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Maja
Dakic
Mike
Dicks
Designer since:
Designer since:
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I’m a very competitive person, so
contests were perfect for me.
I love the fact that you are simply
judged on the quality and execution of your idea.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Mike’s story is about life coming full circle.
Well, at least Maja can. Before she was a
Growing up, he wanted to be an artist and
designer, she already proved herself to be
designer, but then he got “distracted” and
a hard worker, simultaneously earning a
turned into a tech guru. Fast-forward a few
degree in international marketing and
years and Mike was looking for work he
working as an administrator in the fashion
could do at home while recovering from a
industry. When it came to design, Maja
serious illness. A Google search led Mike
was no different.
to 99designs and a return to his first love:
2012
Australia
2014
United Kingdom
graphic design.
Her secret-sauce is her approach — she
looks at each project as if it were a puzzle.
For Mike, 99designs was the right
“[The] first thing I tell myself is, ‘Someone
opportunity at the right time and it brought
has undoubtedly already thought of this.
him back to his passion for art. He’s now
What can I do to set it apart?’“ She breaks
creating prints, selling them in galleries in
her concepts down to the fundamentals
his hometown and loving every minute of
and once there’s that first spark, all the
it.
pieces make sense and are ready to come
together in a beautiful finished design.