Macarena, editor of maomao Publications, just got back to me with an almost complete list of the DWB banners making it into their book, Blogs: Mad About Design.

It’s great timing for a Friday night. And, as I did promise, here you go.

Armin Vit | Under Consideration Speak Up | DWB feature

Ben Garfinkel and Mark Busse | Industrial Brand | DWB feature

Darryl Ohrt | brandflakesforbreakfast.com | DWB feature

David Airey | David Airey | DWB feature

Emily Chang | eHub | DWB feature

Eric Karjaluoto | ideasonideas | DWB feature

Jack Yan | the Persuader Blog | DWB feature

Jeff Fisher LogoMotives | bLog-oMotives | DWB feature

Seth Godin | Seth Godin’s blog | DWB feature

STEFAN G. BUCHER | Stefan G. Bucher’s DAILY MONSTER | DWB feature

Tina Roth Eisenberg | swissmiss | DWB feature

Veerle | Veerle’s blog 2.0 | DWB feature

Bruce McKay | bigcatheads the blog | DWB feature

Now, they are not done yet so it’s very possible that list will grow. Or shrink. Hopefully it’ll grow!

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Malene Hald

Airborne and Dreaming is a fun and sunny site. The cute design is one of the reasons I had a great time designing Malene’s banner. That, and the photos Malene sent over to choose from.

Aren’t they grand? Lucky Malene’s boyfriend Jonas Kold is handy with a camera, yes?

Creating the banner was drop dead easy. For extras, all I needed was a screen shot of her fabulous backdrop.

I then dropped her photo on top, took the opacity down to 50%, and eyeballed size and placement to please.

Putting Malene’s opacity back to 100%, I brought the banner to the front at around 30% opacity. Then, using a size 20 eraser, I carefully took away just enough to reveal Malene.

After that, it was a simple matter of putting the banner opacity back to 100%, then choosing darken from the menu to bring out Malene’s shadow.

And since I didn’t want to spend a lot of time fine-fiddling, I loosely cut out the Airborne and Dreaming logo and gave it a drop shadow to make up for sloppiness. To finish, it was just a matter of turning on DWB’s template bits (seen above).

Yes, it’s that quick and simple to create banners for DWB’s rotating banners. Ten minutes tops actually. Screen shots and or photos, fiddle and fit in a few extras, save, and Bob’s your uncle.

So, care to submit for a possible go?

(Note: I’m fresh out of time so looks like I’ll have to write Malene’s feature another time … I’m looking forward to it for sure.)

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Last year I was contacted by the Spanish publishing company Maomao Publications, to contribute to their new book, Blogs: Mad About Design.

Blog, weblog, logbook … these are words of our time, it felt like they appeared all over the place overnight. Although blogs exist since the end of the 90s, they definitely flourished in 2004. The desire to tell stories, to develop thought through dialogue was always there, so weblogs became a favorite tool to do so. It is as simple to create and publish a blog as it is to check your emails, therefore, content is what really makes the difference. Blogs: mad about design is a shortcut through the web jungle to the most interesting and exciting blogs related to graphic design.

After a back and forth, Maomao decided to include a range of banners from DWB. Scrambling around, I shot off permission emails. Exciting, yes? Absolutely. I’m not sure which banners will be included. I’m not even sure how many. Yet. But I’ll be sure to shout about it here when I do. Promise.

If you are curious about previous banners (some included in Blogs: Mad About Design), then head over to Banners Yr-1 and Banners Yr-2 and Banners Yr-3 to see the growing collection.

And since we’re on the subject, below is a sneak peek of future features.

Note: The banners are shown in order of arrival (artwork, photos, completed banners). The links take you to the individual blogs.

Paul Anthony with ‘webdistortion’

Tim Foley with ‘Illustratorium’

Malene Hald with ‘Airborne and Dreaming’

Dickson Fong with ‘Dickson Fong’

MaryLuc Melgar with ‘Octwelve’

Michael Wandelmaier ‘Michael Wandelmaier Illustration and Design’

Davor Peic with ‘davor peic.gavran’

Drewbie Wan and Scotty G with ‘Lost Penguin Studios’

Jos Buivenga with ‘exljbris: Free Quality Font Foundry’

Divya Manian with ‘Nimbupani Designs’

Romain Colin with ‘fubiz: daily dose of inspiration’

Andrew Gordon with ‘Spline Doctors’

Chris Gregori with ‘c. gregori dot com blog’

Steve Augarde with ‘Steve Augarde Illustrator’

Nate Williams with ‘Illustrationmundo.com’

Jonathan Sandridge with ‘Standing Thought’

If your blog has been featured without a banner, please go to the submit page for instructions.

