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New Feature Column: He Said – She Said

Starting in the new year there will be a new feature column here on Bernskiold Media! I am going to be partnering with Elizabeth Gast from Design by Firgs on the second Tuesday of every month to bring you He Said – She Said. During that time, I will be turning over my site to Elizabeth so that she can share her thoughts on a current industry topic of interest, and I will be doing my version of the same topic on her site that same day.

Before we start this fun new feature however, we thought we would make the first go of it an opportunity to include a little promotion for all of our loyal Twitter followers. For the next two weeks we will be compiling questions from Twitter folks to create an introductory interview and give everyone a chance to ask us any burning question they want to know about us. After we are done collecting questions, we will be picking ten of them to answer and we will link the Twitter name of each author of each question we choose to answer. So if you follow us on Twitter (and you should be following us!) art thinking of some good questions and send them to us in a DM! You may just end up on our sites!

And to help you start generating questions, here’s some info on Elizabeth (or Firgs as her nickname is).

Real Name: Elizabeth Gast
Other Name: Firggy or Firgs
Site Link: http://designbyfirgs.com

Hi! I’m Firggy, I live in Chicago, IL and have been working and studying design for over ten years. I have an Associates degree in Fine Art and a BA in Digital Art, but I am constantly teaching myself new things as I believe that education should never stop no matter what level you are. I love art. I’ve wanted to be an artist for as long as I can remember. But when I discovered computers in the 6th grade (we’re talking DOS here) I found a second passion that opened up a whole new world. As far as I’m concerned, art + computers is the best combination ever! Photoshop will always be my main love and my main source of artistic outlet, but occasionally I’ll drift away to other programs in the Adobe suite. I started using it in version 4.0 and I am currently working with CS3. As long as I live though, I doubt I will ever learn all there is to learn with this one program – esp. if they keep changing it on me!

Right now I work as a freelancer in the industry as well as a Photoshop instructor. When I am not working (which is hardly ever – but don’t tell Erik that!) I enjoy reading novels about the Renaissance era as I am highly inspired by the works and musings of Leonardo da Vinci – who I swear is the father of ADD! I think he would have LOVED the internet!

I’m really looking forward to working with Erik on this project. I know we see things differently most of the time and yet I have the utmost respect for him. I really think this is going to be fun!