★ MEET N‘ GREET ★
Cortney Cassidy

Jess Wheaton interviews Cortney Cassidy.

1. Hey Cortney! It’s time to pretend I don’t know you all that well, and ask some personal questions. To begin, where are you from, where are you now, and how did that come to be? What’s your favorite thing about this city we’ve both chosen to live in?

I spent my first 21 years in San Diego, then moved to San Francisco 2.5 years ago. Because California rocks, I thought it best to give the northern end a try, and so far I’ve had really good Chinese food and I get to ride my scooter around the city.

2. How did you come to art, what different chapters of ’making’ have you progressed through? At what point did you decide to become a graphic designer by trade? How do your creative tendencies and your design projects get along?

I started as a Crayola kid, my favorites being Goldenrod and Razzmatazz. Then I moved onto high school doodles--triangles and lines. What really brought my attention to graphic design was my results from a Career Personality Test I had to take my senior year in high school. Result #1 was Graphic Designer. I took it as a sign. The beauty of design is that I get to combine my practical, organized side with my creative side. A wonderful harmony.

3. You are one of the more organized and discerning early 20s person I know, meaning you both begin and finish things constantly, and have excellent taste in design and music and websites and maybe other areas that are unbeknownst-to-me. To what kind of work ethic or intense interest or innate qualities do you owe your success? How do your interests in life relate to the work you produce?

Lists, Coffee, and 20-minute naps. Without those and my interests, I wouldn’t be able to produce squat. 

4. Who are your top few most inspirational people, living or dead, and why?

Steve martin, because he can sing well, Nikola Tesla because he was tragically smart, and Anna Karina because of her role in "Une Femme Est Une Femme" where she argues in book titles.

5. This is an open-ended question about triangles.

Pizza Slices. (also amazing.)

6. Please tell us your future as you would like it to unfold, or, if that’s too vast a question, an exciting thing you’ve thought of doing or big adventure you’d like to take. It’s also shout-out time if you’re into it.

I can’t wait to have a dog, wall-to-wall/floor-to-ceiling library in my home, and to join in on the publishing industry.

Thanks for educating us about yourself Cortney, and thanks for being a part of Little Paper Press. See you soon!