Alternative Person I admire: Jane Ray

Because the person I set out to contact in previous post appears very difficult to contact and is not really part of the design world in any way, i thought it may be productive to also look into contacting someone else I admire at the same time so that my chance of success are increased.

The person I have chosen is the illustrator Jane Ray. I have been aware of her for avery long time and even did a project inspired by her at A-level. Her work interests me because of its detail and the care and respect with which it is clear each illustration is created.

I found the most effective way to try and contact Jane Ray seemed to be trough a message system on her website.

The questions I would like to ask are as follows:

-How do you go about planning each illustration to suit the the of each book?

-Do you set out to embrue each illustration with as much meaning as possible or do you define one theme or concept you want to convey?

-What is your critical process like? Who's opinion do you ask to get constructive criticism?

- I believe you originally specialised in ceramics, what made you decide to try illustration?

-How do you deal with the pressure of designing to a deadline? I have to admit this is something I am struggling with at the moment and your advice would be most welcome.

Making Contact With the Welcome to Nightvale Producers

The production company behind the distribution of Welcome to Nightvale is Common Place Books. Their website has given me the most likely contact details so far.

However, as you can see if you look closer at the image above they suggest that this email is inundated every day so it may be profitable to possibly find a more specific email or address to make sure I can get in contact with Joseph Fink. Another option mentioned before was leaving a message or a comment with a donation but when I looked at the form to do so there seemed to be no comment option.

Something I have considered before is the idea of contributing designs for their merchandise which, because the podcast is relatively new, are quite sparse. On the website I found that they sometimes open for submissions of merchandise designs. So, I have signed up to their email list so that I can find out when designs can be submitted and the chance to receive more contact details.

If i were to contact the producers of welcome to nigh vale through the email on the website then the questions I would ask are as follows.

-What exactly Kick start the production of Welcome to Nightvale and where did the ides of the radio show format?
-I and undoubtedly many other listeners have notice the 'real' radio show format bares a resemblance to War of the Worlds in its radio play format. Was this an influence?
-I am aware that you take full episode idea submissions but I have to assume that a number of the earlier episodes came out of your own heads, where do these ideas come from? Is there a process you go through to generate the most surreal concepts you can?