How To Be A Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul

Author : Adrian Shaughnessy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781856697095
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul written by Adrian Shaughnessy and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Lucienne Roberts
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781856696883
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design Diaries written by Lucienne Roberts and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Adrian Shaughnessy
Publisher : Laurence King
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graphic Design written by Adrian Shaughnessy and published by Laurence King. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Catharine Fishel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621531163
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Grow as a Graphic Designer written by Catharine Fishel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Adrian Shaughnessy
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616891165
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul written by Adrian Shaughnessy and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Pauline Van Mourik Broekman
Publisher : Eight Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0955432227
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mute Magazine Graphic Design written by Pauline Van Mourik Broekman and published by Eight Books Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction by Adrian Shaughnessy. Text by Simon Worthington, Damian Jaques, Pauline van Mourik Broekman.

Author : Michael Fleishman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1581159323
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Graphic Designer written by Michael Fleishman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Adrian Shaughnessy
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780677650
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul, 2nd Edition written by Adrian Shaughnessy and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Adrian Shaughnessy
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781856694698
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Look at This written by Adrian Shaughnessy and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features the best of contemporary printed literature. It offers a critical survey of current graphic design, showing work by leading practitioners from the USA, Europe and Japan. Arranged in a designer-bydesigner format and accompanied by interviews with some of the designers responsible for the featured work, this book offers a complete and informative picture of this popular subject.

Author : David Dabner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111884081X
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graphic Design School written by David Dabner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic Design School allows students to develop core competencies while understanding how these fundamentals translate into new and evolving media. With examples from magazines, websites, books, and mobile devices, the Fifth Edition provides an overview of the visual communications profession, with a new focus on the intersection of design specialties. A brand-new section on web and interactivity covers topics such as web tools, coding requirements, information architecture, web design and layout, mobile device composition, app design, CMS, designing for social media, and SEO.