How to Be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul

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it is full how grate ideas and ways of thinking and apart from the small out side margin (witch i wish was 5 mill bigger) is beautifully presented. 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 book, however, is a great short read -- read the chapters that are important to you, read the interviews at the end, and go on. Some of the advices were also outdated, but you can still get the valuable learning from it and adapt it to modern technology or practice today.

Any graphic design students, interns, employees, art directors, businessmen or creative artists can look for this book.I picked up this book after a little bit of exhaustion with the thought of what I should expect in the future. If you are in the same situation, with a person who's just settling in in this industry don't hesitate getting this book! These are all unbelievably valuable, but not what I was expecting from the title, which led me to believe it would be an explication of the socially conscious uses for design. it WILL tell you what to do once you've acquired the software skills, graduated from a fine arts school, developed an eye for design, and found a partner with whom to start your own agency.

After 19 years as a Graphic Designer and Photographer for a management consultancy, I recently grabbed voluntary redundancy.

In the first chapter, Shaughnessy discusses attributes needed by the modern designer and I found myself nodding along with him in agreement – I spent my childhood copying lettering off everything I coudl without even realising what it was I enjoyed about it, and some of the habits he discusses are definitely habits that I have picked up since becoming a designer. I took off 1 star because a few of the examples come across as a little bit dated, and as I'm in the early stages of my graphic design education, I can't vouch for how effective the author's approach is in the contemporary design world. Graphic designers constantly complain that there is no career manual to guide them through the profession. A handy book that I have recommended to my design students, mainly to help give some of the anxiety in their head some empathy and to look forward.

It also discusses the benefits/downsides of getting a job in a studio, in-house, as a freelancer, or setting up your own studio. 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. Please select the alternative 'tracked postage' option at checkout for full cover on more valuable items! En mi opinión eso es algo bastante complejo de lograr ya que en el ámbito creativo todo avanza, emerge y pasa de moda MUY rápido.The title is great but not really suitable for this book as the question of ‘How to be a graphic designer without loosing your soul’ wasn’t really answered. This book is full of gems, that I have found extremely helpful for specific elements of my work and in general.