How to Make It: 25 Makers Share the Secrets to Building a Creative Business

How to Make It: 25 Makers Share the Secrets to Building a Creative Business

by Erin Austen Abbott Author

A rad book that profiles makers and includes projects you can make yourself. Featuring 25 profiles of illustrators, jewelry designers, ceramicists, painters, clothing designers, and printmakers, How to Make It provides a behind-the-scenes look at the daily rituals and best practices that keep these creative entrepreneurs on track. With photos, Q & As, insider tips, and DIYs from each maker, these pages offer guidance and encouragement to artists just starting their careers and to professionals looking to take their creative business to the next level. Guides to make your own wood conditioner, zippered pouch, several kinds of jewelry, how to emboss a notebook with copper leafing, take good measurements of your favorite jeans so they can be re-created, and more cool, non-basic skills and projects made simple.

(This book may contain a sharpie mark on the top or bottom edge and may show mild signs of shelfwear.)