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TGIF: #followfriday & design finds

Published on August 14, 2009 in Daily, Inspiration and Twitter; 3 Comments

So, it’s that day again. The weather is great, you are looking forward to the weekend. It’s also the time for the usual TGIF series post! As usual, I am gonna give you some links to awesome Twitter profiles and some design or other interesting snacks for the weekend. Ready? Here we go!

#followfriday recommendations

@iso50
@ISO50
If you’re a fan of good design and was not living under the rock for few last years, you probably heard about ISO50, the blog and website of a designer and artist, Scott Hansen. This, my friends, is his Twitter profile. Updated way more recently than the blog, it’s a goldmine of links to check. Warning – if you have problems focusing with distractions around (you shouldn’t use Twitter, then, durr!), it’s a productivity killer!
@madysondesigns
@MadysonDesigns
Sarah Whinnem, the founder and owner of Madyson Designs, self-proclaimed Miss Awesome of Twitter. If you use Twitter not only to share things like a robot, but you also appreciate good chat in your free time, you might want to follow Sarah. Not only sharing awesome things, but also very friendly and helpful, highly recommended follow.
@sharebrain
@sharebrain
Official profile of Thomas Ulbricht, the brain behind the Sharebrain and other random popular design and webdevelopment projects around the web. If you’re into webdesign and webdevelopment and need some inspiration or help, Thomas is the person to follow, really.
@creativest
@Creativest
Just found recently by a mutual follow (they followed me, I followed back), Creative In Links is a great resource of design news and links – if you like to keep up on what’s cool and what’s on top in design, this is another user worth following.

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TGIF: #followfriday & design finds

Published on August 7, 2009 in Design, Inspiration and Twitter; 5 Comments

So, it’s Friday again and it’s time for more Friday Twitter recommendations and design finds in our new column, TGIF! As usual, I’m gonna start off with Twitter #followfriday recommendations and then move to design and interesting finds for the weekend, taken directly from my Twitter followers and other sources!

#followfriday recommendations

Max R. Scheer (rutiso)
@rutiso
Max R. Scheer, known on Twitter as @rutiso is a designer and art director based in Berlin. His life quote that he has set in his Twitter background is “Work hard, know your tools, support your friends, be critical and curious” – and that’s basically it. You don’t need more words to describe who is Max – he’s honest, critical, tell you if he doesn’t like something, but always will help you get better outcome. Really cool guy.
Sasha Kovaliov (nlupus)
@nlupus
Sasha Kovaliov, a. k. a. @nlupus is a sales and social media specialist based in Minsk, Belarus. Friendly, positive thinker, pragmatic, constructive in his criticism. If you’re looking for someone who shares lots of useful social web organizing tools and is available to have a simple chit-chat with you, you’re at the right guy to follow.
krftd
@krftd
Krftd is an awesome lifestyle, design and inspiration magazine based in Singapore. If you’re into art, design, fashion and lifestyle, Krftd is the place to go for quality articles, reviews and interesting stuff. Highly recommended.
David Airey (davidairey)
@davidairey
David Airey, designer based in Northern Ireland and the founder of LogoDesignLove blog, and his ramblings on design, spec work, branding and more. Apart from that, great guy, great follow and an awesome creative. If you’re into logo and brand design, you can also check his professional profile at @LogoDesignLove. Great stuff.

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TGIF: #followfriday & design finds

Published on July 31, 2009 in Design, Inspiration, Personal and Twitter; 2 Comments

As usual on friday, I present to you another post from the TGIF series! As always, the post will be about my Twitter #followfriday recommendations with descriptions and design/cool finds to start the weekend with. Anyway, let’s get to the point. Part one of this post will be…

#followfriday recommendations!

@r27
@r27
Rajesh is the owner of R27.CREATIVELAB and a very (and I mean it, very) friendly & helpful guy. It gone usual way – I started following him when I got involved big time in Twitter, he followed me back, we started chatting etc. He’s a very valued follow because he’s really into design & social media and he’s a mine of ideas. He’s a very valued follower because he’ll always help you promote your stuff to his 3.000+ followers if he likes it. Really cool guy, highly recommended.
@aaroni268
@aaroni268
Aaron Irizarry, the podcaster from This Is Aaron’s Life and a cool guy. A while ago, when TinyChat was not overrulled by spammers, I popped out of pure curiousity to the #designchat channel. There I met Aaron, who just happened to be online. He’s a very cool guy that really has a message to send out there, very friendly and helpful. Plus, he likes Converge.
@markco11ins
@markco11ins
Mark Collins, owner of MediaPower Lab design studio and community leader of Designers’Couch. I “met” him while applying for the Designers’Couch portfolio and he turned out to be one of the guys that you need to follow.
@grazianopl
@grazianopl
Gracjan, also known as Graziano is my “homeboy” from Poland and a very talented web & graphic designer. You can check his portfolio for some pretty awesome and inspiring stuff, aside from the awesome and inspiring stuff he puts on his Twitter.

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TGIF: #followfriday & design finds

Published on July 24, 2009 in Design, Inspiration, Personal and Twitter; Closed

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
@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
@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
@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
@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):

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!