Tanya Combrinck

Tanya Combrinck

Tanya is a writer covering art, design, and visual effects. She has 16 years of experience as a magazine journalist and has written for numerous publications including 3D World, 3D Artist, ImagineFX, Computer Arts, net magazine, and Creative Bloq. For Creative Bloq, she mostly writes about web design, including the hottest new tools, as well as 3D artwork and VFX.

Articles by: Tanya Combrinck

John Denton of Goodboy Digital on their 'tech first' approach

By Tanya Combrinck published

netmag Rather than working on design first, Goodboy builds its products by letting technical limitations determine aesthetics.

Matt Griffin on the joy of doing meaningful work

By Tanya Combrinck published

netmag Bearded's co-founder on hearting the internet like crazy, raising money to cure cancer and working for organizations that he feels good about.

Erin Jurew of Cadre on doing significant things with slender resources

By Tanya Combrinck published

netmag How Cadre started as a company's marketing arm before branching off into an independent agency.

Jon Lax on building Medium, Krush and Hyperlapse

By Tanya Combrinck published

netmag Jon Lax, from net Awards Agency of the Year nominee Teehan+Lax, explains how honesty and good work are their driving philosophies.

Zander Brade on fashion, family and Kanye

By Tanya Combrinck published

netmag Zander Brade is one of 10 nominees for Emerging Talent of the Year in the 2014 net Awards. He works for 6Wunderkinder in Berlin and also on developing his own app. We quizzed him to find out more.

Cody Small on making animation feel natural

By Tanya Combrinck published

netmag Cody Small on incorporating parallax functions and scrolling animation in a way that feels natural and supports the design.

Haraldur Thorleifsson on working with Pinterest, Google, and Santa

By Tanya Combrinck published

netmag The nomadic web designer explains making a site entirely out of PNGs and inspiration from the cities of the world.

Michiel de Graaf: powered by coffee, beer and electronic music

By Tanya Combrinck published

netmag The UI designer on the intoxicating attitude of his best mentor and his portfolio site's 37 iterations.

Oliver Lisher on bold, illustrative design

By Tanya Combrinck published

netmag A net Awards nominee for Designer of the Year, Oli Lisher discusses the making of his portolio site and lessons he's learned in his career.

Stephanie Troeth on trusting gut instincts

By Tanya Combrinck published

netmag User experience strategist Stephanie Troeth chats with Tanya Combrinck about being a web jack-of-all-trades and bettering the world with UX

Turn HTML and CSS into a hosted CMS in seconds

By Tanya Combrinck published

Design Place your code into Dropbox and Cloud Cannon fixes it so your clients can add content and edit their live site

Tina Roth Eisenberg on successful side projects

By Tanya Combrinck published

netmag This article first appeared in issue 234 of .net magazine – the world's best-selling magazine for web designers and developers.

Remy Sharp on learning by breaking stuff

By Tanya Combrinck published

HTML Developer, HTML5 Doctor, author and educator Remy Sharp chats to Tanya Combrinck about how he founded Left Logic, why teaching is so important to him and what he has planned for the next five years

Josh Clark on going beyond mobile

By Tanya Combrinck published

Mobile This article first appeared in issue 232 of .net magazine – the world's best-selling magazine for web designers and developers.

Designers respond to Nielsen on mobile

By Tanya Combrinck published

Mobile Is Jakob Nielsen out of touch? Earlier this week usability pioneer Jakob Nielsen published guidelines recommending separate sites, cut-down content for mobile and auto-redirects to mobile sites.