Bonus Downloads

Best of HOW 2010: Designing Change
Designer’s are in a powerful position to positively influence social change. View projects and designers featured in HOW magazine’s Designing Change column in 2010.

Design’s Dilemma—Crowdsourcing
Designers mostly regard crowdsourcing with dismay. Two respected voices in the industry—Debbie Millman and David C. Baker—offer their contradicting opinions. Don’t miss this lively feature from HOW magazine.

Design Resources
Access to listings of leading design schools, paper mills and suppliers, print vendors, type foundries and stock image providers is a must for designers. HOW magazine features and updates these lists annually.

Designer’s Guide to Creativity
When your cup of creativity grows cold, consult this guide for exercises and articles to warm up your imagination.

Designer’s Guide to Self-Promotion
Put your firm’s best face forward and get inspired by these self-promotion success stories. Plus, view the self-promo gift-giving guide.

Best of HOW 2010: Sidelines
Designers producing, manufacturing and selling their own products is the craze. Read about designers who are balancing their myriad of roles successfully in this compilation of Sidelines columns from HOW magazine.

Sample Business Policies Download
Establish rules and policies for your business—in writing—to help you maintain control in your client relationships. This sample policy download will help you get started.

Design Salary Survey
Read HOW’s full report on salaries, bonuses and benefits and see how your income compares to that of your peers.

Build a Killer Design Career
On the prowl for a new job? Don’t miss these tips to revamp your résumé and interview tips that’ll leave them talking about you in a good way.

Color Index, Revised Edition
Free Swatch Samples
Download 8 color swatch combination from the “Color Index, Revised Edition” book. Then, upload these .ase files into CS2/CS3/CS4 versions of Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop.

Urban Paper
A collection of 26 of the coolest designer paper toys ready to be printed out and built.

Pricing Downloads
Access the following pricing worksheets to help you practice profitable pricing.

Marketing Mad Libs, Figure Out Your Overhead Worksheet, Find Your Hourly Rate, Pricing Goals Worksheet

Back in Blackletter
Blackletter’s association with Nazi propaganda cast the type style as the black sheep of typography. But more and more brands are using the style as a way to bring an edgy vibe to their products.

Balancing Your Business
How many clients should you serve? In what categories? And where? Three consultants who work exclusively with creative firms offer advice to help you develop the ideal client mix for your business.

Beyond Helvetica
Looking for a font that’s as clean and clear as Helvetica but not quite so cliché? Check out these Helvetica-with-a-twist alternatives.

Print It Yourself
Sending files to the printer isn’t nearly as much fun as getting ink on your hands. Meet three inspiring designers who love to get messy – then try their favorite techniques in your client and personal work.

Rock Your Website
Simply having a website is no longer enough. It must be a dynamic destination that acts as a bold advocate on behalf of your design business. Here’s how to take your existing site and make it into the ultimate self-promotion tool.

Start Smart
So you want to go into business for yourself and be your own boss? Before you quit your day job, here are 8 tips for striking out on your own, from designers who’ve already made the break.