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Creative Catalyst: A Guide for Students Transitioning into Building a Career

Congrats graduates or soon-to-be! You did it and got your creative degree. All pumped to show off your creativity but are you prepared to shift to being a working professional? Did you learn how to do that? Don’t worry! Taking what I taught creative students over the past several years, I’ve created a guidebook to help you transition from being a student into a working creative. Compiled from my own working experiences, information I have accumulated, and conservations from industry colleagues, you’ll find helpful information such as:

• practical tips on building resumes for creatives
• what type of creative jobs are out there
• setting yourself up as a freelancer
• dealing with paperwork like taxes/invoices/proposals
• setting up pricing for your work rate.

Creating this guidebook is my way to fill out what I believe is missing in design education—how to navigate the business of design.

Available now on Amazon.com.

“Andrew Bass is excellent teacher. I always see him as a great mentor. It’s easy to find good designers but it’s difficult to find great designers who can also break down design/creative process step by step guiding students through rough ideas/concept, research, execution, to a pristine comp (and presentation).”

Maxine Lin
Graphic Designer at NASDAQ

Sketch & Learn

Check it out! Published my own dot grid sketchbook with a collection of twenty tips about creativity, business, how-to and just things to know from the many years I’ve worked in design. It’s particularly useful for students and young designers but can be used by everyone.

Just one of ways I’m paying my knowledge forward.

Available now on Amazon.com.