PRIMARY RESEARCH - Questionnaire For Printmaking Instructors

As part of my primary research, I want to interview some of the instructors in the Print and Printmaking workshops as a way of understanding their professional opinions on analog processes such as relief prints, screen prints, and letter pressing. My aim with this research is to see if they have a preference to these processes over digital completely, or if they see the benefits and purposes of both, and what they are. It would also be interesting just to find out their personal opinions on the heavy use of digitalisation in design as they are in a more professional field than I am, and may have more informed opinions.

INITIAL DRAFT
The purpose of this draft is to write down as many questions I can think of that would be relevant to the instructors that I could then edit for the final email.

1. What attracted you to print and printmaking?
2. Do you believe there is too much reliance on digital methods to produce design nowadays?
3. What do you think the benefits are of using more analog processes rather than digital?
4. I find that more physical and analog processes create more personality and emotion within design and the heavy use of digital processes is losing that element. Do you agree with this at all?
5. What do you think attracts students to analog processes?
6. Do you think there will be a future where print and printmaking processes are no longer needed?
7. Why is holding on to these analog practices important? Is it a sense of history?
8. Do you think most graphic designers don't realise the importance of these processes?
9. Do you think more projects where analog processes are solely used is needed, or projects where both analog and digital processes are used?

EMAIL

1. What attracted you to print and printmaking?
2. Do you believe there is too much reliance on digital methods to produce design nowadays?
3. What do you think are benefits of using more analog processes (prints and letterpress) rather than digital?
4. What do you think are the benefits are of using digital processes rather than analog? 
5. Do you believe that craft and analog processes create outcomes that are more personal/intimate than outcomes that are only created using digital softwares? Why?
6. Do you think there will be a future where print and printmaking processes are no longer needed?
7. Why is holding on to these analog practices important? Is it a sense of history?
8. Do you think most graphic designers don't realise the importance of these processes?
9. Would you personally like to see projects in which analog processes are solely used to produce a graphic design outcome? Do you think this is needed?

For the final draft of questions, I ended up changing or adjusting questions 3, 4, 5, and 9. 

• 3 was just altered to be more specific to the instructors by mentioning prints and letterpress as I didn't want the questionnaire to seem vague. The aim of interviewing these instructors is to get more specific insight as they have specific practices.
• 4 was completely changed as I feel the first draft was guiding the instructors to a specific answer - giving my opinion may shift their answer. I included a second part to the previous question to understand both sides of their opinion on analogue and digital.
• 5 is an alteration on the initially drafted 4, however I reworded to remove my opinion, present a statement, and ask why. This would provide more insight, and guide more opportunity for a more indepth answer.
• 9 was altered to add a second part - asking whether they believe this is needed. Exploring the need for either potential paths for this project is important to me as I want the research to dictate how I move forward with the project rather than have my own personal opinions be the main influence.