Design Is a Job
foreword by Erik Spiekermann
- From contracts to selling design, from working with clients to working with each other, you’ll learn why navigating the business of design is just as important as the craft of it.
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Co-founder of Mule Design and raconteur Mike Monteiro wants to help you do your job better. From contracts to selling design, from working with clients to working with each other, you’ll learn why navigating the business of design is just as important as the craft of it. Cultivated from his own experience, Mike packs this brief book with knowledge you can’t afford not to know.
This book explores:
- How to work with clients and advocate for the value of design
- Steps for finding clients and crafting practical work proposals
- How to present a design in progress and solicit productive feedback
- Strategies for gaining alignment with stakeholders and teammates
- Tactics for getting paid reliably and on time
Previous NextThis book will teach you how to be part of a service industry without becoming a servant.
Erik SpiekermannTypographer, designer and writer
Previous NextWhat makes this book so unique is that it plainly and honestly describes how a successful design shop actually works.
John GruberFounder of Daring Fireball
Previous NextDesign Is a Job is a generous, insightful text sure to become required reading in design schools across the country. I’m a better designer for having read it.
Mike EsslDean of The Cooper Union School of Art
Previous NextMike Monteiro’s Design Is a Job is a must-read for any designer. If only this book had been around when I started my studio!
Tina Roth EisenbergFounder of Swissmiss and Creative Mornings
