{"id":3743,"date":"2013-05-10T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dream.press\/?post_type=customer-spotlight&p=3743"},"modified":"2025-05-06T19:24:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:24:52","slug":"angsty-g","status":"publish","type":"customer-spotlight","link":"https:\/\/news.dream.press\/news\/customer-spotlight\/angsty-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer Spotlight: Angsty G"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I stumbled upon Angsty G\u2019s website when I was getting ready to post it on our Daily Dream sometime last year.\n  I immediately become obsessed with her work!  Even better\u2026 she is a DreamHost customer!  I was so happy when she\n agreed with so much enthusiasm to do a customer spotlight with us!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where can we find your website?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Internet, for sure! Or www.AngstyG.com<\/a>, more specifically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tell me about Angstyg Design..<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a love story about me and my trusty laptop, and the sad necessity of income in a layout-eats-layout world. It\u2019s\n my second try at freelancing. There\u2019s no conventionally \u2018professional\u2019 face to it. I hate referring to myself in third\n person, or doing that thing where people fiddle with personal pronouns to make it seem like there are multiple people\n under the banner, pecking away at keyboards and answering phones, when really it\u2019s just one dude checking his email a\n lot. That\u2019s gross. AngstyG is just me \u2014 there it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well you are extremely talented! How did you get started in the design business?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got into graphics doing Buffy fan art when I was a teenager. Fast-forward five years and I\u2019d gotten good enough to\n land a graphics designer position at a local screen-printing company. The pay was crap, and I traded my time between\n recreating logos and doing manual labor in the form of folding shirts and degreasing screens. I haven\u2019t had a job\n since that wasn\u2019t related to graphics or web development in some way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh man\u2026 you just tugged at my heart strings. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was my favorite tv show growing\n up!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How would you define your design style?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Totally fluid. I go through phases all the time. Sometimes I crave delicate ornate designs and other times I crave\n bold, grungy stuff. It really just depends on my mood or inspiration. I\u2019m just coming out of a massive art nouveau\n phase, for instance. I\u2019m also in a complicated relationship with vintage and retro styles. I get bored really easily,\n so I\u2019m always halfway onto the next thing before the previous thing is finished, but I\u2019m not fickle<\/em>,\n okay. I\u2019m creatively promiscuous<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What work do you enjoy doing the most?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book covers, at the moment. I\u2019ve done websites and other virtual mediums for so long that having something to\n physically hold is sort of trippy. I\u2019d love to fill up a bookshelf one day. I also have an affinity for horror\n designs, which is sadly a very uncommon job for me to encounter. I\u2019d also love to illustrate and paint\u2026 if I weren\u2019t\n so terrible at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is your dream project?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charity design and development work is very fulfilling to me since I\u2019m low-income and can rarely spare money to give\n away. I\u2019m always excited to get into a non-profit project if time and resources allow it (and sometimes when they\n don\u2019t). LGBTQ rights, animal rescue, women\u2019s rights, cancer research, and domestic violence are a few causes most\n close to me. I\u2019d love to do something big for one of those.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where do you go for inspiration?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a whole variety of clients, so I usually look up the competitors and see what\u2019s trendy right now. Sometimes I\n mimic it and sometimes I go against it. It just depends on how adventurous the client is feeling. For my personal\n stuff, I can go a little slower, so I just build up and save ideas until I can\u2019t wait a second longer to execute them.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you start planning your designs before you start drafting them?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trial and error. I\u2019m a real fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants\u2019er, so I usually don\u2019t. I just open up Photoshop and start\n playing around. Sometimes nothing sticks, but eventually everything will slot into place and make sense in my head,\n and I just go for it. Writing is a hobby of mine, and I\u2019m the same way with that. Outlines never fare well with me.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How long have you been with DreamHost?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little over 2 years now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did you choose DreamHost?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used 1and1 for years, but I eventually started getting actual traffic (what a novelty!), and my shared server\n proved to be temperamental. My site would crash if a dozen people even looked at it the wrong way. I serenaded it\n once, hoping to gain some favor, but it was no dice. It 500\u2019ed all over the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, in 2010, I did a charity auction project and the chairwoman was using Dreamhost. I was terrified because the\n charity was super popular and necessitated constant, unobstructed uptime so folks could bid on time-sensitive items.\n The auction only ran for seven days and got more traffic in a week than most sites get in a lifetime. It never went\n down. We raised almost $150,000 for pediatric cancer research that week. A month later, I packed my bags and gave\n 1and1 the finger.<\/p>\n\n\n

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That all makes me and everyone at DreamHost very happy!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you use any tools in the DreamHost Panel you use?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a client who uses the announce lists weekly. I also have promo codes for the affiliate program and am usually\n kicking around phpmyadmin for one reason or another. I also use the domain search exclusively. Back in the day I used\n search any old place, but then one of my ideas got snatched up by a sniper who parked it and wanted to charge me\n $4,000. I realized where you search matters, like, pretty hardcore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So happy to hear you are a part of our affiliate program!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you have any suggestions for DreamHost? Anything you would like to see, use, and change?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only real qualm I\u2019ve ever had is with regards to outgoing SMTP, since Dreamhost is very spam savvy and limits the\n amount of emails that can be sent from a website. However, I understand and appreciate the purpose of this, so I do my\n best to work around it when possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you were a super hero, who would you be and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I asked my significant other and his reply was, \u201cYou\u2019d have to be hot and smart, maybe Jean Grey.\u201d Then I said Rogue\n was totally cooler and he was like, \u201cBut Rogue has ~issues~,\u201d and I was all, duh she\u2019s a very complex multifaceted\n character, though to be fair she\u2019s probably a lot more fulfilling to read than to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then he and my BFF reminded me that Buffy totally qualifies as a superhero, so yeah. That! Slayers do it better.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would have chosen the exact same superheros. Rogue is my favorite Xmen and Buffy is so\n badass!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where else can we find Angstyg online?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m on twitter @AngstyG, but I curse like a sailor and talk about terrible porn quite often. Just.. you know, a\n disclaimer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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