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Becoming a graphic designer : a guide to careers in design

Author

Heller, Steven.

Title

Becoming a graphic designer : a guide to careers in design / Steven Heller & Teresa Fernandes.

Format

Book

Edition

3rd ed.

Published

Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley & Sons, c2006.

Description

368 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

URL

<Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005047493-b.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005047493-d.html <Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005047493-t.html

Other contributors

Fernandes, Teresa.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367) and index.

Contents

• Preface
• Introduction : So you want to become a graphic designer?
• How I became a graphic designer
• section 1. Design specialties
• Editorial
• Corporate design
• Book design
• Music/ CDs
• Information design
• Advertising and branding
• Environmental
• Interactivity
• What do you look for?
• Motion
• Type and lettering
• Advice to designers
• section 2. Design businesses
• Freelancers
• Small studio
• Partnerships
• Medium firm
• Large firm
• On personal style
• section 3. Design options
• Crossing disciplines
• Entrepreneurs
• Authorship
• Major influences
• section 4. Design education
• Undergraduate
• Graduate school
• Continuing education
• List of schools
• The future of graphic design
• appendix. Resources
• Selected bibliography. Recommended reading
• Index
• Designers.

Subject headings

Commercial art--Vocational guidance. Graphic arts--Vocational guidance.

ISBN

0471715069 (pbk.) 9780471715061 (pbk.)