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Indigo & Mojca Dolinar

Name: IN.DI.GO (Nana Zargi and Barbara Nardoni)
Age: Nana 30; Barbara 30
Website: www.in-di-go.com

When did you start working as a designer? We started to work together as IN.DI.GO in 2001. Please describe in a few sentences your development of becoming a designer. Knowing each other as colleagues from university, we created IN.DI.GO as a duo of two designers or a small industrial and graphic design studio. Up till now our work consisted particularly of furniture design, office chair design and developing new concepts for working place. As we work on many different projects, we invite experienced co-workers from different design fields, as graphic designers and illustrators.

What is your “design-education” (e.g. university, etc) Industrial designers, graduated of the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenija.

What are the main influences / inspirations to your design-style? In the field of industrial design IN.DI.GO is striving for a design, which is based on products for mass customization. Customization with modular structure of a product gives the company a more rational production, bigger value and competitiveness on the market. IN.DI.GO may also be identified with distinctive process of design by which, combining diverse scales, technologies and functions, we are lead to innovative solutions.

Name: Mojca Dolinar
Age: 31
Hometown: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Website: www.mojcadolinar.com

When did you start working as a designer? I got my first job – illustrating for a magazine – about 8 years ago (1998), three years later I started working for design agency. Now I am a freelance designer and illustrator!

Please describe in a few sentences your development of becoming a designer. Since I can remember I like colors and images…I also draw a lot. It was only natural for me to go to secondary school for Design and Photography in Ljubljana. After that I studied at the Academy of Fine Art and Design – department for visual communications – also in Ljubljana. Soon after the graduation year I worked as designer in a design agency for almost 2 years. Now I work as a freelance illustrator and designer and produce work for variety of clients of my own and I also freelance for other advertising agencies in Slovenia.

What is your “design-education”? For four years (1995 – 1999) I studied graphic design – department for visual communication on Academy of Fine Art and Design, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

What are the main influences / inspirations to your design-style? There are various sources of inspiration in everyday life. Talented and creative people and especially their work (illustration, art, design) inspire me most. Internet affects my work in a very positive way…and of course nature, music, books, toys, old vintage stuff, magazines, ...

Please list your top five artist (at the moment): There is so much great work out there… As for designers and illustrators I’m overwhelmed with a lot of stuff I keep seeing. Nathan Jurevicius is one of my favorites and I admire work of Dave Cooper, Nate Williams, Tomer Hanuka, Tim Biskup, Michael Sieben, Kirsten Ulve,Tank Girl and Gorillaz artist Jamie Hewlett … amongst others.