Who are you and where do you come from?
I’m Daley a.k.a Croydon Nitty, an illustrator mainly but I also dip into Graphic, Web and Photography. Currently a student juggling the freelance side of life with deadlines.
– http://croydonnitty.tumblr.com
– http://www.behance.net/DaleyIllustrations

Share your twitter account with us and tell us what you are twittering about:
My twitter username is @DaleyChronicles.

Majority of the time I will be talking about my musical interests, letting people know my train of thought and giving a general insight into my life whether its in illustration or not. It’s useful being able to connect with clients and so forth. For any artist an online presence is a big help to getting your work out to the public!

Tell us about your creative side:
Well, from a young age I spent time away from most surrounding children indoors drawing Pokemon, Dragonball Z characters and trying to create my own. In all honesty the ‚Nerd‘ has never left me. I try to give something new to each piece of work I create and still enjoy, openly experimenting with my style creating textile based, digital and hand rendered works. Illustration has always been said to be something where a style has to be adopted and adapted for clients. The ability to adapt to a brief is important yes but, sticking with one thing when as a visual communicator you need to be getting across different messages, I have never quite understood. I want to continue to be inspired by everything around me and differentiate myself from the pathway rather than other people. I should be but I’m not really a competitive person so I do what I love without thought.

Time travel: Where would you go to?
If I could return to the future so I could see where I’d end up – if not i would go back to the 90’s and live my life all over again!!

Name your favorite present book:
At the moment I’m reading Mr Nice by Howard Marks – pretty interesting story!

Which tweeter would you recommend for @createandrotate and why?
Erm I’d probably recommend @Mr_Bingo – his work is hilarious and really adventurous and this makes him the best selection in my books! Who wouldn’t like a good illustrator with a humorous side?

Who are you and where do you come from?
Hi, my name is Andreas Kuhn. I’m an Apple and Adobe certified freelance trainer and consultant mainly being active in the publishing industry currently residing in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Having had the chance to learn my first profession and develop skills as a typesetter with moveable type on a composing stick real old school and »letterpress era«-like may explain my ongoing love for this craftsmanship and the outstandingly wide field of typography. We’ve come a long way since then: hot metal and phototypesetting, DTP, an iPad with Retina Display. These days my concentrated passion besides the daily business is shared between type, taking »lo-fi photography« pictures through my iPhone lens — http://urban-patterns.de — and sharing guitar licks whilst creating vocal harmonies with my bandmates. First and foremost, I heartily enjoy the paternal role for my two lightning-quick and by now grown-up daughters.

Share your twitter account with us and tell us what you are twittering about:
My private Twitter handle is @andreaskuhn — being interested in topics such as arts in general, literature, photography, music, film, and type i like to tweet »inspirations/recommendations of the day«, share little visual or audible jewels i gather all over the net, as well as technological or job related findings that catch my attention. I furthermore tweet as @urban_patterns about my pictures, related events and so on, and as a chapter representative under the name of @idugrheinmain for the InDesign User Group Rhein/Main.

Tell us about your creative side:
Focus at the moment is photography. The »urban patterns« — http://www.facebook.com/urbanpatterns — are a collection of meanwhile 900+ 5 megapixel photos taken with an iPhone. An edition of 24 of them I showed in several exhibitions during the last 17 month. What’s it all about? They surround everyone of us everyday yet still we are rarely perceptive. They are rather abstract, usually devoid of humans, a mixture of pattern, colour and material. Fluke acts a certain part, things appear or are swallowed by light, a different angle brings to light surprises. Harmony as well as dysphoria exist utterly equitable, and every so often details are the spice. Sending out visual stimuli with the aid of »vivid« colours and occasionally almost painful contrasts they defend against categorization. Neither they want to please nor make a point. They’re just there: findings »en passant« collected passing by.

Time travel: Where would you go to?
Three choices, please! Montmatre 1891, catching a glimpse of Toulouse-Lautrec painting his poster for the Moulin Rouge, or side by side with Robert Johnson during his legendary recording sessions, or October 22, 1978, at the Cow Palace in San Francisco watching Neil Young & Crazy Horse performing »Powderfinger« (this should be played very loud at my funeral).

Name your favorite present book:
»The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes« by Greil Marcus.

Which tweeter would you recommend for @createandrotate and why?
I strongly recommend @juligudehus — educated, creative par excellence, eloquent, and always funny!

Who are you and where do you come from?
I’m Renato Pequito, a Portuguese designer / illustrator / photographer / dad hailing from the rainy shores of Cardiff, Wales. Currently working as the lead designer at a local company, where I’m in charge of both print & web work, this gives me the added benefit of not being bored quickly as everything is always changing.
Having worked in design for the past 4 years in different places whilst freelancing and illustrating I have recently made my mission to carve my own way and to approach the creative industry differently.
This will all be more real in a month but now everything is looking pretty exciting.
Would love to show you what I do but have taken my portfolio site and am currently remodelling it as a blog, so feel free to visit it at: www.renatopequito.com for some fresh rants on everything that’s design and that comes this way. Will be paying special attention to how a business is formed since inception and through the eyes of a designer that is nothing other than a designer.
Other ways to check what I’ve been working on are:
– www.behance.net/kyanos/
– www.dribbble.com/kyanos/

Share your twitter account with us and tell us what you are twittering about:
I tweet under the name of @kyanos and you will most likely either see me talking about city cycling, daily life with an one year old, moaning about governments, sharing resources and mainly being me. I think that a twitter acts as your personality online, much more than any website or  other resource. Quick and snappy way of what you’re thinking and that’s what I do. although I do moan I’m not that big of a moaner in real life.

