That Norwegian Guy

Top 20 web designers, according to TypeFace that is.

With all the web superstars in my twitter feed mentioning TypeFace this week I thought it’d be worth a look.

I assumed right. The visual design is great, the navigation of the gallery works smoothly on my crappy internet connection, and the content is most of the web designers you wish you could be. But why – WHY! – is the markup just a bunch of images in a div? It would have been the perfect place for an ordered list.

Also, there are no links to these faces and names. And there is no web without links. So to bring some balance to the web again I have collected them all here for you. In a ordered list.

1. http://www.markboulton.co.uk/ – So good that when he wrote his first book he turned into a indy publisher. And every book is worth getting.
2. http://www.shauninman.com/blog – Inventor of sIFR among other things.
3. http://www.zeldman.com/ – The godfather of web standards. Kind of.
4. http://jeffcroft.com/
5. http://jasonsantamaria.com/
6. http://owltastic.com/ – She is new to me, but working at simplebits.com speaks for itself.
7. http://superfluousbanter.org/
8. http://snook.ca/
9. http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/ – Andy Clarke’s wizardry
10. http://veerle.duoh.com/ – Belgium superstar designer woman
11. http://subtraction.com/ – Design director for New York Times. Grid specialist.
12. http://timvandamme.com/ – The new kid on the block, and he is scary good.
13. http://sam.brown.tc/ – He is new to me
14. http://www.newtoyork.com/ – Also new to me
15. http://mikekus.com/ – The name is new, but I recognise his work. Working for Carsonified probably has something to do with it.
16. http://simplebits.com/ – resize the browser window for some extra easter candy
17. http://meyerweb.com/ – Though the design might not look like much today, he is an old school CSS guru. I think some of his earliest examples was what led me onto the bright path.
18. http://elliotjaystocks.com/ – also a new name who’s work I recognise
19. http://jontangerine.com/ – typography master. Check the logo – no images were harmed.
20. http://bryanveloso.com/ / http://avalonstar.com/ – I think his blog is redesigned every time I visit it (outside of RSS).

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