Careers in Art and Design

Provides designers with ways to protect and handle their intellectual property rights. Focus groups are all kinds of designers of the product, interior, fashion, communications, and graphics.

Guide to Fashion Career Planning presents a seamless and comprehensive approach to everything needed for professional and career development, including writing, interviewing, job search strategies, internships, and portfolios for fashion design, merchandising or retail careers.

Guide on how to go it alone, covering what to expect,making sure you get paid, planning your time, keeping up with your accounts, compiling technical packages for garments.

Guide to showing your designs, skill sets, and creativity, to get you that job. Shows examples of croquis books, spec and flat drawings, and visual research presentations from both fashion professionals and students.

Go behind the scenes and be mentored by the best in the business to find out what it's really like, and what it really takes, to become a fashion designer. Today's designers must operate as innovative brands and businesses as well as inspired creatives.

A practical guide on how to succeed, from landing your first job as an assistant to starting your own business as a freelance fashion stylist.

Presents a full range of styles and techniques used for interior design visual communication, from hand drawing to 3D computer modeling. Its accessible, how-to approach guides you through a variety of methods for executing creative and successful design graphics, models, and presentations.

Emphasizes the essential skills and knowledge required to work in a firm as an entry-level designer, while providing an overview of what is involved in starting, owning, and operating an interior design business.

Today's students of architecture, interior design, and landscape design need to master the art of marketing themselves via multiple print and digital formats. Readers will learn how to create not just a collection of design work but a unique marketing tool for a successful design career.

Essential procedures, tools, and techniques necessary to manage a successful interior design business.
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More than fifty crucial forms and everything you need to know to use them effectively.

Practical and inspirational guidance on finding and contacting clients, putting together promotional materials and establishing yourself as a professional illustrator.

Real-world practices, professional do's and don'ts, and unwritten rules of business that most designers, photographers, web designers, copy writers, programmers, and architects only learn after putting in years of experience on the job.

More than fifty essential and ready-to-use forms for graphic designers. All forms are accompanied by thorough explanations. Whether you are an established designer or just starting out, this guide will help you to save money, protect yourself, and negotiate for maximum profit.

This practical guide explains how to build a profitable, sustainable design business.

Sample portfolios, interviews with leaders in graphic design and advertising industries, and step-by-step instruction for creating professional print and digital portfolios.

Learn how to handle all of the demands of being a design professional and running a creative business with insights from successful designers, studio directors, project managers, and client service professionals across a wide range of creative industries.

Learn about thorny business realities like staffing, marketing, bookkeeping, intellectual property, and more. These smart business practices are essential to success in graphic, Web, and industrial design.

Practical and inspirational guidance on finding and contacting clients, putting together promotional materials and establishing yourself as a professional illustrator.

Up-to-date contact information for more than 1,800 art market resources, including galleries, magazines, book publishers, greeting card companies, ad agencies, syndicates, art fairs, and more.

More than 500 listings for children's book markets, including publishers, literary agents, magazines, contests, and more.

Includes design inspiration, design genres, and design education, with discussion of the specific career options available in print, interactive, and motion design.