Carbon Silk

A small selection of sites that have caught my attention for being particularly well designed. The minimal nature of web design is something that i find extremely hard to pull off, and as such i have been inspired by these and similar such sites to create this site.

Astheria

Type Sites

We Are Only Human

Creative And Live

Icon Eye

Here is a compiled list of blogs of web developers at Yahoo! that I work with or at least close to. A real treasure chest of knowledge amongst these fine blogs.

• Cathy Ma
• Cyril Doussin
• Ben Ward
• Christian Heilmann
• Steve Marshall
• Marco van Hylckama Vlieg
• Tom Hughes-Croucher
• Steve Webster
• Neil Crosby
• Rajat Pandit
• Mike West
• Dirk Ginader
• Benjamin Hawkes Lewis
• Klaus Komenda
• Mike Davies
• Tim Huegdon
• Mark Norman Francis

A few notable ex-Yahoo! developer blogs include:

• Stuart Colville
• Ed Elliot
• David Dorward
• Lawrence Carvalho
• Simon Jobling

People often ask me, “Who do you follow?”. By follow I would interpret that as RSS/Twitter, both of which you can often find on their personal blog. In answer to this question, I have compiled a top 10. In no particular order:

1. Hicks Design - Great site, great designer and good read on his journal
2. Naz Hamid - Naz produces some great designs and regularly updates his blog with inspirational material and updates on his work.
3. Jason Santa Maria - His blog is usually very comprehensive and full of interesting facts.
4. Random Mel - Very funny, down to earth nonsense
5. Shaun Inman - A ‘pioneer’ on the web, worth being kept in the loop on the next big ideas.
6. Khoi Vinh - Very opinionated designer who could be considered a web grid master
7. Mark Boulton - Mark, another designer mainly focuses on his experiences with owning his own design agency/business.
8. Jeffrey Zeldman - Jeffrey presents the web world according to him, very funny relevant read.
9. Joshua Davis - Experimental digital artist, publishing his latest, greatest works. Highly inspirational design work.
10. Dan Cederholm - I think I mainly subscribe to this site for my love for the site design.

I am often curious as to who other people find interesting enough to subscribe to their blog/site/life, so please let me know your list.