Previous ed.: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335) and index.

Design Specialties -- Editorial -- Corporate Design -- Book Design -- Music/Record Design -- Information Design -- Advertising -- Environmental -- Interactivity -- What Do You Look For? -- Motion -- Type and Lettering -- Advice To Designers -- Design Businesses -- Freelancers -- Small Studio -- Partnerships -- Medium Firm -- Large Firm -- On Personal Style -- Design Options -- Crossing Disciplines -- Entrepreneurs -- Authorship -- Major Influences -- Design Education -- Undergraduate -- Graduate -- Continuing Education -- List of Schools -- The Future of Graphic Design.

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This user-friendly guide offers a clear and comprehensive review of the types of careers available to today’ s graphic designers. Drawing on years of experience at the top of the field, Steven Heller covers the major design industries– from architecture and industrial design to television, film, and publishing– as well as advertising, corporate, editorial, and other key design disciplines. This edition has been fully updated to address the latest developments in the field, including the evolving digital design disciplines that are creating some of today’ s hottest job opportunities. Complete with dozens of interviews with leading graphic designers and more than 600 striking illustrations, Becoming a Graphic Designer is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in launching– or revitalizing– a graphic design career.