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Soon for Safari: Creatives Are Community Toolbar

Pariah Burke — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:31:26 +0000

I am extremely pleased to announce that I’ve just entered into alpha testing of the Creatives Are Community Toolbar for installation in Safari. At the moment, it only works with Safari on the Mac, which many believe to be the coolest, fastest, most stable browser available for Mac OSX. Assuming the alpha testing goes well on OSX, the next step will be test the Toolbar in Safari for Windows, and later to enter a public beta phase.

If you’ve been jealous that all those Firefox/Camino and IE users get to use the Creatives Are Community Toolbar while Safari fans can’t, take heart: a Safari version is coming!

100+ Creative Pros on Twitter

Pariah Burke — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:52:54 +0000

Looking to connect with designers and other creative professionals on Twitter? Here are 100 of my favorites. Actually, it’s a few more than 100 as I’ve also included (some of) my own creative pro Twitter accounts–my main @iamPariah account as well as my information bots @wFreelance, @wFreelanceJobs, @wFreelanceTalk, and @Designorati).

If I missed you, please add yourself and your Twitter @username and Twitter bio in the comments. And, if you like this list, please tweet, bump, float, or otherwise share it. Enjoy!

2lip

Location: Maastricht (NL)

Twittering Since: 12/3/2007

Follow: @2lip
Fabio Sasso

Location: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Su

Twittering Since: 12/4/2006

Follow: @abduzeedo
Adelle Charles

Location: New York

Twittering Since: 2/8/2008

Follow: @adellecharles
Sean

Location: Fulton, NY

Twittering Since: 3/3/2009

Follow: @ADesignInMind
Alexandra Gebhardt

Location: Roselle, NJ

Twittering Since: 3/27/2009

Follow: @AlexInsideMedia
amy crehore

Location: Oregon

Twittering Since: 2/6/2008

Follow: @amycrehore
Angie Bowen

Location: Colorado

Twittering Since: 5/26/2008

Follow: @Arbenting
David Armano

Location: Chicago

Twittering Since: 2/6/2007

Follow: @Armano
Amy Stewart

Location: Richardson, Texas

Twittering Since: 10/23/2007

Follow: @astewart
Bruce Colthart

Location: beautiful Paramus, New Jersey

Twittering Since: 5/31/2008

Follow: @bccreative
Behance

Location: New York, New York

Twittering Since: 10/8/2007

Follow: @behance
Jay Hilgert

Location: Oklahoma City

Twittering Since: 2/5/2008

Follow: @bittbox
Bram Pitoyo

Location: Portland, OR

Twittering Since: 10/17/2007

Follow: @brampitoyo
Brian Cray

Location: Columbus, Ohio

Twittering Since: 7/25/2008

Follow: @briancray
David Klhufek

Location: Czech Rep.

Twittering Since: 4/17/2008

Follow: @brtak
Bryan Tamayo

Location: North Dallas TX

Twittering Since: 7/10/2008

Follow: @btamayo
calebkimbrough

Location: green kansas

Twittering Since: 7/27/2007

Follow: @calebkimbrough
Carter Harkins

Location: Nashville, TN

Twittering Since: 3/19/2007

Follow: @carterharkins
Chad Engle

Location: Charleston, WV

Twittering Since: 8/18/2008

Follow: @chadengle
Chris Spooner

Location: Sheffield, UK

Twittering Since: 4/26/2008

Follow: @chrisspooner
Collis

Location: The World!

Twittering Since: 4/2/2008

Follow: @collis
Cory Duncan

Location: Portland, Oregon

Twittering Since: 1/28/2007

Follow: @CoryDuncan
CreativeProse

Location: [Not Specified]

Twittering Since: 3/4/2009

Follow: @CreativeProse
Dee B ?

