16 Genuine, Authentic Designers on Twitter

Mar 20 2009 by Chris Wallace | 53 Comments

I’ve seen a few Twitter designer lists pop up here and there and wanted to offer a fresh spin on things. This list contains 16 designers who I find extremely friendly, genuine, and have something to offer to the design community.

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In one word, the people on this list can be considered "authentic." They are real, down-to-earth people who would love to chat (though you may ask if they’re busy before striking up a conversation).

I wanted to build a list of designers who aren’t necessarily on all the previous "follow lists" and are still quite follow-worthy, so without further ado, here goes…

Rogie King (@rogieking)

Rogie King is web designer, illustrator, and blogger whose work you can find in his site, Komodo Media.

Samantha Warren (@samanthatoy)

Samatha Warren is a web designer and a member of the Design team at Viget Labs. Her personal site: Badass Ideas.

Henry Jones (@webdesignledger)

Henry Jones is a web designer and developer based in Tennessee. He’s the man behind Web Design Ledger. Check out his portfolio.

Matt Brett (@mattbrett)

Matt Brett is a freelance web designer whose personal site, Matt Brett, has been making its rounds in web design showcase galleries.

Shannon Farrell (@dolceshan)

Shannon Farrell is a graphic and web designer based from Virginia. Check out her personal site.

Chris Harrison (@cdharrison)

Chris Harrison is a web developer / designer. You can learn more about him on his personal site.

Nathan Smith (@nathansmith)

Nathan Smith is a designer, front end developer, and user experience developer. He runs a personal site called SonSpring.

Tim Van Damme (@maxvoltar)

Tim Van Damme is a Belgium-based interface designer at Made by Elephant (small creative agency). Check him out at his blog, Maxvoltar.

Lea Alcantara (@lealea)

Lea Alcantara is a designer based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Check out her portfolio site: Lealea Design.

David Airey (@davidairey)

David Airey is a graphic designer and design consultant, specializing in identity projects. Check out his personal site and Logo Design Love.

Sean Farrell (@penflare)

Sean Farrell is a freelance designer, specializing in branding, web, and print. You learn more about him on his site: Penflare Designs.

Luke Beard (@LukesBeard)

Luke Beard is a graphic and web designer from England. His soon-to-be portfolio site: Luke’s Beard.

Chris Colhoun (@chriscolhoun)

Chris Colhoun is a design student and future employable designer. His personal site: Chris Colhoun.

Lee Munroe (@leemunroe)

Lee Munroe is a Northern Ireland-based web designer. Check out his personal site, as well as The Big Word Project.

Jeff Andrews (@jeffandrews)

Jeff Andrews is a designer. His personal site: Jeff Andrews Design.

Sean Baker (@elysiumburns)

Sean Baker is a young designer. You can check out his work on his site, Elysium Burns.

Got more tweeple to for us to follow?

Feel free to add your own nominations in the comments. The goal is for authenticity, not necessarily the biggest names in design.

About the Author

Bio Photo. Chris Wallace is a front-end developer and Principal Creative at Walmedia, a web design company. Chris offers free WordPress themes and writes about web design and development on his blog, Designer&Developer. He also runs a design and development job board, AllDevJobs.com and popular design job aggregator MashedJobs.com. Twitter: @chriswallace.

53 Comments

Lee Munroe

March 20th, 2009

Honoured to be mentioned amongst other great designers who I’ve a lot of admiration for. Thanks Chris!

Kathryn Limbacher

March 20th, 2009

I think you should add. Parks design. http://www.creativewhirlwind.com. He’s on twitter as @parksdesign.

Niamh Redmond

March 20th, 2009

Good post. As I said on Twitter, I like that you choose to focus on a smaller number and went for authenticity, not necessarily the biggest names in design.

I would like to nominate:

@abduzeedo
@adellecharles
@ilovetypography
@nikibrown
@cmdshiftdesign
@justcreative
@gracesmith

I’m a web & interactive designer and am on Twitter as @nredmond. Looking to connect with like-minded people in the industry, add me and say hi! :)

Tristan Jud

March 20th, 2009

Me @ablenetdesign :)

Nice post by the way, I wasn’t following some of these people.

Tim Van Damme

March 20th, 2009

Authentic? Moi? I have a dozen of scriptwriters working on my next tweet!

Thanks for having me ;)

Jeff Andrews

March 20th, 2009

Chris, thanks for the mention. Much appreciated!

Tony Chester

March 20th, 2009

Great list Chris, definitely some different faces on this Twitter list; good to see some new faces. Especially my boy Sean @elysiumburns Gotta get your follower list up a bit ;-)

Chris Harrison @cdharrison is another great one to follow.

Tony Chester – OnWired

Lea

March 20th, 2009

Thanks for putting me on this list, I’m in great company! And I can attest that the ones I recognize immediately on the list _are_ genuine, awesome people with ridiculous talent.

Henry Jones

March 20th, 2009

Wow. Great idea for a post Chris. I appreciate you including me with such great talent.

Jacob Gube

March 20th, 2009

@Henry Jones: You are the humblest designer I know… it doesn’t hurt to brag a little! :)

@Tony Chester: I’ll have to nominate you (@tonychester), since you’re one of the people that got me into using Twitter.

Chris, great job on this post and thank you for contributing to Six Revisions!

Josh

March 20th, 2009

Great list Chris! Much respect to all these designers! Keep up the great work guys and gals.

Henry Jones

March 20th, 2009

@Jacob: You know what…you’re right. I am pretty darn awesome! :)

dmitry

March 20th, 2009

this list is almost worthless. Most of the people have week porfolio sites, except for Rogie King & Lee Munroe

Samantha

March 20th, 2009

Fantastic list! I am honored to be included and look forward to the interesting things I will get to learn from some of the other designers you have mentioned here. Thanks!