Studio
In
2010, you founded DR.ME. Among the many creative studios out there, what kind
of position were you initially aiming for? Also, please tell us
both the biggest changes you have made as a studio up to the present, and what
has remained consistently the same?
DRThe main reason behind
us starting a studio was we didn’t want to work in a graphic design studio in London. All
through school we were told that is what we have to do,
but we were more inspired by smaller independent studios like Neasden Control
Centre, Nous Vous, HORT and Yokoland. That was our goal:
to position ourselves within that field of studios and that is what I think we
have done. We have never really grown the studio in the sense
that the studio is just Eddy
and me. We
have collaborators we work with on certain projects when the project requires it,
but other than that it is just us two at the heart of it. The only thing that
has changed is we don’t work
in the same studio anymore, we used to sit opposite each other in our studio
for years but then I moved to south of France for a year and we began to work
remotely, which we could argue benefitted us in a way. We found this working style to work for
us and so when I returned to Manchester we continued to work in this way and we still do: coming together to discuss projects
when we need to, but most importantly having a beer.