How to Be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul

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How to Be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul

How to Be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul

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The book is split up into sections based on different areas of being a graphic designer… finding a job, working for yourself, or someone else, freelance work, setting up a studio, which are all useful regardless of whether you think it’s relevant to you or not. Adrian Shaughnessy's 'How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul' reminded me what a wonderfully exciting and interesting profession it is.

What it did not do adequately, in my opinion, is answer its own title question, how to pursue something one is passionate about under capitalism without making choices that sacrifice ethics, joy, or both. Designers are quick to tell us about their sources of inspiration, but they are much less willing to reveal such critical matters as how to find work, how much they charge, and what to do when a client rejects three weeks of work and refuses to pay the bill. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Although I'm ancient and have been in the graphic design field for a while now this was still very interesting and I still picked up a few pointers here and there. There are also loads of tips and advice from many different designers on different ways to approach briefs, finding work, self initiated work and dealing with clients, and I know I am going to keep coming back to this book as a reference tool time and time again. I read this book several years after completing my BFA in Graphic Design, I wish I would have read it my last year of school.

The book is obviously one successful designer’s opinion, so it’s to be taken with a pinch of salt, and although it’s an updated version I still think a few things are a bit outdated.It offers straight-talking advice on how to establish your design career and suggestions - that you won’t have been taught at college - for running a successful business. There is a lot of practical information, but it also gets into the thinking and philosophy that is the foundation for a successful design career. I found that I am not alone in the big bad world of Graphic Design, and that some of the fears and insecurities I have are shared by designers all over the world. Any graphic design students, interns, employees, art directors, businessmen or creative artists can look for this book.

I haven't given it a full 5 stars as it is a bit long winded in some of it's explanations of things. I picked up this book after a little bit of exhaustion with the thought of what I should expect in the future. Aimed at the independent-minded, it addresses the concerns of young designers who want to earn a living by doing expressive and meaningful work and avoid becoming a hired drone working on soulless projects. Graphic designers constantly complain that there is no career manual to guide them through the profession.Hay algunas cosas que ya no aplican tanto o que podrían no servirle a un diseñador que ya tenga más experiencia peeero en general es una muy buena lectura para empezar con libros de diseño.

I'm glad I continued because the rest was a gem, full of discussions and ideas that I've been thinking and talking about for years. Shaughnessy is a graphic designer by trade, but his insight into what it takes to become a business professional in the creative world is invaluable. The book contains all-new imagery, and the previous interviews have been replaced with new ones, each focusing on a specific issue of importance to graphic designers.It was difficult to distinguish whether the problem lay in design, or designing for THAT particular company. I think the not losing your soul is about pushing towards where you want to see graphic design headed, and not just designing solely for the sake of a paycheck. And this is a book that i am glad i put the effort in and read the first page because by the end of every page i wanted to read the next one and for me that is the sign of a well written book. How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul addresses the concerns of young designers who want to earn a living by doing expressive and meaningful work, and who want to avoid becoming hired drones working on soulless projects. The title is great but not really suitable for this book as the question of ‘How to be a graphic designer without loosing your soul’ wasn’t really answered.



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