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I will give a guest lecture on Thursday, Oct 31 at NYU Abu Dhabi. #designerstalk #lecture #nyuad (at NYU Abu Dhabi) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4QR9PtpOUg/?igshid=9fntpwu2pkwa

[chrissyrholmes]

9 Websites To Get Free Design Critiques Online

The best way to improve your design skills is through practice and critique. But it’s hard to find a great designer willing to look over your work and offer valuable advice.

Thankfully, there’s plenty of sites online for gathering personal critiques. They range from designer forums to social networks made for designers.

Here’s my list of the top sites to gather critiques on your design work. They’re by far the best you’ll find.

Designer News

One community site I really like is Designer News. This is a social news site much like Digg – except it’s built only for designers.

Most of the posts are external links going to news articles or featuring new tools and web apps.

But users can post discussion questions – including requests for critique of their design work.

I absolutely recommend joining Designer News as it’s totally free and easily one of the largest design-only communities on the web.

You may not get a ton of feedback on your work if it never reaches the front page. But you can at least submit your latest designs and see how it goes.

Reddit

Reddit had to be somewhere on this list. It’s one of the largest social communities on the web with a subreddit for everything.

We already covered some of the best subreddits for designers. But for this list, I’m recommending one specific sub to gather feedback: r/design_critiques.

You can submit your own work for free and wait for the feedback to roll in. You won’t always get many responses since the community’s activity tends to fluctuate.

But it is a fairly large sub with plenty of active users who visit regularly. You could also try post to /r/Design or the graphic design sub to see if they’re more willing to drop some critiques.

Critiquer

Critiquer is a very new site and it’s growing quickly. The community is dedicated to providing critiques on all types of work ranging from digital art to digital design and even print design.

If you look over the homepage, you’ll find a list of the latest submissions. Most of these are drawings or related to digital art – primarily because this was made as a resource for artists first. Surprisingly, in the digital art/illustration world there aren’t too many places for finding solid critiques. So this budding community is an artist’s best friend.

Critiquer is still growing and it’s building a massive community on virtually every topic you could imagine. Whether you’re just starting with web design, moving into graphic design or anything else, keep this website saved for future reference.

It’ll prove incredibly helpful if you’d like to share your work and get some quick feedback.

Behance

Behance is the go-to resource for anyone looking to build an online portfolio. It’s absolutely massive and might just have the largest total number of users in the digital design space.

Since it’s free, you’ll find a lot of variety. It’s also pretty darn crowded. That means you won’t have an easy time getting feedback unless you already have a number of followers (or your designs become wildly popular).

I still recommend joining and using the site as a way to develop a small following, even beyond critiques.

Dribbble

On the other side of the “online portfolios” list we have Dribbble.

This is an invite-only community of designers who publish their work pixels at a time. One nice thing about Dribbble is how active the community can be.

You’ll be surprised how many people leave comments or take the time to dig through your old “shots”. This can often lead to generic “awesome work!” types of comments that aren’t very helpful.

But if you ask for critiques in your post description, you can try to coax some honest opinions out of other designers.

Either way, if you can get an invite to the community definitely take it.

Graphic Design Forums

The Graphic Design Forums (GDF) is one of the web’s largest online design forums.

You can sign up for a free account and start posting right away. There’s a bunch of sub-communities regarding different topics like digital icons, illustration or UI design.

But the best place for getting feedback on your work is within the variety of critique sections. There’s one for graphic design and another for web design.

It’s not super-active, but the community can be very helpful if you describe exactly the type of critiques you’re looking for.

DesignersTalk

Another digital design forum worth checking out is DesignersTalk. This one’s a little easier to use and it feels much smaller than GDF.

It also has a more tight-knit community, with threads being moderated a bit more closely. This relieves you from annoying spam but it can also mean that it may take longer to get replies.

I recommend joining and posting some of your work in a new thread. You could use this as a way to document your design journey or just to gather feedback from others.

UX Mastery Community

On the UX Mastery Community forum you’ll find plenty of relevant topics on UI and UX design.

The homepage is a little confusing, as it just lists the most recent threads with active users. But if you visit the categories page you’ll find a section for feedback – which is perfect for gathering design critiques.

Again, this community is on the smaller side. But the dedicated users stick around. And it’s those people who typically offer the most valuable advice.

Please Critique Me

Please Critique Me is a really cool site organized much like a blog. The site is owned by the team behind OnWired, a professional design and development agency.

Whenever you submit your work to the site, they’ll offer very specific critiques on what could use improvement and how to go about doing so.

