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Contributing Writers
The strength of Designorati is its writers. In addition to the permanent, full-time writing staff (listed at left), Designorati.com includes passionate, informative articles written by numerous other talented writers. This page recognizes those remarkable writers who have contributed to the library of knowledge on Designorati.com.
To the writers themselves and on the behalf of Team Designorati: Thank you.
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Bryan Tamayo
Bryan Tamayo is an Art Director at Fossil Inc. You can read more about him on his blog http://bryantamayo.wordpress.com or you can follow him on Twitter http://twitter.com/btamayo
Elisabetta Bruno
Elisabetta Bruno is both an active volunteer Forum Host for the About Desktop Publishing and About Graphics Software forums and a frequent contributor of tutorials and FAQs to the About Desktop Publishing site. Her tutorials have been referenced or used in several web sites other than the About Desktop Publishing site. She is the author of several Desktop Publishing tutorials covering InDesign, QuarkXPress, Photoshop and pre-press. Studying Graphic Design in Italy before moving to England for several years, Elisabetta eventually got into designing full-time and has been a designer for a few years. She also has experience in copywriting, typesetting and is a skilled Italian translator.
Dhyana Sansoucie
Dhyana Sansoucie has been a journalist for 10 years, the last five as a designer at the Cape Cod Times, an award winning and designer-friendly newspaper in Hyannis, Mass. She currently spends her time designing news and sports pages while also contributing to online news development. Previously, she spent several years as an associate editor at InfoWorld magazine, where she herded amped-up technogeeks in the community discussion area of the Web site, among other more mundane work such as copy editing and posting news to the home page online. Being an outlet and voice for readers and a referee among impassioned contributors while at InfoWorld left her forever changed, and has left her focused on serving the reader above all else. She began her career at the Santa Cruz Sentinel, where she worked the night desk doing editing and page design for three years among a merry collection of aging long-boarders and post-partying editors. She left in 1998 seeking online experience. Since then she's been musing about where the Web will lead newspapers and how newspaper design needs a big kick in the pants. She continues to quietly push behind the scenes for change at her daily newspaper. She now will push publicly here.
Beth Dean
Beth was born in the good old rubber city, where she cultivated a love for design and blimps, and an equal detestation for the smell of industry. She started her first business when she was 10, and later built her first website- a music fanzine in 1994. Somewhere along the way she graduated from Columbus College of Art & Design with a BFA in illustration, and an emphasis in interactive design. She now resides in Lakewood, (Cleveland for all you non-Ohioans) Ohio and works in house doing web design for a nutraceutical company, as well as her own studio, Resist Media.
Vadim Litvak
Vadim Litvak walks the fine line of corporate creative on a daily basis. Sometimes, that concrete and wood-paneling calls to him, siren-like, until he finds himself smilingly sipping the lotus juice of fresh-brewed coffee by the flickering light of a CRT monitor (yes, he's requested an upgrade); sometimes he stuffs his ears with headphones and punk rock, letting the hours wash over him until Happy Hour, but he's always there to make sure the postcards get done, the websites get updated, the projectors are plugged in, and the iPods have downloaded the right remix of whatever's hot at the moment. Vadim has spent time freelancing, working in an agency, and designing for big corporate for the past 10 years. He makes his home in San Francisco and buys his lunch in Burlingame.
Lindsay C. Froehlich
Lindsay Froehlich is a specialist in the fields of intellectual property, contract law and creative writing. She teaches copyright law and creative writing at Eclectic Academy in Michigan and owns SabreQuill, her editing, indexing, and manuscript preparation business. She lives in Indiana.
Mike Smick
Mike Smick is a multimedia developer and trainer at Walsworth Publishing Company's Desktop Technology department. He produces animated video tutorials and presentations for Adobe Photoshop, InDesign for CD-ROM and web delivery as well as conducting live webcast trainings. He writes technical manuals and travels to various design workshops presenting on subjects including graphics and desktop publishing. Mike is also a freelance graphics designer and web developer and does media and publication consulting for small businesses and organizations. He produced the InDesign CS and CS2 training series for atomiclearning.com and has Adobe ACE certification in InDesign CS2. In 2006 he authored the book Special Edition Using Adobe Creative Suite 2 for Que Publishing. Mike studied film and animation at Missouri State University where he received his Bachelor of Science in Media Production. He also has his Associate of Arts in Mass Media and Film. In his ample spare time, Mike enjoys writing and graphics. In particular, Blender 3D, Xara Xtreme, and After Effects. He also contributes his graphics and web skills to a few organizations in Kansas City.
Cate Indiano
Cate Indiano, owner and president of DesktopMedia, has been working in the graphic arts industry for the last 17 years, training and consulting with graphic arts professionals throughout the Midwest. Cate has a degree in public and corporate communications from Butler University, is a certified technical trainer, and an Adobe certified instructor. She is also the author of Adobe InDesign CS2@Work: Projects You Can Use on the Job, from Sams Publishing, ISBN #0-672-32802-X.
Daniel Schutzsmith
Daniel Schutzsmith is business manager of the Chopping Block, Inc., an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts, and creator of the blog, Graphic Define, where he writes about the business of graphic design.
Lucian Slatineanu
Lucian Slatineanu is a designer from Romania with over 6 years experience, including a stint as a Senior Designer at Grapefruit, He has lectured on design subjects in Eastern Europe and currently works in Chicago as an independent designer.
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