Location: Anywhere with WiFi

Twittering Since: 2/11/2009

Follow: @creativetype
Creattica

Location: Everywhere

Twittering Since: 9/15/2008

Follow: @creattica
Cristian Vasile

Location: Ploiesti, Romania

Twittering Since: 10/6/2008

Follow: @cristianvasile
Dan Ablan

Location: iPhone: 42.188797,-88.077759

Twittering Since: 4/17/2008

Follow: @danablan
David Link

Location: Baton Rouge, La

Twittering Since: 9/23/2008

Follow: @davidlink
Maria G. Nozza

Location: Montreal, Canada

Twittering Since: 7/14/2008

Follow: @designdigest
Sarah, DesignEnabler

Location: Meridian, Idaho, USA

Twittering Since: 11/11/2008

Follow: @DesignEnabler
Walter Apai – WDD

Location: Vancouver, Canada

Twittering Since: 11/26/2008

Follow: @DesignerDepot
Graphic Design Blog

Location: New York City

Twittering Since: 8/20/2007

Follow: @Designisms
marlynn

Location: portland, or

Twittering Since: 3/17/2008

Follow: @designmama
Stuart Robertson

Location: Guelph, Ontario

Twittering Since: 3/21/2007

Follow: @designmeme
Design Shack

Location: Manchester, UK

Twittering Since: 5/3/2008

Follow: @designshack
Max | Design shard

Location: York, United Kingdom

Twittering Since: 7/24/2008

Follow: @designshard
Directeur

Location: the Internet

Twittering Since: 4/15/2007

Follow: @directeur
Douglas Waltman II

Location: Tri-Cities, WA

Twittering Since: 5/8/2008

Follow: @dougwaltman
Anthony Pike

Location: Down Under

Twittering Since: 4/26/2008

Follow: @dragonhaunt
Edward Sanchez

Location: London, United Kingdom

Twittering Since: 3/13/2009

Follow: @edsaint
EntropiaDesignStudio

Location: South Florida, USA

Twittering Since: 8/31/2008

Follow: @entropiaDS
Jonathan Kong

Location: Singapore

Twittering Since: 12/28/2007

Follow: @fabrikade
FontShop

Location: San Francisco

Twittering Since: 9/15/2008

Follow: @FontShop
FreelanceFolder

Location: Pretty much anywhere :)

Twittering Since: 7/28/2008

Follow: @FreelanceFolder
FreelanceSwitch

Location: [Not Specified]

Twittering Since: 2/26/2009

Follow: @FreelanceSw
Franz Jeitz

Location: London, Luxembourg

Twittering Since: 7/17/2008

Follow: @fudgegraphics
Fuel Your Ideas

Location: NY

Twittering Since: 9/22/2008

Follow: @fuelyourideas
R. Schow

Location: Portland, Oregon

Twittering Since: 2/20/2008

Follow: @GodFodder
Gopal Raju

Location: [Not Specified]

Twittering Since: 6/26/2008

Follow: @gopalraju
Grace Smith

Location: Northern Ireland

Twittering Since: 12/9/2007

Follow: @gracesmith
A u d e e

Location: [Not Specified]

Twittering Since: 4/2/2008

Follow: @graphicidentity
Mindy Wagner

Location: Durham, NC

Twittering Since: 3/25/2008

Follow: @graphicsgirl
GraphicStart

Location: [Not Specified]

Twittering Since: 8/3/2007

Follow: @GraphicStart
Pariah S. Burke

Location: Portland, OR

Twittering Since: 7/1/2008

Follow: @iamPariah
Selene M. Bowlby

Location: Florida, USA

Twittering Since: 1/24/2008

Follow: @idesignstudios
Elliott Kosmicki

Location: Madison, WI

Twittering Since: 7/18/2006

Follow: @iElliott
Kitty

Location: Guatemala

Twittering Since: 9/5/2007

Follow: @iKitty
Johno

Location: Japan

Twittering Since: 10/29/2007

Follow: @ilovetypography
Graham Smith

Location: Seaford, East Sussex, England.

