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What They Didn't Teach You In Design School: The Essential Guide to Growing Your Design Career Hardcover – April 29, 2014

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You'll appreciate this design career guide if:

You're a recent graduate and looking for a job as a designer
You want resume and interviewing advice, as well as tips for working in the design industry
You'd like to learn how to avoid common pitfalls of asserting yourself in the design industry

What They Didn't Teach You in Design School by Phil Cleaver provides advice on the stage from graduating, and getting into a studio and staying there as a valued designer, and explores best design practices. Though predominantly serving as a useful guide and bridge in the first year of your career as a designer, it should also be considered an essential tool that can be consulted when you're unsure of what to do next. Begin with the essentials of beginning your design career, like building your resume and portfolio, seeking out opportunities, and preparing for and securing interviews.

More than just helping you get a job, however, this career guide serves to help you succeed in whichever design position you land. Learn how to effectively work with other designers and your own clients, keep up to date with the industry, hone your business skills, and much more. From the day after graduation to the completion of your first year as a design professional, this career guide will help you stay on top of your game.

In What They Didn't Teach You in Design School you'll find:

11 chapters covering topics ranging from software skills, print production, and designer relations, to good design practice, web skills, and working with external suppliers
Helpful design advice that you'll want to return to again and again

A word from the author:
"Working in a studio is hugely different from studying; this book is aimed at helping you through the transition and giving you the ammo to climb this massive new learning curve." --Phil Cleaver

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HOW Books (April 29, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1440334366
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1440334368
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.72 x 0.9 x 7.09 inches

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Frauxdo

Your new Design Bible

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I've read a lot of design books. This one offers a lot of excellent and important information I have yet to read in anything else. An essential guide. Get ready to take notes.

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Meh.

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Not what I expected. VERY basic and amateurish advice. Not recommended for designers that are in the business already. It's really only worth it if you just graduated from college and know nothing about looking for a job.

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Doesn't cover mobile as well as it should. Very print geared.

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Great book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 27, 2014

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Love this book!
Great advices for design student.

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Sophia

Invaluable!

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I trained as an engineer, and have worked as a designer in IT for 9 years. I'm a user experience architect, if you've heard of UX.
Never having been to design school, much of this book's design school practices and trivia was news to me.
However, all the lessons about presentation (prepare), plagiarism (don't do it), portfolios (show process), hiring staff (work with people you like) and more are in fact invaluable.

Buy this book.

Read it.

And put it somewhere within reach. You'll want to look something up within days.

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BUY THIS.

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Absolute must have for any Designer out there. Especially those starting out in the industry. My friends and I refer to it as the Design Bible 😝.

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Beth

It was such a good purchase!

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I bought this book on a bit of a whim, after liking the design and the concept. It was such a good purchase!! I am over a third of the way through after just a couple of days, and I feel like I've learnt so much already. I am a second year design student, and I now already feel so much more prepared for the next couple of years. The tone of the writing is interesting and not at all patronising. The design is simple and very aesthetically pleasing, and the size and weight of the book is lovely to hold and read. I think this book would be suitable for any design student, particularly third years or recent graduates. Buy this book!!

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Soph

A great read, with simple

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Phil is a legend and this really is reflected in this book. A great read, with simple, straight forward, non bs advice that is actually useful in the real world. I love that it includes actual techniques and production skills that are useful at a studio but you might not have come across while studying.

Marzena

Amazing book

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