Hungry Sandwich Club - Contacting

My initial email:

I kept this email brief, I tried to be enthusiastic within my language, showing interest in their work, but being brief with my description in the interest of time. 

Their response: 

They were very quick to respond to this email which I think is a big benefit to contact over a digital messaging platform like emailing. 

My questions:

1. What inspired you to start Hungry Sandwich Club?

2. How were you introduced to animation? what made you want to pursue it?

3. What were some struggles you had in starting Hungry Sandwich Club? 

4. How do you think your goals and practice have evolved since graduating?

5. From a viewers perspective it seems like colour is a really important part of your work, would you say this is true?  

6. When facing a 'creative block' Is there anything you do which inspires you or gets you back on track? 

7. What is your process for idea generation when presented a new brief?

8. What do you think are the biggest benefits to working as such a close team?

9. Do you think there is a need to categorise yourself in the world as design? 

(I often struggle with what to call myself as I enjoy animation, graphics and illustration) 

10. What has been your favourite project/projects to work on? 

11. Has there been project which you've not enjoyed working on? How did you overcome/resolve this?

12. How do you network yourselves? Do you find social media to be useful for this? Are there any particular events you attend to network with others?

13. What advice would you have for anyone that's attempting pursuing a creative career but struggles with their confidence regarding their practice?

14. What is important to you when agreeing to pursue a new brief? (personal ethics, qualities within the work etc?)

15. Do you have a mantra or just a quote which has inspired you or still inspires you individually or as a group? 

Response

With a studio as busy as they are it was expected that there would be time taken to answer these questions and the amount of them that I created, the quick response was assuring and I felt the response was genuine, there definitely is a sense of care in the way they communicated which was nice to see from a busy and successful studio. 

I didn't receive another email to this unfortunately in time. This was due to a fault of my own and I didn't contact them earlier, however, I would like to use the answers they eventually get back to me with and use for something else. 

It was interesting contacting them as it was a lot different than I had received, only a few people were as quick to respond to my emails as they were, they were very friendly in their approach which was refreshing as most tend to be very professional and sometimes blunt in their tone. 

Although I didn't interview them in the end, I found this informative in understanding the best ways of communicating and understanding designers, in how to approach them and which format is best to use. I have found that emails have been really successful in getting responses as apposed to other ways of getting in touch with people.