The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers
The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers
Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
World of Books
At World of Books, you’ll find millions of preloved reads at great prices, from bestsellers to hidden gems. Every book you buy saves money and helps reduce waste, so you can read more for less while giving stories a second life.
The feel-good place to buy books
- Free US shipping over $15
- Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
- Millions of affordable books
- Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!

The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers by Alison Branagan
This second edition of the best-selling, comprehensive handbook The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers will appeal to a wide range of artists, makers, designers, and photographers looking to set up and establish an arts practice or design business within the visual arts and creative industries. With fully revised content, three new chapters, and profiles of contemporary artists and designers from around the world, this guide leads the reader through the most important aspects of setting up and growing a profitable enterprise. Providing the vital knowledge and tools to develop a vision and achieve business growth, topics include: - Building networks and successful negotiation tactics - Promoting an engaging social media presence - Business planning and money management - Overview of legal, tax and intellectual property issues - Setting up a website and trading online - Exploiting innovation and future trends As well as specially tailored enterprise exercises and useful diagrams, this latest edition features apt quotations and indispensable resources including an extensive glossary and a list of key professional bodies and organisations based in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and South America. This handbook is printed in a dyslexic-friendly font and includes new illustrated mind maps and colour pictures throughout.
Unravels the complexities of subjects such as taxation … The author has considered almost every eventuality within the day-to-day running of businesses of various sizes … Both newly graduated and seasoned freelancer will benefit from reading this book* Jo Davies, Association of Illustrators Blog *
Alison Branagan is a visual arts and creative industries consultant and associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins, London, UK, where she teaches short courses in entrepreneurship, business start-up and self-promotion.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781350153899 |
| ISBN 10 | 1350153893 |
| Title | The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers |
| Author | Alison Branagan |
| Series | Essential Guides |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2019-12-03 |
| Number of pages | 344 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |