Website: www.artyst-tyrant.com

Country: United States

Profession: Art Director - Web/Print

Publications & Awards:
Website Featured in the following online galleries - qnt Gallery, CSS Design Awards Nominee, Csswinner, Dzinemart, Most Inspired, Website Launchpad, skuare.net, Cssbased

Tell us something about your background to introduce yourself.
Hi, there,  I'm Victor Beazzo, also known as Artyst Tyrant, almost exclusively by myself, and I'm an art director and freelance web and print designer based in Daytona Beach, Florida. Originally from Pennsylvania, but I've lived all over the country.  I love design, and more broadly, all art. My other hobbies include feeding my movie fanaticism, ‘80s cartoons, collecting Ghostbusters memorabilia, casual gaming, and most of all spending time with my lovely fiancee and 2-year-old son.

Where from do you get your inspiration?
From all over, I look at a lot of high-end design and try to draw inspiration while trying to interject some of my own personality. I try to draw influence from completely different mediums and phenomenon, stuff  that nobody's really thinking of when they're designing, and use that stuff for to create a broader inspiration, and hopefully create something a little bit unique in a world where it's all been done...twice.

Do you use a sketchbook for your drafts?
I typically do some layout doodles on the closest piece of paper I can find. By no means do I hold on to these however. By the time the project is complete, they usually look like they've been to hell and back.

What is your favored machine (Mac/PC)?
I work on Macs now (since college,) but I started on a PC and worked on them for years. I have no real issue with PCs, and  I'm not an Apple snob, but I do love the way iMacs display color and the overall stability of the Mac operating system.

What new projects are you currently working on?
I think of my website as a constantly evolving creature, rather than a once-and-done, so I've got more big plans for that down the road. I also have a few freelance gigs I'm working-out the details on, but nothing to exciting or extraordinary at the moment I'm afraid.

Company: Knoed Creative

Website: www.knoed.com

Country: United States

Profession: Graphic Design

Publications & Awards:
Our work has been recognized in Communication Arts, Print, HOW, Graphis and Smashing Magazine and published in books by Rockport Publishers, Princeton Architectural Press and Dopress Books.

Tell us something about your background to introduce yourself.
Knoed [node] is the creative studio of Kim Knoll and Kyle Eertmoed. Located in Chicago, we provide creative strategy, design and development to entrepreneurs and organizations of all shapes and sizes.

Where from do you get your inspiration?
Everyday experiences. We're visual people, so everything we see has an effect on us... a website, a billboard, a business card. We mostly get inspired by blogs like Design Work Life, Graphic Exchange, Under Consideration and websites like siteinspire.com, designspiration.com and dribbble.com.

Do you use a sketchbook for your drafts?
Yes. We usually sketch out ideas first. And they always evolve into something else on the computer.

What is your favored machine (Mac/PC)?
Mac

What new projects are you currently working on?
1. Branding/identity for a wedding photography studio. 2. Designing the look and functionality of a Facebook app. 3. New package designs for X-Doria 4. A video to represent Knoed on AIGA during Chicago Design Week 5. T-shirt designs 6. Branding/web design for a new web technology

Company: RTL - Right To Left

Website: rtl.co.il

Country: Israel - Canada

Profession: Web development

Publications & Awards: Awwwards.com and endless number of inspiration and CSS galleries

Tell us something about your background to introduce yourself.
I have founded the company to improve the situation in Israel when most of the websites looked just like we were back in 90s. I thought it shouldn't be that way in developed, high-tech country. I chose the name (Right To Left) trying to stay local, however we went outside Israel with this name and expanded to Canada.

Where from do you get your inspiration?
awwwards, my favourite gallery makebetterwebsites.com, fwa, Smashing Magazine and others.

Do you use a sketchbook for your drafts?
We do use it

What is your favored machine (Mac/PC)?
n.a.

What new projects are you currently working on?
A few mobile apps, very interesting web applications for start-ups and finally - creative websites which should appear in the galleries soon.

How does Right To Left direction changes your work?
Sometimes it adds complexity but most of the time it provides us more freedom to act and create. Despite the fact Hebrew has very few font options, we constantly use custom fonts done by Israeli designers. This allows to keep the texts live and crawable together with making the website unique.

Company: Joyce

Website: www.meetjoyce.com

Country: United States

Profession: creative partner

Publications & Awards:

Tell us something about your background to introduce yourself.
Joyce is a small but supreme creative workshop. We make the way that people interact with products and services a part of everyday culture by thinking huge for brands and businesses. We use the freshest technologies, social trends and the simplest & most inspiring interactive design to tell stories that open up conversations between brands, products, services and the people who love them.

Where from do you get your inspiration?
Everywhere! We are influenced by fashion, trends, current events, culture, music, art, margaritas, snowmen, graffiti.

Do you use a sketchbook for your drafts?
Moleskin almost always

What is your favored machine (Mac/PC)?
Mac

What new projects are you currently working on?
It's beer as far as the eye can see!