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Featured Artist: Michael Brito

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**New to BittBox** the Showcase section. No, this isn’t a showcase for MY work, I’m showing off YOUR work. BittBox will choose one artist each month from the BittBox User Showcase Group at Flickr to be featured on BittBox with 5-10 works, along with a short interview. This is just one more way BittBox is trying to help designers/artists and the design community in general. By funneling traffic to individual artists and showcasing their designs, we not only get some KILLER INSPIRATION, but the artists get exposure at the same time. Good luck, and say hello to our first artist: Michael Brito.

Artists Website:

www.bybreets.blogspot.com

Artists Flickr Page:

Michael Brito at Flickr

Interview with the artist:

BittBox:

Tell us a little about yourself.

Michael Brito:

I’m just an ordinary guy. I work as a graphic designer, do freelance design and illustration on the side and try to be a good father and husband. My day is pretty full.

BittBox:

What drives you? What keeps you interested in design?

Michael Brito:

I like to be fresh and bring something new to the design community. I am inspired by good designers and tend to look into the past to see what great designers have done.

BittBox:

If you could tell everyone out there 1 thing about your work, what would it be? Maybe a unique skill you have, or rare technique you use?

Michael Brito:

I do a lot of sketching and research before I start a project. I would say that this stage probably takes longer than the actual finished piece. I feel that the more time I take in planning the better the composition will be.

BittBox:

Name at least 1 quirky or dorky thing you do for inspiration or to pass boredom in those “design-block” moments.

Michael Brito:

I do a bunch of so called geeky things. Play with toys, watch cartoons, and read comic books. If none of that works then I go and workout, that usually works.

BittBox:

Music while you work? Yes, No, Sometimes, or Blaring Constantly?

Michael Brito:

Yes, definitely unless I am working late at night (don’t want to wake up the kids). I think that music helps shape the work and some of my illustrations and designs have been highly influenced by some of my favorite artists or songs.

BittBox:

Do you have a favorite artist or a few that influenced you more than others?

Michael Brito:

I have a lot of favorites. for graphic design I love Saul Bass, Paul Rand, and Stefan Sagmiester to name a few of the more influential designers. for illustration I like Picasso, Dalek, Futura, Mike Giant, and Doze Green. I know that I am missing others, but this list could go on forever.

BittBox:

Anything else you would like to say to the readers?

Michael Brito:

No matter how discouraged you are just keep working, always be experimenting with new techniques, medium, whatever. push the boundaries. Don’t just do what everyone else is doing because then your competing with everyone else, be different and get noticed.

There you have it. Michael Brito style.