Douglas Davis

The Business Skills Every Creative Needs! Remaining relevant as a creative professional takes more than creativity--you need to understand the language of business. The problem is that design school doesn't teach the strategic language that is now essential to getting your job done. Creative Strategy and the Business of Design fills that void and teaches left-brain business skills to right-brain creative thinkers. Inside, you'll learn about the business objectives and marketing decisions that drive your creative work. The curtain's been pulled away as marketing-speak and business jargon are translated into tools to help you: Understand client requests from a business perspective Build a strategic framework to inspire visual concepts Increase your relevance in an evolving industry Redesign your portfolio to showcase strategic thinking Win new accounts and grow existing relationships You already have the creativity; now it's time to gain the business insight. Once you understand what the people across the table are thinking, you'll be able to think how they think to do what we do.

Creative Strategy and the Business of Design

From Scala, the world's leading digital repository of fine art, comes an authoritative guide to art on the Internet for art lovers, students, researchers and professionals... "The Scalavision Guide To Art On The Internet" combats information overload by listing only the best, most useful, most consistently accurate sources of information on hundreds of art subjects. These sites have been selected after an exhaustive surfing process to weed out incomplete, inaccurate and out-of-date sources. Whether it's Monet or cave paintings, the Uffizi Gallery or the Museum of Modern Art, this book takes you right to the best sites, complete with a wealth of screenshots to help you decide at a glance if this is the site you need. Best of all, it's linked to the new Scalavision web site for information and access to new sites as they are established.

Guide to Art on the Internet

Challenging the assumption that television dominates American life, a cultural critic analyzes such television "events" as the Rodney King beating and the Clarence Thomas hearings--to prove that television's claim to power is overestimated. 25,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

The Five Myths of Television Power, Or, Why the Medium is Not the Message

PEACE: “For God’s sake, stop the bickering.” The title of this book has attempted to capture the essence of its contents. This effort is about the things that matter on the road to peace. It can be used as a study guide for small church groups or by an individual seeking self-improvement. The 11 things listed in the book do not cover all that matters. The author has discussed priorities that, when understood and practiced, will assist readers in understanding the value of disagreements that are natural to the human condition. However, the authors asserts, disagreements are often allowed to escalate into the hostility that he describes as conflict where its value dissipates. His claim that conflict is disagreements on steroids awaits the reader’s response.

For God’s sake, stop the bickering!

Become involved in Hunter's westward quest for freedom during the Civil War, when the forced "Long Walk" and tragic enslavement threatened the destruction of his proud people. This Navajo youth displays three loves of homeland, culture and tribe while struggling with daily survival issues, dangerous wildlife, and the greed of soldiers determined to eliminate this cherished freedom. Religious enlightenment develops for Hunter while "walking in beauty" with nature, and contending with convoluted cross roads of truth and irony. Freedom has never been free!

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