How to be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul
How to be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul

Author: Adrian Shaughnessy

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781856697095

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Graphic designers constantly complain that there is no career manual to guide them through the profession. Design consultant and writer Adrian Shaughnessy draws on a wealth of experience to provide just such a handbook. Aimed at the independent-minded, it addresses the concerns of young designers who want to earn a living by doing expressive and meaningful work and avoid becoming a hired drone working on soulless projects. It offers straight-talking advice on how to establish your design career and suggestions - that you wont have been taught at college - for running a successful business. This revised, extended edition includes all-new chapters covering professional skills, the creative process, and global trends, including green issues, ethics and the rise of digital culture. The book contains all-new imagery, and the previous interviews have been replaced with new ones, each focusing on a specific issue of importance to graphic designers.

Design Diaries
Design Diaries

Author: Lucienne Roberts

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2010-10-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781856696883

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This thought-provoking and practical book for graphic designers and students explores creative practice in graphic design. The book looks at the essential elements of the creative process through a series of in-depth studies of a range of real-life graphic design projectsfrom the art direction of a magazine issue and the development of a logo, to the design of a poster, a font and a signage system. In each case, the designers are interviewed and their working process documented in detail.

Graphic Design
Graphic Design

Author: Adrian Shaughnessy

Publisher: Laurence King

Published: 2009-10-21

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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An A-Z guide for graphic designers who want to make expressive and distinctive work. Offers students, novice designers, and seasonal professionals on insider's guide to the complexities of current graphic design practice and thinking.

How to Grow as a Graphic Designer
How to Grow as a Graphic Designer

Author: Catharine Fishel

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1621531163

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Helping graphic designers find professional and spiritual support in the ever-demanding struggle to stay creative and profitable, this book reveals how some of today's most successful and intriguing designers keep growing as artists and as people with the power to affect public attitudes. Topics addressed include how to keep track of one's vision, the meaning of success, what sustains designers spiritually, and how to embrace change and stay fluid. Also provided is priceless peer advice on strategic issues such setting a goal for one's company, growing or shrinking a business, and promoting one's uniqueness.

How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul
How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul

Author: Adrian Shaughnessy

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2012-03-20

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1616891165

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Published to instant acclaim in 2005, our best selling How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul has become a trusted resource for graphic designers around the world, combining practical advice with philosophical guidance to help young professionals embark on their careers. This new, expanded edition brings this essential text up to date with new chapters on professional skills, the creative process, and global trends that include social responsibility, ethics, and the rise of digital culture. How to Be a Graphic Designer offers clear, concise guidance along with focused, no-nonsense strategies for setting up, running, and promoting a studio; finding work; and collaborating with clients. The book also includes inspiring new interviews with leading designers, including Jonathan Barnbrook, Sara De Bondt, Stephen Doyle, Ben Drury, Paul Sahre, Dmitri Siegel, Sophie Thomas, and Magnus Vol Mathiassen

Mute Magazine Graphic Design
Mute Magazine Graphic Design

Author: Pauline Van Mourik Broekman

Publisher: Eight Books Ltd

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0955432227

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Introduction by Adrian Shaughnessy. Text by Simon Worthington, Damian Jaques, Pauline van Mourik Broekman.

Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Graphic Designer
Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Graphic Designer

Author: Michael Fleishman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-01-13

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1581159323

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Technology has sent shockwaves of change through the world of commercial art. Digital illustration and design, online portfolio sites, and the proliferation of stock art have radically changed the way that illustrators and graphic designers work. What has not changed, however, is the wealth of illustrators and graphic designers hoping to turn their talent into freelance success. More than ever, artists face questions such as how to get started, how to sell their work, how to promote themselves, and what to do once they are working. For those embarking on freelance careers in illustration or graphic design, the answers have arrived. A twenty-five year veteran in the field, Michael Fleishman, has detailed every business aspect of commercial art in Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Graphic Designer.

How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul, 2nd Edition
How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul, 2nd Edition

Author: Adrian Shaughnessy

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2010-08-30

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1780677650

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Graphic designers constantly complain that there is no career manual to guide them through the profession. Adrian Shaughnessy draws on a wealth of experience to provide just such a handbook. Aimed at the independent-minded, it addresses the concerns of young designers who want to earn a living by doing expressive and meaningful work and avoid becoming a hired drone working on soulless projects. It offers straight-talking advice on how to establish your design career and suggestions - that you won’t have been taught at college - for running a successful business. This revised edition contains all-new chapters covering professional skills; design thinking; and global trends, including social responsibility, ethics and the rise of digital culture. Also included are interviews with leading designers: Jonathan Barnbrook, Sara De Bondt, Stephen Doyle, Ben Drury, Paul Sahre, Dmitri Siegel, Sophie Thomas and Magnus Voll Mathiassen.

Book of Ideas
Book of Ideas

Author: Radim Malinic

Publisher: Brand Nu Limited

Published: 2018-09-07

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0993540015

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Book of Ideas series Vol.2 - suitable for art and design students, freelancers, art directors, graphic designers and all other creatives looking to grow their career. Book of Ideas - vol.2 continues what designer and creative director Radim Malinic started in the first edition, offering yet more indispensable advice on making it in the creative industries. Chapters cover issues ranging from creativity for good, how to decode our own creative DNA, embracing limitations, using humour and how to entertain the right wrongs . It discusses how to improve design work through more skilful use of language, and in doing so, how to stir the right reactions and present well-rounded creative projects with confidence. Among the ideas and the work illustrating them, Book of Ideas - vol.2 offers holistic guidance on better understanding yourself as a creative and how to approach your life and work in a mindful, smart way to make you a better designer, creator and thinker, at any point in your career.

Design Graphique Au 21e Siécle
Design Graphique Au 21e Siécle

Author: Charlotte Fiell

Publisher: Taschen

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 9783822816059

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Presents a sweeping look at today's most progressive graphic currents - from signage and packaging to branding and web design.