"I come here for design..."

"The great thing about graphic design is that it is almost always about something else," says Michael Bierut in his recent article Warning: May Contain Non-Design Content. Posted on Design Observer (which is a great site, but also needs a legibility overhaul—don't get me started on the palette of brown background, tiny white type and yellow links... sigh), the comments fuel an interesting discussion about the needs, wants, roles and requirements of the working designer today, and mention some of the leading design-related blogs and forums currently online.