Jason Santa Maria
Jason Santa Maria is the founder and principal of Mighty, a Brooklyn-based design studio. He is creative director of Typekit, a faculty member in the MFA Interaction Design program at SVA, vice president of AIGA/NY, founder of Typedia, and creative director for A List Apart. He discusses design on his award-winning website.
Frank Chimero
Frank Chimero is a graphic designer, teacher, writer, and creative person in Portland, Oregon. His fascination with the creative process, curiosity, and visual experience informs all of his work. Each piece is part of an exploration in finding wit, surprise, honesty, and joy in the world around us, then, trying to document those things.
Naz Hamid
Naz Hamid is the founder and principal of Weightshift, a small forward-thinking studio based in San Francisco and Chicago. They believe in function before form, the appropriate medium and message, thoughtful craft and in “Doing it once, doing it right.”. They write about design at Memo.
Trent Walton
Trent Walton is founder and 1/3 of Paravel, a custom web design and development shop based out of the Texas Hill Country. In his spare time, he writes about what he learns at his website, and is co-creator of and contributor to TheManyFacesOf and DesignSwap.
Dave Rupert
Dave is the lead developer for Paravel and host of the ATX Web Show, a podcast about the local web design and development scene in Austin, TX. Most of his attention is focused on current buzzwords: HTML5 / CSS3, Javascript, Rails, Sinatra, and the Mobile Web.