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To progress in your career, you need to fuel your mind with the right books, put the right tools in your hands, and use softwares that make you an efficient designer.

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Books & Sketchbooks

The following references are my best recommendations. Some of them has made me love sketching and some have fine-tuned my understanding of the design job and how to unlock my creativity. I believe that these are worth your time and energy. It is important to learn from the tools which are available in order to grow in your skills and career.

Sketching: Drawing Techniques for Product Designers
by Koos Eissen, Roselien Steur

Sketching is an incredibly broad and practical survey of sketching techniques for product designers. It goes without saying that the book is suited for the classroom, but every design studio will also find this manual an asset, because in spite of the ascendancy of the computer, hand-drawn sketches are still a very much used

Design Forward
by Hartmut Esslinger

Creative Strategies for Sustainable Change. One of the most influential designers and thinkers, as well as the founder of frog design – explains how ‘strategic design’ in business and society can and must bring about positive change through innovative creativity. A key component is the strategically extended definition of design as…

The Freelance Manifesto
By Joey Korenman

Designing beautiful boards and making smooth animation come naturally to us Motion Designers. It’s what we’re good at. However, designing the career we want, with the freedom, flexibility, and pay we crave, that’s more difficult. All of the above is within your grasp if you’re willing to take the plunge into freelancing.

Creativity, Inc.
By Ed Catmull

Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration. From a co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios—the Academy Award–winning studio behind Coco, Inside Out, and Toy Story—comes an incisive book about creativity in business and leadership for readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath.

Design by Apple in California
by Apple

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la laideur se vend mal
by Raymond Loewy

“Il faut être une oeuvre d’art ou en porter une”, disait Oscar Wilde. Raymond Loewy (1893-1986), tenu pour le fondateur du design industriel, a fait sien cet aphorisme. Depuis la plus tendre enfance, il rêve de locomotives, d’automobiles, de navires. Âgé de quinze ans, “il donne son coeur à douze magnifiques créatures”.

10 Principles for Good Design
Dieter Rams

Exquisitely produced to reflect Dieter Rams’ aesthetic philosophy, this book presents highlights from a forty-year career designing iconic consumer products that enhance our daily lives. For decades, anyone who cared about product design looked to the Braun label when choosing their appliances, radios, and other…

Cradle to Cradle
By Michael Braungart

Remaking the Way We Make Things: “Reduce, reuse, recycle” urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book argues, this approach perpetuates a one-way, “cradle to grave” manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution…

IDRAW (Shoes, Cars, Manga, Motos, Comics)
by Matt Marrocco

Learn to draw the things you love. At its heart, every IDRAW book is meant to be sketched in and filled with your progress. The key to getting better is simple: lots and lots of practice.Made of step-by-step tutorials and exercises taught by industry professionals, which means you’re learning from the best there is.

Softwares

The following design competitions are currently ongoing. If we list them here, it's because they are worth your time and energy. Whether to fine-tune your skills, to add a new project to your portfolio, gain experience, or simply for the prize: Participating in these challenges will help your skills and career. So don't think twice: Join and enjoy.

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