I'm becoming addicted to design-related podcasts.
It's amazing what sort of design-related podcasts you can find, but let me tell you about five that I subscribe to that are all free. Obviously these will only be useful to you if you have the software. (You can find them through whatever tool you use for podcasts such as iTunes.)
1. Photoshop TV (video) - I've already written about this on the blog. This is hosted by the National Association of Photoshop professionals. I take notes and learn something from each weekly, half-hour episode.
2. Adobe Photoshop Killer Tips (video) - Also by the folks at NAPP. This is a daily, 2-minute video showing you a quick technique. Once again, I'm frequently taking notes.
3. Adobe Creative Suite Podcast (video) - This is hosted by Terry White who works for Adobe. This one is anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes and comes out about every 3 days covering some part of the Adobe Suite.
4. Total Training Guru Lounge (video) - I'm going to write about Total Training products in the future. They produce, obviously enough, training videos for various software titles. So their podcast will focus on one of the software titles they've provided training on. But these videos are not the same as the ones they sell; these podcasts are created just for this purpose. I will say that sometimes the topics don't lend themselves to the work I do in direct market design.
5. InDesign Secrets (audio) - One of the two hosts in author David Blatner who is well-known in the design world. These podcasts run anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes. There doesn't seem to be any set schedule of when they're released. There were six in March.
6. QuickTips for Designers (video) - About 3 - 5 minutes each and similar to Adobe Photoshop Killer Tips in terms of quickly presenting you with one good tip. But in this case, Adam Hay covers more than just Photoshop.
7. Rookie Designer (audio) - Another production of Adam Hay. I was trying to come up with a good way to describe this. I'll take the easy way out and use the description that Adam uses on his site: "You host, Adam Hay will take you on a journey to better work habits, better business practices and a new view on design. Learn from the mistakes of other one-time rookie designers and avoid the common pitfalls."
My advice is to take advantage of these free resources. But once you get caught up with all the "back issues", try to stay on top of each new issue and watch them as soon as you can. First, the sooner you watch them the sooner you can incorporate anything new you learn. Second, it's easy to let it slide and then you're faced with having to plow through hours of podcasts. The tempatation will be to skip some and then you're losing out on some potentially useful information.
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