May 2013
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Regarding our recent site outage
It’s been a long night/morning for us here at Dribbble HQ. We profusely apologize for the downtime, and can’t thank you all enough for your patience while we get back on track. Last night at approximately 8pm EDT, our database server went belly up and we’ve been working non-stop since then to bring the site back up.
Here’s what we know now, and what we’re doing to...
Site Outage
Around 8PM EDT this evening, Dribbble went down as the result of what appears to be some issues with database corruption. We’ve been working since then to resolve these issues, with the good folks at RubyTune assisting us.
We’re truly sorry for this downtime. As soon as we have progress to report, we’ll let you know.
April 2013
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Start-up Story: Paravel
by Susanna Baird
(We don’t want you mispronouncing in your head, so let’s start with a quick lesson: Pair-Uh-Vel. Pairuhvel. Paravel. Carry it with you.)
Before there was Paravel, there was Wimpkiller.
Developer Dave Rupert co-founded the paper ‘zine in the late ’90s, naming it after a t-shirt he scored at Value Village. “Branding at its best,” he joked.
As...
March 2013
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Timeout with Jory Raphael
by Samuel Fine
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Jory for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
My name is Jory Raphael, and I’m a designer living and working in the beautiful state of Vermont. I have a lovely wife who is smarter than...
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Going Green: Ciara Panacchia
by Susanna Baird
Throughout this series, designers have talked us backwards through their shots, starting from the finish and deconstructing, explaining the process from Z to A.
To show you our A to Z, we’re presenting our final article in its original form: The questions and the answers. No editing beyond the rare typo-fix. No googling. No snarky asides. (Well, maybe one or two.)
Think...
Dribbble and United Pixelworkers present: The...
by Samuel Fine
Are you crazy about March hoops? Does the NCAA Championship drive you insane? Positively loony about spring basketball?
Confusing, thinly-veiled references to a registered trademark aside, if you’re excited about the NCAA Championship tournament, get ready to get even more excited because we’re teaming up with the hard-working Pittsburghers at United Pixelworkers for a...
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Going Green: Alan Geraghty
by Susanna Baird
Seizing St. Patrick’s Day as a green-and-gold opportunity, we’ve been profiling a few Irish and Ireland-based Dribbblers over the last week.
We didn’t expect the surfing.
When we started this series, we hoped for lyrical odes and we got them. Many fit our cliched dreams of the Emerald Isle. Designers have praised Ireland’s green hills, cobbled streets, vibrant art...
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Going Green: Paddy Donnelly
by Susanna Baird
Seizing St. Patrick’s Day as a green-and-gold opportunity, we’ve been profiling a few Irish and Ireland-based Dribbblers over the last week.
The bunny rabbit wears scuba gear and drives a submarine that looks like a killer whale. Make that a submarine that looks like a killer whale sporting a shark’s tail. With a starry pink top. Festooned with a periscope.
The submarine...
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Going Green: Meagan Hyland
by Susanna Baird
Seizing St. Patrick’s Day as a green-and-gold opportunity, we’ll be profiling a few Irish and Ireland-based Dribbblers over the next week.
Type is the best supporting actor of design; letterforms and typography are subtle, powerful players crucial to a project’s success, but often underestimated by an uneducated audience. In her weekly poster series Meagan’s Movie Alphabet,...
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Going Green: Darren Geraghty
by Susanna Baird
Seizing St. Patrick’s Day as a green-and-gold opportunity, we’ll be profiling a few Irish and Ireland-based Dribbblers over the next week.
A smart designer talking design is like a great professor delivering a lecture. Listen in on Darren Geraghty. When the UX designer at Dublin-based Boxever had the opportunity to develop an identity for the Computer and Communications Museum...
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Going Green: Steve Simpson
by Susanna Baird
Seizing St. Patrick’s Day as a green-and-gold opportunity, we’ll be profiling a few Irish and Ireland-based Dribbblers over the next week.
