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FlickrReview: How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul
Mar 31
The Reads Adrian Shaughnessy, book, Design, finishing uni, graphic design, real world, review Comments Off
We started our “Self Promotion” unit today. I’ve had this book about a year and a half but don’t think I ever managed to read it all properly. It’s on the reading list for this unit, and with working full time being imminent I read it over the weekend and found it to be very useful.
I will say that I skipped the chapters on setting up your own studio as I don’t plan to do this just now. I did read the interviews at the end however.
That was one of the things I quite liked about this book, the useful information with the real world experiences and then an interesting interview with a working graphic designer. I thought the format worked quite well.
Things like how to present your portfolio in an interview – simple things you’d expect to be common sense – for example showing it to the interviewer, not yourself, I think are incredibly useful.
If you’re about to go out into the real world, I think you’ll definitely find useful things in this.
4/5
I read this book over Easter – I’d picked it up cheap at HMV I think and it had been on my shelf for ages. I thought it was pretty good. I always find it a bit odd reading a book that’s in first person from the perspective of a woman, when it’s written by a man. I think you can always tell, you know? But other than that, it was entertaining, a bit rivetting in places, a bit upsetting and times and to be honest, well, I don’t want to spoil the end, but I think that was probably my least favourite part of it.
