Graphic Design Professional organisations - see links

http://online.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/searchBasicMode?resultPage=1&expression=graphic+design

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=1087214759&type=RESOURCES

The graphic design process using blogs

Research in professional practice is about the 'discipline' or 'subject' content as well as the applied way that it is put into practice. Most of us in the arts were taught to concentrate on the technical craft we were learning, but actually doing this technical craft or skill is only part of what a professional does. Inquiry into professional practice needs to take both of these into account.

However - this blog while concentrating on the practice, also seem to describe well some of the technical processes and experiences of the job and is focused on communicating those ideas to an audience and/or prospective clients? What do you think?