Graphic design websites and blogs?

Was just wondering if anyone knew of any graphic based forums which might be useful for a student making some last minute adjustments to his portfolio.
Cheers Benji

do you know of www.designersarewankers.com ? i think you can ask designers questions there.

Not as much as artists are wankers.

I'd retrain as a bricklayer if I were you, money's better and you get to be outside...

Heh, lots of GD hating here then? Pfff.

You'll get called a cunt no doubt, but they're a good bunch:

http://www.designerstalk.com

Yep, anything but design. Days and days in front of a monitor. ;)

Designiskinky
yayhooray

Might help.

If you're a shit designer then yeah, but otherwise: pen & paper, client lunches, innovation sessions and all the wank that accompanies it.

<- shit designer.

That's a nice icon you have there Jono.

Heh, lots of GD hating here then? Pfff.

You'll get called a cunt no doubt, but they're a good bunch:

http://www.designerstalk.com

why would you want a designer stalk?

same reason people buy designer saddles :^]

Well yeh i can imagine most jobs have ther downsides but at least its creative, means i can get work in other countries. And as jono said, its not all boring once your the top guy. Plus its just a plan, i may well end up doin sumin different.
Why all the player hating anyway?

Anyone can be a graphic designer, you just need a ruler and a couple of sheets of Letraset - and perhaps a nice pen. But the real money is in male prostitution.

sshhh dont tell them that.... the competition is bad enough as it is!

anyone can do anything if they put their mind to it. S'long as they got a mind.

anyone can do anything if they put their mind to it. S'long as they got a mind.

This is a myth.

Bunch of dreamers...

That's a nice icon you have there Jono.

Flattery will get you everywhere: http://www.jonmarshall.co.uk (Portfolio out of date)

why would you want a designer stalk?

(Designers Talk/Designer Stalk is a deliberate play on words, meh.)

Anyone can be a graphic designer, you just need a ruler and a couple of sheets of Letraset - and perhaps a nice pen...

What decade are you living in... You just need to pop down to your local Apple store, buy the most expensive machine there and download a dirty copy of Photoshop. That's it, you're qualified... right?

Thats Designer2.0

On a slightly more serious note... buy this book:
How to Be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your…Amazon.co.uk: Adrian Shaughnessy: Books

Absolutely the single most useful book I've ever bought.

I worked for Vince Frost for a year after I finished Uni and the thing he always told me to do was to "keep it simple"

yeah that is a good book. i'm, or soon will be, an architect and it was useful to me too. shaughnessey (if that's spelt right) is a really good writer imo.

cutting out and colouring in is piss easy, even a monkey could do it.
the wearing of tight school jumpers and riding a brakeless singlespeed is just trying too hard.

On a slightly more serious note... buy this book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Graphic-Designer-Without-Losing-Your/dp/1568985592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214431384&sr=8-1

Absolutely the single most useful book I've ever bought.

Cheers for that.

YouTube - Graphic Designer vs client

I was banned by an American graphic design forum for some reason, still not sure what. Twats.