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A successful jewelry designer offers a practical guide to starting your business, selling your creations, and building your brand.
To develop a successful jewelry line, designers have to be more than just creative artists, they have to understand the ins and outs of running a crafts business. Emilie Shapiro's detailed guide explores the many facets of creating a quality handmade collection that people will buy, including:
• where to sell your work
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“This is Service Design Thinking” introduces an inter-disciplinary approach to designing services. Service design is a bit of a buzzword these days and has gained a lot of interest from various fields. This book, assembled to describe and illustrate the emerging field of service design, was brought together using exactly the same co-creative and user-centred approaches you can read and learn about inside. The boundaries between products and services...
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Creative entrepreneurship is the pursuit of launching and growing not just new businesses, but new kinds of businesses. It's not easy, and there's no step-by-step process, but this book can serve as a guide for your startup adventure.
In Adventures in Disruption, author, business designer, and entrepreneur Sam Aquillano shares the real story of how he and his team built a new kind of business, Design Museum Everywhere. Follow their journey, learn...
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"James Victore is a dangerous man. His ideas on optimizing your creativity, doing wow work and building a life that inspires will devastate your limits. And show you how to win. Read this book fast."
—Robin Sharma, #1 bestselling author of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Begin before you're ready.
Renowned designer and professional hell-raiser James Victore wants to drag you off your couch and throw you headfirst into a life of...
—Robin Sharma, #1 bestselling author of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Begin before you're ready.
Renowned designer and professional hell-raiser James Victore wants to drag you off your couch and throw you headfirst into a life of...
6) The Product Innovator's Handbook: How to design and manufacture a product that people want to buy
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Why do some physical products succeed, and others fail?
When you have an idea for a new product, it's a pivotal moment. This device of yours will enhance the lives of the people who use it, earn you extra money, and have a significant impact on the world.
However, there's much more to a successful product than the quality of the original idea. Why do some products fly off the shelves and others not even reach the market? That's what this book will...
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It's the first night of summer, and fifteen year-old Sara James is sleeping outside on her backyard trampoline with her best friend, Kai. Sara awakens in the middle of the night to a beautiful, starry sky. There's a sudden flash of light, and an angelic woman appears, floating on the night air with her magnificent, sparkling-white wings outstretched. She introduces herself as Anjalie, and invites Sara to join her on a quest. Normally cautious and...
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Have you in your adult life, looked at the mirror and thought, "Ah, I wonder if by now I could have come further ahead in my life with more wealth and perhaps some fame to claim!" Well, you're not alone. In this tactical and strategic guide to inventions and innovations, you will discover your Unique Impact Ability - Your Unique Ability To Create Massive Unique Impact through your creativity and problem-solving prowess. The author shares 30 years...
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CRAFT YOUR OWN SUCCESS. Whether you're a master crafter, a carpenter, a jewelry designer, or have become passionate about making the best home décor in town, now is the time to go from hobby to full-time business owner. And with million shoppers ready to discover your unique offerings it only makes sense to join the largest, most successful online community of creative entrepreneurs on Etsy®. Our experts have teamed up with successful shop owners...
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A fascinating and comprehensive look into the life of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, now with an afterword.
"Deep-dish...sharp-clawed...honestly admiring."-New York Times
There are at least two Ralph Laurens.
To the public he's a gentle, modest, yet secure and purposeful man. Inside the walls of Polo Ralph Lauren, though, he was long seen by some as a narcissist, an insecure ditherer, and, at times, a rampaging tyrant.
Michael Gross,...
12) Turn Photoshop, Gimp, Illustrator, and Affinity Designer into Cash: Using Your Design Software to
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You've got your design software, but what do you do with it? Dink around and make cool objects? That's fun, but does it make you money? Maybe you're an artist or graphic designer? That will certainly help, but even if you aren't, you can do this. I certainly wasn't any kind of designer when I started. That has changed along the way. I'm not a great designer, but I'm good. Good enough that people buy my products. You can get there too. I will show...
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The must-read summary of Guy Kawasaki's book: "Rules for Revolutionaries: The Capitalist Manifesto for Creating and Marketing New Products and Services".
This complete summary of the ideas from Guy Kawasaki's book "Rules for Revolutionaries" shows that if any company aspires to change the world rather than just make a few bucks, it has to successfully generate and exploit a business revolution. In his book, the author explains that a business evolution...
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In Depression-era Dallas, Elsie Frankfurt and Edna Frankfurt Ravkind raised five hundred dollars and launched a daring new enterprise, Page Boy Maternity Clothing-the first to engineer elegance in comfort. When Louise Frankfurt Gartner joined the team, the sisters' combined engineering, business, and PR genius made Page Boy the foremost maternity-clothing manufacturer in the United States. Dressing entertainment icons such as Loretta Young, Elizabeth...
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Successful graphic designer and entrepreneur Larry Daniels exposes the weak spot that derails so many graphic designers' careers: the critical business side of making it as an independent designer. Running even a one-person design firm takes a lot more than raw talent and technical ability. The Graphic Designer's Business Survival Guide offers insider expertise on building a profitable, sustainable design business. Packed with sample agreements, letters,...
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Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers (D4G) showed how organizations can use design thinking to boost innovation and drive growth. This updated and expanded companion guide is a stand-alone project workbook that provides a step-by-step framework for applying the D4G tool kit and process to a particular project, systematically explaining how to address the four key questions of the design thinking approach.In the field book,...
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The must-read summary of Lori Greiner's book: "Invent It, Sell It, Bank It: Make Your Million-Dollar Idea into a Reality".
This complete summary of the ideas from Lori Greiner's book: "Invent It, Sell It, Bank It" gives a step-by-step guide on how to take a new product to market and turn your idea into a reality. According to Greiner, these steps must be accompanied by seven fundamental characteristics and hard work. If you have all of these things...
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In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most inspiring work yet, with ten simple rules for how to stay creative, focused, and true to yourself--for life. The creative life is not a linear journey to a finish line, it's a loop--so find a daily routine, because today is the only...
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