For the final part of Activity 3 I was asked to create a list of my 'Top 5" websites that I think will be useful in helping me to keep updated about all the latest advances in the world of Graphic Design. Here are my top 5 website which I think are worth taking a look at on a regular basis.
www.youthedesigner.com
This website is a blog full of handy hints and tips to help inspire the new generation of innovative Graphic Designers, including areas such as marketing and branding. It was set up by a Gino Orlandi when he was in design school and the blog soon became well known, took off and turned out very successful.
www.eyemagazine.com
This is an online magazine for reviewing the world of Graphic Design. It covers lots of different aspects of design and has the option to not only read online, which is preferable for some, but to subscribe to receiving the magazine and collecting the issues with the very well designed covers.
www.howdesign.com
Again, this is another online magazine but not to help inspire graphic design but to help designers run professional and successful organisations. HOW magazine is full of information and influences covering all areas of the business and design world.
www.cmykmag.com
CMKY is an online magazine that displays work of ambitious designers to the commercial design world allowing for professionals to browse through and find fresh new talent.
www.studio7designs.com
Finally Studio 7 Designs are a design company that do branding and advertising for 'environmentally-conscious' companies. This I feel is a very important issue in today's society and I am glad to see design companies doing their bit to help promote and save our planet.
I was then asked to make another list of my top 5 websites that will be useful in keeping me up to speed with all sorts of matters happening in the world today that are not related to Graphic Design. These websites, if checked regularly, I believe will benefit me with my studies and help me to understand the world that I not only live in but the world I am trying to design for.
news.bbc.co.uk/
This is the main british news website with lIve news feeds updated at very regular intervals or in the event of breaking news is updated immediately. From here you can access all kinds of information about current events, politics, education, technology and many more in all different parts of the UK.
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/
The BBC radio 4 website is full of all the information aired on the radio and so much more, BBC radio 4 covers all genres of topical interest and is there to help the listener gain better knowledge and understanding of the world we live in. On the website there is a blog and an area for feedback for people to express their views on currents issues or to get much needed answers.
www.nytimes.com/
The American or in particular the New York version of our BBC news website, just updating of all current affairs happening in the USA. It is just as important as designers that we keep up to date with not only issues effecting our own country but those that are effecting others.
twitter.com/
If you are following the right sorts of people on Twitter and not just your friends this can be a very effective and beneficial tool to gaining knowledge of what is happening in the world, and it is a great place for meeting potential business clients and making connections with people in the similar field to yourself.
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