Designers Who Blog: Design, Illustration, Photography, Web, Advertising, Branding …

Alexander Draude with ‘itankuover’

What attracts you when you come across a blog for the first time? I ask the question because itankuover has (had) pulls me. [... Continue reading ... itankuover

Jonathan Morton

Web Design Times

What a treasure trove. First I read about Design Meltdown, then two steps down I found Web Design Practices, which lead me to WDP’s blog IA THINK by Heidi Adkisson. Oh, and there’s a recent fav of mine, Live by the Mockup, Die by the Mockup. Web Design Times comes via Netdiver. [... Continue reading ... Web Design Times

Eris. Same Standards, More Purpose

Pour a cuppa, pull up a chair and stay for awhile … Eris is a textpattern blog, and beautifully designed at that.

From the site:
At the root of it all process is philosophy … and my purpose and responsibility as a designer. To Design. To be better at it. To Solve Problems. For this, I intend to keep this design active for as long as I write about my journey through reading Norman Potter’s book, “What is a Designer: Things, Places, Messages”.

Eris. Same Standards, More Purpose is by: Eris

EDIT: A landing page with an email link is all that’s left of the beautiful Eris.

Jared Chapman with ‘My Little CrockPot of News and Thought’

I first came across Jared’s whimsical work over at Jeff’s Design Inspiration blog.

EDIT: My Little CrockPot is no more …

Freshly Squeezed Droplets

In past years I’ve enjoyed Robert’s clear, concise writing on forums and in emails. And now, I have the pleasure of Freshly Squeezed Droplets. Robert takes the essence of an idea, then expands, explains, enlightens and entertains at every turn.

From Fruits:
Robert and Angela are the founders and driving forces behind Freshly Squeezed Design. This blog is intended to serve as an outlet for their musings about the business of marketing, branding and design (as well as occasional forays into the irrelevant).

Freshly Squeezed Droplets is by: Robert and Angela

EDIT: This blog has stagnated, fingers crossed for a revival is dead.

Russian Marketing Blog

The credit for finding this blog goes to M. KINGSLEY at Speak up, Quipsologies, Vol. 43. The blog is great hoots, Marketing Russian style. I’ll be keeping an eye on a suggested blog, Petro Jotter, as he begins collecting Russian campaign billboard designs.

From the title:
News, musings and rants on marketing and advertising in Russia by Konstantin Dlutskiy.

The Russian Marketing Blog is by: Konstantin Dlutskiy

EDIT: Well, looks like another dead blog. Contact me if I’m wrong.

Chris Vannoy’

Chris is a newspaper designer with a leaning on clean, validating web design. His insight into newspaper design definitely holds my interest.

From the About:
My name is Chris Vannoy and I design two types of pages: web pages (like the one you’re looking at right now) and newspaper pages (like the ones I’ve posted to newspagedesigner.com).

Dummied Designs is by: Chris Vannoy

EDITED: Sadly, Dummied Designs is no longer with us.

Being Reasonable

From the about:
The purpose of this blog is to inspire, with thoughts and impressions on marketing in its broadest sense, as a business discipline dedicated to motivating audience behavior.

Being Reasonable: The blog is by: Marc E. Babej

EDITED: This blog has been put to sleep.

Lisa Duty

Lisa speaks at Creative Latitude: Cat’s Fancy: Designers who blog.

From the about:
If you own a service-based business, then you need to shop at Dot’s Market. We offer a unique series of articles designed to help you learn how to create and implement a marketing process into your strategic business plan. No former marketing training is required! ‘Cam’ ben the hoose!

EDIT: This blog is no longer around.

Devil’s Details

From the about:
This daily updated weblog collects and classifies web design details. The objective of Devil’s Details is to become a source for web developers searching for inspiration or trying to learn new tricks.

The Devil’s Details blog is by: Devil’s Details

EDIT: Devils Details was down when I last checked (will check back later) is dead.