August 18th, 2013 
Who are you and where do you come from?
I am Alex de la fuente and I am a young graphic designer last year student from spain.
Share your twitter account with us and tell us what you are twittering about:
@alexdlfc I usually tweet my works in progress and things that inspire me or i want to spread. main topics are electronic music, design and paranormal phenomena or pseudoscience and hitech.
Tell us about your creative side:
I am creative by definition, always curious about the things that surround me, my goal is to be a creative and know a bit of everithing to make my desigs and ideas more interesting and human.
I like the filosophy behind the human crafted things and I will like to think that i work in a diferent way.
What inspires you?
Mainly my inspiration is the mother nature and the day a day stuff that I see and reminds on my mind and cames when needts to. Also I like my imagination be feeded by the music and the dreams.
Time travel: Where would you go to?
At the moment I am in Belgium doing my intership at www.coming-soon.be then I dont know where I’m gonna place my but, but there is a bunch of places that i need to go, a underground church in somalia, a big Budha at China, I will like to see the odd region of manchuria, need to go to Montreal …. thre is a lot of good places to go.
Name your favorite present book:
As I am doing now lots of corporate Id I am really enjoying „Dynamic identities“ by Irene van Nes
Which tweeter would you recommend for @createandrotate and why?
@ritxiostariz is one of my favorite designers and is also a better guy close to the real people and is from my country ;)
August 11th, 2013 
Who are you and where do you come from?
My name is Nadine Roßa and I am a designer, illustrator, writer and Co-Founder of LAUNCH/CO (https://launchco.com) living in Berlin, Germany.
Share your twitter account with us and tell us what you are twittering about:
@nadrosia – I chose that name because a friend told me to »try out Twitter« five years ago and I just chose the first name that came to my mind not knowing I would still be using Twitter by now …
I tweet about design, things I wrote at @Dmig and work stuff, the weather, you know the usual news you find on Twitter …
Tell us about your creative side:
I knew quite early in my life that I woulddo something with design for a living. It was just what I always liked most. So I ended up working as an illustrator and designer with a focus on digital design. In 2008 I started writing and editing for Design made in Germany, which is awesome because I can share my design finds with a lot of people. Also I really like type and lettering but am not talented enough to do it myself.
What inspires you?
Well, anything can be an inspiration. To me it’s the internet even though I try not to use it too much for inspiration because you get easily lost once you start searching. I like design books (yes, analogue books) to find inspiration or magazines. Also a walk through the city can be a huge inspiration, as there are many posters everywhere in Berlin.
And talks with friends, co-workers, colleagues can be very inspiring. They ended up in some nice ideas for projects already.
Time travel: Where would you go to?
Well, I kind of think I live in the perfect time for me so I don’t feel the need to go somewhere else. But if I had the chance I might go back to the 1970s before I was born, meeting my parents when they were my age maybe …
Name your favorite present book:
The last book I read was »Der Hundertjährige, der aus dem Fenster stieg und verschwand«, which I really liked. But I have an obsession for well made children’s books and spend lots of money on them. Especially the ones from Oliver Jeffers (http://www.oliverjeffers.com/) and Tom Schamp (http://www.tomschamp.com/) are fabulous!
Which tweeter would you recommend for @createandrotate and why?
You should ask @MartinaFlor. She’s a brilliant letterer and a lovely person and shares a lot of work insights on her Twitter-Account. Also @jessicahische would be nice as she is *the* Lettering-Queen. And @evalottchen knows a lot about sketchnoting and illustration.
August 4th, 2013 
Who are you and where do you come from?
Shelley Gruendler
I currently live on Galiano Island in lovely British Columbia, Canada; but I grew up in North Carolina, USA and lived in Reading, England for 7 years for graduate school.
Share your twitter account with us and tell us what you are twittering about:
@dr_shelley
I tweet about anything – whether it be a complaint about someone on the bus or a description of when my cat threw up last night or even a bit of typography that I’ve noticed that day. It’s purely based on mood – and you’ll know if I’m in a bad one!
