Aaron's designs are really amazing though he has never taken a computer class and he has no formal design training except of taking art classes as a child. Now Aaron Gustafson is a Principal at Easy! Designs. Before this he has worked as a freelancer through agencies like Aquent and as a full-time employee for an advertising agency. Aaron also managed to be a journalist after having started a music magazine in college (the fritz) that eventually gained distribution across the US.

Roger Johansson is a Swedish web professional living in Gothenburg working professionally with the web and other interactive media since 1994. Roger currently works as a front-end web developer at NetRelations. His main focus is web standards, accessibility, and usability issues he's writing about on his personal site - 456 Berea Street.

Matt Webb is famous for being a talented graphic designer. In spite of the fact that he is born and bred in Sydney, he already had a chance to show his creative skills in other countries. Matt has already been working for K*GRIND (Australia), Pubcompany SRL (Italy), Sega Europe (London, UK), etc. Being an impassioned and sociable graphic designer Matt Webb designs his works for the benefit of web design.

Today's world is totally branded. That's why in order to succeed everyone has to stand out. And that's when personal branding comes to hand. Lea Alcantara of Lealea Design is a web & graphic designer helping the arts community and niche small businesses 'find their identity to be seen, be heard, and be read'. Over the years Lea has made herself a reputation of a 'design sensible, talented and dedicated professional'. No wonder, 'Lealea' means happiness, joy, or pleasure in Hawaiian. I got especially interested in her session and workshop on branding at Future of Web Design in NYC this November. Lea agreed to share her knowledge and experience with us in an interview:

Electrical and Computer Engineer by diploma and web designer by vocation, Christian specializes in web standards design and development, user interface design, object-oriented programming, and search engine optimization. Christian is an expert in in CSS, (x)HTML, PHP, MySQL, and Javascript, with knowledge of Perl and XML. Christian believes in short, elegant code, standardized conventions and frameworks. I asked Christian for an interview.