If you are interested in getting your blog featured, please read the instructions on the submit page.

And who knows, maybe there’ll be another blogging book in need of blogger banner designs.

Enjoy!

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January was a special month for writers due to my designers resolution to write. As you’ll see below, I was able to concentrate on a few authors I admire. I also featured interesting reads from MyBlogLog (which has turned into a goldmine for DWB).

To see the banners by year
Contributing Banners Yr-1 for Sept05-06 and Contributing Banners Yr-2 for Sept06 to present.

BannerDays: January07

Roy Peter Clark with ‘Poynter Online – Writing Tools’

Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman with ‘The Grammarphobia Blog’

Pam Nelson with ‘Triangle Grammar Guide’

Norman Roberts with ‘INNINGS’

Mark McGuinness with ‘Wishful Thinking’

Richard Quick with ‘Web Design Book’

Mary Ferguson with ‘Diversion Mary’

David Hyde with ‘davidthedesigner’

Dawn Viola with ‘I *heart* paper’

John Reddinger with ‘john’s sketchblog’

Thanks to everyone who joined in!

If you’ve been featured without banner, please drop me a line.

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As mentioned before, Designers who Blog is not just about blogs. DWB is about the designers behind the blogs, the faces behind the posts, the people behind the sigs. The rotating banners and smaller banners within the posts are a way of making this so.

To see the banners by year
Contributing Banners Yr-1 for Sept05-06 and Contributing Banners Yr-2 for Sept06 to present.

BannerDays: December06

David Snider with Sad Scribble

Todd Henry with Accidental Creative

Agacs ĂŤrisz with Artista Blog

Thomas Silkar with The undersigned

Catherine Wendell with planetargonautes.eu

Mariana Coan with Mariana Coan | blog

Jared Christensen with Jaredigital

Matthew D. Jordan with You Suck at Web Design

Erik Cunningham with Web Design Blog – Web Design & Toast

Tom Smalling with Tom Smalling – Why be quiet?

Ivan Raszi with creativebits

Carlton Hibbert with Carlton Hibbert’s Illustration blog 2.0

Trevor van Gorp with affectivedesign

David Friedman with Ironic Sans

Leith O’Malley with control alt create

Chris Glass with chris glass: journal

David Carlson with David Report

Marc Rapp with Uniquely the Epitome

Thanks to everyone who joined in!

If you’ve been featured without banner please drop me a line as I really would love to hear from you.

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BannerDays - a new category to thank those contributing photos and graphics. Each month (time allowing) I’ll share the new banners.

As mentioned before, Designers who Blog is not just about blogs. DWB is about the designers behind the blogs. The faces behind the posts. The people behind the sigs. The rotating banners and smaller banners within the posts are a way of making this so.

You can see the banners by year by going to
Contributing Banners Yr-1 for Sept05-06 and Contributing Banners Yr-2 for Sept06 to present.

BannerDays: November06

Lim Zhi Xin with Odds&Ends | Photography

Joe Gajda with The MangoFalls Digital Photo Project

Beerzie Boy with FILE Magazine

Natalie Jost with Standards for Life

Brian Warren and Mark Bixby with Method Arts | A Consortium

Steve Hardy with creativegeneralist.com

Jonathan Nicol with Pixel Acres

STEFAN G. BUCHER with 344 DESIGN

russell davies with russell davies

Roger C. Parker with Roger C. Parker’s Design to Sell Blog

Brian Sooy with design matters

Shanthony Exum with Informed Revolution

Carl Fredrik Castberg with Work-in-Progress

Anna and Sean Auyeung with sub-studio design blo

Azhar Chougle with thedailysunrise.com

Elwood H. Smith and Luigi, the Best Cat in the World with Green Monkey

Joshua Porter with Bokardo

Oded Ezer with OdedEzer

Stefan Bean, Mandy Freshhour and Rhaya Shilts with Bean Graphics

Patricia Skinner with marketmou.com and the Freelance Writers’ Manifesto

If you’ve been featured sans banner, drop me a line. I’d love to hear from you.

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