Burn Your Portfolio: Stuff they don't teach you in design school, but should, 1st edition

Published by New Riders (May 27, 2013) © 2013

  • Michael Janda
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It takes more than just a design school education and a killer portfolio to succeed in a creative career. Burn Your Portfolio teaches the real-world practices, professional do's and don'ts, and unwritten rules of business that most designers, photographers, web designers, copy writers, programmers, and architects only learn after putting in years of experience on the job.
Michael Janda, owner of the Utah-based design firm Riser, uses humor to dispense nugget after nugget of hard-won advice collected over the last decade from the personal successes and failures he has faced running his own agency. In this surprisingly funny, but incredibly practical advice guide, Janda's advice on teamwork and collaboration, relationship building, managing clients, bidding work, production processes, and more will resonate with creative professionals of all stripes.
  • SECTION 1: Human Engineering
  • 1)    The Big Fat Secret
  • 2)    The Extra Mile
  • 3)    Soak Up Advice
  • 4)    You Are Not Your Work
  • 5)    Be Nice to Everyone
  • 6)    Drama Is for Soap Operas
  • 7)    No More Flying Solo
  • 8)    Gripes Go Up
  • 9)    The Stress Bucket
  • 10)    Two Types of Grandpas
  • 11)    Be a Wall Painter
  • 12)    Every Position Can Be Electrifying
  • 13)    Lead or Be Led
  • 14)    Half the Victory
  • 15)    The Value of Downtime
  • 16)    I'm Not a Writer
  • 17)    Toot Your Own Horn
  • 18)    Don't Work in a Vacuum
  • 19)    The Graphic Design Megazord
  • 20)    Live as a Team, Die as a Team
  • 21)    Everyone Does Something Better Than You
  • 22)    You Are Responsible for Your Own Time
  • SECTION 2: Art Smarts
  • 23)    OCD Is an Attribute
  • 24)    Polishing Turds
  • 25)    Hairy Moles
  • 26)    This Is Not Verbatimville
  • 27)    Shock and Awe
  • 28)    Art Is Meant to Be Framed
  • 29)    It Is Never Too Late for a Better Idea
  • 30)    Filler Failures
  • 31)    A River Runs Through It
  • 32)    Comps or Comprehensive?
  • 33)    Design Like the Wind
  • 34)    Type Fast
  • 35)    How to Eat an Elephant
  • 36)    The Venus Initiative
  • 37)    Process-a-Palooza
  • 38)    Hiking Your Way to

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