Twittering Since: 3/21/2007

Follow: @imjustcreative
instantshift

Location: USA

Twittering Since: 10/22/2008

Follow: @instantshift
Jacob Gube

Location: Bloomington

Twittering Since: 4/19/2008

Follow: @jggube
Jon MacDonald

Location: Portland, Oregon USA

Twittering Since: 8/6/2008

Follow: @jonmacdonald
Joann Sondy

Location: Traverse City, MI

Twittering Since: 1/18/2008

Follow: @jsondy
Judy Lea

Location: Alliston, Ontario, Canada

Twittering Since: 5/18/2008

Follow: @jude_
Jacob Cass

Location: Sydney, Newcastle

Twittering Since: 1/7/2008

Follow: @justcreative
keylimecreative

Location: Paisley, Ontario

Twittering Since: 11/15/2007

Follow: @keylimecreative
Killed Ideas

Location: San Francisco, CA

Twittering Since: 2/11/2009

Follow: @killedideas
Kyle Steed

Location: Texas

Twittering Since: 3/20/2007

Follow: @kylesteed
Mark Ghosh

Location: Toledo, Ohio

Twittering Since: 4/13/2007

Follow: @laughinglizard
Michael Gibson

Location: Manhattan

Twittering Since: 7/18/2007

Follow: @lovehasnologic
Calvin Lee

Location: Los Angeles

Twittering Since: 5/4/2008

Follow: @mayhemstudios
Meroko Senpai

Location: SF Bay Area, California

Twittering Since: 8/1/2007

Follow: @Meroko
Chris Rossi

Location: tampa..er..brooklyn in my mind

Twittering Since: 10/7/2008

Follow: @modbird
Matt Richardson

Location: Michigan

Twittering Since: 4/9/2008

Follow: @mrrichardson
Andrew Houle

Location: WNY

Twittering Since: 7/13/2008

Follow: @myinkblog
Pantone

Location: Carlstadt, NJ

Twittering Since: 11/17/2008

Follow: @myPANTONE
nicole byrkit

Location: | chattanooga |

Twittering Since: 12/25/2007

Follow: @nbcreative
net.tuts+

Location: [Not Specified]

Twittering Since: 4/23/2008

Follow: @NETTUTS
Neven Mrgan

Location: Portland, OR

Twittering Since: 12/1/2006

Follow: @nevenmrgan
newsdesigner

Location: Portland, Ore.

Twittering Since: 8/12/2007

Follow: @newsdesigner
Janet Fry Schneider

Location: Indianapolis

Twittering Since: 10/12/2007

Follow: @Newspapered
Nicole Wilke

Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

Twittering Since: 4/29/2008

Follow: @niclauren
Chris Teso

Location: iPhone: 45.589031,-122.596275

Twittering Since: 1/16/2009

Follow: @nymphobrainiac
Toby Cummings

Location: Hot Springs, SD

Twittering Since: 1/27/2007

Follow: @Omek
Vince Dudzinski

Location: Grand Rapids, MI

Twittering Since: 8/10/2008

Follow: @pairadocsdesign
paulwiggins

Location: Sydney, Australia

Twittering Since: 11/23/2007

Follow: @paulwiggins
pixelitadesigns

Location: Houston, Texas

Twittering Since: 5/24/2008

Follow: @pixelitadesigns
Prepressology

Location: Upstate New York

Twittering Since: 1/22/2007

Follow: @Prepressology
Robs

Location: Orlando, FL

Twittering Since: 4/20/2007

Follow: @_robs_
Samantha

Location: Alexandria, VA

Twittering Since: 3/10/2007

Follow: @SamanthaToy
thomas ulbricht

Location: Germany | Kassel

Twittering Since: 4/10/2007

Follow: @sharebrain
Sigurdur Armannsson

Location: Reykjavik, Iceland

Twittering Since: 11/21/2008

Follow: @sigurarm
SitePoint

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Twittering Since: 8/6/2008

Follow: @sitepointdotcom
Stephanie Malone

Location: Austin, Texas

Twittering Since: 6/29/2008

Follow: @smalonedesign
snipe

Location: New York

Twittering Since: 3/28/2008

Follow: @snipeyhead
Stu Greenham

Location: Hull, UK

Twittering Since: 6/8/2007

Follow: @stugreenham
Roger Byrne

Location: Auto DMs are rubbish!

Twittering Since: 7/28/2008

Follow: @styletime
tessa sainz

Location: [Not Specified]

Twittering Since: 1/29/2009

Follow: @tessasainz
Jim Dempsey

Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA

Twittering Since: 6/22/2008

Follow: @thegraphicmac
Linda Weidemann

Location: [Not Specified]