Tell us about your creative side:
I still don’t know how that came to be to be honest, I think it all started on year 12 in high school when I took up Graffiti, never was that good at it as I was too slow but it did open my mind up to art and to other possibilities, did it so much that left me wander away from an engineering university course in favour of a design one. This mainly happened when I moved to Cardiff, after graduating started working for a design company there, doing something I wasn’t enjoying much (the dreaded Flash syndrome). Which propelled me to create a 365 design challenge – http://graphiary.tumblr.com – as a means of creative escape. Led me to a new job and new aspirations. Now I am on the road of starting my own business in this creative world of ours.

Time travel: Where would you go to?
Wouldn’t go anywhere to be exact but back to warn myself to not follow what everyone wants, or thinks is good for you. Do what you want, when you can & want it. Got almost there but sacrificed a few years for that.

Name your favorite present book:
I’d probably say that there are two of them, I’m currently reading ‚Design is a Job‘ by Mike Monteiro, it is making me rethink my whole approach to how an artist, mainly a designer should assume in their line of work and where one can evolve from it. ‚How to be a designer without losing your soul‘ by Adrian Shaughnessy is another great one, a bit of a guide to what you should expect and how you should overcome those hurdles that are naturally placed in your way at the start of your career. A great one to revisit too.

Which tweeter would you recommend for @createandrotate and why?
This would have to go, hands down and I know he was already recommended before but that’s because he rocks to @BenIllustrator. Main reason has been mentioned, the others are mainly to do with him being really active on social media, always tweeting good work from other people and offering his help. Top bloke.

Who are you and where do you come from?
Hi, I am an Artist, Designer and Photographer specialising in Automotive/Marine Art, Atchitecture, Coastline Photography and Illustrations. Predominantly working in B&W, applying a high attention to detail is my signature. Over the course of last year, I ve also been working with the Freeway Poets, creating a provocative live art on stage, alongside the poetry, bringing an illustration skills onto the street art scene.
I was born in those days Czechoslovakia, but am living and creating here in UK for about 10 years now.

Share your twitter account with us and tell us what you are twittering about:
You can follow me on Twitter as @LucanArt. I Tweet about my work as and artist, about the projects, exhibitions and other creative people around me. Also ocassionally reposting interesting design blog features, works of other illustrators and anything which grabs my attention.

Tell us about your creative side:
I was always inclined to work on the technical drawings at first, studying an artitecture and all. Most of my work used to be working for car and bike collectors… which was great, as I got to drive the cars sometimes too. This also allowed me to explore the detail… and found that in it definitelly lies one of my biggest strengths. Lately, working with the poetry, I am exploring again something I used to love when growing up… twist the subject as much as possible, reveal the issues which society chooses to ignore, make people think… and often also trying to bring a little humour into this. I constantly try to see situations and the objects in a different way, I am trying to appreciate the beauty in the „everyday“ stuff around us.

Time travel: Where would you go to?
60s, 70s… love the era, the music especially, the creative freedom of expression… well… ok, in States mainly, I have to add… wasn’t like that everywhere.

Name your favorite present book:
Well, at the moment, am actually submerging myself in the book of Biblical Illustrations by Gustave Dore, as am inpiring myself for the next big project.

Which tweeter would you recommend for @createandrotate and why?
There is plenty of creative blogs I follow out there… who really help me lately however, especially putting together my new business plan, was @TheDesignTrust, great side, full of very useful resources if you want to take your career as an artist, maker to the next level.

Who are you and where do you come from?
My name is Nina Stössinger, I’m a self-employed designer from Basel, Switzerland. Originally web designer, now working mostly as a graphic designer, in love with typography and type design.

Share your twitter account with us and tell us what you are twittering about:
My main Twitter account is @ninastoessinger. I tweet mostly about work, design, type, but also about other things that interest and fascinate me, which is potentially a lot. :-) I mostly use Twitter as a professional discourse tool though, not so much for staying in touch with people I know.
I also run @ernestinefont (for my typeface FF Ernestine), @pixelsinthewild (for my tumblr pixelsinthewild.tumblr.com), and I’m part of @typobasel (Typostammtisch / type meet-ups in Basel).

What inspires you?
Content. Ideas. Details. Music. Science. Art. Craft. History. When I’m in the right frame of mind, everything. I am for instance a very visual person and can get stupidly exhilarated about things like the color of the sky.
More specifically, I look at letters everywhere. I especially have a fascination for old, weathered lettering and signs.

Time travel: Where would you go to?
I’d keep the time machine and go everywhere! But first, the future. I really want to experience space exploration first-hand. (And I guess in the future, there’s less danger of creating those pesky temporal paradoxes, like the risk of causing my own non-existence.)

Name your favorite present book:
Haruki Murakami, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Which tweeter would you recommend for @createandrotate and why?
Maybe Paul @Soulellis, a kind, smart, insightful, always questioning designer and artist. He’s wonderful to talk to, and wonderful to tweet with too.