A Who's Who of Design Bloggers

The keynote panel (shown above the jump) was moderated by Heather Armstrong of Dooce (who honestly had the entire conference hall howling with her bathroom reno slideshow). Maxwell, Grace Bonney of Design*Sponge and Jean Aw of Not Cot discussed the current focus on and growing interest in design.

The "How to Find Great Design Sites" Panel. Left to right: Allison Czarnecki, Nicole Balch, Jamie Derringer and Karey Mackin

The rest of the panels were organized into three tracks of subject matter - design theory, form & function and hands on. Opinions and tips on dealing with everything from privacy to ads to comments and email etiquette were presented by some of the most inspired design bloggers working today.

Easily, one of the greatest takeaways from the weekend was discovering (usually rediscovering!) the speaker's own blogs. I pulled together this list featuring the blogger panelists along with their links - enjoy and be sure to bookmark your (new) favorites!

Nicole Balch of Making It Lovely

Allison Czarnecki of Petit Elefant

Jaime Derringer of Design Milk

Karey Mackin of Mackin Ink

Kelly Beall of Design Crush

Joy Deangdeelert Cho of Oh Joy!

Rachel Jones of Black Eiffel

Emily Goligoski of The SanFranista

Victoria Smith of SFGirlbyBay

Gayla Trail of You Grow Girl

Sarah Jane Wright of Sarah Jane Designs

Erin Loechner of Design for Mankind

Megan Reardon of Not Martha

Kathryn Storke of Snippet & Ink

Joslyn Taylor of Simple Lovely

Stephanie Brubaker of Stephmodo

Sheila Bernus Dowd of Lookiloos

Chelsea Fuss of Frolic

Maggie Mason of Mighty Girl

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your smiling encouragement in the audience was incredibly reassuring...your gracious and smart style made me fall in love with apartment therapy all over again...

oh, i could sing about you all day. instead? dj earworm and i are working on a little something just. for. you.

a pleasure, you.

posted by kareym on January 25th 2010 at 11:31am
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That was a good hair day for me.

posted by design-milk on January 25th 2010 at 11:38am
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I really, really love that yellow necklace in the group photo....any idea of where it came from?

posted by kipi on January 25th 2010 at 12:26pm
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The yellow necklace is from Anthropologie, however, its pretty old, could be tough to find...

posted by soirish87 on January 25th 2010 at 12:30pm
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So nice of AT to highlight other blogs!

posted by Keyse on January 25th 2010 at 2:36pm
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Agree with Keyse - thank you for sharing this list of design blogs.

posted by rma on January 25th 2010 at 2:47pm
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You were a delight to meet, wish we could have chatted longer, thanks for the link, means a lot.

posted by petit_elefant on January 25th 2010 at 3:24pm
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Wow! What a great list!

posted by Azucar on January 25th 2010 at 5:31pm
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Considering Dooce made her name blogging about her kids and her post-partum health, I was surprised at the announcement of her deal with HGTV. She's great, but I wouldn't have picked her as the design blogger to make the jump to cable tv.

posted by FantasticMrFaux on January 25th 2010 at 5:44pm
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You were one of the main reasons I went to the conference, and you didn't disappoint - your talk was inspiring, and I hope to see you at next years conference.

-Aaron
http://www.iheartluxe.com

posted by iheartluxe on January 25th 2010 at 11:21pm
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Who's this Maxwell person? : )

posted by jeffnyc on January 26th 2010 at 10:45am
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The funniest part of this to me is that Heather Armstrong once linked to something here on AT, which is what got me reading this blog. :) I've been hooked ever since!

posted by Skerri on January 31st 2010 at 7:12pm
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I love Dooce but never thought of her as a design blog...they do have good taste! And she (and Jon?) seem to incorporate it effortlessly - cool!

posted by minxy on January 31st 2010 at 7:30pm
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Thanks for the link. It was a pleasure to meet you at Alt! Already looking forward to next year.

posted by frolicblog on January 31st 2010 at 11:02pm
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Yeah--Dooce doesn't seem like a design blogger to me, either. Odd.

posted by Fire Wife Katie on February 1st 2010 at 12:34pm
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So, I went to Dooce's blog to see what her style is, and to hopefully get some inspiration. Because the person who is putting on a design summit, who was recently hired as the face of design blogging by HGTV, would have a prominent design section on her blog, right? Right?

Wrong. I couldn't find anything about design. The closest I could find was the daily style section, which was more about cool products than interiors. Style, yes. Design--not so much.

Am I missing something? Is this an exclusive club, where only those in the know can find anything on her blog about (non-product) design?

posted by Fire Wife Katie on February 1st 2010 at 11:44pm
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thanks so much for sharing these great blogs! i so wish i could have attended the alt summit. oh well, maybe next year!

xo urban flea
http://www.urbanfleadesign.net

posted by urbanflea on February 22nd 2010 at 12:32am
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