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…mehr
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 and collaboration, relationship building, managing clients, bidding work, production processes, and more will resonate with creative professionals of all stripes.
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Behave Yourself The Big Fat Secret The Extra Mile You Are Not Your Work Be Nice to Everyone Drama is for Soap Operas No More Flying Solo Gripes Go Up Do What You Love; the Money Will Follow The Stress Bucket Two Types of Grandpas Soak Up Advice 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 Production Pontification O.C.D. is an Attribute Polishing Turds Hairy Moles This is Not Verbatim-ville Shock and Awe Art is Meant to be Framed It is Never Too Late for a Better Idea Lorem Ipsum A River Runs Through It Comps? or Compositions? Design Like the Wind Typing Speed is an Accurate Gauge of Production Speed How to Eat an Elephant The Venus Initiative Project Management Process-a-palooza Define Your Production Methodology Hiking Your Way to Successful Projects Management Strategies to Alleviate the 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% Bad Ideas The Communal Brain Speak Clearly 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 Someone is Always Listening Chain Reactions Avoid the W.W.W. Be Afraid to Click "Send" The Tragedy of Time Zones Love Your Clients Designers are from Mars, Clients are from Venus Let Your Client Leave Their Mark "Forgiveness" Points Let Your Client Be the 800 lb. Gorilla Do Your Genealogy Never Give Your Client Homework Assume that People are Idiots A Long Term Relationship Typically Has More Value Than the Profit in a Single Transaction 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 Run a Tight Ship 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 20 Piece Chicken McNuggets Non-Profits 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/hour To Do "Skin in the Game" Usually Means "Free" How To Bite The Bullet Three-Month "Lifetime" Guarantee "Being Your Own Boss," Whatever That Means You Have 65 Seconds to Land a Job How to Ask for a Raise Without Asking for a Raise
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