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Offers discussions on contemporary graphic design from 2001 to 2005. This volume presents a collection of essays that take stock of the quality and profundity of graphic design writing published in professional journals, general interest magazines and on the internet. It discusses themes such as popular culture, politics, and aesthetics.

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Helps you learn how today's artists survive, exhibit, and earn money, without selling out. This book explains how to be a professional artist and new methods to define and realize what success means. This book offers readers a plethora of strategies and helpful tips to plan and execute a successful artistic career.

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Helps music managers and artists learn the secrets of successful management with scenarios from a manager's work life along with the legal and business skills to master them. This book teaches them how to acquire clients, negotiate contracts, develop image, administer taxes and finances, and deal with promoters, media, attorneys, and unions.

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A comprehensive guide to show the opportunities available for the internet savvy artist, collector, art student, art reseller, and Internet home-based business owner. This book explains the changes in the art world caused by the Internet, and details how to profit from it.

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This no-nonsense guide will prepare the actor for the perfect part in theater, on the web, or anything in...

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Artists living in the new millennium must create new models for exhibitions and sales. They must also be aware of new modes of communication, from occupying un-rented space to social networking and the latest mobile phone apps. This book is like a language course that aims to enhance your ability to communicate your creative ideas to the world.

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An inside look at inherited wealth in the USA, exploring the complex meanings of money and success in American society. An introduction, new to this edition, explores whether America's privileged class will play a leadership role in the 21st century.

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A trade reference tool that provides photographers with information on everything from estimating prices, identifying pricing factors, negotiating fair deals, and more. It includes chapters with information on the economics of photography, advanced negotiation techniques, and the specifics of pricing electronic media.

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A professional guide to publishing success for the new and struggling author. Whether you write fiction or nonfiction, it can help you to understand more about the publishing industry, write the right book for the right audience, build promotion into your book, write a successful query letter and book proposal, and get your book into bookstores.

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A collection of essays chronicling the voice of one of America's art critics in the last 25 years of the 20th century. Donald Kuspit's reflections on art, artists and art criticism are eclectic, exploring the ways in which art and its criticism influenced 20th-century thought and psychology.

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Sometimes it seems like everybody's writing a screenplay. But who reads those screenplays Professional story analysts, that's who. Screenplay Story Analysis explains exactly how to become a professional story analyst.

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Craftspeople, hobbyists, students, teachers, and crafts dealers will find this an authoritative and thorough source of information on selling in today's...

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Details the entire process of what it really takes to get in the business, be in the business, and survive in the business. This title offers insider advice and shares the author's knowledge and experience while answering questions asked by professionals and beginners alike.

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If you ever considered editing as a career, this book can help you make that decision. It takes you step by step through all the facets of setting up and conducting your editing services, working with writers and publishers, promoting yourself and your expertise, and determining what to charge.

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A career manual that explores the numerous directions this profession can take. It prepares new and working stylists with information on eight styling specialties. It also looks at the many roles stylists can play such as: production, casting, and location scouting. It explores the photo crew, etiquette, creating a portfolio, and marketing.

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The explosion of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn has created a need for highly skilled practitioners: experts who not only are fluent in social media platforms but know how to use them strategically. This title offers advices making yourself marketable to potential employers using social media tools.

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Features conversations with ten award-winning Broadway designers: five set designers, four lighting designers, and one projection designer. This title discusses the business aspects of the theatre world as opposed to focusing on the artistry of their particular craft.

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Exposes actors to the ins and outs of the world's (second) oldest profession. This title includes topics: how to be "discovered", what to expect from training programs, the grunt work of starting a career, how to persevere in the face of rejection, the new digital world for actors, and more.

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Photographers now have the ideal resource to build a solid foundation for success. The Art and Business of Photography takes an honest approach to the photography profession and is a guide to the artistic and business skills that are the foundation of a career in photography.

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Features tips and strategies for building a web presence that can increase revenue, improve customer relations, and boost brand loyalty. This title explains the traditional theories of branding and explores the ways in which they can be applied to web sites, no matter what the given industry or field.

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Helps you learn how to use images and sound to tell a motion picture story. This guide reveals how editing affects a motion picture's pace, rhythm, structure, and story, and spells out exactly what an editor does. It also reveals the tools, methods, and processes of movie editing so that readers can apply the principles to all their work.

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Essays, interviews, and course syllabi to help teachers and students in the field of graphic design. This collection discusses a range of design education concerns, from the dichotomies between theory and practice to the importance of mastering the traditional media of the field versus the need to learn and remain flexible in a changing world.