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Crestock is absolutely thrilled to present our list of judges for our Photoshop contest. The sites below and people behind them represents the finest of the web - the cream of the crop - in the areas of design and Mac resources.

Make sure to pay them a visit.


Stuart Colville: Owner, Muffin Research Labs
Stuart writes about all aspects of modern web-development. Stuart is a core member of the Web Standards Group and by day works as a front-end web developer at Yahoo! Europe.

Greg Storey: Owner, Airbag Industries.
Airbag is the personal site of Greg Storey. It began in the winter of 2001 as a place where I could practice English, back in the days when Movable Type in beta. For now, this is a blog where topics range from design and satire to politics and Ashley Simpson. Airbag has been featured in Communication Arts, Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, Salon Magazine, Associated Press, etc.

Mary Beth & Paul Trautwein : Editor, About.com.
Mary Beth has spent most of her career as an in-house designer at cultural institutions working on print and environmental graphics. She has received recognition of her work from the American Association of Museums for both publication and exhibition design. Paul, currently Web Master at Mount St. Mary's College, has been a professional photographer, pressman, and website designer. He has also taught computer graphics for over ten years.

Roger Johansson: Owner, 456Bereastreet.
Roger Johansson is a web professional with a passion for web standards, accessibility, and usability. He spends his days developing websites at Swedish web consultancy NetRelations, and his evenings and weekends writing articles for his personal sites 456 Berea Street and Kaffesnobben.

When he is not stuck in front of a computer, Roger can often be found either at an espresso bar or in the wilderness, fishing.

Peter Kwiatkowski: Owner, CSS Reboot.
The CSS Reboot is a community event for web professionals and enthusiasts. This November 1st at 18:00 GMT Rebooters from all over the world will launch their web standards-based redesigns.

Monish Bhatia: Editor, MacNN.

Dave Hamilton: President & CEO, MacObserver.

Andy Clarke: Owner, Stuff and Nonsense.
Andy Clarke has been working on the web for almost ten years. He is a visual web designer based in the UK and started his design consultancy Stuff and Nonsense in 1998. Andy is a member of the Web Standards Project and is an Invited Expert to the W3C's CSS Working Group. Andy is the author of "Transcending CSS: The Fine Art Of Web Design", published by New Riders.

Todd Dominey: Owner, What Do I Know.
What Do I Know is a collection of daily thoughts, news, and opinions concerning the new media & technology industry as perceived by Todd Dominey, sole-proprietor of Dominey Design — an Atlanta based new media design and development studio.

Jeff croft: Owner, Jeff Croft.
Jeff is a web and graphic designer focused on web standards-based development. He currently live and work Lawrence, KS. As the senior designer at World Online, he's been working on such award-winning standards-based sites as lawrence.com, kusports.com, and ljworld.com.

Mark Boulton: Owner, Mark Boulton.
This is primarily designed to be a portfolio presence for Mark but it also acts as a notebook, journal, experimental space and general dumping ground for designs, commentary and ideas.

Mark can bring years of experience in designing or redesigning a large range of output, from websites and applications built using web standards to cost-effective corporate print material to beautifully crafted, individual design pieces.

Bryan Veloso: Owner, Avalonstar.
Bryan is a blogger, a designer, a programmer, a visionary and an idealist. His loyalties lie as a creative for one of the rising media companies of this decade, a member for the greatest content network online today. The majority of my life has been spent facing a computer screen, but because of it my life swells with friends, confidants and opportunities.

Anton Peck: Owner, Anton Peck.

Mike Rundle: Owner, 9Rules and Businesslogs.
Mike runs all things creative for 9rules, the largest blog community on the planet. In addition to that he does UI design work for various companies (both startup and established) but hopes to leave client work one day and concentrate on competitive design contest judging, his dream since he was a child. He lives in beautiful Raleigh, North Carolina.

Leslie Ayres: Editor, MacAddict Magazine.(Soon to be Mac|Life)
As brand-new editor in chief of Mac|Life magazine (formerly MacAddict), Leslie Ayers will help the team shape the direction of the totally redesigned and renamed magazine--the only Mac magazine that looks as good as the Apple products it covers. (Insert blatant plug here: Look for Mac|Life on newsstands in early January!) Leslie will also undoubtedly torment the Mac|Life art team by wielding her not-much-but-just-enough-to-be-dangerous Photoshop and InDesign skills.

Fredrik Fahlstad: Owner, Fahlstad.
Fredrik lives in Karlstad, Sweden with his family. He works as a programmer for embedded systems such as trip- and fuel meters for cars and boats and has a degree in computer engineering from the University of Karlstad 2003. He's fluent in many programming languages such as C/C++, PHP, Java, Assembler, VB, C# and so on.

Andy Budd: Owner, Andy Budd.

Zach Holman: Owner, Good Tutorials.
Good-Tutorials was created in 2002 and is now the world's largest index for tutorials for Adobe Photoshop, with new tutorials being added by the community on a daily basis. Good-Tutorials has been featured on the BBC, TechTV, Sky News, and other fine media networks. Zach Holman has created and maintained the site from the beginning. He is an avid Mac user, and blogs frequently about topics ranging from design to productivity to entrepreneurship.

Brian Warren: Owner, Watchtan.
’m one of those guys who grew up always drawing. In those personality surveys, they always told me I should be some sort of artist. Even as a child, I would look at that and say, “Yeah right, but you can't make a living as an artist.”

That’s exactly what I’m doing now. My passion for art and design only grew throughout the years. It’s grown to include web design, marketing and even some programming.

Simon Collison: Owner, Colly Logic.
In October 2006 Simon (aka Colly) joined Erskine as a partner and started Erskine Design, a full-service web design, development and hosting company.

As lead web developer at Agenzia Ltd from 2002 to 2006, he worked on numerous web projects for record labels, high-profile recording artists and leading visual artists and illustrators. Colly also oversaw a production line of business, community, and voluntary sector web sites, passionately ensuring everything was accessible and complied with current web standards.

Aside from all the XHTML, CSS and CMS stuff he earns a living doing, he also writes books about such matters for US publishers Apress and Friends Of ED.

Joel Mueller: Editor, MacUpdate.

Rachel Cunliffe: Owner, Cre8ed Design.
Rachel Cunliffe is the founder of cre8d design and lives in New Zealand. She focuses on blog designs and community sites and runs a number of such sites including the newly launched television site, Throng and her design blog. In her spare time she loves to take photographs, go hiking and travel the world.