Do you like to be left to 'run wild' with ideas or revamping existing branding and working alongside the companies?
The projects I like most are the ones where somebody just comes to me with a vague set of features and I can go crazy coming up with ideas! This can happen with redesigns as well as with from-scratch projects. In the end I always work alongside with the companies, since as I said, it's all about turning their identity into visual material or their ideas into a usable interface. But of course some are more strict and others leave more space for me to "run wild".
Finally, can you tell us about anything you're working on to be released this year? Obliviously not sharing private company secrets but is it safe to assume most of the people you work with have new designs in the works?
Right now I don't have many secrets to keep. Some of what I'm working on has already been announced at NAMM: The previously mentioned Black Market Standalone Edition Colour Palette is one big project I'm fully immersed in right now and another one is the faceplate for WMD's Performance Mixer Other things will be presented soon at Superbooth, among these check out the new panels I've made for Sonic Potions and Frap Tools. There's some older project, which are still going on. The Soviet-space-race-inspired modules from Tsyklon should land sometime this year (some of these can already be pre-ordered from their website: http://tsyklon.com/) and Rabid Elephant, another new face on the market, also should have their first module coming. Of course both Mutable Instruments and Hexinverter are currently very busy coming up with new designs and ideas, which keeps me pretty busy as well. On the non-modular front, I have been working with Japanese developer Ju-X on a new freezer plugin called Frosting (which should hit the web soon) and am tweaking graphics for Fxpansion's upcoming sampling drum machine app/plugin Geist 2, which is currently in Beta stage. With Ju-X we also have a bigger project in the works, a multi-track looper called The Cake, once we get Frosting out, that will get some updates as well.