Fourteen days.
Dublin had fourteen days to woo Steve Simpson, and Dublin won his heart. The Manchester, England-born designer came to the city in 1990 for a two-week storyboarding gig. The country was coming off a bleak decade, but things...
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Going Green: Sheena Oosten
by Susanna Baird
Seizing St. Patrick’s Day as a green-and-gold opportunity, we’ll be profiling a few Irish Dribbblers over the next week.
Sheena Oosten loves her new website.
“I must admit I’m pretty happy and excited to have finished my own portfolio redesign,” she told Dribbble.
We’re happy and excited too, Sheena. We know it’s going to be great: You won the 2012 Eircom Award for Best...
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Going Green: Mark Reihill
by Susanna Baird
Seizing St. Patrick’s Day as a green-and-gold opportunity, we’ll be profiling a few Irish Dribbblers over the next week.
Mark Reihill’s latest design project involved dead rabbits, time travel, and juggling.
The Dead Rabbits*: The Belfast-based designer took on a St. Patrick’s Day illustration for The Dead Rabbit Grocery and Grog, a Manhattan taproom channeling a long-gone...
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Going Green: Conor O'Driscoll
by Susanna Baird
Seizing St. Patrick’s Day as a green-and-gold opportunity, we’ll be profiling a few Irish Dribbblers over the next week. First up: Conor O’Driscoll.
P-A-D-D-Y.
Designer Conor O’Driscoll will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day 2013 by typing those letters again and again and again, while drinking any beer but Guinness.
“I will be spending my entire...
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Pay with Stripe
We’re excited to announce that we’re now offering Stripe as a way to make credit card payments for Pro accounts or Jobs on Dribbble. Until now, PayPal had been the only available payment method, and it continues to be an option along with Stripe. If you live outside the United States and have had difficulties making purchases in the past, or if your business has had trouble using a...
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Timeout with Anna Paschenko
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Anna for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
Hi! My name is Anna Paschenko. I was born in Krasnodar (South of Russia) where most of the year the sun shines and nowadays I guess that it’s inside me wherever...
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ATX Dribbble Meetup at SXSW
Heading to Austin this weekend? Join Dan Cederholm and the ATX gang for a Texas-sized party during South by Southwest! Saturday March 9th at 8pm at Scholz Garten on San Jacinto in Austin. FREE limited-edition t-shirt designed by Paravel’s Reagan Ray for the first 100 guests. Presented by Dribbble, Paravel, Creative Market, Squarespace, and Happy Cog.
And a very special thanks to...
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Four On The Floor
March winds have been blowing for only a few days, but it’s already been a monumental month here at Dribbble, as we just signed two key free agents. It pleases us to no end to announce our first full-time hires, Samuel and Tristan, who will be helping us grow and improve the Dribbble community, site and platform.
Samuel Fine has been contracting with us for several months and after making...
February 2013
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Squarespace Commerce Playoff Replay
Once again, we teamed up with our friends at Squarespace to celebrate a launch of theirs, letting the Dribbble community have some fun and stretch their creative muscle via a Featured Playoff. This time around, it was for Squarespace Commerce, a new way to manage and sell products on the Squarespace platform.
256 rebounds over the last 10 days. As usual, Dribbblers showed immense creativity in...
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Timeout with Ingvard the Terrible
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Ingvard for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
Mange hilsner! Many greetings! I am known among vikings, cowering villagers and art directors alike as “Ingvard the Terrible.” Also acceptable are “Lord Ingvard”,...
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Timeout with Iris Atalay
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Iris for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
I am Iris Eda Atalay, 26 year old visual designer. I was born in the lovely city of Istanbul, Turkey and travelled all over Europe. I lived in Porto, Portugal for...
January 2013
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Gameplan Journals and Memos + Jon Contino Tee
Sam has been working hard on getting our Equipment shop revamped, and fine-tuned. Along with that, we have some awesome new products to announce.
