Jaz Design

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.

I watched the film not long afterwards (not all of it, I was just curious as to the actors and things) and wasn’t terribly impressed. The characters in the book come through much stronger than they do in the film.

Worth a read.

3.5/5