Becoming a Graphic Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Architecture
Becoming a Graphic Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design Details
From the Inside Flap Becoming a Graphic Designer, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive survey of the graphic design market, including complete coverage of print and electronic media and the evolving digital design disciplines that offer today's most sought-after jobs. This visual guide has hundreds of stunning illustrations and features the latest material on interactive design, information design, motion, and more. Drawing on years of experience in the industry, veteran designers Steven Heller and Teresa Fernandes cover everything from education and training, design specialties, and work settings to preparing an effective portfolio and finding a job. They profile major industries employing graphic designers and explore advertising, corporate, editorial, and other key design disciplines. The major industries covered here include architecture, interactive design, television and film design, publishing, and more. Dozens of up-front interviews with leading graphic designers let you see how companies such as Urban Outfitters, The New York Times Company, and Bloomberg Media hire and work with employees. These inside perspectives offer invaluable real-world insights on what different industries and positions are really like. A resource guide to design publications and organizations points the way to further information and guidance. Complete with easy-to-use, compact sections, useful sidebars, and sample design pieces, this outstanding guide is invaluable for anyone interested in launching or developing a career in graphic design. Read more From the Back Cover Up-to-date profiles of today's career opportunities in graphic design—a new edition of the successful guide This user-friendly guide offers a clear and comprehensive review of the types of careers available to today's graphic and new media designers. Drawing on years of experience at the top of the field, Steven Heller covers the major design industries—web, television, film, and publishing—as well as advertising, corporate, editorial, and other key design disciplines. This Fourth Edition has been fully updated and newly designed to include contemporary coverage on the digital revolution, as well as on new approaches to book design, information design, packaging design, design management, entrepreneurship, and educational options. Complete with dozens of interviews with leading graphic designers and hundreds of striking illustrations, Becoming a Graphic Designer, Fourth Edition continues to be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in launching—or revitalizing—a graphic design career. Read more See all Editorial Reviews
Reviews
Very useful, practical information and some excellent interviews by various wonderful designers. Not everything the designers say is particularly insightful, but overall, their information is invaluable: note that most of them say the same thing when it comes to potential employees: SOFT SKILLS. This is well emphasized throughout the book and with good reason. Soft skills are considered by many to be the most important thing in deciding which candidate will be selected for employment. If anyone reading this is unclear what soft skills are, pick up the book, or more quickly, google it. This is very handy information to know.Recommend read not just for designers - has some really insightful interview tips and really makes one appreciate the various design disciplines.
