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Bence Balaton miss_delaware Bence Balaton Carolina Torres Designer since: Designer since: Location: Location: I had no experience, no portfolio, no equipment. In one year, I became Platinum. A great way to meet potential clients and to push the limits of your ideas. Not all of us are fortunate enough to turn Carolina Torres harnessed her skills in web a childhood love into a career, but Bence design while working at a studio. At the did just that. He turned his childhood love time, illustration was just a hobby, but it of drawing into a job as an animator and quickly became another source of income. graphic designer at a London-based film Now, Carolina works in both fields. She studio. He credits his start on 99designs credits her unique illustrations to her love with helping him get there. of layers, filters, textures, and shapes. She 2012 United Kingdom 2011 Argentina makes the color palette a top priority when Bence gets his design inspiration from working on designs, improving it through comic books, fractals, realistic images trial and error and careful research. Fonts and more. He’s even inspired by street art, are another priority and Carolina works with its raw visuals, color separations and hard to find the perfect one for each details. While Bence’s designs are rich project. At the end of the day, for Carolina, with intricacies, he never forgets that no it all comes down to communicating a matter how beautiful a design may be, it’s message in a beautiful way. about more than visual appeal. “The most important part is that it’s coherent,” Bence says. “I always play with it as much as I can.”