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Burn Your Portfolio Stuff They Don't Teach You in Design School, but Should

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ISBN-10: 0321918681

ISBN-13: 9780321918680

Edition: 2013

Authors: 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…    
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Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 6/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.95" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 3.278
Language: English

Human Engineering
The Big Fat Secret
The Extra Mile
Soak Up Advice
You Are Not Your Work
Be Nice to Everyone
Drama Is for Soap Operas
No More Flying Solo
Gripes Go Up
The Stress Bucket
Two Types of Grandpas
Be a Wall Painter
Every Position Can Be Electrifying
Lead or Be Led
Half the Victory
The Value of Downtime
I'm Not a Writer
Toot Your Own Horn
Don't Work in a Vacuum
The Graphic Design Megazord
Live as a Team, Die as a Team
Everyone Does Something Better Than You
You Are Responsible for Your Own Time
Art Smarts
OCD Is an Attribute
Polishing Turds
Hairy Moles
This Is Not Verbatimville
Shock and Awe
Art Is Meant to Be Framed
It Is Never Too Late for a Better Idea
Filler Failures
A River Runs Through It
Comps or Comprehensive?
Design Like the Wind
Type Fast
How to Eat an Elephant
The Venus Initiative
Process-a-Palooza
Hiking Your Way to Successful Projects
Solving End-of-Day Rush
Why Projects Blow Up
The Lo-Fi PDA
Bring Out Your Dead
Shake the Bushes or Get Bit
Red Flags and Extinguishers
Brainstorms Are 90 Percent Bad Ideas
The Communal Brain
Two Ears, One Mouth
The Ultimate Email Formula
Beware the Red Dot
Email Black Holes
Even the Lone Ranger Had Tonto
Canned Communication
Tin Can Phones
Vicious Vernacular
An Army of Support
Friendly Updates
Deadline Ballet
Big Brother
The Domino Effect
Avoid the W.W.W.
Be Afraid to Click 'Send'
The Tragedy of Time Zones
Happy Head Honchos
Designers Are from Mars, Clients Are from Venus
Let Your Client Leave Their Mark
'Forgiveness' Points
Let Your Client Be the 800-Pound Gorilla
Do Your Genealogy
Never Give Your Client Homework
Assume That People Are Clueless
Long-Term Relationship Value vs. Single Transaction Profit
Oddities at the Start Mean Oddities at the End
Don't Be the Desperate Girlfriend
Stand in Manure, Smell Like Manure
Never Fire a Client?
'We Decided to Go Another Direction' Means 'You Suck'
There Are Such Things as Stupid Questions
You Can't Get Mad at Math
You Have 65 Seconds to Land a Job
How to Ask for a Raise Without Asking for a Raise
Mind Your Business
Do What You Love; the Money Will Follow
A Business That Looks Orderly
Making Cents of It All
How to Calculate a Burn Rate
The Fixed-Bid Pricing Dartboard
Beware of Line-Item Pricing
'No Charge' Doesn't Mean 'Free'
How to Flush Out a Budget
Twenty-Piece Chicken McNuggets
Nonprofits for Non-Profit
The Code of Fair Practice
Contractual Mumbo Jumbo
'Etcetera' Has No Business in Your Business
You Don't Have to Sign Off on This
B.A.M. Lists
One Line That Changed Everything about Collections
A Business Is an Organism That Wants to Die
If I've Got a Dollar, You've Got a Dollar, but No Partners
If You Want to Win the Game, You Have to Know the Score
There Is No Such Thing as a 'Meet and Greet'
How to Make a Capabilities Presentation
Floods Happen
Flexibility, Not Freedom
Never Do Undocumented Work
Next Worry Date
Nickels and Dimes Are for Lemonade Stands
Only Terrorists Like Hostage Situations
Oh Where, Oh Where Has My $100k Gone? Oh Where, Oh Where Can It Be?
Don't Do Anything You Can Pay Someone $10 Per Hour to Do
'Skin in the Game' Usually Means 'Free'
Three-Month 'Lifetime' Guarantee
'Being Your Own Boss' Whatever That Means
How to Bite the Bullet