[SON] Hello Color, please tell everyone who you are and what you do, how this name came about and its significance.
[Pawel Nolbert] Hello Color, as a name of my portfolio site, on which I focus my online presence as a freelancer, came to life in year 2006. As some of you may remember, I was previously residing over at norrb.com address, but the domain problems forced me to think about a new one, so I had to come up with a brand new name, while norrb.com was pretty well recognized domain at the time. As with the HelloColor name I wanted a name that would be “friendly-to-hear†and representing me & what I have been doing in an adequate way, as I was fascinated by using a whole spectrum of colors and decided to to apply that to my works at the time, so I found name Hello Color fitting to that very well, and I liked it a lot. As far as the name significance is concerned, shortly after establishing myself as HelloColor, I realized how prominent a name can be, especially in the internet era. People liked the new name a lot and it become much more reflecting and attractive to a potential visitor.
[S] What are some levels you are trying to push in terms of style?
[PN] I actually don’t have, and never liked to have any strict, predefined style concepts that I would meticulously apply into my work. That would be a kind of limit for me, however we all should have some elements in our work that make others spot who is the author, that little things that make us recognizable. That’s good, but at the same time I like to have some freedom in that matter, that allows me to break the style limitations and create various stuff. That would never get boring to me, as it would, if I had very strict style. However, as you might have noticed and as I mentioned, I like using vivid and pleasant to eye colors in my compositions, but it’s all evolving all the time and it keeps me pushing the envelope and that’s important to me, to look for some innovation every time I create something new.
[S] I think i remember a musical tone before, does this play any theme w/ your creativity?
[PN] Yes, of course it does. Actually, I love listening to various music genres & I got a huge list with a broad range of artist and genres on my iTunes, but the one that make the biggest influence on my thoughts with approaching to a piece is rock music. That gives me dope, good lyrics which are always a great source of inspiration.
[S] How do you vacate?
[PN] Doing a lot of things, messing around, going to weird places & boring alike.
[S] First you moved from experimental to professional, what is the next step in terms of branding and expansion?
[PN] Well, it’s hard to say. Right now I’m focusing on freelance as HelloColor, but when I graduate in about 6 months, I will have a bunch of new options to explore. I will probably take a full time position at some nice agency for some time, so right now I don’t have any precise plans on how to develop HelloColor, at least not yet. Hopefully Hello is doing better & better and I’m glad of that progress. We will see what time brings and what choices will I face.
