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Elevate your design career, nurture creative culture, and learn to lead with confidence, empathy, and creativity in the age of AI.

In The Art of Direction, Vincent Wanga distills over two decades of professional expertise into an inspiring, deeply personal, and practical guide for aspiring art directors, design directors, and creative directors. This book reveals the essential soft skills, leadership strategies, and management tools needed to elevate your creative career. Whether you're looking to lead design teams, mentor emerging talent, or build a thriving creative culture, Vince equips you with everything you need to succeed in creative leadership roles.

What You'll Learn:

• Finding motivation to pursue creative leadership.
• What is an art director, design director, or creative director?
• How to become an art director, design director, or creative director.
• Essential skills to thrive and lead effectively.
• How to build and manage high-performing creative teams.
• Empathy-driven mentoring techniques for nurturing new talent.
• Practical strategies to inspire team creativity and foster a strong culture.
• Leading in the evolving creative landscape shaped by AI.

Whether you're conspiring to improve your craft in art direction, design direction, or creative direction, this book is a must-have guide for creative professionals and empathetic leaders in any industry.

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In a digital realm where there are 4.8 billion people on social media sending billions of messages out into the world every day, standing out requires more than just luck—it demands strategic finesse.

The Guide to Going Viral is like a director’s manual for social media. It provides a step-by-step approach to crafting content with the impact of a classic film. Brendan Kane leverages his expertise in social media, entrepreneurship, and the film industry to blend the art of filmmaking with strategies for viral content creation. This unique combination highlights his talent in transforming traditional storytelling into engaging online narratives, ensuring success in the digital realm.

Through Kane’s perspective, social media becomes a director’s stage, with each post unveiling a narrative arc designed to captivate and engage the audience. He empowers you to assume the role of director, producer, actor, and screenwriter for your content, helping you master storytelling techniques that leave a lasting impact.

Kane and his team at Hook Point have pioneered a process that has amassed tens of billions of views and hundreds of millions of followers for their clients. Now, Kane shares the most effective tools from his digital agency’s arsenal. This includes the Viral Content Model, Viral Formats, and the Communication Algorithm—consider these your elite digital content advisers. 

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Graphic design has a paradoxical relationship to history. While it claims to promote originality and innovation - ideas that emphasize the new and unique - design practice is deeply embedded in previous ideals. Too often, design students encounter the past in brief visual impressions which seduce them to imitate form rather than engage with historical contexts. Even though it has claimed to be objective and even comprehensive, graphic design history has focused largely on individual careers and Eurocentric achievements.

Yet the past swells with untapped potential. Graphic design history can serve the field of today and tomorrow, but its narratives require updates. History, like design, is always changing - and like design, history is driven by present-day questions. This book shows how students and practicing designers can enrich their work by thinking historically about design. With thoughtful analyses, stimulating creative prompts, inspiring case studies, and perspectives from designers all over the world, this book challenges our traditional understanding of graphic design history, and the very notion of the design canon, offering ways to shape socially engaged, critical practices.

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This book explores the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to transform public relations (PR) and offers guidance on maintaining authenticity in this new era of communication.

One of the main challenges PR educators, researchers, and practitioners face in the AI era is the potential for miscommunication or unintended consequences of using AI tools. This volume provides insights on how to mitigate these risks and ensure that PR strategies are aligned, offering practical guidance on maintaining trust and authenticity in PR practices. Readers will learn to leverage AI for enhanced communication strategies and real-time audience engagement while navigating the ethical and legal implications of AI in PR. Featuring contributions from leading scholars, the book includes case studies and examples of AI-driven PR practices, showcasing innovative approaches and lessons from well-known brands. It offers a global perspective on AI’s impact on PR, with insights for practitioners and scholars worldwide.

This book equips public relations educators, researchers, and professionals with the knowledge and tools they need in the changing landscape of communication in the age of AI.

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Courageous Marketing is your guide to grabbing attention, creating loyal fans, and crafting messages that connect with your audience (before turning them into buyers). Through practical examples from Udi Ledergor’s journey building an iconic brand at Gong and invaluable advice from marketing leaders at companies like Salesforce, Oracle, and Atlassian, you’ll learn how to:

• Punch above your weight with guerrilla marketing stunts to make your company appear bigger than it is.
• Create content marketing so good that people are willing to pay for it.
• Successfully build a new product category (but only if you really need to).

If you want to intentionally advance your marketing career, build a highly effective team, and impactfully collaborate with your peers, you’re in the right place.

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