Pocket Business Guide for Artists and Designers

This handy pocket guide answers the most pressing questions artists and designers will have when setting up an art practice or creative business. Many visual artists who graduate from art school need to learn how to be self-employed or form a company. This book presents 100 useful business related things (explained in 250 words or less) that any creative should know. The book is divided into five sections that will help artists and designers achieve success and make money from their work: business, promotion, legal, money and last thoughts. This essential resource is packed with invaluable information for all creative practitioners.

A Pocket Business Guide for Artists and Designers is a crackingly good book., What is great about this book is that you can get very quick and to-the-point answers, with good website links to relevant organisations or resources. You can quickly dip in and dip out, or flick through the book, and it also entices you to read the other business questions ... If you want quick answers and to find links to more detailed resources elsewhere then this is a great starting point.

Alison Branagan is a creative industries business consultant, author, and an associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design where she teaches short courses in entrepreneurship, business start-up and self-promotion.