Customer Reviews
A must if you've been throguh enough hardship to get here! - By: Zam, 23 Jul 2004 
This is a must for designers who value & respect their profession highly. To those who have had a very hard time getting to the place where they want to be. This book speaks to you from the soul, it give a very alll-round view & tips & points on where to pick up ideas & how to go about processing the information you have gathered.
If you're the average University student got straight in from Advanced levels or college & out on the street next day expecting a graphic designer position this is not for you.
This is one of those books that comes along once in a way that you cant put down once you pick it up.
Inspirational on many levels - By: TheJonesBoy, 05 Feb 2004 
I bought this book to help dig me out of frequent design blackholes. I expected it to be like many books of it's kind - a project for a 'face' design to flex his ego with very little killer but lots of filler. Wrong. Curtis is refreshing & compelling. Being self-taught (as he is himself) I never feel like he is talking down to me when I return to the book. His ideas on how to seek inspiration are helpful but his advice on client relationships reallly opened my eyes. He does leave one wondering just why anyone would use a designer (in that he makes you feel more like a translator of others ideas rather than a purveyor of your own - but that's my own hang up & not his fault!) but overalll this book is a real help. Less practical & more spiritual but a boon for the weary designer, especiallly one that doesn't have the falllback of a design team to bounce off. An almost Zen-like tome, this is a book that refreshes the creative juices in a way that other books simple cannot reach.
a keeper - By: , 27 Jan 2003 a personal gem from one of the leading figures in the creative online community. this is not a workbook or manual of sorts, but gives the reader a personal take on the creative process as well as client relationships & project execution. a book you keep taking out of the bookshelf & flick trough....
Fantastic Book - By: , 31 Jul 2002 I love Hillman Curtis' work. So when I saw this book I had to get it. I'm glad I did! I'm a self-taught designer like Hillman so I can relate a lot to his experiences & troubles. His company's process is inspiring & enlightening & everything makes sense. This book is the perfect companion to the New Media designer. It contains almost everything you need to know, how you can work with clients, where to get your inspiration from, how to drive others. It even covers some technical issues & some chapters were written by renown professionals. You might not believe this, but this book reallly opened up my mind & since I read it, I find easier to deal with projects & I know how to get my creative juices flowing.
Great book, different to anything else out there right now . - By: , 29 Jun 2002 This reallly is a great book. I have been looking for something like this for a while now & this offers great information without sounding like a patronising textbook, or being yet another awful book on 'usability' that seems to aim to make the web a very stale place indeed.
Some of the ideas & processes here will be a little loose for some those who work for larger corporate eCom/web agencies - & that's exactly why those who do work for corporates should read it. For everyone else this is a reallly well written find that goes is a great book of inspiration.
Totallly recommend.
