The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers - Revised and Updated

by Alison Branagan

The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers is a comprehensive business start up book and a practical enterprise skills guide that should appeal to a wide range of artists. This excellent guide is designed to help artists acquire vital knowledge and skills to develop a vision and strategy for the future and make that vision into a successful business. Specific topics that are covered include: self-employment v. employment; starting up a business; funding and sponsorship; building networks; self-promotion; legal issues and creative crime; negotiation tactics and contracts; records, taxes and basic bookkeeping; trading via the Internet, innovation and future trends. All in all, this is a thorough guide for all budding artists who want to start up a business.

Genres: Art, Business

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Sarah Offner · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this book very different to other business start-up books.

I have always found it difficult to find books that are really geared towards creative people and written in a language they can understand. This one really hits the mark.

It contains everything you need to know to get your creative business up and running and keep the momentum going once you have. There are some great case studies to break up the trickier topics and endless references for where to go next for advice.

I don't think there is another book that compares so I will certainly be referring back to this one time and again.

[Rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book, covers a lot of information for new starters in a language that designers, artists and makers understand. Very useful for new starters, tutors, students and anyone thinking about running a small creative business. There is so much information for a small business to get the heads round, it is fabulous to get some help.

[Nix Parker · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't recommend this book highly enough. It's absolutely essential for anyone in a creative field, but also invaluable for anyone starting their own business. It has a wealth of information that would take years to figure out yourself. It has helped me avoid some costly mistakes. Essential in this day when so many businesses fail

[Philip Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book for creative people who want to start-up a business, gives all the info you need in well written and plain English, and was a real help to me when I setup my business.

Highly recommended.

[Richard Hunt · Rating 2 out of 5]

not bad but I am not sure it is for artists........ the majority of it is a standard startup book for new business ventures.