Master Your Craft

Strategies for Designing, Making and Selling Artisan Work

by Tien Chiu

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Pub Date Aug 28 2016 | Archive Date Nov 30 2016

Description

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 author’s 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 book’s design guidelines to make your work more visually powerful, useful, and simple to create. Finally, use this guide’s 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.

Advance Praise

"Balances encouragement with life lessons from renowned artists . . . Chiu’s expertise guides her readers to consider many beneficial steps to move their careers forward."—From the Foreword by Christopher H. Amundsen, Executive Director, American Craft Council

This innovative book helps lend structure to the inspired mind of the maker. The readers' experience is enriched with...practical exercises that are sure to catapult their creative and professional lives to the the next level. -Marcia Young, Publisher/Editor in Chief, Fiber Art Now

Read this book if you are serious about starting or continuing to master your craft...Chiu leads you through the process of creation from inspiration to completion and possible sale.-Martha Sielman, Executive Director, Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA)

Gives insight into the many personal approaches in making well-designed and accomplished works that have potential for placement in the market. -Paul J. Smith, Director Emeritus, Museum of Arts and Design

"Balances encouragement with life lessons from renowned artists . . . Chiu’s expertise guides her readers to consider many beneficial steps to move their careers forward."—From the Foreword by...