When I first started out doing web design, and other types of design, I looked for people to get inspired by. I’m not only inspired by their graphical work, but also by their methods of working and acting on the Internet. I’ve tried to collect a list of people I get inspired by. These guys are amongst the greatest artists out there right now, so you should have a look at their work. For each person, I’ve collected some great interviews that I hope you’ll enjoy reading.

Nick La

Nick is the owner of Web Designer Wall, and runs N.Design Studio and Best Web Gallery. He has been around for many years, and has apart from a lot of great articles on Web Designer Wall also gotten tutorials posted in magazines.

• Interview with Nick at Web Designer’s Interviews

Collis Ta’eed

Collis is the CEO of the Envato network (if you haven’t heard of that, something’s gone wrong). The network contains Psdtuts+, Nettuts+, and other sites you should have subscribed to in your feed reader already. Collis is a great example of what hard work and making the right decisions can do for your business. As an example, Psdtuts+ has over 50.000 subscribers.

• Interview with Collis at Fuel Your Creativity
• Interview with Collis at Retire@21
• Interview with Collis at WalkMyBusiness
• Follow Collis at Twitter
• The Netsetter

Jacob Cass

Jacob is an amazing designer, running the blog Just Creative Design. He writes some very inspirational blog posts, and also is a very talented designer. One of his very interesting projects is the Graphic Design Group Writing Project, which you should definitely check out.

• Interview with Jacob at Abduzeedo
• Interview with Jacob at Inspiredology
• Interview with Jacob at My Ink Blog
• Interview with Jacob at Colorburned
• Follow Jacob at Twitter

Chris Spooner

Chris is an extremely talented designer with some very thorough tutorials. His blog is very exciting to read as his tutorials are very different from each other. Also, you should check out his personal website, which is a “self-updating social homepage”, as he puts it – a great idea for an online business card. You should also pay a visit to his portfolio site.

• Interview with Chris at Vandelay Design
• Interview with Chris at Inspiredology
• Interview with Chris at Just Creative Design
• Follow Chris at Twitter

Chris Coyier

Chris is the founder of CSS-Tricks, a blog that touches many more subjects than just CSS tricks… Chris makes some amazing screencasts, that you should definitely consider subscribing to. Are My Sites Up? is another great project of Chris’. The concept is very simple – add your site, and receive a notification whenever your site (or your client’s) is down. Also, Chris is behind Script & Style, a link sharing service for design-related articles and ressources.

• Interview with Chris at Nettuts+
• Interview with Chris at DesignM.ag
• Interview with Chris at Snap2Objects
• Follow Chris at Twitter

Who inspires you the most and why? Please share in the comments.