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Baked In, Creating Products & Businesses that Market Themselves – Book Review

May 27, 2010
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Baked In is certainly a worthwhile book to read, it is an easy read and business focused, but will provide any designer with a knowledge injection from outside their traditional sphere.

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Rework – Book Review

May 19, 2010
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Rework is an excellent resource for designers looking to start a business as it provides straight forward, easy to understand business advice from entrepreneurs who have successfully built a company by practicing what they preach. Put simply Rework is an indispensable book for any designer wishing to start a business.

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Making Ideas Happen – Book Review

April 15, 2010
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Making Ideas Happen will help creatives bring into realitiy the hundreds of ideas in the pages of their sketchbooks through beautifully simple techniques and advice. My advice – borrow, beg, steal or buy a copy of Making Ideas Happen asap!

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Analog Dreams – Sketches of Michael DiTullo

March 1, 2010
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Analog Dreams is a fantastic blend of a decade of Michael DiTullo’s compelling ideas, represented through the visual language of sketching, and practical high level sketching advice.

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Less and More – The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

February 18, 2010
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Less and More – The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams is a must for any designer. It provides a holistic look at Dieter Rams, Braun and their work in a beautiful constructed and well curated volume that will be an excellent addition to any designers bookshelf.

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Project Management for Design Professionals: Book Review

January 25, 2010

Project Management for Design Professionals by William G. Ramroth covers the practice of Project Management in a straight forward way from start to finish.

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Transmaterial: Book Review

December 3, 2009
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Transmaterial is an exquisitely curated, beautifully designed and considered book that will provide any designer with food for thought and inspiration on materials.

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The Art of The Start: Book Review

November 26, 2009

The Art of The Start by Guy Kawasaki is a down to earth, practical and very useful book. It is filled with gems of information that will actually help you get whatever you are starting up and running.

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