Product Description: Designers are used to working for clients, but there is nothing better than when the client is oneself. Graphic and product designers, who are skilled with the tools and masters aesthetics, are now in the forefront of this growing entrepreneur movement...read more

Product Description: During the past few years, portfolio management and self-promotion have taken on a far greater role within a graphic designer’s business model. The degree to which they can increase their earned revenue through exceptionally defined, marketing-oriented promotions and portfolio management is paramount...read more

Provides a step-by-step guide on how to create a digital portfolio, explaining how to convert a traditional print format into a digital format of CDs, DVDs, and Web sites.

Product Description: It’s time to make your mark in the world of graphic design. There’s no doubt you’ve imagined it—placing your name and logo on business cards, taking creative control and being your own boss. Why not turn your fantasy into reality? Whether you want to start a part-time graphic design business, a full-time operation or build a substantial company with a full staff of graphic designers, everything you need to get started is at your fingertips...read more

Product Description: In need of advice? Just want to sounds off? Opening this volume is like grabbing lunch with a fellow designer to commiserate or celebrate. In its pages, noteworthy designers, both past and present, working in fields ranging from graphic design, fashion, architecture, typography, and industrial design sound off on every topic, ranging from deadlines, inspiration, competition, rules, respect, education, and handling criticism-all with a certain amount of irreverence...read more

Product Description: New from the editor of the pioneering EDUCATION OF . . . series, this benchmark collection of fifty essays and interviews provides students and working designers with a firm understanding of the pitfalls and triumphs awaiting the design entrepreneur...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This hands-on guide offers clear, easy-to-understand self-promotion principles and proven online marketing techniques for graphic designers and other creative professionals seeking to publicize, market and promote their services on the Internet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Designing Creative Portfolios" is a valuable reference and text for students, instructors, counselors, and employees in the creative visual professions. This book helps you examine the portfolio process in great depth, from every perspective...read more

Explains, through case studies, how to target a design to the right market using the elements that make a design appeal to a particular audience

Shows a variety of greeting cards, posters, brochures, calendars, and stationery used as promotional materials, and explains why self-promotion is important

Offers suggestions for illustrators and designers attempting to sell their work, discussing various markets for the material, legal rights, copyright protection, and pricing