You'll appreciate this design career guide if:You're a recent graduate and looking for a job as a designerYou want resume and interviewing advice, as well as tips for working in the design industryYou'd like to learn how to avoid common pitfalls of asserting yourself in the design industryWhat They Didn't Teach You in Design School by Phil Cleaver provides advice on the stage from graduating, and getting into a studio and staying there as a valued designer, and explores best design practices. Though predominantly serving as a useful guide and bridge in the first year of your career as a designer, it should also be considered an essential tool that can be consulted when you're unsure of what to do next. Begin with the essentials of beginning your design career, like building your resume and portfolio, seeking out opportunities, and preparing for and securing interviews.More than just helping you get a job, however, this career guide serves to help you succeed in whichever design position you land. Learn how to effectively work with other designers and your own clients, keep up to date with the industry, hone your business skills, and much more. From the day after graduation to the completion of your first year as a design professional, this career guide will help you stay on top of your game.In What They Didn't Teach You in Design School you'll find:11 chapters covering topics ranging from software skills, print production, and designer relations, to good design practice, web skills, and working with external suppliersHelpful design advice that you'll want to return to again and againA word from the author:"e;Working in a studio is hugely different from studying; this book is aimed at helping you through the transition and giving you the ammo to climb this massive new learning curve."e; --Phil Cleaver

Stay Safe in the City

Here's the book that won't advise you to flee the city and set up a homestead to avoid potential disasters. With many other survival-planning resources emphasizing that approach, urban dwellers that plan to stay put in the city, no matter the circumstances, have been overlooked. Not only do 58 percent of Americans live in cities, but certain risks are higher in cities than elsewhere.

Urban Emergency Survival Plan delivers a common-sense approach to urban survival planning rather than advocating that city survivalists need to figure out a way to grow an acre of food, raise goats, and build an underground bunker. The clearly outlined approach here will help you to reduce the risks inherent in disasters that occur in well-populated areas.

Inside you'll find:

• Packing lists for get-home bags, everyday carry items for adults and kids and bug-out bags
• An overview of threats that face an urban area and instructions for planning safe travel during and after disasters, as well as how to plan a temporary escape
• Instructions for sheltering in place at work
• Chapters on food storage and water procurement in urban areas with emphasis on limited space and budget
• A detailed chapter on security options in urban areas
• A detailed chapter on sanitation, first aid and shelter
• Ideas for how to respond and cooperate with government disaster plans
• Photos of important survival gear
Discover the skills you'll need to weather any storm, whether you live in an apartment, townhouse, condominium, single-family home or any other urban setting. With planning and practice, you'll gain the confidence to always feel safe in the city.