Posts by tag: interview

There’s no place where the world of development gets any truer than on the YouTube channel of RealTough Candy. For both newbies and veterans, Candy offers refreshingly honest attitudes, strong opinions, and experienced advice. We had the pleasure to talk with RTC about her dev path, the usefulness of programming courses, and her music ventures.

Dylan Israel is a web dev all-around. Besides having years of experience in development, he makes YouTube tutorials, co-hosts a podcast, (not so eagerly) writes books, mentors junior developers, holds conference talks, and much more. We recently had the honor to interview Dylan and discuss his development beginnings, work ethics, favorite frameworks, and why things just “won’t work out”.

Yeaaah! Studio is an independent French design studio and apparel brand, renowned for its vintage aesthetic, producing quality clothing, accessories and art prints. Today we meet the man behind the name – Stéphane Casier.

Craig Patterson is a Texas-based graphic designer, that goes by the artistic name Absorb81. He specializes in illustrations, typography, mascot design and brand identity. Craig explains his style as “heavily influenced by graffiti, skateboard graphics, and comic book artwork”, and that it drives shapes and lines into new and unique creative directions.

Rare are those fortunate ones who turn their pastime into a livelihood, or rather perceive their bread and butter as a hobby. Jan Siemen is one of them. Jan Siemen is a German illustrator who has years of experience doing graphic designs and digital illustrations. Besides freelancing, Jan is also the founder of Sons of Ipanema, a Cologne-based graphic design agency, where he gathered a small team of young design enthusiasts.