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Guilherme Zühlke O’Connor

Zo’C: The Science of Web Art, Design and Development

There I was at Facebook, when I received a message from Guilherme of Zo’C.

“Cat” he says. “Whoooh, what a big blogroll” he says. And he was right. My blogroll was tipping over and into and all over the place.

“Have I got a treat for you” he says. And he was right. He did.

Guilherme’s ZoC powerblogroll plugin for Wordpress improved the new design for DWB immensely.

His plugin enabled me to take my honker of a blogroll and move it to an inside page, like so.

It also allowed me to put my links in tidy categories. Which I did.

Advertising Pros, Animators, Artists, Blog Designers, Book & Magazine Designers, Branders, Business of Design Conversations, Design Organisations, Designers, Graphic Designers, Green Designers, Illustrators, Logo Designers, Marketeers, Miscellaneous, Photographers, Podcasters, Programmers, Tutorials, Typographers, Web Designers and Writers.

And you know what? In telling this tale, I was going to rant on about the difficulty I had with choosing which category to put each blog. But I won’t. I was also going to tell you that at one point I threatened to create a category called mystery meat. But I won’t do that either.

I’d rather tell you about Guilherme. About how he generously came to my rescue when DWB was updated to WP 2.5 and I ran into difficulties. Thank you Guilherme, it works great.

And, yeah, well, ok, you can still say “Whoooh, what a big blogroll”. But WHAT a blogroll it is. Right?

Thanks again Guilherme. Without your talent and generosity today, I’d be on my second bottle of wine this Friday night.

Elliot Jay Stocks

Elliot Jay Stocks: blog

Elliot Jay Stocks is one of the beauties listed on Blog Design Blogs: 47 Must See Great Blog Designs.

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer, writer and speaker. He has left Carsonified and is now running his own business and booking in new work from June.

And if you are also starting out in the business of design, Elliot is one to watch. Just check out Learning lessons filed under Life In The Real World.

And in fact it’s not just about things overrunning: it’s about affording myself a little time to wind down before rushing full-pelt into the next deadline.

[… Continue reading … Elliot Jay Stocks Breaks Away

Kyle Meyer

Astheria. Minimal. And just right.

The goal of Astheria.com is to provide design articles, viewpoints, and resources that are not the same regurgitated, rewritten articles that seem to plague the design blogosphere.

Kyle has two brilliant sites. Astheria (the one I’m reviewing now) and Typesites (previously featured).

And did you see the post by John Arnor G. Lom at Typesites for the International Herald Tribune? Impressive. [… Continue reading … Astheria

Yesterday I received a promotion from your company. To, you know, improve my blogging bottom line. Or sell me cups. Something really important like that.

When I went on your site to look, I found this message:

“Sorry, the web site you are accessing has been closed by Royal Thai Police due to inappropriateness such as pornography, gambling or contain any information which is deemed to violate national security.” [… Continue reading … Dear Support Associate

Brian Yerkes

Brian (Creative Director of Brian Joseph Studios), started what looks to be a promising post, “Business Cards of Bloggers”. The instructions are simple: write a blog post on the subject, add your business card, then send the url to Brian. Easy.

Here’s mine …

Katz-i Design Front

Katz-i Design Back

Katz-i Design Front

Katz-i Design Back

Why the different designs? It’s all down to type of client really. And guessing that type of client within the first moments. More masculine or feminine. Soft or not. One or the other. And sometimes both.

And whether it mattered or not to them, it gave added confidence to me.

That’s right. I never totally got over my shyness. Mostly, but not in full. So where Monk tapped fence posts, I took a choice of business cards (and more). It worked.

If you are also interested in sharing your business cards, go ahead and send them on to Brain. And be sure to pass on a howdy from me. Ok?

Bart-Jan Verhoef

Subdued.net

You can already tell something gorgeous is coming. Yes? Ohhhh, yes.

So, who is Bart-Jan Verhoef? Well, he’s a web designer totally in love with design. And from the look of his arresting website, he’s bathing in it I’d say.

So, what is Subdued.net? In his own words (without my added drool) …

It’s an online playground and scrapbook where Bart-Jan writes and publishes on the topic of design, web, and whatever else comes to mind. This site, being a personal outlet, is a place of experiment and exploration.

… recently featured in Web Designer magazine)

And he doesn’t just explore, he leads designers through his design process. [… Continue reading … Bart-Jan Verhoef: Subdued.net

Stefan G. Bucher’s DAILY MONSTER

Back in 2006 DWB was listed amongst Communication Arts 50 Essential Bookmarks, published in their November Design Annual. You can still see it in full at san miguel de allende arts + kulture.

Under the Design Community heading, DWB is right there amongst the big hitters: AIGA and News Today (yes, I was surprised). With DWB it was a community of three.

And it was back then that I found Stefan. Stefan first commenting on Russell Davies at Comm arts. Then Russell Davis commenting on Stefan at Russell Davies. It was a time of finds.

So it was back in 2006 where I first featured Stefan on DWB. I just love his banner photo, don’t you? Just like his tagline - “344 LOVES YOU” - it makes me smile. Stefan makes me smile. [… Continue reading … Stefan G. Bucher’s 200th Daily Monster

searchme

As a blogging designer, a visual person who spends majority time researching attractive blogs to feature, searchme is a Saturday morning wow.

Will I use it? Sure I will. Especially after finding a site I forgot I’d lost. Design Interviews. A keeper.

Searchme lets you see what you’re searching for. As you start typing, categories appear that relate to your query. Choose a category, and you’ll see pictures of web pages that answer your search. You can review these pages quickly to find just the information you’re looking for, before you click through.

[… Continue reading … searchme: designers who blog

Alltop.com: RSS for the masses

For those of you arriving from design.alltop.com, welcome to Designers who Blog.

DWB features blogging designers, illustrators, writers, marketeers, photographers, podcasters, typographers, artists and advertising pros. And to make it easy, they’re all in the sidebar, eyes right.

You can also search through the archives or the extensive blogroll (in progress).

As DWB is also about the blogger, at times you’ll find a banner placed at the head of a feature. Like so.

And there’s more … [… Continue reading … Notice: Designers who Blog on Alltop.com

Amanda | Truly Ace

Amanda’s Truly Ace slipped through the cracks awhile back. First there was a download snafu in November (on my side). Then, when I next looked up it was April already. And now it’s the last day of April. Ouch. Apologies Amanda (it’s what happens when advanced age threatens to creep in).

As I skim through Amanda’s blog, I find myself nodding at what she has to say. For instance, she created a special page for advice at Becoming A Freelance Designer for the same very reasons we put together Creative Latitude, then Business of Design online. [… Continue reading … Truly Ace