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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
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
"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
- Print length224 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHOW Books
- Publication dateApril 29, 2014
- Dimensions4.72 x 0.9 x 7.09 inches
- ISBN-101440334366
- ISBN-13978-1440334368
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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
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,157,255 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #10,559 in Job Hunting & Career Guides
- #13,549 in Design & Decorative Arts
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About the authors

Prof. Phil Cleaver is an award-winning designer, artist and author whose personality emerged from the labyrinthine city of London, under the anarchic influence of punk, the exotic East and the design industry’s most prominent and influential leaders.

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Great advices for design student.
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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.



