Design Publications

Applied Arts
APPLIED ARTS is Canada’s leading visual communications magazine, targeting graphic designers, art directors, new media designers, photographers, illustrators, and corporate communications professionals. Published bi-monthly, including the prestigious Awards Annual, Applied Arts informs and inspires its readers by offering insight into the techniques and challenges behind outstanding Canadian design work.

Before & After
Before & After is a great 4/c newsletter filled with tips and tricks, techniques, etc. You'll find out what's in the next issue, you can subscribe or check your subscription status, order back issues, and read the comprehensive FAQ.

Big
Big is formed from a collaboration of the world's top photographers, designers, and writers. No other magazine produces each issue in a different country, with different teams of contributors. Big concentrates on originality, quality, and freshness — and has becomes an indispensable resource for creatives.

Born
BORN is a venue for design and literature collaboration. We exist to nurture the creative process and imagine unique forms of expression on the Web. Conceived from language and image, we intertwine concepts that have until recently been kept apart. The lines between reader and artist, sound and wor, motion and image are our to play with.

CMYK
Devoted to showcasing the work of recent graphic design graduates. Keep clicking continue, and you can see some samples of that work.

Communication Arts
Founded in 1959, Communication Arts is the leading trade journal for visual communications. It's the largest design magazine in the world and showcases the top work in graphic design, advertising, illustration, photography and interactive design. Each year includes eight issues of creative excellence, plus a free CD-ROM showing winners from the Communication Arts Interactive Design Competition.

Creative Business
This is a great newsletter on how to handle the business end of graphic design. There are some free forms at this site, as well as an archive of back issues (many available in PDF format for about $10).

Design Issues
Regular features include theoretical and critical articles by professional and scholarly contributors, extensive book reviews, illustrations, and a section for reader response. You'll find an index of what's in the magazine at this site.

Dynamic Graphics
Your source for Quick, Cool, Creative ideas for Mac & PC! Dynamic Graphics Magazine is an idea guide for desktop designers, packed with how-to projects and software techniques you can put to use right away, no matter what program you use.

Fuse
Fuse is a Canadian-based publication covering international visual and media arts. With a mixture of active arts journalism, investigative features, and reviews of contemporary art, Fuse specializes in critical writing that examines the cultural and political context within which art is produced.

Graphis
GRAPHIS, the international journal of visual communication, was first published by Graphis Press in Zurich, Switzerland in 1944 and has upheld its reputation as the premier magazine covering design and graphic communication worldwide.

How Magazine
How Magazine is the business and creative resource for graphic designers: an up-to-the minute resource for ideas, techniques and business advice. Includes special issues devoted to self-promotion, Web design, creativity and more. For more than 10 years, this publication has inspired designers - and helped make their businesses more profitable. When you read HOW, you re plugged in to the latest business, technological and creative information that impacts you as a design professional.

I.D. Magazine
I.D. Magazine is America’s leading critical magazine covering the art, business and culture of design. Winner of four National Magazine Awards, the publication appears eight times a year. Issues include the Annual Design Review, America’s largest and most prestigious juried design-recognition program, published since 1954. The Design Review showcases the best American and international design in the areas of Consumer Products, Furniture, Equipment, Environments, Packaging, Graphics, Concepts and Student Projects.

PEI
One of the world’s leading publications dedicated exclusively to electronic imaging, photography, and computer graphics, PEI delivers the latest advances in imaging technology, step-by-step downloadable tutorials, hardware and software reviews, insightful features, and outstanding images from today’s most talented digital artists.

Print
Where tradition meets the cutting edge, Print is America's Graphic Design Magazine. Print's award-winning coverage and uniquely focused annuals have a sharp look. Print's Regional Design Annual is the most comprehensive yearly profile of the American graphic design profession. It features more than 1,800 winning designs from Print's National Design competition.

Writing Publications

Brill's Content
Brill's Content is a monthly magazine about the media for consumers of journalism — those who care enough about what they read, log onto, and watch that they want to know how it got there, who's behind it, and whether they can rely on it. Brill's Content holds the media to strict standards by holding journalists' feet to the fire, recognizing the true professionals, and unmasking the charlatans.

Folio
Whatever your forte — editorial, circulation, advertising, ad sales, or management — Folio brings you the latest trends and techniques for successful publishing. Each issue is required reading for the entire publishing industry.

Literal Latté
Literal Latté is a stimulating literary magazine brewed in New York City. Each bimonthly issue brims with stories, poetry, essays, and art for an entertaining and challenging literary mix.

Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest provides current events coverage and features essays that reflect contemporary American life. Each issue of this popular magazine will provoke, educate, and entertain readers from all walks of life.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle is the No. 1 news source for college and university faculty members and administrators. A subscription to The Chronicle includes free access to all of this Web site and to daily electronic-mail updates.

Tin House
Tin House showcases fiction, essays, interviews, and poetry in beautifully designed issues. The quarterly magazine's "Readable Feast" section couples literature and recipes, "Lost & Found" highlights obscure or out-of print books, and "Pilgrimages" takes readers on literary and spiritual journeys. The work of well-known writers appears alongside that of tomorrow's literary leaders.

Upper & Lowercase
Find out what's in the newest volume of Upper & Lowercase, a print magazine devoted to type, with links to some features online.

Writer's Digest
Writer's Digest is the world's leading magazine for writers. Each monthly issue is filled with expert instruction, inspiration, and information on every aspect of the writing life — from how to target manuscripts and captivate editors, to effectively overcome writer's block and negotiate fees.