{"id":647,"date":"2012-07-05T12:58:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T19:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/?p=647"},"modified":"2024-03-15T05:40:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T12:40:02","slug":"interview-southwest-airlines-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/interview-southwest-airlines-designers","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Southwest Airlines In-House Designers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWe <a href=\"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/showing-off-our-colors\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">met a lot of great people<\/a> while we were at HOW Design Live in Boston a couple of weeks ago. Some of them even agreed to step in front of the camera with us and answer a few questions.<br \/>\n<!--cm-share-this--><br \/>\nTwo such gentlemen were Eric Daniels and Trent Duran, in-house designers for what is my personal favorite airline, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southwest.com\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southwest<\/a>. In the video above they chat with us briefly about the conference, their work, and some of the challenges they face as in-house designers for such a big company.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2012\/07\/15050003\/southwest_guys680.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" title=\"Southwest Airlines Designers\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1326\"><br \/>\nHuge thanks to both Eric and Trent for taking the time to talk with us. Be sure to look for their handiwork the next time you fly Southwest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met a lot of great people while we were at HOW Design Live in Boston a couple of weeks ago. Some of them even agreed to step in front of the camera with us and answer a few questions. 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