“Graphic Design Magazines are a key way for active graphic designers to further immerse themselves into the design community. They can inspire you, inform you and keep you up to date on the latest trends, hottest studios and new design talent.”
Essential Magazines for Graphic Designers:
• HOW – a popular graphic design magazine for graphic, web, and freelance
• Print – an extremely popular bimonthly graphic design magazine
• Emigre – Emigre magazine was published between 1984 and 2005. A total of 69 issues were produced, sometimes on a quarterly basis, but more often irregularly. Issues #1 through #63 were published and distributed by Emigre, Inc. Issues #64 through #69 were co-published and distributed by Princeton Architectural Press, New York.
• Communication Arts – an amazing art and design magazine that consists of eight issues and includes the Design, Advertising, Illustration, Photography and Interactive annuals.
• LAYERS – the “How-to magazine for everything Adobe”
• Web Designer– a British magazine, and the leading authority for worldwide web creatives and designers
• Photoshop Creative – a British leading magazine for Adobe Photoshop inspiration
• Smashing – an online magazine for professional Web designers and developers
• .net – a world essential magazine for web designer
• I.D. – a leading critical magazine covering the art, business, and culture of design
• Eye – a British quarterly print magazine on graphic design and visual culture
• CMYK – is where aspiring creatives showcase their talents to an industry driven by inspiration and new ways of creative problem solving. At the same time, CMYK Magazine is where creative directors, agency principals and art buyers recruit students and recent graduates at today’s top art-design schools: art directors, copywriters, designers, photographers and illustrators. Each issue of CMYK Magazine features as many as 100 selections from more than 80 art-design students attending over 30 of the world’s leading art-design schools, departments and workshops.
• WIRED – is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical
• COLORS – a quarterly magazine about “the rest of the world” based in Treviso, Italy
• Digital Arts – a cross-
• Computer Arts -a kick-butt mag filled with tons of great advice for freelance designers
• Fast Company – an American magazine that focuses on technology and design
• IdN – an international publication for creative people
• GRAPHIC – a Korean graphic design magazine