Synopses & Reviews
Leading headhunter Roz Goldfarb reveals her time-proven secrets for survival and success in the graphic design industry. Through her work with hundreds of corporations around the world, she provides readers a treasure trove of valuable information for thriving in this creatively driven business, including updated hiring criteria, the latest developments in technology, and the marketplace affecting design careers.
Discussion in this revised and expanded third edition includes: jobs, hiring practices, salaries, portfolios, resumes, networking, headhunters, training, freelancing, and more, with a special focus on the new design disciplines, training requirements, and opportunities for the Internet. Careers by Design should be on the desk of every ambitious graphic designer. If you are looking to secure an even more successful future, Careers by Design is a must-read.
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"An informative introduction to the business side of graphic design." Milton Glaser
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"Roz Goldfarb knows her stuff and has written an unusually comprehensive, candid, and savvy guide to graphic design....An upbeat state-of-the-industry career book for tough times." Booklist
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"Goldfarb provides insight into the steps and current creative challenges faced in moving into a design career." Library Journal
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"An acclaimed expert....Roz Goldfarb writes with the authority of a top headhunter...and covers the whole complicated field of what 'graphic design' has become." Communication Arts
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"A 'must-have' guide for anyone navigating the dramatically changing design profession in pursuit of achievement, gratification, and success." Richard Grefé
Synopsis
Through her work with hundreds of corporations around the world, leading headhunter Roz Goldfarb provides readers a treasure trove of valuable information for thriving in this creatively driven business, including updated hiring criteria, the latest developments in technology, and the marketplace affecting design careers.
Discussion in this revised and expanded third edition includes: jobs, hiring practices, salaries, portfolios, resumes, networking, headhunters, training, freelancing, and more, with a special focus on the new design disciplines, training requirements, and opportunities for the Internet. Careers by Design should be on the desk of every ambitious graphic designer.
Synopsis
Time-proven secrets for survival and success in the graphic design industry.
About the Author
Roz Goldfarb founded and heads Roz Goldfarb Associates, a specialized, full-service recruitment agency based in New York City. The agency places creative and managerial personnel in marketing communication firms, corporations, and advertising agencies nationally and internationally. While actively engaged in recruitment, Goldfarb's responsibilities additionally include establishing mergers, acquisitions, and new business ventures, as well as acting as a management consultant.
She is a multi-disciplinary person whose skills emanate from many years of hands-on business management, coupled with her early training as a sculptor and painter and her tenure as the director of Pratt Institute's Associate Degree Programs, where she hired and trained numerous faculty and developed programs, design curricula, seminars, and foreign programs.
Goldfarb frequently addresses professional groups and numerous educational institutions about career opportunities and the changing design environment. Recent engagements include the HOW Conference, the International Institute for Research, the Design Management Institute, the Association of Professional Design Firms, and the AIGA National Conference. She has been a visiting guest lecturer and critic at Syracuse University, FIT/State University of New York, Art Center College of Design, the Academy of Art College, the Los Angeles chapter of the AIGA, the Parsons School of Design, and Pratt Institute. In 1987, she established a scholarship with the Art Directors club of New York to further the education of talented design students who require scholarship aid.
She holds a master of fine arts degree from Pratt Institute and a Bachelor of arts degree from Hunter College of the City University of New York, where she studied painting with Robert Motherwell.