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What to put in your portfolio and get a job: Graphic Design
What to put in your portfolio and get a job: Graphic Design
To buy
£12.50 plus £3.25 (P&P within UK)
Take Note, a notebook for designers and design commissioners every page has a handy tip.
About this book
Take Note: by Drew de Soto
The perfect note book for Graphic designers and design commissioners.
130 pages, everyone has a tip to make you work smarter.
Elastic closing strap.
Hard wearing greyboard covers, very strong tape binding, thick uncoated cartridge for your notes and scribbles.
To buy this book
£6.00 plus £2.00 (P&P within UK)
What to put in your portfolio and get a job: Graphic Design
About this book
It’s tough out there – Graphic Designers are coming out of the woodwork. Creative Directors and potential employers get bombarded by hopefuls looking for a job.
If you want to stand out and have a chance of landing that dream job, then you need to get yourself and your portfolio in order.
This book will help you do that.
Know your Onions: What to put in your portfolio and get a job was published by Articul8 Publishing.
To buy this book
£6.50 plus £1.25 (P&P within UK)
€8.58 plus €3.14 (P&P within Europe)
$11.83 plus $6.37 (P&P within USA and rest of world)
Contents include
Introduction
Your book is you
It’s tough out there
I’m out of work
Work experience
Portfolio formats
Make your work interesting Brand yourself
Creative
Experimental Professional
Practical
What order should you show your work What not to show
Details, details, details Research
Go for the job you want Customise
Polish
The approach
The big day
Interview them back
The follow up
Why you didn’t get the job
Why you did get the job
“Reading this book makes me excited at the prospect of getting my portfolio in order and going out there in the big bad world of job interviews. Can’t wait to start as soon as I graduate!”
“Having read this book the errors I made have been corrected just landed my dream job!”
Know Your Onions: Graphic Design
How to think like a creative, act like a businessman and design like a God
Know Your Onions: Graphic Design
How to think like a creative, act like a businessman and design like a God
Know your Onions: Graphic Design
About this book
This book will give you the knowledge to be more creative, work efficiently and give you the foundations for top-notch graphic design.
In 185 pages, you will gain 25 years’ worth of graphic design experience and a few jokes – read it and save yourself 25 years.
Know your Onions: Graphic Design was published by BIS Publishing.
“Invaluable pearls of wisdom and nuggets of knowledge for any graphic designer, young or old. I regularly refer to it in moments of doubt or indecision. Nice size and lovely tactile design too. Highly recommended.”
Contents include
Introduction
Thinking
Working
Designing
Layout
The principles of typography
The principles of spacing with type
The principles of punctuation
Knowledge of colour
Knowledge of reprographics
Knowledge of print
Knowledge of finishing
Knowledge of paper
Essential kit for the professional
Magic numbers
10 things...
Keyboard shortcuts
Glossary
Colloquialisms
Know Your Onions: Corporate Identity
Get your head around corporate identity design and deliver one like the big boys and girls
Know Your Onions: Corporate Identity
Get your head around corporate identity design and deliver one like the big boys and girls
Contents include
Introduction
Thinking
Working
Designing
Managing
Trademarks
Real World Case Study
Consistency
Colloquialisms
Index
About this book
Not all of us get to work on multi-million corporate identity projects for airlines and huge conglomerates. If you are new to the sector or honing your skills, then this is for you. This book is for people who have to tackle identity projects in the real world. This is a broad introduction to identity design – not branding – don’t worry, you’ll learn the difference.
If you want a book that tells you how to do it, this is for you – if you want a book about how other people have done it – then this isn’t the book for you.
Know your Onions: Corporate Identity was published by BIS Publishing.
Know Your Onions: Web Design
Jet propel yourself into the driving seat of a top-class web designer and hurtle towards creative stardom
Know Your Onions: Web Design
Jet propel yourself into the driving seat of a top-class web designer and hurtle towards creative stardom
Know your Onions: Web Design
About this book
This book sets out the principles and practices of web design. It will help you understand what underpins web structure, design conventions and best practice.
It touches on almost every subject and gives you a complete overview and understanding to deliver outstanding web design, leaving you to discover the areas you would like to specialise in and go on to build on these firm foundations.
This book is design focused, you will not find one line of code. It takes you through creative thinking, questioning the brief, information architecture, navigation structures, front-end design, dealing with clients and best practice for file management.
Unlike a typical 'how to' manual, the style is light, chatty and more like having a conversation with a bloke who knows his stuff.
If you want to master great website design and build process, pre-order this book on Amazon.
Know your Onions: Web Design was published by BIS Publishing
“This book is a great way to ground yourself in web design. The reader is taken through techniques of brainstorming ideas all the way to designing a site and sending it to developers to be built. It’s written in a way that is engaging and humorous, as well as being easy to read. There are nice illustrations, not to mention the overall look and feel of the book has a real quality to it.”
Contents include
Introduction
Briefs
Thinking
Designing
Working
The principles of layout
The principles of colour
The principles of navigation
The principles of good build
Designing for a content management system
Knowledge of conventions
Knowledge of content
Knowledge of technology
Knowledge of the process
Knowledge of the web
Knowledge of the team
10 things...
Colloquialisms Glossary
Comedy Snapshot
by Steve Best
About this book
Comedian Steve Best's seven year gig diary gives a unique insight into the UK comedy circuit. Packed with one liners and comic tales from the likes of Harry Hill, Jo Brand, Mick Flanagan, Sarah Millican, Lee Mack, Milton Jones, Russell Kane, Jack Whitehall and 400+ more. If you want to know what makes a stand-up comedian tick then this is the book for you... and your friends...
Find out more and buy the book
Comedians included
Sean Lock
Andy Parson
Jo Brand
Lee Mack
Russell Kane
Harry Hill
Paul Zerdin
And many more...