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Mike Monteiro 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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Audiobook

Design Is a Job, read by Mike Monteiro, available from Audible.com.

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.

Contents

Part 1

  1. What Is a Designer?
  2. Getting Clients (Read this chapter online)
  3. Choosing the Right Clients
  4. Charging for Your Work
  5. Working with Contracts

Part 2

  1. Sticking to Your Process
  2. Presenting Design
  3. Managing Feedback
  4. Getting Your Money
  5. Working with Others

Recommended with…

Design Is a Job

by Mike Monteiro

Design Is a Job
You’re My Favorite Client

You’re My Favorite Client

by Mike Monteiro

Kicking off a design project? Outfit yourself for success, whether you’re a designer or hiring one.

Buy both and save up to 15%

  • Paperbacks

    $43.20 + shipping

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    Supports Kindle, iBooks, Nook and most other readers and devices.

    $25.20

  • Paperbacks & ebooks

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What People Are Saying

  • This book will teach you how to be part of a service industry without becoming a servant.

    —Erik Spiekermann

  • What makes this book so unique is that it plainly and honestly describes how a successful design shop actually works.

    —John Gruber Daring Fireball

  • ‘Design 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 Essl Department Chair, Graphic Design, The Cooper Union School of Art

  • Mike 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-Eisenberg Founder, Swissmiss and Creative Mornings

About the Author

Mike Monteiro is the co-founder and design director of Mule Design, an interactive design studio whose work has been called “delightfully hostile” by The New Yorker. In early 2011, he gave a Creative Mornings talk entitled “F— You, Pay Me” that not only uplifted the downtrodden the world over, but fueled his first book, Design Is a Job. In 2014, Mike won the net awards Talk of the Year for “How Designers Destroyed the World,” a screed about designers taking responsibility for their work. In the same year, he released his second book, You’re My Favorite Client, a succinct guide to hiring and working with designers. He can be heard weekly as the co-host of Let’s Make Mistakes. None of the terms Mike has coined are printable on a family website.

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