Top 5 Graphic Design Forums
Written by Gino on 08-11-2008 - 22 Responses
Graphic Design Forums are a great way to really immerse yourself into the graphic design community. You can meet other designers, ask questions, talk about the latest design news, ask for critiques of your work and much more. Being active in a design community is also another great way to promote your own work and get your name out there. If you are an active member and you contribute quality posts most forums will let you add a signature after your posts linking to your portfolio.
Don’t spam forums with links to your site or most forum moderators will ban you right away. If you are going to join a forums, join with the intention of becoming part of a new community. Most forums tend to have their own unique environment, depending on the users, the layout and the forum categories, so be sure to explore each forum to see which fits you best!
Top Graphic Design Forums
GDF is one of the oldest and biggest graphic design forums around with over 20k members. The community is very active, very large and consists of a a variety of general categories.
The HOWDesign forums are great for showcasing your work and getting constructive feedback from other designers. They also have a very active business and freelance section where you can ask questions and find a lot of useful tips.
Estetica is very popular, but tends to lean more towards chatting for enjoyment rather then for knowledge. Their off topics section is perfect for chatting with other designers about anything, but design. So if you are looking to chat with people who share common interests, than this is the graphic design forum for you.
The All Graphic Design forums are very old and have an extremely active general design section where members chat about all kinds of design news and articles. They also have a great pre press section for designers looking for advice on printing and setting up files.
Your Design Forums is You the Designer’s official Graphic Design Forum. YDF is one of the newer graphic design forums in the design community, but is growing quickly and has a very active core user base that is quick to respond to questions and other posts.
Biju Subhash
Quan | August 11th, 2008
Thanks!
website design cleveland | August 11th, 2008
I think the ‘All Graphic Design’ is having some trouble at the moment as that site just loads up a php error page when i visit it. Aside from that they are all great, though the All graphic design forum on print is a extremely helpful!
Mike Snider | August 12th, 2008
you forgot to mention http://www.artisticgfx.com
Gino | August 12th, 2008
All graphic design seems to be working fine now
Gino | August 12th, 2008
Nice forum Mike!
Wes Wilson | August 12th, 2008
Nice post, thanks for sharing. I agree, I hadn’t heard of artisticgfx.com, but it looks nice.
Rachel | August 13th, 2008
Thank you so much for the mention.
Rachel
AllGraphicDesign.com
James Tryon | August 15th, 2008
Very post. Very good design forums.
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Logo Design UK | August 22nd, 2008
Thank you for the post gino this has given me lots of new online graphic design resources to explore, like the identity of the Estetica site.
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chris | September 21st, 2008
it’s nice…to all designer
Conrad Gorny | October 9th, 2008
Only been to one of those so far, thanks ill check them out.
Conrad Gorny
Freelance Graphic Designer
http://www.conradgorny.com
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Sayed | October 16th, 2008
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DesignForums.co.uk | October 23rd, 2008
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heidel | December 21st, 2008
Thanks a lot. Good resources!