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Interview: Meet the Penzu Team!

13/10/2011 | Interviews


Creating a journal web app just because you want an awesome one sounds like a great idea. Now how about taking that journal app, adding more features than most people could think of for a journal, designing beautiful themes so you can write however you’d like, and coding a whole ecosystem of apps so users could journal anywhere? Oh, and trying to turn the whole thing into a business?

That’s exactly what the Penzu team has been doing for the past few years. We’d originally reviewed Penzu early last year, and since then its continued to gain popularity. Our widely popular Penzu Pro giveaway last week was proof that tons of our readers love Penzu and find it an exciting way to keep a journal. The Penzu team has been kind enough to give us a few minutes of their time and answer some of our questions about their app and the future of Penzu. After the break, you’ll get an inside look at the team behind one of the most popular journal web apps today.

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Interview With John Mark Herskind

19/09/2011 | Interviews


Designer John Mark Herskind has done quite a lot in the 4 years that he has been doing graphic design. John is responsible for creating Designers Against Child Slavery as well as being part of the impressive S3 Collective. From that we can see that John has a bright future ahead of him in the design world so make sure to check out this great interview.

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Interviews of Popular Web Designers, Developers, Bloggers and Founder

31/08/2011 | Interviews


What drives someone to become a success? Why do people persevere when the odds are against them? Is there a secret to becoming successful? The best way to find out is to interview people who have been there, and done that, who have spent their lives in a pursuit of success in one form or another. And that’s exactly what we has done in this amazing collection of interviews.

The top people of yesterday and today offer their insights into their success and into their lives. In a conversational style, these easy-to-read interviews explore the minds and lives of 50 different Web Designers, Developers, Bloggers and Founder, all who have achieved the pinnacle of success in their fields.

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Interview with Andrea Austoni

15/06/2011 | Interviews


Today we are going to meet our old friend, great Italian designer Andrea Austoni, who wrote some brilliant tutorials for Vectortuts+. Andrea is a many-sided personality, beside design, he is interested in music, learning foreign languages, cooking, the eastern philosophy. “Only by partaking of a large spectrum of life’s many offerings will you become a better person and thus a better designer”- he says. Learn more about Andrea, his thoughts and illustrations after the jump.

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Interview with Bree Leman

07/06/2011 | Interviews


Bree Leman, presently based in Florida, is a fashion and glamour illustrator. In this interview she talks about how she started her career as an advertising graphic designer and evolved herself into developing her own illustrative fashion vector style.

Today she is a successful freelance designer working with some top advertising companies around the globe and currently completing projects with seventeen magazine, Avon and Beijo fashion bags. Read on to learn more about this talented artist. She kindly shares with us her experiences, dream projects, and some great tips on design and illustration.

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40 Exciting Interviews from Vectortuts+

31/05/2011 | Interviews


When I finished building my first web app (CompVersions, which allows you to collect feedback from clients), I was surprised at the number of user interface decisions and considerations I hadn’t accounted for at the beginning of my journey. I’d like to share some of those things with you.

Many of these design considerations might seem superficially obvious, but once you’re going through the design and development process, it’s easy to forget about them because they’re like condiments — you hardly notice them when they’re there, but if they’re missing, your food just doesn’t taste right.

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Interview with Germán Covacevich

12/05/2011 | Interviews


Germán Covacevich, also known as Cova, is a freelance illustrator and digital painter based in Rosario, Argentina with a portfolio that features a vast cross-section of disciplines and styles. And he also finds time to sing and play the guitar along with his band.

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Interview With Roy Bourkel

31/03/2011 | Interviews


Adversity and loss have definitely fueled this resilient designer to create some amazing artwork. Becoming a designer was pure coincidence for Roy but he took advantage of his talent and is now creating some extraordinary artwork. With a very unique style that doesn’t quite sit on one particular technique Roy can illustrate exactly what he is feeling. In our interview Roy discusses how he overcame some obstacles in his life, which in turn made him a much better artist.

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Interview With Niklas Lundberg

20/02/2011 | Interviews


Here is another must read interview with an extremely talented designer by the name of Niklas Lundberg. Only 22 years old and already a part of the Depth Core Collective creating, some astounding art. In our interview we discuss why he chose to become a designer and the trouble he had at first with achieving that goal. Niklas also shares a lot of interesting tips and info for the readers about the practice of creating art.

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Interview with Richard Roberts (Digital Artist)

14/02/2011 | Interviews


You might have heard of Richard before, he is more commonly known around the web as either theotherstream or ROGUEART, well Richard is a 20 year old digital artist, that has a passion for what he does. He loves Jack Johnson and has more than 250+ Dvd’s in his collection, want to know more about Richard? Read on my friends. (In the interview we will be referring to Creativeoverflow as “C” and Richard as “R”)

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