What inspires you?
Everything! I’m a total magpie in that I collect anything and everything. I love ephemera and old books but I also get inspired on walks with my dog around my rainforested island. I’m never at a loss for ideas, just at a loss for time to implement them.
Time travel: Where would you go to?
The interwar years in England & the USA, from around 1920 to 1935. I researched the era in detail for my graduate work and I’m simply fascinated by all of the people and ideas and subsequent growth of typography during that time.
Name your favorite present book:
Looking for a new one now that I’ve finished all the Wallender series by Henning Mankell! I’ve been reading vintage Ellery Queen and Ngaio Marsh ones in the meantime.
Which tweeter would you recommend for @createandrotate and why?
Tiffany Wardle (@typegirl) is a HUGE resource of information regarding typography. A must. [USA]
Jessica Yurasek (@missjessrose) is a graphic designer has been tweeting about her around the world trip. [USA]
Lisa Hemingway (@lisahemingway) is a designer that specialises in sustainability. She’s always mentioning groups and resources. [CANADA]
Juli 28th, 2013 
Who are you and where do you come from?
I am Kris Sowersby and I come from Wellington, New Zealand.
Share your twitter account with us and tell us what you are twittering about:
@klimtypefoundry. I try very hard to keep my tweets on-topic & type-related! I am pretty certain people only follow me because of my typeface design, and they’re not particularly interested in what I’m eating, who I’m voting for, what music I like etc.
Tell us about your creative side:
I don’t really see myself as that creative to be honest. I guess there is some creativity involved in typeface design, but it’s mostly patience, curiosity and hard work.
What inspires you?
For my work, old typeface specimens, like these:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20994543@N04/collections/72157623960762480/
https://klim.co.nz/blog/tag/old-specimens/
I reference these things in my work all the time.
Time travel: Where would you go to?
Two times, either Late Cretaceous to see a T-Rex in its natural habitat or some point in the future when we’ve colonised space.
Name your favorite present book:
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. I’m half-way finished and it’s bloody intense. It’s an expansive read, I’m getting utterly transfixed by his sparse, marrow-deep style. I came to it from The Road, which I think of as almost a long poem.
Which tweeter would you recommend for @createandrotate and why?
@fostertype because his hand-lettering skills are terrific.
Juli 21st, 2013 
Who are you and where do you come from?
Hi! My name is Marloes de Vries and I’m a 28-year old illustrator from the Netherlands. I actually do a lot more but because it confuses people I stick to saying „I’m an illustrator“. I illustrate for children’s books, picture books, magazines, gig posters, music albums, greeting cards, and so on. But I also write my own picture books, write short stories for grown ups, make comics and I create art pieces for galleries. And then I also teach art classes, do photography and design. So, I guess you could say I’m an overall creative person.
Share your twitter account with us and tell us what you are twittering about:
@marloesdevee I tweet about all kinds of things. About my work and updates but I also tweet about personal things. My aim is to always be myself and to show people the person behind the work I make.
Tell us about your creative side:
I went to art school where I mainly focused on graphic design and photography. My teachers told me I wasn’t good enough to become an illustrator so I was pushed towards becoming a designer. It seemed the sensible thing to do at the time. To be honest, I was heart broken when they told me I couldn’t draw. So I quit drawing, I didn’t pick up a pencil for years.
After graduating I worked as a designer and art director in the advertising world but after some years I grew tired of it. Long hours, selling products all the time and I really missed the artistic side. So I quit my job with no plan what to do next. Just two days after quitting my first freelance job came in for graphic design and I rolled in the freelance world. Slowly I started drawing again, although I was very insecure about it. I made one illustration and sent it to a children’s magazine. For me, it was all or nothing. If they wouldn’t like it, I would never draw again, I told myself. But it got nominated for an Art Award, a known prize in the Netherlands for the best young illustrators. From that moment I knew what I needed to do: become an illustrator.
