OUGD502: Contacting Designers 03

To gain a wider knowledge into the industry of Graphic Design, I have been using LinkedIn as tool of networking, making professional connections and finding possible collaborators. Antony Conboy is a Graphic Design alumni from the University of Salford, specialising in experience design, UX, UI, Front End HTML & CSS. Surprisingly, he added me to his LinkedIn connection (probably because I have been connecting with a wide range of designers lately), yet Anthony stood out. 

A personal project I am working on at the minuet is the branding for ZOG couture and the rebrand of ZZG clothing, I need to expand my knowledge of digitally based design as I will be designing a website, 'bots' and organising an efficient e-commerce system, so thought Anthony's experience would be extremely relevant to what I need to learn, in order to best succeed in this opportunity. Based in London, Anthony isn't too far out of reach for me to pop down and possibly interview, but for now I sent him a message on LinkedIn, thanking him for the connection and putting out feelers for asking some specific questions. 

His email address is available on his profile, however I felt the personal level of LinkedIn would be more appropriate at this stage- I have found from emailing other creatives, the response rate is much higher and quicker on more social platforms, so will harness this to my advantage.