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1 – To Start, tell us a bit about yourself where you were born and where you live…
EbOY is Kai Vermehr, Steffen Sauerteig and Svend Smital.
Kai Vermehr was born in Caracas/Venezuela, Steffen Sauerteig in Prenzlau/Germany and Svend Smital in Berlin/Gemany. Kai and Steffen are recently moved from Berlin/Germany to Vancouver/Canada, Svend still lives in Berlin.
2 – How did you get started in the arts?
Kai studied Communication Design at the Folkswangschule in Essen, Steffen and Svend studied at the UdK in Berlin.
3- Where do yo draw your inspiration from?
A lot comes from everyday life … going to the supermarkets, walking in the woods and of course surfing the internet. Apart from google-search, Flickr and FFFFound are great places to look for inspirations.
4- Can you describe for us what a regular day is like for you?
Steffen: Breakfast while listening to the radio … going downstairs to the home office, working/chatting with Kai and Svend, Lunch break, working, Coffee-break, working, Dinner, reading books with my son, working again … having a beer
Svend: Breakfast at a local Coffee shop, cycling to the office, work, lunch with the office neighbors, work, playing table tennis, cycling home, having dinner in a restaurant, chatting with Steffen and Kai.
5- What is your most common approach for completing a project?
Steffen: working on it
6- Out of all your work what is your favorite piece and why?
Steffen: Most of the times the latest one.
7- Is it easy to make a living in the work that you do?
Steffen: We have to work a lot since our images are very labor-intensive. It is sometimes hard to find some spare time to do our own projects. But we are very lucky that we haven’t had any problems so far getting enough jobs to pay our bills.
8- Who is your biggest influence?
Steffen: the internet
Kai: Anything really — nature, an idea, all kinds of data, structures, Philip K. Dick, Alexander Calder, Iain M. Banks, the iPhone (which everybody should understand is something from the future – which due to a couple of lucky incidents we are now able to hold in our hands many years before it was supposed to appear on this world).
9- How important is technology for the work that you do? What tools
could you not live with out?
Steffen: We use as many new tools as we can. Since we are working at three different places, collaboration tools are important … like iChat, Campfire and Backpack (37 signals), Google Docs and many more.
Kai: Technology is inspirational — we stand in awe of all the new possibilities — and we try to integrate and learn as much as possible.
Svend: The communication and collaboration tools are most important for the way we work. Not only that we live and work on three different places (in Berlin and Vancouver) also our clients come from all over the world. Our working life would be completely different without internet-based communication.
10- How important is color in your work and why?
Steffen: Very :) … colours can change everything.
Kai: yes that’s true, but I wouldn’t say it plays a main role in ourdaily thoughts about work. It’s as important as anything else. Content, dynamics, moods, etc. We would be fine even if we wouldn’t possess color to play with.
11- Whats your favorite color?
Steffen: all colors
12- Where can people get in contact with you?
eboy@eboy.com
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