#1
Collis Ta’eed
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Collis’ Websites
Envato – http://www.envato.com
TutsPlus – http://tutsplus.com
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About Collis Ta’eed
Collis Ta’eed is the founder / creator of the company Envato (formally
Eden). Collis first came across Photoshop at university, and realized
this is what he wanted to do. Since then he has built up the Envato
network to one of the biggest creative communities online to date.
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Envato has many sites within its network, including tutorial sites,
design blogs, web galleries and creative marketplaces such as flashden
and audiojungle. |
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#2
Vitaly Friedman
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Vitaly’s Websites
Smashing Magazine – http://www.smashingmagazine.com
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About Vitaly Friedman
Vitaly is one of the founders of the popular smashingmagazine.com.
Smashing magazine is an extremely popular web design blog, which has
over 130,000 RSS Subscribers and is hosted on 7 servers.
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The Design compilations that Vitaly puts together on smashing magazine
and simply amazing. Smashing Magazine is one of the most talked about
blogs online to date. Well done Vitaly! |
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#3
Matt Mickiewicz
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Matt’s Websites
Sitepoint – http://www.sitepoint.com
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About Matt Mickiewicz
Matt is the founder and creator of Sitepoint. Sitepoint is the largest
website online for web designers and developers. It ranks under the top
1000 websites online to date.
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Sitepoint has a very popular forum and marketplace, plus they also publish books and host design contests. |
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#4
Nick La
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Nick’s Websites
N.Design Studio – http://www.ndesign-studio.com
Best Web Gallery – http://bestwebgallery.com
Web Designer Wall – http://www.webdesignerwall.com
Icon Dock – http://icondock.com
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About Nick La
Nick La is a freelancer specializing in illustration and web design.
Nick is based in Toronto, Canada. His main focuses are designing stock
icons, beautiful CSS websites and illustrations.
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Nicks work has been featured all across the internet on various blogs and web galleries. |
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#5
David Leggett
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David’s Websites
Tutorial9 – http://www.tutorial9.net
UxBooth – http://www.uxbooth.com
The Leggett – http://www.theleggett.com
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About David Leggett
David designed his first website when he was only ten years old. Since
then he has created an amazing web design blog called tutorial9, in
which he teaches people about Photoshop and design.
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UxBoot is another one of his websites that offers website reviews, and free web resources to all its readers. |
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#6
Jacob Gube
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Jacob’s Websites
Six Revisions – http://sixrevisions.com
Twitter – http://twitter.com/SixRevisions
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About Jacob Gube
Jacob is the founder is Six Revisions, one of the most popular web
design and development blogs on the internet. The content that is
published on six revisions is simply amazing, and provides extremely
useful information to web designers and developers worldwide. |
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#7
Jakob Nielsen
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Jakob’s Websites
UseIt
HappyWebbies
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About Jakob Nielsen
Jakob has his own websites over at useit.com. Jakob has many different
names, such as “The king of usability”, and “The smartest person on the
web”. |
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#8
Jeffrey Zeldman
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Jeffrey’s Websites
Happy Cog
Jeffrey Zeldman – http://www.zeldman.com
Twitter – http://twitter.com/zeldman
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About Jeffrey Zeldman
Jeffrey Zeldman is a writer / author, and designer. His personal blog
zeldman.com has been around since 1995 (14 years!), and is one of the
oldest published blogs on the internet.
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Jeffrey Zeldman has been involves in many projects including the Web Standards Project, and A List Apart. |
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#9
David Airey
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David’s Websites
David Airey – http://www.davidairey.com
LogoDesignLove – http://www.logodesignlove.com
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About David Airey
David is a graphic designer living in Northern Ireland. He specializes
in logo design and brand identity. His blog has around 14,000 RSS
Subscribers, and his portfolio is also hosted on davidairey.com.
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Another one of Davids projects includes Logodesignlove.com, which also
has over 13,000 RSS Subscribers. His work is featured in many web
galleries and blogs. |
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#10
Fabio Sasso
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Fabio’s Websites
Abduzeedo – http://abduzeedo.com
Fabio Sasso – http://fabiosasso.com
Twitter – http://twitter.com/abduzeedo
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About Fabio Sasso
Fabio has his own personal website in which he features many of his
personal designs. Abduzeedo is Fabio’s design blog in which he has some
amazing content.
