Master Your Craft: Strategies for Designing, Making, and Selling Artisan Work - Hardcover

Christopher H. Amundsen; Tien Chiu

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0764351451 ISBN 13: 9780764351457

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

This book outlines a powerful process for designing and creating beautiful work that is practical to make and sell. Perspectives from 22 master artisans fuse with industrial product design techniques and the authors own craftwork experience, focusing sharp insight on the process of creating original work. To use this book, begin with its suggestions for gathering ideas, brainstorming designs, and committing to an ambitious new project. Next, follow the supplied framework for evaluating, changing, and critiquing your work. Apply the books design guidelines to make your work more visually powerful, useful, and simple to create. Finally, use this guides advice to grow as an artisan: Find your voice, develop your skills, sell your work, and (if you want) make craftwork a career. Packed with insights from glassworkers, ceramicists, woodworkers, fiber artists, metalworkers, and more, it provides a solid framework to build on for craftspeople who want to produce spectacular work.

About this title

About the Author

Tien Chiu is an award-winning fiber artist and a professional project manager specializing in new product development. She uses both artisanal and industrial methods for creating original work. Christopher H. Amundsen is the Executive Director of the American Craft Council.

Edition details

• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764351451
• ISBN 13: 9780764351457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208