My favorite web/graphics designers

It´s a rainy day here in Ice­land, but the mood is quite cozy. What bet­ter oppor­tu­nity is there to do the post I´ve been wait­ing to do now for a few weeks. My favorite design­ers, and the design­ers that influ­ence my work the most.

This is a list of the design­ers, graphic, web or other kind of designers.

Egill Harðar

An ice­landic fel­low designer and friend. I remem­ber start­ing out design­ing stuff and he was very promi­nent at the ice­landic web design stage in particular.

Alli Met­all

The story behind Alli is pretty sim­i­lar as Egill, was really doing remark­able (and still is) stuff when I was start­ing out. And we used to play golf together when we were younger. If I remem­ber cor­rectly I used to beat him consistently.

Jonathan Ger­lach

Sim­i­lar story as with Alli and Egill, Jonni is just a great designer. Make sure you swing by his site and look at all the juicy stuff. He works mainly in web design.

Jef­frey Zeldman

Can you really call Jef­frey a designer or just an amaz­ing css nerd? Any­way his book design­ing with web stan­dards changed the game for me

Jason San­ta­maria

Heard about this guy from Mr. Zeld­man and thank­ful for it. Really helped me appre­ci­ate typog­ra­phy and atten­tion to detail. Be sure to check out type­dia while your at it.

Rob Mor­ris

An aus­tralian bloke  which I´ve sent a few mails to and he´s always responded with kind words. His site greatly influ­enced the design of mine. I love his stuff.

James White

Those flares and diag­o­nal lines just cap­ti­vate me. And his use of sub­tle col­ors always make me happy

Tim Van Damme

This guy is just amaz­ing. I heard of him through Elliot Jay Stocks whos another great designer. Tim designed the 24ways site that is one of my all time favorite sites to look and read.

There are prob­a­bly more guys and gals that I cant remem­ber at the moment. But man, these are some great ones, dont you think?