Twittering Since: 3/23/2007

Follow: @thinkblackink
Tracey Grady

Location: Tasmania, Australia

Twittering Since: 8/23/2008

Follow: @traceygr
Type

Location: Birmingham, UK

Twittering Since: 6/30/2008

Follow: @TypeTweets
Typophile

Location: San Francisco

Twittering Since: 4/2/2008

Follow: @Typophile
undrln

Location: everywhere

Twittering Since: 3/3/2009

Follow: @undrln
valueofprint

Location: Amesbury, MA

Twittering Since: 12/5/2008

Follow: @valueofprint
vinneyt

Location: NYC

Twittering Since: 12/17/2008

Follow: @vinneyt
Veerle Pieters

Location: Belgium

Twittering Since: 11/17/2006

Follow: @vpieters
webdevnews.net

Location: Phoenix, AZ

Twittering Since: 9/19/2008

Follow: @webdevnews
WeFixWP

Location: [Not Specified]

Twittering Since: 9/20/2008

Follow: @wefixwp
workflowFreelance

Location: Portland, OR

Twittering Since: 1/23/2009

Follow: @wFreelance
Design Jobs by w:F

Location: Portland, OR

Twittering Since: 1/23/2009

Follow: @wFreelanceJobs
Design Talk Live w:F

Location: Portland, OR

Twittering Since: 1/23/2009

Follow: @wFreelanceTalk
WilsonGraphics

Location: The Florida Panhandle

Twittering Since: 8/23/2008

Follow: @WilsonGraphics
James Paden

Location: Indianapolis

Twittering Since: 2/5/2008

Follow: @xemion
.zilch°

Location: Malaysia

Twittering Since: 12/16/2008

Follow: @zilch

Creatives on Twitter – The Uber Lists

Pariah Burke — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:00:16 +0000

More than any other social media service, Twitter has exploded as a connection and communication point for creative professionals. On a daily basis there are more interesting and creative inspiring links shared on Twitter than on Design Float, Design Bump, VoteTime, and Delicious combined. More design-related topics are discussed on Twitter every day than in most of the oldest and largest mailing lists and bulletin board forums. Though limited to only 140 characters per message, Twitter has risen in only two short years to be the single most important means of networking and communication among the various segments of the creative professional community–and we did it long before @Oprah came to town.

During alpha testing, the Community menu of the Creatives Are Community Toolbar included a direct link to lists of creatives on Twitter compiled by Graham Smith. By the time the Toolbar went into beta, similar but distinct lists by Brandon Cox and Ethan at Grain Edit had been added to the Community menu as well. In just two months of beta testing another several great lists of twittering creative pros also came to my attention. Rather than fill the Community menu of the Toolbar with links to “Creatives on Twitter,” “More Creatives on Twitter,” “Even More Creatives on Twitter,” and “Yes, Yet More Creatives on Twitter,” I created this blog post to link to the other lists.

In addition to the links to others’ lists, you’ll also find my lists of creatives to follow on Twitter.

Whether you’re just beginning with Twitter or an old hand looking for informative and engaging peers with which to connect, the following lists will help you find some great people and tweets to follow on Twitter.

“30 Top Web Designers On Twitter,” by Andy Sowards, WebDesignDev.com, July 2009.

“A – Z Twitter Creative Elite to Follow,” by Jozef (Jojo) Toth, MogDesign.eu, June 2009.

“Graphics Gurus on Twitter,” by Pariah S. Burke (yours truly), GurusUnleashed.com, May 2009.

“85+ of the Best Twitterers Designers Should Follow,” by Cameron Chapman, Mashable, May 2009.

“50 Influential Designers & Developers to Follow on Twitter,” Graphic Leftovers, April 2009.

“[Creative] Tweeple on My Block,” by Louis Gubitosi, Interactive Blend, April 2009.

“100+ Creative Pros on Twitter,” by Pariah S. Burke (me), CreativesAre.com, April 2009.

“25 Most Popular Web Designers on Twitter,” Designer City, USA, April 2009.

“51 Freelance Creatives to Follow on Twitter,” by DannyOutlaw, The River Current, April 2009.

“20 Cool Photoshop and Design Twitter Accounts You Should Follow,” by Enrique Flouret, Photoshop Roadmap, March 2009.

“50+ Designers on Twitter: Our favorites to follow,” by Ethan, Grain Edit, March 2009.

“25 Resource-Providing Creatives to Follow On Twitter,” by Brandon Cox, eGraceCreative.com, February 2009.

“50+ Pro Logo Designers to Follow on Twitter,” by Josiah Jost, SiahDesign.com, February 2009.

“30+ Ultimate UK Designers and Geeks on Twitter – Part 2,” by Graham Smith, imjustcreative.com, December 2008.

