Ease to find the source of information and education via the Internet today is highly influential on the survival of print media, including those who review about graphic design and visual arts. Not all media are able to survive. Some should be immediately closed down and disappeared from circulation.
Those that still exist are always trying to present the best and different from the others. Here are 19 of the graphic design magazine as a recommended reading and learning materials. Enjoy!
19 Awesome Graphic Design Magazines
1. HOW Magazine
How is a magazine that aims to assist designers in solving every problem in the work regardless of where they work, for agency or freelance. Founded in 1985, and now it has become an event organizer design, design competitions, seminars and books digital products, annually for design professionals.
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2. Advance Photoshop
Advanced Photoshop guarantee that there will always be something new in every edition. Advanced Photoshop is the perfect magazine to deepen Photoshop skills and is intended for professionals. Each month, you can have the opportunity to get to know new techniques and skills with a bunch of other creative Photoshop users from around the world.
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3. Communication Arts
Communication Arts magazine is the leading journal for visual communications. It covers key points in the work of graphic design, advertising, illustration, photography and interactive design. Communication Arts magazine became the leading publication covering all aspects of visual communication.
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4. Computer Arts
Computer Arts contains professional advice on creating digital art and illustration. Computer Arts is a magazine for digital artists and designers, offering a powerful explanation of the tutorial and any solution of the problem, ranging from manipulating photographs with Photoshop to create stunning images with Illustrator vector. You'll also find a myriad of tips and tricks for web design, typography, 3D, animation, and multimedia. An excellent reference contains advices from professionals.
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5. Digital Arts
Digital Art is the UK's leading magazine for creative professionals, both in print and online. Digital Arts provides relevant and consistent content runs exclusive reviews and features different from other magazines or similar sites.
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6. Layers Magazine
Each page contains various tutorials for: Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, GoLive, Acrobat, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Dreamweaver and Flash. All the secrets of Adobe's extraordinary technique presented in an interesting way through this magazine.
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7. .Net
.Net is a leading magazine of design and web development category. In addition to weighing features and news, .Net magazine also provides more than 30 pages containing articles about the problems and tutorials covering topics such as CSS, PHP, Flash, JavaScript, web graphics, and more.
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8. Photoshop Creative
Photoshop Creative is the perfect magazine for learning more about Photoshop. Each issue is packed with inspiration and tutorials covering the scope of techniques using Photoshop. Photoshop Creative will help you become a digital artist and Photoshop users better.
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9. Web Designer
Web Designer is an online magazine for the advertising material intended for creative industry professionals. Each month will feature the latest technology issues including XHTML, CSS, Flash and WordPress as well as the hosting features and interviews with people who are most influential in the web community. Also provided a bonus CD for their readers.
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10. Print
Print is a bimonthly American magazine about visual culture and design, founded in 1940. Print documents and critiques commercial, social, and environmental design from every angle: the good (how New York’s public-school libraries are being reinvented through bold graphics), the bad (how Tylenol flubbed its disastrous ad campaign for suspicious hipsters), and the ugly (how Russia relies on Soviet symbolism to promote sausage and real estate).
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11. 3D Artist
3D Artist is dedicated to bringing you interviews with leading lights in the 3D industry, fascinating features on development and technologies that are shaping what you see on TV and in film, in advertising and architecture and in good old art. We showcase the best and most exciting 3D images every month with our monster 11 page Gallery.
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12. 3D World
3D World is the best-selling international magazine for 3D artists, covering the fields of animation, VFX, games, illustration and architecture. Each issue provides analysis of latest trends in the market, artistic and technical advice, impartial product reviews, and exclusive behind-the-scenes articles on the making of key projects in this fast-paced industry.
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13. Photoshop User
Photoshop User is the official magazine of NAPP and comes delivered to your door with your NAPP membership. This print magazine published 10 times a year (plus bonus issues), is the most trusted resource in the graphic design, photography, and digital arts worlds.
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14. Website Magazine
Website Magazine is the one magazine to focus exclusively on the business of running a website: tips for successful websites, solutions for enhancing website traffic, the latest Internet industry trends and statistics, as well as news analysis on the Internet industry.
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15. Before&After Magazine
Before & After magazine has been sharing its practical approach to graphic design since 1990. Because our modern world has made designers of us all (ready or not), Before & After is dedicated to making graphic design understandable, useful and even fun for everyone.
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16. ImagineFX Magazine
ImagineFX is a digital art magazine that features workshops and interviews with artists from the science fiction, fantasy, manga, anime, game and comic disciplines. Published in Bath, UK by Future Publishing since January 2006, its main focus is the workshops featured in the second half of the magazine. Artists such as Ryan Church, Jonny Duddle, Martin Bland and Henning Ludvigsen contribute to the magazine. The magazine comes with a DVD that includes workshop files that relate to the tutorials in the magazine as well as reader artwork, program demos, free fonts, textures, images and photoshop brushes.
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17. IDPURE Magazine
IDPURE magazine is dedicated to professionals working in the graphic arts, images and design, as well as to those working in the areas of creation and visual communication. It is also addressed to people who are sensitive to and interested in their visual environments. IDPURE offers a comprehensive picture of the world of creation in Switzerland and abroad. It also provides a meeting place between professionels and customers in the domain.
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18. Computer Arts Projects
Computer Arts Projects is the successful monthly spin-off of Computer Arts magazine. Each issue gives you an in-depth guide to a different creative subject, and recent issues have covered themes such as print design, web design, Photoshop, typography, packaging, creative advertising, and how to start your own design business. Inside every edition, you'll find great step-by-step tutorials and tips from the best digital artists in the business, showcases and profiles of up-and-coming talent and established creatives, as well as explorative features on the subject in hand.
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19. Creative Review Magazine
The aim of Creative Review is to inspire, inform and stimulate debate among our readers in graphic design, advertising, digital media, illustration, photography and all other fields of visual communication worldwide. We do this in a number of ways.Creative Review magazine was launched in London in 1980. They have subscribers in over 80 countries and readers online in over 120.
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