Hello and Welcome to the Books Section
Please find below new publications (click on the thumbnail image to go to relevant book). More titles will be announced later this year.
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Making Sense of Business
By Alison Branagan
With Illustrations by Tim Bradford
ISBN: 9780749454869
Kogan Page Ltd
'Making Sense of Business' is a practical enterprise skills book, with useful content for visual artists and creative professionals. Topics Include how to focus, networking, making sales, presentation, negotiation, time management, and creative thinking, amongst many.
As well as apt quotations, the book contained many useful exercises, and mind mapsŪ illustrated by Tim Bradford. With a foreword by Sir James Dyson.
For more information please visit Kogan Page or Amazon.
If you are reading this page from outside the UK, you may prefer to view Amazon.com. (links open in a new page)
To visit the website, please go to www.makingsenseofbusiness.com.
The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers
By Alison Branagan
Forthcoming 2010
ISBN: 978-1408119037
A & C Black Ltd
This guide is a comprehensive business and enterprise skills manual for artists, designers and creative professionals. Subjects include: making creativity pay, how to make a living, business start-up, business planning, money management, networking, self-promotion, funding and sponsorship, negotiating contracts, creative crimes (key legal issues), tax, bookkeeping and preparing for the future.
The book features illustrated mind maps and exercises to aid learning and over forty apt quotations from established artists, designers and writers.
Available for pre-order from Amazon.
The Illustrator's Guide to Success
By Alison Branagan, Simon Stern, Fig Taylor, and et al.
The Association of Illustrators (AOI)
This is a complete business start-up book for illustrators and image-makers. It will be useful to any creative professional working in the commercial domain. Topics include, setting up as self-employed, promotion, negotiation tactics, agents, merchandising, invoicing and tax.
For more information visit the AOI website. Please note this book will be out later in 2010.
Second Steps
By Caroline Mornement
ISBN: 0-9550026-2-1
BCF Books
Alison is a guest author in this brilliant pocket book edited by Caroline Mornement.
This is an essential book for designer-makers and applied artists who wish to set up in business. The two chapters Alison has written are about 'Getting Paid' and 'Negotiation'.
For more information visit BCF Books or Amazon (links opens in new page)
Illustrations by Tim Bradford ©2008