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Fabio also owns his own web design company called Zee. |
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#11
Veerle Pieters
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Veerle’s Websites
Veerle’s Blog – http://veerle.duoh.com
Duoh! – http://www.duoh.com
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About Veerle Pieters
Veerle began her career in 1992, when she became a freelance designer
under the name of Duoh! She founded the name duoh.com in 2000.
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Veerle’s design blog has been around for many years. Her design work is
very inspirational, and every piece is 10/10 for quality. |
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#12
Jacob Cass
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Jacob’s Websites
Just Creative Design – http://justcreativedesign.com
Twitter – http://twitter.com/justcreative
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About Jacob Cass
Jacob has his blog and portfolio at the same domain name. He is the
founder of Just Creative Design, and is currently 21 years old.
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Jacob is a very talented individual in the design niche. You just have
to look at his portfolio to see it. He does an array of different design
work that includes web design, logo design, print and much more. |
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#13
Adelle Charles
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Adelle’s Websites
Fuel Your Creativity – this website is no longer online
Fuel Brand Group – http://fuelbrandgroup.com
Adelle Charles – http://adellecharles.com
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About Adelle Charles
Adelle is the creative director for the Fuel Brand Group. She is
responsible for all the creative design around all the fuel brand sites.
She is also an Art Director and a designer for a TV Station.
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She also has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design from Rochester Institute of Technology. |
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#14
Adii Rockstar
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Adii’s Websites
Adii – http://adii.co.za
WooThemes – http://www.woothemes.com
Twitter – http://twitter.com/adii
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About Adii Rockstar
Adii Rockstar formally knows as Adriaan Pienaa is a successful internet
entrepreneur. Adii has his own personal blog, and is the founder of
woothemes, and Radiiate Web Solutions. |
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#15
Nick Finck
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Nick’s Websites
Nick Finck – http://nickfinck.com
Twitter – http://twitter.com/nickf
Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalweb/
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About Nick Finck
Nick Finck is a speaker and community cultivator. He has created web
experiences for fortune 50 and 500 companies. These companies include
Adobe, IBM, HP, Microsoft and many others. |
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#16
Dennis Hwang
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Featured In
Google Blog – http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/06/oodles-of-doodles.html
Guardian Online – http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/05/google.doodle
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About Dennis Hwang
Dennis is the official Google Doodlist. He has created over 150 doodles
for Google. His name is not well known, but his work has been seen by
billions of people on the Google homepage. He creates new doodles for
Google when there are events happening, such as Easter, Googles
Birthday, Halloween, Start of summer, etc. |
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#17
Derek Herman
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Derek’s Websites
Valen Designs – http://valendesigns.com
Twitter – http://twitter.com/valendesigns
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About Derek Herman
Derek is the founder of Valen Designs. Valen specializes in Web Design,
Search Engine Optimization, Branding and Application Development. Derek
has worked on many websites, including sites within the Envato network. |
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#18
Mike Kus
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Mike’s Websites
Carsonified
The Things We Make
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About Mike Kus
Mike is the senior designer for Carsonified. He joined in May 2008, and
has been in design for many years before. Mike is a very creative
designer, and he works wonders for Carsonified.
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He also has a personal site over at thethingswemake.co.uk, which includes his Flickr photo stream, and his portfolio. |
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#19
Bill Beachy
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Bill’s Websites
Go Media – http://v5.gomedia.us/about/bill.php
Twitter – http://twitter.com/william_beachy
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About Bill Beachy
Bill is the president of Go Media. It took several years before he could
start to hire other people to work for his company, but now it has a
vast number of employees.
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Go Media was originally called Graphic Odysseys, until it merged with Next Level Multimedia in 2003. |
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#20
Rob Palmer
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Rob’s Websites
Branded07 – http://www.branded07.com
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About Rob Palmer
Rob is 25 years old and a graphic designer based in Newcastle upon Tyne,
UK. He is skilled in almost every Adobe package, and knows many
programming languages.
