1. Hi , who are you and what do you do?
Hi, I’m Chris Spooner, a freelance graphic and website designer and the guy behind the design blog Blog.SpoonGraphics.

2. Describe a typical day at work?
In the morning I’ll arise and make the short commute to my desk. I’ll then check emails and Twitter before checking out my to-do list for the day.
I generally work on a project up until lunchtime, then head off to make myself a sandwich. During my lunch break I’ll aim to catch up with feeds and post my interesting finds into my Twitter stream. After lunch, I’ll continue on with a second project before breaking off for food in the evening. From 6pm onwards I’ll often spend some time casually browsing or working on some personal projects before heading out for an evening of movies at the cinema with my fiancée.

3. What do you enjoy most about your work?
I really enjoy being able to put new skills and ideas into practice on real world projects. I also love to be able to produce a range of products through design, from logos to websites and t-shirts and skateboard decks. There’s always something new each day.

4. What do you like least about your job?
Occasionally landing a pixel pushing or micro-managing client puts a downer on their project. I’m always open to suggestions and improvements but changes for the sake of changes sometimes makes it hard to stay enthusiastic or motivated about a project.

5. What is your worst enemy of creativity?
I’m probably my own worst enemy when it comes to creativity. Sometimes I’ll have a specific plan laid out in my mind, but when it comes to putting it into practice things won’t just go right! There are always ‘those days’ when nothing goes right which makes it particularly hard to focus.

6. What do you do when you start a new project and you have NO ideas?
Starting out with pencil and paper is by far my best technique when trying to develop ideas for a project. I recently developed a concept for a logo that I would never have thought of if it wasn’t for the unrestricted flow of the pencil.

7. What inspires you the most?
Browsing through design galleries really helps develop inspirations. I actually also quite enjoy being dragged around the clothes stores by my fiancée because of the opportunity to check out the designs on promotional displays etc.

8. Do you listen to music while working? And if “yes” what music do you listen to?
I enjoy listening to my Last.FM stream while working, but if the job involves any kind of wording such as emails or article writing I have to work in silence.

9. How do you deal with criticism?
I’ll always take into consideration people’s points, criticism can outline areas that you may have overlooked, which helps perfect a project. On the other hand I’ll always share my opinion or reason behind creating a certain element if I still believe my solution is the best way forward.

10. What does your workspace look like?

My little office area consists of desk, new Apple products and plenty of notepads and scribbles.

11. Do you remember the very first web-project in which you were involved?
My very first website was some kind of terrible creation on one of those free geocities style accounts. My first paid web project was a flash website for a local festival, where the work was produced alongside a friend who was organising the event.

12. Is there any advice you would give our readers?
Aim to continually broaden your knowledge on your chosen subjects and stay up to date with the industry changes.

13. What has been the most fun project to work on so far?
I would say t-shirt, hoody and skateboard designs for the band Fall Out Boy were one of the most fun projects with there being pretty much creative freedom from working with the merchandising company. Seeing random MySpace girls and having my sister message me after seeing someone in the street wearing the t-shirt was also pretty cool.

14. Imagine yourself in 15 years… what do you see yourself doing?
Fifteen years is definitely pretty hard to forecast, I remember reading these Braintalk interviews with other designers only 1-2 years ago and never expected to be participating in one myself.
I’d like to think that I’ll either be working on a range of personal projects that earn enough revenue to support myself and a family, or have a position at a really cool creative studio with a range of exciting projects.

15. Please tell us 3 people who we should do this Interview with (Why them?).
Three bloggers who pump out great design related content, and who I’d love to read more about are:
Steven Snell from Vandelay Design/Designm.ag (Braintalk can be found here)
Grant Friedman from Colorburned
Chris Coyier from CSS-Tricks (Braintalk can be found here)

Chris…thank you very much for answering our questions

So if you want to visit chris you should do that now: Visit http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/ or leave him a comment here!