Hi ! 

We’re a French graphic design studio based in Paris and Lyon, and we’re currently asking questions to designers around the globe. Our name is Graphéine, and we’d like to know more about your work and design process in your country, if you’re willing to participate. 
Here is the link to our Behance profile, so you can see what we do : 
https://www.behance.net/grapheine 

To be more specific, the reason why we're asking these questions is mainly because we're really interested in what happens in other countries and we'd love to know more about how our fellow colleagues' work around the globe. 

We're planning to write an article in our blog about it, combining all answers by country. I's a blog on which we publish design-related topic articles a few times a week : https://www.grapheine.com/en/blog. Our main purpose is to collect designers’ point of view from around the globe, to see the influence of culture on local design. 

Please feel free to answer these questions in a few lines, and do send us images / links of your works and inspirations and links to your profiles, to tiphaine@grapheine.com

• Portrait 

- Name / age / Profession 

- Where are you from and where do you live / work ? ( Portrait + picture of your office ) 

- Where have you studied? 

- Who are your main artistic/graphic influences? Please send us names and pictures. ( studio or artists names / links / pictures ) 

- What is the project you are most proud of? ( pictures ) 

- Why do you work in the design field? 

• Design influences in your country 

- Please name famous designers in your country. Past / present ( Names / links / pictures ) 

- According to you, which cultural / historical / economical / religious backgrounds have influenced design in your country? 

- Which visual graphic traditions are very typical from your country? (arts and craft : street signs, fonts, patterns, tools, techniques…) 

- How do you feel about globalization and standardization of design? Where do you place yourself? 

- Is there a form of protesting graphic design in your country? Underground? Engaged? (names / links / pictures) 

• Design environnement 

- How does your country support local design? Is it recognized and emphasized locally? Are designers recognized for their work by the industry? 

- Are there design limits in your country? 

- Is there auto-censorship in your work sometimes? Why? 

We know it’s a bit of work but this research will enable to draw a nice overview of design peculiarities in the world and we need you to achieve that, so for now, many thanks in advance for your time.

Hope to hear from you soon ! 

Tiphaine, from Graphéine www.grapheine.com