Hasta La Ideas

We’ve just launched a new special called Hack2Work: Essential Tips for the Design Professional. Filled with hundreds of tips, tricks, lifehacks and advice for practicing designers, the feature covers everything from office politics to office snacks, from essential books to essential software, and from intellectual property and design research to design conferences, working with the press, sustainable practice, and creative hiring.

Hack2Work is divided into 5 sections: CLIENTS, OFFICE, STAFF, PROCESS, and PROMOTION, each dealing with an essential facet of design practice. Here’s a partial list of some of the items you’ll find:

+ How to Make Your Client’s Logo Bigger Without Making Their Logo Bigger, by Michael Bierut
+ Why Does the Firm Own Everything I Do? Intellectual Property & You, by Katy Frankel
+ How to Get Invited to Speak at a Design Conference, by Alissa Walker
+ Check Please: How to Learn About Your Clients From Their Table Manners, by Liz Danzico
+ On Being T-Shaped, by Tim Brown
+ 19 Books Every Design Professional Should Own, by Andy Polaine
+ The Definitive DIY Guide for Professional Designers, by Christy Canida
+ Core77’s Guide to Unconventional Office Plants, by Lisa Smith
+ 5 Keys to Successful Design Research, by Steve Portigal
+ How to Pitch Me, by Linda Tischler

Plus: Your Guide to Last-Minute Package Shipping, Tips and Advice from a Professional Recruiter, How to Work the Social Web, and much, much more.

SUPER BONUS! Core77 is proud to introduce “COG + ROCKSTAR”—a series of new Core-toons from the amazing Lunchbreath and Fueledbycoffe—exploring the nuances (and nonsense) of what it’s like to be a design professional through the eyes of COG (loveable, diligent) and ROCKSTAR (enviable, dubious) as they navigate the terrain of design practice.

Dive right in at core77.com/hack2work. There truly is something here for everyone—fun, useful, irreverent, surprising—Hack2Work is ultimately a celebration of design…and its practitioners.

Summer’s over. Hack 2 Work!

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