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
1. GDF
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.
2. HOWDesign
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.
3. Estetica
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.
UCreative Forums is You the Designer’s official Graphic Design Forum. UC Forum is one of the newer graphic design forums in the design community, but is growing quickly and has an active core user base that is quick to respond to questions and other posts.
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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!
you forgot to mention http://www.artisticgfx.com
All graphic design seems to be working fine now
Nice forum Mike!
Nice post, thanks for sharing. I agree, I hadn’t heard of artisticgfx.com, but it looks nice.
Thank you so much for the mention.
Rachel
AllGraphicDesign.com
Very post. Very good design forums.
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it’s nice…to all designer
Only been to one of those so far, thanks ill check them out.
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Thanks a lot. Good resources!
Hey All, it’s always nice to meet new people..
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These are all great! I’ve been looking for legit forums for a while. Thanks!
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