It’s imperative that you absorb as much as you can about design. Here’s enough links to get you started on your first year or so…
Specific Articles/Tuts I found helpful:
Five simple steps to better typography
Ellen Lupton – Thinking with Type
Information Architecture
Learn CSS positioning in 10 steps
The dos and donts of colour
Logo Trends 2010 (archive on right)
Something from nothing or at least very little
Eye catching charts & graphs, Illustrator-tutorial
Darkroom Basics: Photo Edit 101
Darkroom Basics: Photo Color Cast Correction
Sites I visit at least once every month:
General/Basics/Tutorials:
The Grid System
How Design
Smashing Magazine
Behance
Kuler
YouTube
Lynda
Worth1000
Tutorial Blog
Type:
I Love Typography
Typophile
Typographica
Typography Served
Type Directors Club
Ministry of Type
Hoefler & Frere-Jones
Logos & Branding:
Brand New
Logo Design Love
Logo Design History
Logo Lounge
Logo Pond (like logo lounge but free)
David Airey
Packaging:
Dieline
Best In Packaging
Lovely Package
Print:
Oh So Beautiful Paper
French Paper Sample Room
The Design Files
GrainEdit
Print & Pattern
Dolce Press
FPO (For Print Only)
Web:
Web Designer Wall
Spoon Graphics
CSS beauty
Design Charts
The Best Designs
101 best websites
Companies/People you should know: (this could go on forever so just a few to get you started)
Pentagram
The Brand Union
Johnson Banks
Ellen Lupton
Paula Scher
Paul Rand
Stefan Sagmeister
This and That Design Blogs:
Modish
Simple Song
Mint
DZINE
NotCot Empire
Swiss Miss
Design Sponge
Collection A Day
Bad Ass Ideas
And of course GOOGLE it if you have a question.
Tip: If you find a site that you like, be sure to look to see if they list blogs or resources they like it’s amazing what you’ll find by clicking through the links on sites.