Authors
Abhimanyu Ghoshal
Abhimanyu Ghoshal is a photographer, writer and musician based in Bangalore, India. He also fancies himself a traveler, street food gourmet and design connoisseur, but that's besides the point. He has been writing about design, technology and apps for over a year, mostly because he has forgotten how to code.
Daniel Feeney
Daniel currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky. With his passion for design, technology, and everything in between, it was only natural that he founded Stemmings.
Ainsley Wagoner
Ainsley is web and graphic designer in Lexington, Kentucky interested in the intersection of simple, pretty, and slightly weird. She has a background in architecture and music. Other interests include building a bicycle and trying to wear out her Boston Terrier.
Andy Luce
Andy Luce lives and works in Chicago as a designer, letterer and artist. When not creating art for clients, Andy pursues his passions of wood working, tending his small but beloved window-box garden, exploring on his bike and cherishing time with his wife Liz.
Ash Huang
Ash is a designer and illustrator at Pinterest, where she endeavors to fix the Internet more often than she breaks it. Her pixelled past includes Twitter and Code and Theory. An avid knitter, adventurer, dog person and reformed early riser.
Brandon Satterlee
Brandon Satterlee is currently an acting Partner and the Executive Creative Director at The Forest, board member of AIGA West Michigan, and Michigan native.
Brian Lovin
Brian is a front end designer and developer from Denver, Colorado. He is the founder and owner of The Kollection, a site dedicated to sharing free music online. Design and development has been a large part of his life for the past 5 years, as both a freelancer and full-time designer in various positions.
Cat Smith
Cat Smith is a Web and UI designer from New Jersey who loves creating appealing and snazzy designs. When she's not in Photoshop, she enjoys chatting and writing about freelancing and the latest in the design world. Cat is big on fun and great opportunities; so she loves connecting with other designers, working on new projects and traveling.
Dan Malarkey
I'm currently the UX/UI Designer at the software engineering firm feature[23]. I live in NE Florida with my wife, two cats and a dog. I'm a soon-to-be dad to a little girl who will write better code than me.
Devin Halladay
Devin Halladay is Strongsville, Ohio's, resident maker—a designer, typographer, developer, and aspiring writer. Currently thriving as a 16 year old designer/student hybrid, Devin has jump started his career in the industry and looks forward to one day being a leader in the design industry. Currently, Devin is writing a book on design and running, curating, and building The Guild.
Kyle Dreger
Kyle is a student, designer and computerist from Ohio. He's fascinated with the emotional connections we make with good design, and strives to create software that will create real value in the lives of his users.
Jeff Rogers
Jeff Rogers is a multidisciplinary designer specializing in custom lettering, illustration, graphic design, and art direction. A proud Texas native, he works from his tiny studio in New York City on a wide variety of projects for clients such as Nike, Google, The New York Times, McDonald's, Urban Outfitters, and many others.
Hidde van der Ploeg
Hidde van der Ploeg is a Dutch designer born with the interest of technology and wondering how things work. Raised in a little town called Leeuwarden where he started as a freelancer with the alias Hidden Color. Later he moved to Amsterdam to start his career at IceMobile. He started design as an web designer, And so he found his way into Interface Design. He likes to push pixels to make digital products as easy as possible, because the product is as good as it is useable.
Jake Dugard
Jake Dugard is a designer and screen printer working and living in Louisiana with his beautiful wife, Stephanie. He is also working towards his MFA at Louisiana Tech University and is projected to graduate in May 2014. As a designer and printer, he loves exploring projects that blend traditional processes with new technologies.
James Fletcher
I'm a Pixel Warrior and Podcaster at Smorrs Co., I create ID packages at Jaye located in Wake Forest, NC. I am also highly passionate about clean design and strive to portray it through creative and aesthetically pleasing solutions to peoples needs, while keeping focused with the help of an inordinate amount coffee.
Jasmin Wong
Jasmin is a designer based in Sydney, Australia. Her interests include photography, architecture, gardening, and travel. In her work, she is especially interested in paring down details to find balance between an exquisite user experience and impeccable aesthetic. She is currently Designer and Co-founder at Millet Co.
Justin Edmund
Justin is a product designer working at Pinterest in San Francisco. Previously, he graduated from Carnegie Mellon's Communication Design program. He enjoys design process, systems thinking, and long walks on the beach.
James Wilson
A carpenter for ten years I landed in the web industry somewhat by accident. Now I take the lessons I learned from building with wood, sweat and steel and apply them to the code, images and language that make up the web. I'm currently working as a front-end dev by day and building my own product, typecards, by night. You can find me hanging out in Boston or any of the usual networks online.
Joel Glovier
Joel Glovier is a user experience designer and developer from Pennsylvania. Currently, Joel lives in the midstate, and works remotely for appendTo. He loves spending time with his wife and kids, and working on side projects like Dev Tees and RemoteJobs.io.
Joseph Alessio
I play 7 instruments, am left-handed and once shot an evil raccoon out of a tree with a .38 revolver. Incidentally, I also design, illustrate and draw letters. Inspired by the mountains and the valleys; culture and communication; things modern and ancient; and the opportunity to make everyday things beautiful every day. Aspiring renaissance man.
