When I changed this over to be a graphic design blog I was hoping I'd be able to use a lot of my school work to talk about since I am only working on only the rare side project. Sadly things are really slow in class now, almost to the point of frustration.
We're working on typography right now, but not exactly in the pure sense. While a lot of what we are learning is essential, the module is too short and lacks some of the minute details I would have really liked. I'm slowly becoming a typophile, and would really like to know more of the minutia in regards to fonts. The teacher we have now is awesome, simply because she is really picky about pretty much everything, and is good at explaining things in clear, concise ways, but I'm often left to my own devices because I find the work pretty simple most of the time. I should be encouraged the majority of the class often takes up to twice as long to complete the exercises we're working on, and often with more errors than myself (not to sound conceded or anything), but it can result in me being rather bored, specially since the school has a lot of sites blocked.
From this I end up reading a lot of blogs and am always looking for new ones to subscribe to. I mainly read other graphic design or typography blogs, which both make me realize how much I still have to learn.
So here is a list of blogs I follow, along with a quick little something about them. If you somehow stumbled upon this site in search for graphic design insight, these would probably much better suit your needs for the time being. These links are in the order that I have them in Google Reader, so there is no real order to them.
•Brand New - Part of UnderConsideration.com, this is one of my favourite blogs. It goes into companies rebranding efforts, comparing their old logos and brands to the new brand. It'll also examine new companies from time to time. While they don't go too deep in to overwhelm, the insight into how they see new brands is educational and they don't hold back on their criticisms, even of efforts they deem well done.
•We Made This - An interesting blog that seems to cover a range of different items, seemingly whatever the authors seem interested in. They offer links to some cool and interesting stuff, and occasionally talk about different projects. While they don't delve as deep as other blogs often do, it makes for some faster reads and it's updated often enough to keep my happy.
•Swiss Miss - I just recently subscribed to this one and I love their content. It's not a deep site, but they put up several posts a day of either great pieces of graphic design, interesting links or simply some cool, quirky stuff.
•I Love Typography - Another one of my favourites, which sadly isn't updated as much as I'd like. It really goes into the 'hows' and 'whys' of type design and is definitely a site worth scouring the archive if you are at all interested in type. When there is an update (seems to be bi-weekly these days) it always puts a smile on my face as the content is always super informative/interesting and really well written. If it weren't for the lack of constant updates, it would probably be my favourite read.
•The Font Feed - From what I can tell, it's a site made to plug FontShop, but it's done is a non-obtrusive way, and the content is just too good to pass up on. Obviously this is another font related site, but rather than delve into the hows and whys that I Love Typography touches on, it goes more into where type is being used, occasionally announces new fonts (from FontShop, of course) and has an awesome, monthly post going into movie posters and media stuff.
•David Airey's Blog - The first graphic design blog I started reading, and probably the most unique I've come across. Rather than delve into design, David Airey instead goes into the world of being a designer. He talks about how to deal with clients, how to land a job, build more experience and all the ins and outs of working within the industry. For anyone who is working in the industry, or thinking about working in the industry, I'd strongly suggest checking this blog out.
•Logo Design Love - Another blog by David Airey, where rather than going into industry details, he now goes into logo design, as the title indicates. The archives here are stocked full of great information including logos he's created for companies and the details of the design process, and new content is put out on a regular basis. If you are at all interested in graphic design, branding, or logo design, I'd say this is a must read.
I have several others I read as well, but for the most part I have simply subscribed too recently to comment on, or feel others I have already talked about are better examples of the same type of thing.