I’d say that this website is one of the best places to get quality feedback. Your work will likely live in infamy on their website, but you’ll also get some really useful advice.

I even recommend browsing their archives to read the critiques of other designs. You can learn a surprising amount from studying other people’s work.

from Web Designing https://1stwebdesigner.com/9-websites-get-free-design-critiques-online/

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DesignersTalk http://www.designerstalk.com/forums/

[poly-mode]

#TBT to My project #alphabeticimageofthecity for @nate_pyper #designerstalking a new blog post about is is up at @aigadesign Educators Community

[designers-talking]

Designers Talking with Silas Munro

OPENING RECEPTION: Fri, March 25, 6–9 p.m. FOLLOW-UP DIALOGUE: Sat, March 26, 1 p.m.

Silas Munro is a designer who utilizes a multi-modal practice to inspire people to be the best versions of themselves in order to effect positive change on society as a whole. He earned his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. His design studio, Poly-Mode primarily works with cultural institutions and community based organizations including The Center for Urban Pedagogy, MoMA, Walker Art Center, and Wynwood in Miami, Florida. He has been a critic at CalArts, Maryland Institute College of Art, North Carolina State, and York University. Munro serves as Assistant Professor of Art and Graduate Director, Experience Design, Miami University and Founding Faculty in the MFA Program in Graphic Design at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Munro’s research addresses the relationship between the designer’s personal identity, formal systems and strategies s/he utilizes, and how both interact with the communities s/he serves. He is particularly interested in the often unaddressed post-colonial relationship between design and marginalized communities. This has taken tangible form in design work and writing that have been published via books, exhibitions, and websites in Germany, Japan, Korea, the US, and the UK such as: Chronicle Books, IDEA Magazine, and Slanted Magazine.

[werunmke]

@nate_pyper #milwaukee #mke #werunmke #runmke #krmmke #mkemycity #designerstalking (at Inova (Institute of Visual Arts))

[bijanberahimi]

3 of 13 collages from my solo show titled ‘Capitals’

19x25″, assorted risograph prints

Designers Talking at COMB Gallery in Milwaukee, May 2015

Show info:

On their own, Bijan Berahimi’s fluorescent printed one-sheets read as cheerful ruminations on identity, creativity, and commerce. They’re the kind of thoughts that populate a designer’s head on the daily: who I am I really making this for; am I having fun; is it ethical. The posters’ neon smiley faces and teardrop soccer balls might fool you into thinking these are easy questions to answer.

But Berahimi’s collages tell a different story—an anxious frenzy of illegible half-thoughts, broken hashtags, and dismembered palm trees.

Pierre Bourdieu’s species of capital (economic, symbolic, cultural, and social) play an important role in decoding the work on view and help pinpoint something universal to insatiable makers in the age of social media: the sometimes conflicting desires to create work that is true and meaningful and celebrated and profitable. Right? Wrong? IDK.

Curated by Nate Pyper.

[thepitchproject]

The Pitch Project to host Designers talking

The first in a monthly series, Designers talking, is a showcase for contemporary graphic design and a platform for critical dialogue.  Peer 2 Peer features the work of designer Annie Yiling Wang and takes place on the 2nd floor of The Pitch Project March 1 & 2, 2014

Wang (B. 1983, currently living in Minneapolis, MN) is an agency cute girl all your dreams come true–gorgeous experienced brunette. She's worked at Urban Outfitters, Peterson Milla Hooks, Target and most recently as an interactive designer at Colle+McVoy. When she's not designing experiences for butter enthusiasts she is blogging/designing/scheming/selfieing at Infinite Scroll.

[chrswlkr]

Always a fun word to draw! Some lettering from a poster for @nate_pyper's dialogue series, Designers Talking (designers-talking.com). #designerstalking #lettering #milwaukee #hotdamn

[poly-mode]

#Repost @nate_pyper ・・・ Dialogue with Silas Munro today starting at 1! #designerstalking (at Pritzlaff Building)

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Thank you Milwaukee! #designerstalking #alphabeticimageofthecity (at Pritzlaff Building)

[poly-mode]

Taking type (and song requests) #designerstalking #alphabeticimageofthecity (at Pritzlaff Building)

[poly-mode]

Even more words #designerstalking #alphabeticimageofthecity #typography #milwaukee #dérive @nate_pyper

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Kale's "e" #alphabeticimageofthecity #designerstalking (at Pritzlaff Building)

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Sam's G #designerstalking #milwaukee @nate_pyper #typography #alphabeticimageofthecity (at Pritzlaff Building)