Overview
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.Synopsis
The kinds of questions young designers most often need answers to are the practical things—how to find work, what to charge, what the first step is interpreting a brief, and how to work it out when with a job or a client relationship goes wrong. Shaughnessy, the co- founder of a London design firm as well as a design writer, provides a guide that tells all. He includes interviews with 10 big-name designers who talk about how they got going. The edition is (of course) beautiful to look at and offers a nice appendix of print and online resources, but it lacks an index. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Details
Published
September 1, 2010
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pages
176
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781568989839