Aspects of creating a great portfolio such as what potential employers or clients look for in a portfolio, how to present yourself, dealing with criticism, replying to tough interview questions and more. A unique chapter called 'Portfolio Workshop (or Portfolio Clinic)' includes sample spreads from portfolios (good and bad) with critiques and helpful commentary from leading designers.

Addresses how artists can navigate the crucial business and legal aspects of a fine art career.

For communication design and illustration professionals, with updated information, listings, and pricing guidelines. Helps graphic artists navigate the world of pricing, collecting payment, and protecting their creative work, with essential advice for growing a freelance business to create a sustainable and rewarding livelihood. Sample contracts and other documents are included.

Introduces the careers available, creating a career plan, crafting a resume and tips for interviewing. Also, includes interviews with professionals in the fields of graphic design, multimedia, and web design.

Practical tips on how to seek work, how to market yourself and how to run your illustration business in an enterprising way including the fields of moving image, character illustration and social media.

Practical tips that give artists new ways to break through creative blocks, get the most from materials, navigate career challenges, and above all find joy in the work. Teeming with full-color artwork from visionaries ancient and modern, this beautiful and useful book will help artists of all kinds--painters, photographers, writers, performers--realize their dreams.

Strategies for building a successful creative practice. From mixing business and friendship to marketing yourself on social media.
• For visual artists and makers,
• Writers, musicians, filmmakers, and other creatives

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a memoir of one woman's later in life career change is “a smart, funny and compelling case for going after your heart's desires, no matter your age” (Essence Magazine).

The legendary comedian, actor, and writer of Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, and A Fish Called Wanda fame shares his key ideas about creativity: that it’s a learnable, improvable skill.

Includes interviews with over 40 designers at all levels working in-house and out-of-house in studios, consultancies, or alone, from The New Yorker, Google, IDEO, Whitney Museum, Vox Media, Facebook, Pentagram, The New York Times, and Leo Burnett Worldwide.

Through interviews with people at all levels of design, the author provides down to earth and straight forward information that is relevant to today's students looking to start a career in design.

A guide to launching and evolving a career in the digital art industries, with helpful insights and advice from experienced freelance artists, entertainment industry professionals, and studios.

A guide for designers with a breakdown of the prospects and challenges they may face. Topics include --- 1) Methods for launching a venture into the market -- 2) Tips on presentation, pitch and public relations -- 3) How to legally protect intellectual property (copyright) -- 4) Ways to do effective research, and crowd source -- 5) How to benefit from social media -- 6) Sources for funding and investment and incubators -- 7) Case studies from successful and startup entrepreneurs.

Friendly chapters walk you through it all with topics such as: Evaluating your work-- Submitting proposals to museums and galleries-- Creating pop-up shows-- Presenting work to the public-- Organizing events-- Writing press releases-- Using social media effectively-- Selling online-- Raising funds for projects-- Getting international recognition

A behind-the-scenes look at a career as a children's illustrator and how to create your own style. Covers marketing and self-promotion with regards to social media and building an online presence--as well as dealing with publishers, contracts, royalties, rejection, and artist's block.