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.
Latest articles by Tanya Combrinck
How to design for the multi-device future
By Tanya Combrinck published
With speakers from Big Spaceship, Adobe and Rokkan, an upcoming SoDA session New York focuses on designing for connected devices.
Meet Ethan Marcotte and Dave Shea at the Generate New York pre-event
By Tanya Combrinck published
On top of our outstanding speaker line-up and spectacular venue, there's now another reason to attend Generate New York.
Has web design become too slick?
By Tanya Combrinck published
According to Jason Fried, people prefer messy but cosy sites like Amazon and eBay to slick online experiences. What does our panel of experts think?
Hakim El Hattab on Squarespace, Slides and Stockholm
By Tanya Combrinck published
The leading developer explains why he's left San Francisco to go home and set up his own business.
Anne-Gaelle Colom on being a coding lecturer
By Tanya Combrinck published
jQuery Mobile's Documentation Lead tells us about about combining work in academia with her documentation role.
The design agency that wants to change the world
By Tanya Combrinck published
Agency works exclusively on projects for social good. MD Murray Bunton tells us more.
Why a flat hierarchy means working like a family
By Tanya Combrinck published
Simple as Milk is one of five shortlisted nominees for the Agency of the Year award in the 2014 net Awards. We spoke to the team about their recent projects and what sets them apart from the rest.
Dan Croak of thoughtbot on contributing to the open source community
By Tanya Combrinck published
thoughtbot is one of five shortlisted nominees for the Agency of the Year award in the 2014 net Awards. We spoke to CMO Dan Croak about their remarkable dedication to building open source projects.
Ben Steers of Fiasco Design on keeping it simple
By Tanya Combrinck published
Fiasco Design is one of five shortlisted nominees for New Agency of the Year in the 2014 net Awards. Creative director Ben Steers told us about their recent projects and creative vision.
Andrew Clarke on designing for the Left
By Tanya Combrinck published
Stuff & Nonsense offers reduced rates for trade unions and other left-wing organisations. We chat to its founder to learn more.
John Denton of Goodboy Digital on their 'tech first' approach
By Tanya Combrinck published
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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