We’ve been collaborating with the fine folks at Bound to create Gameplan™ vegan leather journals and pocket memo books. These are 100% American-made in North Carolina, using recycled, acid-free paper. They’re gorgeous, and we hope...
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Dribbble Team Meetup Recap
Last night, around 50 local Dribbblers came to our headquarters here in Salem, MA for beer, pizza, and chatting with fellow creative folks. It was a great success, and we’d like to thank our sponsor, Shopify, for helping us make the night a great one.
It was the first time we organized an “analog playoff”, where attendees sketched, in paper and pencil, a 4 × 3 drawing based on a...
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Evolving Our Community Guidelines
We’ve just updated our Terms of Service and Player’s Handbook with new rules and guidelines as to what constitutes appropriate content at Dribbble.
Historically, Dribbble has been a relatively open publishing platform. It’s self-organizing in the sense that members can create their own community by following (and blocking) other members as they see fit. For the most part, we’ve tried to stay out...
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Timeout with Brian Hurst
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Brian for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
I’m Brian, a 29 year old designer and illustrator. Born and raised in Orange County, CA and currently living in Irvine with my wife of 1.4 years. I spend my...
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Timeout with Jack Hughes
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Jack for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
Hello! My name is Jack Hughes and I’m a (more or less) recent graduate from Kingston University London. I live in South London and was born here! I’m an illustrator,...
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Timeout with Shaw Nielsen
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Shaw for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
I am a pretty snazzy illustrator with a knack for coming up with quirky solutions. I started off studying in San Francisco at the Academy of Art and eventually made...
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Timeout with Virginia Poltrack
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Virginia for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
Hi! My name is Virginia. I’m from Johnstown, PA which is a small town east of Pittsburgh. I have been drawing my whole life, and it’s something...
December 2012
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Top 24 Dribbble Shots of 2012
It’s been a great year here at Dribbble. The community has been growing steadily, we’ve added a few new members to the team, and as always you’ve been sharing some incredible work. Thank you for the continued support and Happy New Year to all the designers, illustrators, icon artists, letterers, typographers, and other creatives around the globe that make Dribbble a special...
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Timeout with Jeremy Holmes
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Jeremy for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
My name is Jeremy Holmes (AKA “Sherlock, Home-Slice, Germy from Germany has Germs”). My family and I reside in the quaint little suburb of Philadelphia...
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Timeout with Vic Bell
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Vic for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
Hello! My name is Vic Bell. I’m a freelance Illustrator, Iconographer and Designer. I’m from the UK, a true northern girl from a small town called...
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Search Like a Pro
We’ve just rolled out an update for Pro members that makes finding designers on Dribbble even easier. Starting today, sorting and filtering members by location, skills, availability, and other criteria is packaged up into a nifty, portable widget.
We’ve streamlined our Find Designers section to make it quicker and easier to find folks to follow and hire. But we’ve also added...
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Timeout with Chris Sandlin
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Chris for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
My name is Chris Sandlin and I’m an illustrator under the moniker of SockMonkee. I was born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Georgia all my life. I guess...
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Timeout with Ricky Linn
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Ricky for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
My name’s Ricky Linn and I’m currently a student at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, for what seems like an eternity now, studying graphic...
November 2012
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Timeout with Mc Baldassari
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Mc for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
I’m Mc Baldassari (full name Marie-Clémentine). I’m a freelance artist/illustrator from France, been living in Montreal for more than 5 years. I studied industrial...
Featured Player: Shaun Inman
Today we’ve taken the traditional timeout to the next level and are bringing you an exclusive interview with Shaun Inman, the man behind The Last Rocket, Mimeo and more.
What made you transition into games?
I’ve always loved video games. As a kid, if I wasn’t playing them I was reading about them. If I wasn’t reading about them I was thinking about them. Fast forward to...
