Meet our book & web designer: Roman Jaster

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Roman Jaster is the gifted designer who designed both Making It and this very website for us. He recently gave a Visiting Designer talk about his work at his alma mater, CalArts and made that lecture public on YouTube. In it, he talks about his childhood in East Germany, the decisions he made early-on which determined his career, his working methods (which are really interesting, combining coding with design) and talks about the concepts behind some of his projects, including Making It.

This all may be a little off-topic for the blog, but I’m sure some of you out there are designers, or who know someone who is interested in a career in design, or maybe, like us, you’re just curious about other people’s jobs. Roman is a charming guy and a good speaker.

The talk is available as a PowerPoint lecture in several short installments over on YouTube. This link should take you to the first video in the playlist. You’ll see the lecture is divided thematically so you can focus in on what you’re interested in — but we’d recommend you watch the first segment, about his early life, so you can see him 1) dressed as an Indian princess, 2) modeling German swimwear and 2) going to prom. 😉

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  1. You guys are so sweet. Thanks so much for posting this. The first part is my favorite too. You can’t go wrong with East German Native American pictures! And of course I was proud to talk about the Making It book. It’s one of my favorite projects!

    • Watching your lecture we were thinking about how lucky we are to have you as a designer. Makes us want to do another book just so we can have you work on it! I also really enjoyed seeing your photo processing techniques.

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