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3AM3I Joerg Meinhardt Jelena Stupar Joerg Meinhardt Designer since: Designer since: Location: Location: I improve my skills with every new project, by giving my best on anything I create. I love the process of developing a visual communication for a company. As Jelena Stupar says, “Spending time on Joerg Meinhardt fell in love with graphic what you love the most helps you do your design when he was just 15 years old. He best at it.” Jelena discovered design in spent five years studying graphic design in high school and studied it further in Vienna and soon realized that corporate college. She went on to work in a variety design fueled his passion for the theoreti- of studios, but couldn’t find the passion cal background of design, minimalism and she was looking for. She and her husband visual communication. Now, he has his started looking for something that would own graphic design company with meet that need and that’s how they ended international clients. 2011 Croatia 2014 Vienna up on 99d. Joerg continues to hone his skills through Like many designers who are new to the 99d’s Logo & Web category. While he has platform, Jelena found the competition always loved designing from scratch, tough. But, her desire to succeed pushed participating in contests for this category her to stick with it and it didn’t take long has helped him develop an appreciation for for clients to recognize her skills. Not templates. In fact, he tries to spend an coincidentally, Jelena’s motto comes from hour each day browsing through tutorials, the 99designs blog: “Don’t submit trying to learn a new skill or a better, faster something if you are not completely way of performing an old one. satisfied with it yourself.”