Design Activity Book


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An entertaining activity book packed with fun design projects - from lettering and book covers to costumes and gadgets. Full of helpful tips and space to imagine, draw and create. This write-in activity book explores all sorts of design skills, from how to create stunning new typefaces and furniture, to designing costumes, games and websites. Aspiring designers will have hours of fun coming up with their own designs, guided by lots of handy tips and tricks to help them along the way. Combines real design skills with imaginative activities and creative projects. Wide-ranging activities cover everything from graphic design, fashion and interiors, to designing websites, typefaces and branding. Includes links to templates to download for activities in the book.




The Marker Playbook


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Coloring book grads, make your mark with patterns, geometrics, texture, and composition. The Marker Playbook has 44 simple exercises to help you draw, design, and dazzle with markers.




The Professional Haircutter's Pricing Playbook


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How much should I charge for my haircuts? When should I raise my haircut price? How do I raise my haircut price? These questions, and many more, gnaw at the head and heart of every haircutter. No category of questions is asked of me more often. No decisions paralyze haircut professionals more than these seemingly huge and pivotal pricing issues. The good news is that these decisions can be easy to make. The better news is that these decisions are made based on data and math. Relief should come in knowing that when the emotion is removed from the decision-making process and best practices based on statistics, tracking and analysis are employed, pricing and financial decisions become logical, easy and fun. You can make the decisions with confidence and clarity. You can make these decisions in a timely manner to maximize your income and productivity.




The Producer's Playbook: Real People on Camera


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Producer’s Playbook: Real People on Camera is a no-nonsense guide for producers looking to get the best performances from "real people" to tell powerful stories on video. Director/producer Amy DeLouise brings years of experience to this resource for creating the best on-screen impact with non-actors for interviews, re-enactments, documentary and direct-to-camera messages. With useful case studies and tips on everything from managing locations and budgeting to strategies for managing crews and the expectations of executive producers and clients, this is an invaluable resource for professionals working in reality TV, documentary, corporate video, and more. Ample case studies with perspectives from industry professionals interviewed by the author, as well as her own plentiful stories from the field Tips are featured in sidebars throughout the text, so that readers can see how the information applies to real situations Full-color photographs allow readers to visualize real world production situations The appendix includes useful templates and checklists for working producers




The Paintbrush Playbook


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A creative exercise book for artists, designers, painters and sketchers looking to expand their abilities.




The Pen & Ink Playbook


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Explore mark making, patterns, geometrics, texture, and composition with The Pen & Ink Playbook, perfect for artists, designers, illustrators and zentanglers of all ages and skill levels.




The Art of Creative Watercolor


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Welcome to your watercolor happy place! The world of Danielle Donaldson is as wondrous as a jar full of fireflies. Her whimsical illustrations are known for their offbeat color combinations, artful arrangements and endearing quirkiness. In this book, you'll learn how to partner with the wonderfully spontaneous medium of watercolor to create your own brand of magic. Start by creating a handmade journal, then follow exercises and start-to-finish projects to fill it with illustrations that are small in size but big on color. Along the way, Danielle shares her fresh takes on color theory, perspective, composition and more. Designed to get your brush moving, this book makes practice feel like play. It's a one-of-a-kind journey for any artist wishing to tap into the utter joy of watercolor painting and make it a cherished part of your daily life. Inside you'll find: • Imaginative techniques that help you override perfectionist tendencies while making the most of watercolor's unpredictable nature • An inventive approach (using scraps of paper, ribbon and other ephemera) for more creative color choices • A simple strategy that makes drawing new subjects less intimidating and more fun • Sweet ways to add hand lettering to your artwork • Inspirational exercises that make finding subjects to paint as easy as A-B-C "Don't underestimate the giddiness you feel when you mindlessly grab a color and mix it with another and create the most beautiful wash ever!" --p43




The Passive Programming Playbook


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This book offers 101 passive programming ideas that are extendable, adaptable, customizable, and above all, stealable-so your passive programming never runs dry. Passive programming is a cheap, quick, fun way to make all library customers feel like part of the community. It can support reading initiatives, foster family engagement, encourage visit frequency, and coax interaction out of library lurkers-while barely making a dent in your programming budget. Passive programming can be targeted at children, teens, adults, or seniors; used to augment existing programs; and executed in places where staff-led programming can't reach. It can be light-footed, spontaneous, and easily deployed to reflect and respond to current news, media, library events, and even the weather. But even passive programming pros run out of ideas sometimes, and when that happens, they want a fresh, funny source of inspiration.




The Pencil Playbook


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Coloring book grads, explore abstract drawing, patterns, meditative doodling, and more with the 44 exercises in The Pencil Playbook. Perfect for artists, designers, doodlers, illustrators, painters, and zentanglers.




Get the Meeting!


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What's the one critical networking skill that can make or break your career? Your ability to Get the Meeting! Hall-of-Fame-nominated marketer and Wall Street Journal cartoonist Stu Heinecke's innovative concept of Contact Marketing—using personalized campaigns to create alliances with executive assistants and reach the elusive VIPs who can make or break a sale, with response rates as high as 100 percent—has helped professionals around the world open more doors in their careers and reach new heights of success. Now, in Get the Meeting!, Heinecke, author of the groundbreaking How to Get a Meeting with Anyone, shares the latest tips, tools, and tactics to help readers break through to their top accounts in the most effective ways possible. With more than 60 fully illustrated case studies and tactical examples, this new book takes you inside successful contact marketing campaigns—from strategy, through execution, to results—and forecasts the contact marketing campaigns of the future based on cutting-edge technology. Full-color photography and in-depth interviews with the campaigns' designers provide unparalleled insight into how to get those critical conversations that can change your life. Plus, step-by-step how-to sections help you get started creating your own contact marketing campaigns. From Hollywood to the search for Amazon's HQ2, from a surprising new Contact Marketing model, to "Pocket Campaigns," which could replace traditional business cards, and persistence elements that run throughout a sales cycle, and from LinkedIn to virtual reality, Get the Meeting! will spark your imagination and give you the tools you need to get the meetings—and life-changing results—you always wanted.