Now, three years later, I work as an illustrator with great clients and amazing assignments.
I can only say: do what you do best and love, and the rest will follow. In the end you will end up doing what you’re meant to be doing anyway so don’t waste your time being in a job that makes you unhappy.
What inspires you?
Of course other artists inspire me, but most of my inspiration comes from my friends, family and life. Sometimes life is rough but it makes you appreciate the beautiful things even more.
I can get very excited about art galleries but also bookstores. That last one if my favourite place in the world. I also try to travel as much as I can and see the world. Seeing new things and having new experiences are the best inspiration.
Time travel: Where would you go to?
I would love to visit Scotland or Ireland around the 1880’s. Don’t ask me why!
Name your favorite present book:
Hmm, difficult. I read at least six books at the same time. Lately I read a lot by John Boyne.
Which tweeter would you recommend for @createandrotate and why?
I wanted to say @emmaillustrate but she’s already been on here. She’s worth to mention again though!
My friend @ellenvesters is one of the best people ever and she’s crazy talented too. Some have it all. She has a background in psychology, makes witty illustrations and runs a shop with amazing products made by artists and illustrators (@immerurlaub).
Juli 14th, 2013
Who are you and where do you come from?
I’m Joachim Vu, a designer from Paris, France.
Share your twitter account with us and tell us what you are twittering about:
I mostly use my twitter account @joachimvu to share pictures of things I’m working on. I show a lot of sketches, works in progress or stuff I do for practice, and see it as visual diary of my current process and inspirations.
Tell us about your creative side:
My first experience in drawing letters was when I started doing graffiti. It has not much in common with either calligraphy, lettering or type, but it made me realize that letters and words are shapes, with all the implied creative possibilities. I haven’t painted a wall for a while now, but kept my interest in letters of all kinds.
What inspires you?
Pretty much everything can be an inspiration. Sometimes it’s something very specific, like a historical period, a certain style, a piece of work from another designer, and other times it can be a song, a place, a picture, a random object… Anything I see or hear can serve as inspiration for a design.
Time travel: Where would you go to?
As I love to work with my hands, I wonder how it was to live in those days where penmanship, sign painting etc. were flourishing professions. But I equally want to go in the future and see how the written/printed/displayed word and the way it’s used will evolve.
Name your favorite present book:
Most of the books I read are design/lettering/type etc. related. I’ve learned a lot from so many great books, but my favorite ones are those I can open at any page, anytime, for an instant shot of awesomeness. I’m like a kid who only look at pictures, which in my case, are letters. I’m going to pick The Universal Penman by Georges Bickam, the reference book for anyone interested in formal scripts and beautiful ornamentation.
Which tweeter would you recommend for @createandrotate and why?
There are so many interesting and talented type designers, lettering artists and calligraphers out there that it seems rather random to me to pick just one, so I’m going to choose @louisck who probably doesn’t care at all about letters but he makes me laugh and he doesn’t tweet much so it’d be great to read stuff from him for a week.
Juli 7th, 2013 
Who are you and where do you come from?
G’day. I’m James Hutson, writer, illustrator & animator. I create clear explanations of complex – mostly science and technology – information.
I work at Bridge8 <http://bridge8.com.au>, an Australian foresight agency. My role is to engage our various audiences in thinking about how science informs the future by translating, humanising and visualising complex source and stimulus materials.
And as they might say on a book dust jacket, I live in Melbourne with my wife, two children, an old dog and a young budgerigar.
Share your twitter account with us and tell us what you are twittering about:
@jameshutson: I endeavour to be myself on Twitter. So while I should just twitter about my work, I’m just as likely to post photos of intriguing things on my walk to the studio <http://studiosisu.com.au>, politics (it’s an election year in Australia), the crazed humour of my children and links to interesting science fiction, science, design, illustration, animation and technology.
Tell us about your creative side:
I studied science and law in Canberra but in my defence if you were to look at my class notes you’d see off-topic sketches in every margin. And a few more on the bar tables, in the university newspaper, on the odd poster, political postcards, a lot of birthday cards and in our legal workshop yearbook.
