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Interview with Molly Stone

Q / Tell me about yourself, so the readers can get to know you a bit better.

A / My name’s Molly and I do graphic design at Kingston and I like to work on all kinds of projects particularly one that require a lot of research and analysis and any sort of medium is good with me, but I prefer physical mediums like 3d, or photography or filming something over digital, but digital is still cool.

Q / Talk to me about your current side project

A / So I’m working on these illustrations, I’ve called them my procrastination gremlins. I think I started it because I got told by a very close friend that I was being a gremlin while I was trying to procrastinate my work. So if I get a very heavy workload, instead of just doing that workload, I will do everything but the work. So I started to feel guilty and started to do some work that was graphics related that wasn’t a current project from my course and I called it my procrastination gremlins.

Q / How do you feel when you’re doing your procrastination gremlins?

A / Usually I do it as a break so I can listen to a podcast or music, or I can talk, something that doesn’t require much thinking, or effort or reading. So its just me on photoshop drawing so, usually quite calm and relaxed, and thats why I probably use it to relax.

Q / What genre of music are you usually listening to?

A / I listen to everything, usually when I’m doing the gremlins I’ll listen to classical.

Q / So you mentioned you’re a graphic student, what is something you consider before you start a project?

A / I like to know the deadline first, because if you have a week long project, you can’t spend 5 days researching it, you know you want to split it up properly, so knowing the deadline is the most helpful thing, if there is a required medium, thats probably the second most important. But I mostly just like to get straight into researching it and hopefully from that I’ll have found an angle I want to work with so I can start planning how to make something, or whether its easier to draw it out instead of making it.

Q / Can you describe your work in 5 words?

A / No I can not.

Q / Sorry to put you on the spot

A / Trying to think of adjectives … spicy, cheesy

Q / A good burrito!

A / Ricey

Q / Different? Relaxing?

A / No, maybe stressful is a better word. I expect too much of myself, I do a ton of research and can’t manage to fit it into the outcome

Q / What are some of your favourite materials?

A / My film camera, is my favourite thing ever, because and I have at the moment, 12,500 pictures on my phone, and I probably don’t care about 90% of them but I still can’t delete them. But they’re there and it’s their just taking up space, and they’re not important. But then as soon as you take a picture and you don’t see it for months, it just makes like … you can’t wait to see this image, whereas if I took a picture on my phone, you just see it straight away. So I prefer to work with my film camera, but I don’t usually use it for university projects, usually just for extra curricular stuff

Q / How about in terms of illustrating, is that strictly digital?

A / Usually yes, it used to be hand drawn stuff, but that just takes a lot longer, so being really precious about the work while you don’t have a lot of time can be frustrating. So usually if I have a lot of time, and if I’m not in uni, and there’s not a looming deadline, then a drawing’s nicer than doing it digitally. But if you have deadline and not a lot of time, then doing a drawing is not as relaxing, the reason you do it is to relax, digitally just makes more sense. It just helps you learn what all the tools are, so I use photoshop, and a lot of the tools that I use to plan out a drawing I don’t use most of the time, so it just means I get to play around with it a lot more.

Q / Who’s an artist / studio that inspires you?

A / Ooh! So I really love Jelly London, they feature artists all the time, there are two particular illustrators that are always featured on Jelly that I really really love, and every time I see them, I just stare at it, and it kind of makes me want to become an illustrator, but then, I don’t because it’s a relaxing hobby … So they’re called, Everyone’s Favourite, and they do these kind of funny, kind of like animating real life, where they put their illustrations with actual real photographs, or films of people, and add comedic value to things, the colours are really vibrant, the way they draw people is so exaggerated, so they’re my favourites at the moment.

Q / What’s in the works?

A / So I have a project kind of started, which stemmed from my trip to New York, and I’m hoping to make a book which features some photographs I took, some have photography and type illustrated from other sources on top of it. Other pages will be illustrations but that’s quite time consuming, so I’ve not done a lot on it yet, but when the gremlins are finished, that’ll be my next procrastination project.

Q / What’s a good exhibition you’ve been to recently?

A / Definitely the Heavenly Bodies Collection at the Met, that was just so cool, not necessarily what was in the exhibition but because the way they had curated and art directed everything. Like the whole room, the outfits, the jewellery, the artefacts were there, the walls were part of the exhibition, the building was part of it, they had brought in these gates. They had these eerie lights, music playing, the whole thing was really atmospheric, so it wasn’t just like you were in a museum it was if the room was made to be part of the exhibition.

But then different to a fashion exhibition, the Design Museum in Copenhagen, where they had this whole walk through with three or four rooms, and each one had a different colour scheme with different genres of furniture … they were really cool pieces of furniture.

Q / Now just to sum up, so our readers can get to know you a bit more, what’s your favourite restaurant in London, or top 5?

1). Icco, they do really big, really cheap, really good pizza

2). Anywhere that sells a burrito, but chipotle’s a favourite

3). This is a little high end, but it’s very expensive, duck and waffle, who knew meat and belgain 4). waffles would go together so beautifully, but again, so expensive

4). Franco Manca, another pizza place, but like bomb and drinks there are really cool

5). The big easy, some seafood, lobster burger, the foods good but its more so for the atmosphere

Q / If you could travel anywhere in the world right now, where would you go?

A / tHAT’S SO difficult though, maybe Mexico. Thinking of the kind of place where you want to learn design, not because of the university, but because of the heritage, of the place, because why else would you move somewhere specifically. mEXICO has religious background where they have multiple religions, they have the Aztecs and there history and then there’s the gang wars and that history, there influences are very varied, just somewhere not super westernised, multi diverse place that is America

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