TGIF: #followfriday & design finds

TGIF (Thank God It’s Friday) will be the new weekly post on the blog, centered around Follow Friday propositions from Twitter and design finds for the upcoming weekend – let me know if you like the way of posting things like this so I know if I should continue or stop.

#followfriday recommendations

Ok, so here are my #followfriday recommendations for this week:

@gaksdesigns

Based in Trinidad & Tobago, Gerrel is an awesome and incredibly talented designer and a goldmine of useful freelance and design links. Also, he’s very “socializing” and is not just one of the people I call ‘bots’ that only post links and never talk with people. Highly recommended.

@bkmacdaddy

The guy from who I “stole” this whole idea, promoting Follow Friday recommendations that have more about the recommended person that just plain nick. Brian is a brilliant, experienced designer that will help you, endorse you and promote your work if you’re good. Quality over quantity. I like this.

@behoff

Brian Hoff, the guy behind The Design Cubicle, one of those blogs that shows you how real-world design work looks like. Brian himself is a guy like his blog is – helpful and friendly. Worth following

@strng

Eliash Strongowski, a very talented and very social ukrainian designer and illustrator. Himself as a person is absolutely worth following on Twitter and his works on Behance are also absolute feast for the eyes. Highly recommended.

Design finds

As we’re done with #followfriday recommendations, here are some links that I found interesting and worth checking for information, inspiration and everything design (and not only design):

• Tips for New Designers to Gain Real World Experience
• New work by Pentagram: The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
• Creative License #44: Design fail
• The Big Mac Index: new, universal 540kcal exchange rate
• 15 Cool Snowboard Designs

And here we are

Here we are at the end of the post. Also, I wanted to add that I’m gonna give out one free copy of Untitled: Street Art in the Counter Culture for the readers and Twitter followers soon, so follow me on Twitter to stay informed!