What is your setup? What do I need to perform professional work? What do other people use to get the job done?
Being a graphic designer (slash) web designer (slash) creative head (slash) mac nerd (slash) … requires a good knowledge of the own setup. But what does this mean: a setup? The question isn’t which kind of machine you are sitting on. Our daily business is powered by applications, which help us keeping the work flow. We are probably searching once a month for the latest software, but this can’t be the goal. Why searching for a change, when the current things work well? Because we are afraid to loose track of what is going on in the worldwide business.
I am that kind of guy. I am looking and searching and testing, but it takes so much of my time, that I am a little fed up with it. Isn’t there the perfect setup for a guy like me? I don’t think so. I will continue to look out and search and test apps, that could make my workflow faster.
On my last search though I was very happy to find The Setup, which is the reason, why I am writing all this stuff. Here you will find interviews with people of many professions, such as musicians, architects, hackers, photographers, designers, programmers, writers, developers and a robot builder. These individuals tell about their working-setup. It is quite interesting, because you’ll find software and techniques, you used to work with and apps, you don’t even think about using. It helped me to look at my setup from another perspective: it is good and it always was, because I decided myself what tools to use. There are some I haven’t even though of yet, but as it turns out, I don’t need them.
