10 designers worth following on Twitter (#)
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Twitter is a popular hangout for geeks and techies, and you are almost guaranteed to find everyone from the layperson to mini-celebrities on Twitter. Here is a list of awesome web designers on Twitter worth following. Note that conversation value has been given importance (how active they are on Twitter, and how much of tweets is design-related).
Jonathan Snook : Designer/developer
Snook is a well known and respected designer and developer. He has made a name for himself in the design and development world, and writes his blog, and is also part of Sidebar Creative, a design firm.
Veerle Pieters: Designer
Veerle Pieters is another hotshot in the design world. Every word she writes on her blog is eagerly read by other designers, and she also runs a design firm called Duoh!
Eric Meyer: CSS Guru
Eric Meyer is a CSS and web design guru, having written several books on the subject. He also writes a blog.
Chris Pearson, aka Pearsonified
Chris Pearson is a former freelance designer, now working on big projects and has also launched Thesis theme in association with Brian Clark. Also see his blog Pearsonified.
Collis Ta’eed
Owns several popular blogs (PSDTuts, Freelance Switch etc.) and websites. Accomplished web entrepreneur and designer.
Ben Bleikamp
Ben Bleikamp is a designer, and shot into fame with his redesigns of Problogger and Four Hour Work Week. Until recently, he also worked part-time for b5Media blogging network.
David Airey
Popular logo designer and author of DavidAirey.com and Logo Design Love. David Airey, along with Michael Martin (below) are very direct, friendly folks in the design world. His blogs contains a very busy comments area, a testimony to his building a community around his blogs.
Michael Martin, aka Pro Blog Design
Freelance designer, and author of popular design blog Pro Blog Design. An active Twitterer, talented designer, good writer (and a good friend of mine).
Michael Castilla
Founder of WPCandy, a popular blog on WordPress news, tips and hacks. Also an active Twitter and Stumble Upon user (see his Stumble Upon profile too).
Matt Harzewski, aka Redwall_Hp
Founder of Webmaster Source, a blog for blogging, design and Wordpress tips. Matt also runs several other websites, and is an active Twitterer and Mac user.
Who are your favorite designers on Twitter? Do you have any recommendations to this list? We will be updating this post as new designers are recommended, so do let us know of more awesome designing, Twittering folks.
Speaking of which, why don’t you follow me on Twitter? I tweet about technology, internet and design - catch you on Twitter.
David Airey said on September 2nd, 2008
Very kind of you to say, Sumesh. Thanks!
Mayank said on September 2nd, 2008
Awesome post and great list of some of the greatest and passionate designers.
Jeremy Wright said on September 2nd, 2008
I totally agree that Ben rawks as a designer, however he doesn’t work for us anymore (sadly!)
Rachel said on September 2nd, 2008
Great list of designers who use Twitter. Thanks for the list.
Collis said on September 3rd, 2008
Yay, thanks for including me on the list! Don’t know if I say anything particularly useful on Twitter
Post authorSumesh said on September 6th, 2008
@Jeremy: Aw, its sad that Ben doesn’t work for b5media anymore. As a fact, I did read on his blog that he’s employed full-time elsewhere.
@Collis: You’re welcome. And you do say interesting things on Twitter, which is why I’ve included you here in the first place
Patrick K. O'Brien said on September 10th, 2008
Nice list, Sumesh. I became a fan of Chris Pearson’s when I went looking for a new blog theme and ended up buying his Thesis WordPress Theme. Since then I’ve seen mention of several of the other designers on your list. Looks like I’ve got yet another reason to get on board this Twitter train. Thanks.