Start Your Own Graphic Design Business
Author :
Publisher : Entrepreneur Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Entrepreneurship
ISBN : 1599181630
Author :
Publisher : Entrepreneur Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Entrepreneurship
ISBN : 1599181630
Author : Michael Huggins
Publisher : Self Counsel Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781551808505
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Author : Catharine Fishel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 1621531171
Inside the Business of Graphic Design casts a precise and realistic light on the risks, requirements, and rewards of running a creative and successful design business. Six sections discuss the entire cycle of business ownership, including goal setting, finding the right management style, cooperating with employees, triggering growth, rethinking one's business in the face of major changes, and even whether to stay with the business or move on. Whether you dream of setting up a small studio, or whether you've been on your own for years, this provocative guide is an important source of success strategies for every graphics professional.
Author : Ed Gold
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN :
Auth: University of Baltimore, 24 designers explain their approach to business.
Author : Cameron S. Foote
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780393730937
Every year the market for creative services expands -- but the competition is increasing even faster. Today, your success hinges not on talent alone, but on a thorough understanding of the business side of creativity. Now fully revised and updated, The Business Side of Creativity is the most comprehensive business companion available to freelance graphic designers, art directors, illustrators, copywriters, and agency or design-shop principals. Cameron S. Foote, successful entrepreneur and editor of the Creative Business newsletter, guides you step-by-step through the process of being successfully self-employed -- from getting launched as a freelancer to running a multiperson shop to retiring comforably. The appendices include sample business forms and documents to help put the information into practice. How should you organize? What should you charge? What marketing techniques yield the best returns? When are you ready to expand? What are the most effective strategies for managing employees? How can you build salable equity? The Business Side of Creativity delves into these questions and hundreds more -- and gives you practical, real-world answers. Book jacket.
Author : Lawrence J. Daniels
Publisher : AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 0814432417
Real-world business wisdom they don't teach in design school.
Author : John McWade
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2005-04-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0132809656
As the founder of the very first desktop publishing company (PageLab) and the publisher of Before and After magazine, John McWade knows graphics. He also knows business–and the depth of that knowledge comes through in every page of this handsome primer on creating effective business graphics! In these pages, a master of the medium shows you how to use today's tools to create business graphics that communicate your business's identity in a variety of forms. From creating charts, graphs, calendars, and maps to designing newsletters, creating various types of stationery, coming up with an identity, using photos to convey a message, and creating gift certificates, Yellow Pages ads, coupons, forms, and more, this elegantly designed volume shows you how to present your business to the world graphically. Best of all, you'll discover how to think visually–ensuring that your perceptions of your business are the world's perception of your business through the effective use of business graphics.
Author : Pat Matson Knapp
Publisher : Rockport Publishers
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781564967978
How to land, work with & retain large clients from a designer's perspective. Hundreds of images illustrate successful effective branding campaigns.
Author : Tad Crawford
Publisher : Allworth Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN :
General small-business advice just doesn’t work for a graphic design business. What graphic designers need is The Graphic Design Business Book, packed with directly relevant strategies for creating a business plan, managing a studio, presenting portfolios, marketing on the Web, keeping clients happy, and more, including sample contract forms and listings of professional organizations—all contributed by experts in their fields. Every graphic designer needs a copy of The Graphic Design Business Book. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
Author : Roger Walton
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 32,63 MB
Release : 2007-11-06
Category : Graphic arts
ISBN : 0061215244
This anthology features material from established and emerging major designers and is filled with hundreds of examples that are forging new graphic ground across a complete range of visual media. For ease of reference, illustrators' work is categorised as follows: Editorial: Magazines and books, Stationery: Corporate and personal, Corporate: Identity and brochures, Advertising: Editorial, billboards, and posters, Music: Record sleeves, CD covers and posters, Exhibitions: Installations and signage, Packaging, Websites. It contains a visual index for quick reference and designers' contact details.