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He uses Branded07 to post tutorials, write about his personal life and host his portfolio. |
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#21
Cameron Moll
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Cameron’s Websites
Cameron Moll – http://cameronmoll.com
Authentic Jobs – http://authenticjobs.com
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About Cameron Moll
Cameron Moll is an inspirational web designer. His code is clean, and he
is one of the most balanced designers. Many companies have recognizes
Cameron’s work.
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Cameron has a personal site in which he hosts a shop, his blog and his
design portfolio. He also has a job board named “Authentic Jobs”. |
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#22
Jason Santa Maria
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Jason’s Websites
Jason Santa Maria – http://jasonsantamaria.com
An Event Apart – http://aneventapart.com/speakers/jasonsantamaria/
Twitter – http://twitter.com/jasonsantamaria
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About Jason Santa Maria
Jason is a graphic designer that currently lives in Brooklyn. On his
personal site he hosts his portfolio and also writes about Technology,
Business and the Web. |
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#23
Paul Boag
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Paul’s Websites
BoagWorld – http://boagworld.com
HeadScape
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About Paul Boag
Paul hosts the podcast BoagWorld, along with Marcus Lillington. Paul and
Marcus had already worked together for years, creating the web design
company HeadScape.
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BoagWorld is the longest running, and most popular web design podcast on the internet. |
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#24
Andrew Maier
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Andrew’s Websites
Designer Andrew – http://www.designerandrew.com
UxBooth – http://www.uxbooth.com/author/andrewmaier/
Twitter – http://twitter.com/andrewmaier
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About Andrew Maier
Andrew is a web / graphic design freelancer. He is currently living in
Atlanta, GA. He writes frequent articles for uxbooth.com. His interests
are in web standards, usability, and human-computer interaction. |
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#25
Jeff Croft
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Jeff’s Websites
Jeff Croft – http://jeffcroft.com
BlueFlavor – http://blueflavor.com
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About Jeff Croft
Jeff has been working online for a good 12 years. He works for a design
company called blueflavor, but he also does his own bit of freelancing
on the side, through his personal website jeffcroft.com.
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Jeff hosts all his favorite links, photos and his portfolio and blog on his personal website. |
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#26
Dave Shea
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Dave’s Websites
Bright Creative – http://www.brightcreative.com
Zen Garden – http://www.csszengarden.com
MezzoBlue – http://mezzoblue.com
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About Dave Shea
Dave owns a one man design studio, named Bright Creative. He has a very uplifting portfolio and loves icon design.
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He has many projects including Zen Garden, and his own personal web blog over at mezzoblue.com. |
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#27
Dan Cederholm
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Dan’s Websites
SimpleBits – http://simplebits.com
IconShoppe – http://www.iconshoppe.com
Hand Crafted CSS – http://handcraftedcss.com
Own Someone A Drink?
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About Dan Cederholm
Dan is the founder of simplebits, a web design studio. He also has many
other projects he has worked on, such as iconshoppe and foamee. Dan has
wrote his own book alongside Ethan Marcotte, called “HandCrafted CSS”. |
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#28
Dan Richard
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Dan’s Websites
Pixel2Life – http://www.pixel2life.com
Dan Richard – http://www.danrichard.com
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About Dan Richard
Dan is the founder of pixel2life.com, the biggest tutorial index on the
planet. Pixel2life has tutorials in over 80 different categories! It
allows people to submit tutorials to its large and ever growing index.
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Dan also owns his own personal blog over at danrichard.com in which he blogs about tutorials, design work and much more. |
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#29
Daniel Mall
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Daniel’s Websites
Daniel Mall – http://danmall.me
HappyCog
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About Daniel Mall
Dan is a interactive designer, living in Philadelphia. He specializes in Flash, XHTML, CSS and Typography.
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Daniel also works for Happy Cog Studios. He created beautiful websites, and publishes his best ideas to a worldwide community. |
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#30
Andy Clarke
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Andy’s Websites
Stuff And Nonsense – http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk
For A Beautiful Web – http://www.forabeautifulweb.com
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About Andy Clarke
Andy has been working online for around 10 years. He moved to Wales to
escape busy London. He has his own web design business called stuff and
nonsense.
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Andy also has a blog that teaches people web development, and hosts
training workshops. You can catch this over at forabeautifulweb.com. |
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