365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers Insider Secrets from Top Designers on Working Smart and Staying Creative

365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers Insider Secrets from Top Designers on Working Smart and Staying Creative

Need some guidance? Just want to say something? Opening this book is like having lunch with a fellow designer to discuss design-related topics, lament, or rejoice. In every step of the design process, from effectively marketing oneself to getting clients to work with those clients to get the desired outcomes on the press, good practices may be identified.

The book 365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers presents solutions from a variety of independent designers whose years of practice have enabled them to come up with not only the most original but also the most effective answers to their client's design problems.

This book includes a vast collection of content from the authors' earlier works and focuses on both business tactics for success when working alone and daily routines that encourage these designers to stay creative. In its pages, eminent designers from the past and present who work in industries like graphic design, fashion, architecture, typography, and industrial design speak out with a certain amount of irreverence on a wide range of subjects like deadlines, inspiration, competition, rules, respect, education, and handling criticism.

Their ideas are condensed into pithy, quotable statements and one-liners that perfectly capture their personalities and reveal their worldview. Take a moment to read thought-provoking passages by Art Chantry, Margo Chase, Ed Fella, John C. Jay, Hideki Nakajima, Stefan Sagmeister, and Rudy VanderLans. These top designers' thoughts will aid in directing other designers in their approach and execution of designs that satisfy their clients.

The articles, features, and short stories written by freelancer Laurel Saville have appeared in Step Inside Design, House Beautiful Home Remodeling and Decorating, Seven Days, and Ellipses. In Albany, New York, she resides. Steve Gordon Jr. has expertise working as a freelance designer and creative consultant, as well as Fortune 1000 in-house design with well-known Fortune 1000 organizations.

At conferences like the HOW Conference, he usually gives lectures on how small studios and independent designers may maintain their competitiveness in the design industry. The creator and creative leader of Plazm are Joshua Berger. For his work on the book Soul of the Game, which he co-wrote with John C. Jay, Berger was awarded the Gold Medal at the Leipzig Bookfair. One of his most recent endeavors was the creative direction and design of ESPN's Ultimate Highlight Reel.

He also created www.anti-war.us, which distributes anti-war images to activists throughout the world. The articles, features, and short stories written by freelancer Laurel Saville have appeared in Step Inside Design, House Beautiful Home Remodeling and Decorating, Seven Days, and Ellipses. In Albany, New York, she resides. www.laurelsaville.com Sarah Dougher is a Portland, Oregon-based composer, writer, musician, and educator.

Sarah is a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Portland State University. She has research interests in gender and popular music as well as concerns with homeless adolescents and food security. For more than ten years, Steve Gordon Jr. has worked as a professional graphic designer.

With expertise in Fortune 1000 in-house design at globally renowned Fortune 1000 firms, agency and studio work, and currently working as an independent designer and creative consultant, he has covered the complete spectrum of the career path. At conferences like the HOW Conference, he usually gives lectures on how small studios and independent designers may maintain their competitiveness in the design industry.

Sarah Dougher is a Portland, Oregon-based composer, writer, musician, and educator. Sarah is a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Portland State University. She has research interests in gender and popular music as well as concerns with homeless adolescents and food security.

365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers Insider Secrets from Top Designers on Working Smart and Staying Creative