Andrew Kelsall | Graphic Designer

I was amazed last week to hear that I had a won a years free subscription to Design Week. I took part in a competition over at Graphic Design Forums, with the top prize been Adobe CS5 premium (all the winners are listed here). Since I only own the CS5 standard version, it would have made a great prize. However, I’m content with the prize I won. All I had to do to enter the competition was to tweet my entry.

“Magazines are weird”

Winning this subscription reminded me that I haven’t read an actual printed magazine for years. I used to buy Design Week to read on the train when I worked for a design studio in Leeds, back-in-the-day. I’m so used to consuming content online, that reading from a paper magazine seems just weird! I even read the Bible online, and the first book I bought in years was Logo Design Love (which I need to complete).

Do I like Design Week?

It used to be a favourite of mine, along with Creative Review, however, things have changed in this online world. There’s nothing contained in the magazine that I cant already read online, but I reckon the design directory in the back pages is top-notch, and well worth keeping hold of.

Sidenote: to my amazement, there’s a large advert in the magazine for a design company…which uses Comic Sans throughout the entire add. Nice…

Do You still read magazines, or do you consume all your information online?