The Write Turn: Books We Love and Recommend
Talent Is Not Enough
BY Shel Perkins
This revised and expanded second edition includes everything designers need—besides talent—to turn their artistic success into business success.

You’ll find information on key issues facing designers from freelancing to managing established design firms. A strong visual focus and to-the-point text take the fear factor out of learning about thorny business realities like staffing, marketing, bookkeeping, intellectual property, and more.

These smart business practices are essential to success in graphic, Web, and industrial design.
Creative, Inc.
BY Joy Deangdeelert Cho, Meg Mateo Ilasco
As the hipster classic Craft, Inc. did for crafters, this book will teach all types of creatives—illustrators, photographers, graphic designers, animators, and more—how to build a successful business doing what they love.

Freelancing pros Meg Mateo Ilasco and Joy Deangdeelert Cho explain everything from creating a standout portfolio to navigating the legal issues of starting a business. Accessible, spunky, and packed with practical advice, Creative, Inc. is an essential for anyone ready to strike out on their own.
Alexander McQueen:Genius of a Generation
BY Kristin Knox
This tribute to Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) celebrates the genius of an iconic, imaginative and inspirational fashion designer with a catalog of more than 125 catwalk photographs of his work with commentary from an experienced fashion journalist and tributes and quotes from prominent people in the fashion world. It includes photographs from his last collection, presented at Paris Fashion Week in 2010, and hailed by international media and fashion reviewers.

McQueen's dramatic designs were artistically successful and internationally recognized. He earned the British Designer of the Year award four times and his work was particularly favored by his celebrity clients including Sarah Jessica Parker, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Bjork, Lady Gaga and Rihanna.
Rework
BY Jason Fried
Why is a business book being featured on a creative network?

First of all, we like the whole concept of thinking against the grain. The power of effective application of creativity beyond mere visuals and aesthetics.

With the economy heading all directions over the past year, it's even more critical for business owners and freelancers to be more productive with all the resources on hand -- financials, manpower, and most importantly, your brainpower.

Presented with a straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework encourages you to think different and shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business.

Quoting from the book "The truth is, you need less than you think", we actually like the fact we finished the book in one day!
Brand Identity Now!
BY Julius Wiedemann
With in-depth case studies of leading projects from around the world, Brand Identity Now! is destined to be a major work of reference for designers, marketing professionals and anyone working in communications.

The book examines logos, imagery, and strategic applications involved in each branded project, and features over 150 outstanding brand identities from more than 20 countries
Typography 30 (Hardcover)
BY Type Directors Club
For over fifty years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the worldwide graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual international competitions.

Selected from approximately 2300 international submissions, the winning designs are models of excellence and innovation in the use of type design.

Each year, the Type Directors Club selects a prominent design studio or designer for the latest Typography annual. Tremendous creative freedom is given to each studio, which is why this annual book evolves and varies from year to year.
Nick Knight
BY Nick Knight
Nick Knight is among the world's most influential and visionary image makers. This incredible volume—with all images selected by Knight—is a midcareer retrospective of his work, from 1990 to the present day.

It features collaborative work with BjÖrk, Michael Clark, Peter Saville, Gareth Pugh, Massive Attack, and Hussein Chalayan, photographs of the natural world, exquisite editorial images for Vogue, and models who defy fashion's stereotypes.

With more than 300 striking images reflecting Knight's extraordinary vision and fearless experimentation, this volume is a landmark in both the genres of photography and fashion.
My Name is Charles Saatchi....
BY Charles Saatchi
Q: What the point of Art?

Saatchi: To stop our eyeballs going into meltdown from all the rubbish tv and films we look at the rest of the time.

If you know advertising, you know Charles Saatchi. Though he famously refuses to be interviewed, you can now read his brutally frank responses to a battery of questions put to him by leading journalists and critics.

In large copy, this book is everything an ad man will do to get your attention. And now he wants you to know about his second life - Art.
D&AD Annual 2009
BY D&AD
This year’s D&AD Annual is art directed by Peter Saville and designed by Luke Sanders, who graduated from the Liverpool School of Art in 2007.

To ensure everyone has the chance to see award-winning ideas Taschen will be publishing a second version of the Annual for 2009. The best advertising and design in the world will be available in six languages, in bookshops globally from January. It features the same winning work as the Annual, but makes it accessible to a far wider audience.
Art By Tattooists - Beyond Flash
BY JO WATERHOUSE
Tattoos and tattoo artwork have become part of mainstream culture, with many tattooists highly skilled artists in their own right.

Art by Tattooists is the first book to showcase art by twenty-six international artists who use a variety of mediums from ink, watercolor, acrylic paint and oil to produce bodies of fine art, that are not tattooed on people.

With much of their imagery influenced by the work they incorporate as tattooists - roses, hearts, skulls and pin-ups, the artists re-interpret it in their own way through their artwork.
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