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Damn Good Advice (For People With Talent!) is a look into the mind of one of America's most legendary creative thinkers, George Lois. Offering indispensle lessons, practical advice, facts, anecdotes and inspiration, this book is a timeless creative bible for all those looking to succeed in life, business and creativity. These are key lessons derived from the incomparle life of 'Master Communicator' George Lois, the original Mad Man of Madison Avenue. Written and compiled by the man The Wall Street Journal called "prodigy, enfant terrible, founder of agencies, creator of legends," each step is borne from a passion to succeed and a disdain for the status quo.
Organised into inspirational, bite-sized pointers, each page offers fresh insight into the sources of success, from identifying your heroes to identifying yourself. The ideas, images and illustrations presented in this book are fresh, witty and in-your-face. Whether it's communicating your point in nanosecond, creating an explosive portfolio or making your presence felt, no one is better placed than George Lois to teach you the process of creativity.
Poignant, punchy and to-the-point, Damn Good Advice (For People With Talent!) is a must have for anyone on a quest for success
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I enjoyed this - there was plenty of opinion and some of it damn good.
The short take away is; creativity needs nurturing (build a resource - go to galleries, keep looking around you, question), exercise the skill, use it and regularly, believe in it - if you don't 100%, why should anyone else.
Refine, refine, refine....boil down how you communicate the idea, until it leaps out, clear and true.
Don't do brainstorm, “group-think” is a killer.
Being in adverting in the early days, in New York, post WW2, 60's, pre-computer, he obviously had a blast.
For me, it suffered a little for the fact that a story assembles the best bits (edited) and it sounds like it happened without a hitch. This is probably the result of his occupation (sales and advertising) and being an elderly male (New Yorker).
If I read too much in one go, I kept thinking about my Grandfather, when he visited the states and was told that in the US they grew potatoes, the size of your head - he relied, in Scotland we grew potatoes to fit in your mouth.
This book was enjoyable and worked best in bite sized chunks.
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