Designora is a co-writing collaborative of graphic designers, coders, professional writers, photographers, artists, and web connoisseurs. We’re here to create, develop, and present amazing concepts, designs, tools and tutorials, and to provide overall inspiration from a usable perspective.

The Designora Contributing Team:

Adrian Singer

Adrian is an avid Spanish-language blogger, journalist, and is lead editor for a large network of ugc sites. He is also on the videography and photography side of art, but is nevertheless a fan of all things aesthetically interesting. Catch up with him on Twitter @AdrianSinger.

Aquil Akhter

Aquil is a web graphic designer and has been working in the field for 8 years. He runs the blog Softalize, which focuses on free web resources and inspiration for designers and developers. If you want to connect with him, you can follow him on Twitter @Softalize.

Ariela Ross

Ariela is a professional blogger and photographer. She has a keen eye for good design and aesthetics. Her specialty lies in Near Eastern art and architecture. Follow her on Twitter @ArielaRoss.

Edward Calugtong

Edward is a graphic and web designer from the Philippines. He is currently an Information Technology student at Adamson University. His interests are design-related writing, mark-up and design of websites, photography, and travel. Edward is available for creating, designing, and developing websites. You can check out his portfolio of selected works and contact him on his site. You can reach him also via Twitter @DesignWasHere.

Jake Luzatto

Jake is an Adobe fiend and really does it as merely a hobby. In his ‘real life,’ he works in the diamond industry, where he can satisfy his passion for gemology. His love for design, aesthetics, and spectacular things comes through in his writing.

Johanna Wolf

Johanna is a graphic designer, focusing mostly on packaging design, but also delving into interior design. Her design work always tells a story. She does not believe in empty aesthetics for themselves, but in a conceptual design. You can check out her portfolio of selected works and contact her on Behance.

Paulo Piste

Paulo is a professional coder, specializing in WordPress design. He believes that “code should be poetry in motion, fluid, robust, flowing, and beautiful. UX UI WP and Words, it’s all Greco-Italiano to [him].” Keep in touch with him over on Twitter @Poppist.

Sheer Ganor

Part-time Journalist, Part-time blogger and a full-time German History student. For the past five years, Sheer has been contributing and distributing content on the web and about the web. Currently resides in Berlin, where she’s working on a project about representations of history in contemporary art.

Tom Michaels

Tom is a true Renaissance man. He has been a graphic designer at a publishing company, an amateur chemist, and in his former life was a restaurateur. He now spends his days doing freelance design and consulting work.