic design in yearooks from what it was when you started to what it is now?

2) How is working with so many different schools' designers like?

3) How is it like working with graphic designers within the yearbook realm? What encounters have you had with them? What knowledge did you gain, if any, from working with them?

4) What is your educational background in design? What did you gain from it?

5) How did you first become interested in design? Why?

6)  How did you become the "Font Queen"? What are your favorite fonts? What makes typography so important to you?

7) What do you do in your job that involves design? What skills does that require?

8) What is the typical work day for you?

9) From what you've observed in you job and in your overall design experience, what qualities do graphic designers possess that make their designs impacting? Which of those qualities do you think you possess?