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Timeout with Dave Mott
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Dave for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
My name is Dave Mott(ram) from Youngstown, Ohio (it’s between Cleveland & Pittsburgh). Mostly, I work on children’s book illustrations and character...
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Timeout with Timothy Banks
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Tim for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
Hi guys, my name is Tim, and I’m a professional illustrator for some really cool clients. I currently hang my hat in beautiful Charleston, SC where all of my...
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Please bear with us...
You might’ve noticed a few features disappearing here and there on the site. Please bear with us, as we’re battling some performance issues that are proving difficult to diagnose.
Suggestions, Colors, Pro Stats, and shot views have been temporarily disabled while we try and get things back on track. Those features are especially taxing on the database, so turning them off for now will...
Less RROD, More Pink: Dribbble on Xbox 360
If I had to guess, I’d imagine that there’s a strong overlap between Dribbblers and gamers, present company included. If you’ve got an Xbox 360 like I do, and have an Xbox Live subscription, you should have received the Xbox Live Fall 2012 Update by now. But, it’s quite possible you haven’t spent much time checking out what’s new, between playing Borderlands 2...
October 2012
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Dribbble HQ Open House
Last week, we hosted the first of what we hope will be many meetups at Dribbble HQ in Salem, MA. Dribbblers from all over the greater Boston area showed up for beer (thanks for the hook up, High and Mighty!), ping pong and mingling.
We had a chance to show off our new studio space, which finally had enough furniture for a party! It’s great to see the space finally coming together.
...
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Timeout with Ilias Sounas
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Ilias for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
Hi everyone! My name is Ilias Sounas and I’m a freelance illustrator based in Athens, sunny Greece. I love creating illustrations, happy monster characters &...
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New Equipment
We’ve just stocked the shelves here at the Dribbble Equipment warehouse with two new shirts! The Infinite Hyperlink and the glow-in-the-dark Bally Roger. You should probably buy both of them.
Want the Bally Roger in time for Halloween? We’ll be shipping out a batch tomorrow afternoon (Friday) EST. Place your order before then and U.S. orders should be there in time to illuminate...
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Timeout with Timothy J. Reynolds
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Timothy for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
My name is Timothy J. Reynolds. I’m a 3D illustrator currently living in Milwaukee, WI. I was born and raised in Winston-Salem, NC, where I went to school...
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Timeout with Louie Mantia
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Louie for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
My name is Louie Mantia and I’m a visual designer. I focus on making UI beautiful at Pacific Helm, a design studio in San Francisco I founded with Brad Ellis...
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Timeout with Andrew Power
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Andrew for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
Hi I’m Andrew Power, a graphic designer & illustrator originally from Newfoundland, Canada but currently attending the Maryland Institute College of Art...
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Double Dribbble
The rise of high resolution displays has put Dribbble in a unique position. As a site that constrains its image uploads to fixed pixel dimensions, how should we handle images that appear on HiDPI (e.g. Retina) devices? Many Dribbblers are designing (and have been for quite some time) @2x for iOS apps. Others are creating @2x assets for the recently-released Retina Macbook Pro. And still more are...
September 2012
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Welcome Samuel Fine and Alana Brooks!
This week we welcome two new team members here at Dribbble HQ. Samuel Fine will be managing our support and fulfillment, while Alana Brooks will be spearheading our marketing efforts. We’re excited to get some much needed help in areas that haven’t gotten the attention they deserve under a 2-person team. Both Sam and Alana are local Salemites, and will be working with us here,...
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Timeout with Nick Slater
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Nick for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
Hey everyone… my name is Nick Slater. I am an illustrator and graphic designer who mainly works as an in-house designer for Palantir by day and a freelancer by...
August 2012
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Timeout with Simon Walker
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Simon for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
I’m a graphic designer in Austin, Texas. I work in the design department at GSD&M Advertising during the day, and make letters and logos for others at...