So side-stepping law, I became researcher and associate producer with Beyond Productions in Sydney (who back then made Beyond 2000 but today are better known for Mythbusters). A little later I moved to Melbourne where I studied animation and interactive media and have worked in educational and science-related media production ever since.
In my three years with Bridge8, I’ve written, voiced, animated and directed 23 animated shorts dealing with such things as nanotechnology, genetic modification, vertical farming, artificial meat, synthetic biology and critical thinking.
Our latest big animated project is This Thing Called Science <http://bridge8.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/this-thing-called-science/> a six part series which introduces the basic elements of the scientific process. It’s a sequel of sorts to our Critical Thinking <http://bridge8.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/critical-thinking-animations/> series from late 2011.
What inspires you?
Surprise and simplicity. That combination is the key to humour and scientific explanation and artful minimalist animation.
Time travel: Where would you go to?
Tempted to say visit departed loved ones but that’s a little maudlin, so I’d like to hop around a bit: see a live T-Rex, shake the hand of Charles Darwin, stay at a hotel on the moon.
Name your favorite present book:
I have far too many books so I’ll just mention a few recent favourites:
This Will Make You Smarter edited by John Brockman. Decision-making short cuts from the world’s best thinkers. Sounds like a self help book but it’s really a distillation of scientific principles for everyday use. There’s a lot of overlap with what I try to do with animation, so I’m both enjoying and arguing with it.
Information Graphics by Rendgen and Wiedemann. My codirector gave me the jumbo edition last week. 200 visual communication projects. It’s a glorious and mammoth tome.
The Hydrogen Sonata by the late, great Iain M. Banks. Big, bold, and optimistic science fiction.
Which tweeter would you recommend for @createandrotate and why?
Don’t make me choose just one…
For animation: @megpig, a funny and talented Australian animator in L.A. who I almost worked with.
For design: @viveka, a UX design consultant and collaborative technologies and virtual environments researcher who first introduced me to Photoshop so I’d stop trying to get him to illustrate the original Beyond2000.com.
Juni 30th, 2013 
Who are you and where do you come from?
My name is Gunilla Redelius. I come from Sweden but have lived abroad for more than 17 years now, first in Belgium and now in The Netherlands. I work at European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam, but I’m also a “moonlight jewellery maker”: in my sparetime I work on my own designs. For me, it’s a great mix to do both these things.
Share your twitter account with us and tell us what you are twittering about:
@galeriaredelius where I share updates about my own jewellery or what inspires me (through my blog) and also other jewellery related resources or things that I think can be interesting to know about.
Tell us about your creative side:
I have done shorter workshops or evening classes in print making, drawing, sculpture, creative writing and jewellery making. The last one is my real passion and I eventually got a professional training as jeweller (also this I did in the evenings). I am not in business, but I also see that as an advantage. I have access to two different worlds, and whereas I sometime miss studio time, there is also no pressure around it.
What inspires you?
The materials and how they respond. I like very much to work with titanium, for example. It’s a metal that you can not solder with ordinary studio equipment, so you have to think differently about how to put your piece together. With titanium, you can also play with colours, by oxidation. It’s a tough metal, but also generous, I would say.
Time travel: Where would you go to?
I would like to peek into people’s life a bit here and there, following the centuries all the way back to the earliest civilisations. See how people dealt with jewellery in all levels of society, as makers, buyers, traders, givers, receivers, etc. I am convinced that our need to adorn ourselves, demonstrate our status, or any of the other functions that jewellery has, has been there from the very start of human culture. I would like to witness how all this evolved. And, jewellery apart, I would love to see Janis Joplin perform.
Name your favorite present book:
Am now reading The Book Thief my Markus Zusak, have only just started, but it’s very promising. I re-read Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland a while back, I find that a very inspiring book to return to.
Which tweeter would you recommend for @createandrotate and why?
