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25 Must Read Interviews From 2008

Interviews are an amazing way to gain insight into the design community and quickly tap into the experience of others to better prepare yourself for challenges ahead, plus they’re just dang interesting! Design blogs often publish interviews with well known and respected people in the design community and this year has been no exception. Below is a collection of 25 great interviews of 2008, that you should not miss!

Top 5 Graphic Design Forums

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.

3 Great Open Source Software Solutions

Open source software is software in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design. These three open source software downloads are all free and can be great additions to your site, making for a better user experience, more return visits and more unique visitors per month.

10 Great New Graphic Design Posts

Graphic Design Resources Roundup

A collection of the latest graphic design resources, adobe tutorials, inspirational posts and more from all around the graphic design community. Enjoy!

The Museum of Arts for the Arts (MofAA)

The Museum of Arts for the Arts (MofAA) was established to be the leading virtual art and image museum in the world, and currently holds one of the largest and most prized collections of images known to man; from Daguerreotype to Hubble, from Lascaux to Warhol, MofAA holds some of the most famous artists and art objects from the art world.

Four New Fonts From ThinkDust

Alex Haigh is graphic designer with a great portfolio of work including identity designs, print designs, digital art and typefaces. He is also part of the young and dynamic studio called ThinkDust which specializes in branding, graphic design and new media work.

Free Calendar Icon Set

A new calendar icon set has been released on my graphic design forums! Simply head on over the design forums to download the free calendar icon set, and don’t forget to register and take a look around! The forum is a great place to meet other designers and have your work critiqued!

The Typographer’s Typeface Bible - FontBook

Typography is an essential aspect of design life, and choosing the right typefaces for projects is an ongoing battle! Wouldn’t it be nice to have a reference book of typefaces to refer to when searching for that perfect font? Well FontBook is the type bible for designers, typographers, studios, publishers, historians, and anyone else interested in digital type, but its more then just a reference book.

Daily Design Inspiration Via DesignFlavr

CSS galleries are sprouting up all over the place, but not many websites cover the entire design spectrum like DesignFlavr Does. They showcase Flash Websites, CSS Websites, Illustrations, CG Art, Advertisements, Photo Manipulations and much more on a daily basis. The entire site is neatly organized by categories, tags and even by colors! You can also subscribe to their feed to get the latest inspiration in your rss reader.

What the Duck - Excessive Use of Filters Comic

Aaron Johnson over at What the Duck was kind enough to send me a link to his latest comic strip which I thought was pretty funny and you can view below. He publishes new strips relating to design on a regular basis, so keep an eye out!

LiveSurface Model Set

LiveSurface is well known for its great blank templates which can be used to showcase your work. They have many different sets available including a billboard set, food set and a booklet set.

They just released a new set called Model Set 1 which features models wearing blank shirts, holding blank magazines and a blank open book. I wish they had some photos of blank men’s t shirts, but I am sure they will release those in the next model set. Enjoy!

Free Icons Galore!

I recently stumbled across this free icons website that has a large collection of high quality icons for download. The quality really amazed me and there are over 15 different categories to choose from. As usual make sure to take note of any usage terms before you get excited and start downloading a bunch of free icons!

A Professional Way of Sending Large Files

As designers we handle computer files all day long and some of these files can be extremely large in size, especially when working on high resolution projects such as posters. Once you are done designing the files usually go to either the client or the printer. Often the files are too large for email, and uploading via FTP isn’t really a great solution because you are using up your bandwidth and disk space. Then you still need to send an email with a download link.

10 Best Firefox Addons for Designers

These 10 essential Firefox addons will make your life as a graphic and web designer much easier! The Firefox addons are extremely easy to install and you will be notified when new versions of the addons are available. I have hand picked all of these add ons and without further ado here are the 12 best Firefox addons for graphic designers!

Adobe Video Workshop

I was looking through the Adobe Design Center recently and noticed they had some really great free resources there! The one that caught my eye the most was the Adobe Video Workshop. The Adobe Video Workshop has dozens and dozens of free video tutorials for 20 different Adobe products. You can find tutorials by selecting one of the 20 products such as Photoshop CS3 or you can find videos by topic such as page layout and design.