Joe Gillespie
 is a designer/art director based in London, England who now heads Pixel Productions, specializing in design for multimedia. He has also produced the High Five award winning Web Page Design for Designers site. Joe is also our first UK entrant. |
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| How did you personally get into using the Macintosh family of computers? |
1984, saw a Mac in a store window - bought it - Hooked! | |
| Status: | Disciple. | |
First Mac:
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Original 128k Macintosh | |
Current Mac:
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G3/333MT G3/266MT PM9500/G3/300 PM8500/266 PowerBook3400 PowerBook170 - yeh, and a PC | |
| When did you get your first modem? | 1982 | |
| Who did you call first? | Prestel | |
| Present Occupation: | Graphic Designer/Multimedia Producer. | |
| Claim to Fame: | Being able to hum and whistle different tunes! | |
| Dream Job: | I've got it! |
| Not So Random Thoughts... | |||
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| Was there ever a time in your life that you had to "Think Different?" What was the situation and what did you do? | |||
| I have *always* thought differently. I believe that a creative graphic designer has to. I love surrealism and have used it all my life in my work. | |||
| How has using the Macintosh computer changed your life? | |||
| It really is an extension of me, just like an arm or a leg. I can do things with the Mac that I couldn't do in regular graphics because I just don't have the dexterity with a pen or paintbrush. | |||
| What is the weirdest thing in your office right now? | |||
| A full-scale map of the World, well not the whole thing you understand, just the panel that says 'The World - Scale 1:1' | |||
| My Passions are: | |||
| Robots, music, books, tools, cameras, Black Bush Whiskey. | |||
| If you could have dinner with one person dead or alive who would that person be and what would you ask them? | |||
| I would love to have asked Elvis if he had ever tried vegetables. | |||
| Do you play a musical instrument and/or are you in a band? | |||
| I play guitar, synthesisers and loads of other things. Used to be in bands, now I use a sequencer and 8-track ADAT. | |||
| When I grow up I want to be: | |||
| Still young. | |||
| The question never asked: | |||
| What question have you never been asked? |
| Just The Facts, Please... | ||||
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| Biographical Tidbits: | Well, I am rather fond of blue, but that's not very different. Sometimes, just sometimes, you have to conform. | Education: | Masters Degree in Visual Communication - Royal College of Art - London | |
| Location at Birth: | Belfast, Northern Ireland | Current Location: | London, UK | |
| Where you've been in between: |
I once spent a night in Birmingham. | Astrological Sign: | Libra | |
| Available? | Married, two teenage sons. | Chat Nick: | No Nickname. | |
| Favorite Books: | Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stephenson, I Robot - Isaac Asimov | Favorite Music or Band: | BB King, Scotty Moore, Jerry Douglas, Vivaldi | |
| Favorite Food: | Anything Thai without fish or chicken. | Cat or Dog Person: | No way! | |
| Web Page Design for Designer's CybeRollo's Treasure Hunt -- Joe's Personal Web Sites |
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| Pixel Production - Joe's Professional Web Site "(old and badly in need of a revamp)" | ||
| Favorite Web Site: | Mac Surfer - go there every day. | |
| "Less is more" - Mies van der Rohe |
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Created Tuesday, November 3, 1998; Edited: 12/2/98, 1/30/99