“The Best UK Geeks and Designers on Twitter – Part 1,” by Graham Smith, wearejustcreative.com, November 2008.

“100 Web Designers to follow on Twitter,” by Thomson Chemmanoor, Digital Labz, October 2008.

“One Uber Twitter Follow List for Creatives & Geeks,” by Graham Smith, imjustcreative.com, September 2008.

Introducing the Creatives Are Community

Pariah Burke — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:28:01 +0000

The Creatives Are Community Toolbar beta program has ended, and we now have a final version of the Toolbar released. At the same time, Creatives Are Community is opened to the public. Thank you very much to the great people who helped beta test and refine the Toolbar.

Though right now CreativesAre.com serves just to introduce and supply creative professionals with the Creatives Are Community Toolbar, I’ve got some other great, community-building features planned for this site. Watch and see!

In the meantime, an introduction…

Creatives Are Community was created by Pariah S. Burke (me). Like many of my recent projects, Creatives Are Community and the Creatives Are Community Toolbar began as something I built for myself. First came the bookmark sharing buttons for Ping.fm, Twitter.com, Design Bump, Delicious, Tr.im, and the others. Then I built custom search engines to help me find free stock photography, fonts, Photoshop brushes, vector art, logos, and other things that, frankly, Google wasn’t doing such a great job of helping me find. There’s just so much on the Web these days…

Around the same time I was building this tool for myself I became very active in the creative professional communities among new social media. I’d been on Twitter since the summer of 2008, and have participated in various mailing lists, user groups, and other social networking services for quite some time (two decades, really, ever since Prodigy, GEnie, and CompuServe in the early 90s). But it’s only been in the last year that Web 2.0 has provided the tools and services to truly connect creative professionals, whether the freelancer who hardly ever gets to see anyone or the corporate designer surrounded by offices and cubicles. We–creative professionals–are out here, and we now have unprecedented means of finding one another, of sharing experiences and information, and even of collaborating on projects. And that has drawn me deeply into the world of social media and the growing design communities within it.

Social media for creative professionals excites me so much that I wrote an article on the subject for Macworld (July 2009); wrote about creatives on Twitter and Colour Lovers in two other articles for CreativePro.com, and; built Design Talk Live, a site that collects and presents up-to-the-minute live design-related discussion from Twitter and hundreds of other Websites and services so that anyone can keep up on, and dive into, design-, graphics-, or typography-related discussion no matter where it happens. And, I have even more, similar projects in the works.

The Creatives Are Community Toolbar is another way I’m helping to connect, inform, and empower my creative professional peers.

With the resources on the Community menu and the creative-specific social bookmarking buttons no designer need ever feel isolated again. There are always other creative pros online, ready to answer questions, bounce ideas off, share interesting tutorials and other links, or cheer you up after a rought client critique. All you have to do is spend a minute or two with the Creatives Are Community Toolbar to find the best place and means for you to dive into the vast and growing community of creative professionals on the Web.

The Jobs menu provides resources to not only polish your portfolio, distribute your resume, and join portfolio-centric social networks like Behance and Coroflot, but also to actually find a job, gig, or contract. The latest design job and request for quote listings from thousands of employers and clients are included right on the Creatives Are Community Toolbar Jobs menu, with links to major job posting sites so you can find even more opportunities.

The rest of the toolbar menus–Resources, Freelancing, Inspiration, Typography, Photoshop, InDesign/InCopy, Illustrator, PDF/Acrobat, and QuarkXPress–will keep you informed, inspired, and empowered by delivering the most useful, latest news, articles, tutorials, and design inspirations to you where ever you go on the Web, 24 hours a day. Forget about visiting a dozen sites every day just to stay informed. Let the content come to you with the Creatives Are Community Toolbar!

Can you tell I’m excited and proud of the Creatives Are Community Toolbar? I had never built anything like it before, and it was a lot of work–a labor of love, as it were, something useful I can do for the design community. I hope you like it and find it useful. Give it a try!

Make Contact

Submit your site or another resource for possible inclusion in the Toolbar Creatives Are Community.

Send your feedback, suggestions for improving Creatives Are Community, and problems with the site.

For everything else–including just to say hi–contact me directly. The Connect & Contact page of my personal site lists my e-mail address as well as links to my profiles on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Last.fm, and about three dozen other social media, microblogging, and networking sites.