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WeeWillDoodle

Monday morning. YAWN! After staying up late last night, I turned on the news (finally) this morning (late morning) and watched WeeWillDoodle on the BBC. And since WeeWillDoodle also has a blog, here they are on DWB.

WeeWillDoodle is a group of artists deeply in love with the power of the doodle. This artist collective believes in, respects, and plans to harness the raw power of our spontaneous ideas and capture them in different mediums—on paper, on plastic, on walls, on your bare ass–you name it and we’ll draw on it. Give us a blank room and we’ll charge in with multi-colored markers blazing! We draw now and ask questions later.

So it’s similar to doodlage, only they get out and doodle all over the place. Well, all over the place out here anyway, in SE Asia. To be more precise, Manila.

If you are interested, the BBC snibbet I watched is on YouTube: Nassive Doodle art in Manila (Nassive?)

Now I’ve SERIOUSLY got to go out and doodle. But, not on my butt. No. Never.

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 blog roll” he says. And he was right. My blog roll 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. [… Continue reading … Zo’C: The Science of Web Art, Design and Development

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 … [… Continue reading … Brian Yerkes: Business Cards of Bloggers

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