Exploring Business Issues Faced by Creative Pros with Author & Professor Douglas Davis

Douglas Davis (@DouglasQDavis) is a graphic designer, professor, consultant, and author of the new book Creative Strategy and the Business of Design. The book, which follows his recent talks and workshops, explores business issues that face creative professionals, especially those which may not even seem apparent.

In this conversation, we explore the business culture exposed creatives, the shortcomings of our design education system, and how Brooklyn is becoming the home for creative thought.

Check out Douglas’s book, Creative Strategy and the Business of Design, now available where fine books are sold.

Show Notes & Links

• Douglas joins Prescott at his home-studio in Brooklyn. Douglas too is a Brooklyn resident and former neighbour.
• Douglas describes himself as a Professor, among other things
• New York College of Technology, Communication Design
• City College, Branding & Integrated Communication graduate course
• Nancy Tag
• The Davis Group
• “In The Arena”
• DCRIT – MFA in Design Criticsm at the School of Visual Arts, now MA in Design Research

"Everyone has that story of when they were first taken advantage of."

—Douglas Davis

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• Creative Strategy and the Business of Design by Douglas Davis on Amazon
  
• Pratt, Communication Design MA
• Creative pros spend the first ten years of their careers “face down at the desk”
• NYU, MS in Integrated Marketing
• “In The Trenches”

"Design school doesn't teach business, and Business school doesn't teach how to inspire designers."

—Douglas Davis

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"Clients expect us to answer their problems with creativity that's on-brand, on-strategy, and on-message."

—Douglas Davis

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"Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan."

—Russian proverb (or maybe Tacitus c. 98 AD)

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