Joseph Marsh
Joseph is a graphic designer and illustrator living in Colorado, who's not-so-secret childhood dream is to be a Disney Imagineer. When he's not pushing pixels around the screen you can usually find him pulling espresso shots, cutting, folding, and gluing his papercraft projects, or hiking up the face of a mountain. He loves deep conversations about life, the smell of ocean surf, the stars in an unmolested Rocky Mountain night sky, and the sound of that first ping of coffee hitting the pot in the morning (did I mention he likes coffee?).
Justin Mezzell
Justin Mezzell is an illustrator and designer currently nesting in Orlando, FL with his wife and small dog. He's typically inspired by space, the natural world, corn dogs, and Oxford commas. Sometimes other things, but never by none of the things. He bides his time between Wes Anderson films trying not to refer to himself in the third person. But he did here and he apologizes.
Kevin Anderson
Kevin is a young Dutch designer with a mission. He is always interested in new adventures and seeking out new possibilities. But most of all, he's is a lover of life. Kevin is currently working on the barebones time tracking application, Punchclock.
Marcus Edvalson
I have been working in interactive design for over a decade in Los Angeles, and currently serve as Director of Product for HYPERHYPER LA, in addition to my own creative and entrepreneurial endeavors. I also enjoy my life as a father, husband, cyclist and sipper of fine bourbons.
Matt Chase
Matt Chase is a designer and illustrator living and working in Washington, DC. His work has been recognized by Applied Arts, AIGA, The Society of Publication Design, Communication Arts, HOW, Coupe, The Art Director’s Club, The DC Ad Club and the Dallas Society of Visual Communication.
Michael Ciarlo
Michael Ciarlo is a New York City based designer with a knack for creative direction, product development, and front-end engineering. He can frequently be found trying to encourage public awareness around technology, politics, and the environment.
Michael Mulvey
Michael has been working in the field of interactive design for over 14 years and is currently an associate creative director at Roundarch Isobar. He's taught courses on interactive design at Rutgers University and FIT and successfully funded a Kickstarter project, Bicycles For Our Minds. He's been blogging at Daily Exhaust for over 7 years and has been quoted on industry sites like Daring Fireball, Loop Insight, parislemon, Shawn Blanc and 512 Pixels.
Patrick Rogan
I'm a Raleigh, NC, based self-taught designer with a passion for creating sustainable brands that break the barriers of time and burn into the memories of individuals. I do not merely want to create pretty graphics and write eloquent words, but rather work with my clients from beginning to end to ensure that their goals are met and they’re satisfied with the conversions and success they receive. The moment I forget that, is the moment I forget why I do what I do. There’s no finish line or pinnacle to what I do, I merely enjoy the journey.
Morgan Jones
Morgan Jones, is an enthusiastic and passionate UI Designer from the UK. Specialising in Web and Mobile. Upon graduating from University, Morgan began work at design studio, 383 Project
Ricky Linn
My name's Ricky Linn and I'm a graphic design student at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. I like to think of myself as a robot simply for the fact that I wish to trick my brain into thinking that I do not require sleep.
Robert-Paul Jansen
Robert-Paul Jansen is a photographer based in the south of the Netherlands who embraces the future of photography. He loves gadgets, design, photography, good vibes and likes to dwell in nature. He always tries to combine these things in his daily life and work. He is a firm believer that beauty can be found anywhere, you just have to be open to see it. His goal is to make people more aware of the tiny, beautiful details around them.
Ricardo Vazquez
Ricardo is a User Interface and User Experience Designer based in Toronto, Canada. Design was an accident for him, but he fell in love with the recklessness of it. His interests lie in culture, design, aeshetic, wit, reality, existence, history, education, thought, and the relentless pursuit of happiness.
Shawn Wilkins
As creator of Culture Milk, I bring excellence and creativity to a site that's bred in thought and intelligence. Being able to have full articles that discuss popular topics here on Stemmings, I plan to show what the tech world is like to your average person and what your average person is missing. It's a race with multiple finish lines.
Krystyn Heide
Krystyn is Senior Product Designer at Squarespace, where she has worked with the company's founder since 2005 to define the design of their brand and templates. She loves jukeboxes, curly braces, handclaps, comically false eyelashes, somersaults, New York City, spook show movies, vespas, and her dog Pixel.
Shawn Borsky
Shawn is a serious coffee addict and interface designer based out of San Francisco. With somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 years in design and interface design he has worked in video games, small business, automobiles, various websites/apps, and now hotels. He currently sips his coffee and rocks out designs as Senior Visual Designer at HotelTonight.
Dan Matutina
Dan Matutina is a designer and illustrator based in the Philippines. His illustration style is a mix of handmade & digital, clean & dirty, old & modern aesthetics. He loves mixing colors with different textures & shapes to tell a story. Dan was one of the the co-founders of Ideals and just recently started Plus63 Design Co. with clients ranging from Mediatemple to WIRED to McDonald's.
Sharlene King
Sharlene King is a designer based in Chicago, working at Morningstar, Inc. where, within the first week, she sang Wilson Phillips during a business unit karaoke session. She lives on the internet by the name Typodactyl. If the opportunity comes along to buy her a drink, she'll gladly accept a glass of bourbon neat. Other people named Sharlene King include a pilates instructor, a British MMA fighter, and a wombat conservationist.
Victor Erixon
Young Designer from Sweden with craving for success in life, never sleeping, and always spending time with his hobby, which is design. Currently residing in New York.