I can’t choose so I’ll simply mention two names here: @AmyTavern and @jo_pond, both of them because I simply like the way they share their lifes as studio jewellers and lecturers.
Juni 23rd, 2013 
Who are you and where do you come from?
My name is Giuseppe Castellano. I’m an award-winning illustrator, designer, and art director at Penguin Young Readers Group. The imprints I oversee are Grosset and Dunlap, PSS!, Penguin Young Readers, Warne, and Poptropica. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (’99, BFA Illustration), I’ve worked in the children’s art department at two of the „big six“ publishers for 14 years. I’m also a husband and a dad of three young kids. And I’m a decent little league coach.
I’m from Baltimore, Maryland; and my parents are from Casamassima, Italy.
Share your twitter account with us and tell us what you are twittering about:
I’m @pinocastellano. I’d say 95% of my tweets are bits of information about—and insight into—children’s publishing from an art and design perspective.
Most of my tweets directly or indirectly address artists of all experience levels. A common complaint I here from illustrators is that it’s difficult to connect to art directors. I use twitter to make that connection. Another complaint I hear is that publishing is insular or velvet-roped vis-à-vis folks looking to „break in“. I’m trying to dispel that notion.
Lastly, and probably most importantly, I use twitter to look for and hire illustrators for myriad book projects.
Tell us about your creative side:
What’s there to tell without sounding arrogant or self-serving? And we all interpret „creativity“ differently. I’m fortunate to work everyday as a designer and art director where I can apply what creativity I have in various ways. Outside of work, my true love is oil painting. But I don’t paint as often as I’d like for fear one of my three children will drink the linseed oil.
What inspires you?
In the words of Chuck Close, „Inspiration is for amateurs.“ I just try to keep my head down and work toward being the best illustrator, designer, art director, and manager I possibly can.
Time travel: Where would you go to?
1987. I want to tell my 10 year-old self that he’ll be designing TMNT books, and robot books, and that’ll he’ll be talking about art almost every day. Then we’ll Nutella sandwiches and play The Legend of Zelda for the first time.
Name your favorite present book:
A Moon and Six Pence by W. Somerset Maugham. It’s a book about a man who leaves everything to oil paint. Loosely based on Gauguin’s life.
Which tweeter would you recommend for @createandrotate and why?
Thomas Truong, Associate Publisher at Caterpillar Books and Little Tiger Kids. Because he’s „Happiest searching for talented new artists and developing concepts for new projects.“ @truongthomas
Juni 16th, 2013 
Who are you and where do you come from?
My name is Lohan and I’m from Kegalle, Sri Lanka. I am a visual artist, writer and translator.
Share your twitter account with us and tell us what you are twittering about:
My tweet account is @lohang and I tweet about all sorts of things that spark interest in me: arts, literature, culture, politics, free and open source software, free culture etc. And I use twitter to interact with like-minded people.
Tell us about your creative side:
I don’t know what is the best way to put this into words as I am closely involved in many forms of art including theatre. But I am basically a painter. I’ve been painting since my childhood. However, I experiment with performance art, photo-based art and photography as well. Some of my paintings can be viewed on my website at http://lohangunaweera.tk . And I blog about my current work at http://lohang.livejournal.com . I enjoy creating photo-based art too ( photoblog-lohangunaweera.blogspot.com ) Some more can be viewed on my flickr profile at http://flickr.com/lohan
These questions are really awkward and I have never enjoyed talking about my self and my art! So I’ll just let the images do the talking.
Time travel: Where would you go to?
Never thought about it before. I think I would like to go to 1400s to meet Sri Lankan poet and intellectual Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera. I always find his work inspiring and intriguing.
Name your favorite present book:
My current favorite is 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami.
Which tweeter would you recommend for @createandrotate and why?
@Laurie_Skelton She is a very talented illustrator. Last week I saw her doing a really cool and fun collaborative thing on twitter.
https://twitter.com/Laurie_Skelton/status/344065807443169280
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