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April 01, 2007 - 0:10 PM

Radu Pop

www.noper.ro

Art Director, Designer, Illustrator | Bucharest, Romania

Tell us about your background?
For 4 years now I’m being part of this biginternational advertising agency as an art director.
Two years ago I come up with Noper as an alternative creative life to my daily job…a life in which I’m free of thinking and doing whatever I, the NOPER, like… and soon Noper will open an animation studio.


Have you had artistic studies and was it useful for you?
Yes I have, I’m actually still a student at the national art university here in bucharest, but the things they make us learn at the university doesn’t help me at all in my work. Everything I do, I’ve learned it by my self, experimenting, watching other people, surfing the web.


How would you explain your style of illustration?
Everything is the result of an experiment based on the main idea. I don’t think I have a personal style yet, I’m still doing everything that passes trough my mind…

What programs do you use to create your illustrations?
I use illustrator and photoshop and sometimes Corel painter…. but besides that I’m using classical media like pencils and paper, airbrush, inks and all this shit.


What are your creation processes?
First I come up with an idea, then sketch it mentally in my brain, and from that point the image could take an infinite number of forms, hapes…

Thanks Radu Pop for having taken his time to make this interview with us

Interview done by Flavio Monteiro for UAILAB

April 2007