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April 28, 2016 by Tien Chiu

Now available for pre-order!

I am pleased to announce that my book, Master Your Craft: Strategies for Designing, Making, and Selling Artisan Work is (finally!) available for pre-order!

Master Your Craft - Strategies for Designing, Making, and Selling Artisan Work

$29.99 + $6.50 s/h (w/in USA)[wp_cart_button name=”Master Your Craft” price=”36.49″]

Pre-order now!

Pre-order now and you will receive a signed copy via Priority Mail once the book is published!

(Please let me know what inscription you would like via the “Notes” field in PayPal checkout. Anticipated publication date is September 28, 2016.)

Here’s a description of the book:

There is a huge gap between making “recipe projects” from magazines and books and designing your own work, and an equally big gap between designing your own and creating well-designed pieces. Master Your Craft: Strategies for Designing, Creating, and Selling Artisanal Works is intended to fill that gap, enabling novice designers to grow beyond following project “recipes”and teaching more advanced designers strategies to produce masterpieces. It offers a creative process that facilitates exploring new ideas, translating those ideas into solid design, prototyping to solve design problems, and constructing the finished piece.  It provides a process tailored specifically to craft ““ addressing artistic concerns as well as fabrication considerations.

Master Your Craft fuses artistic principles with best practices drawn from interviews from established artisans and industrial product development processes. In addition to covering topics like visual and functional design, Master Your Craft offers insights from artisans across a wide cross-section of the craft world – tapestry weavers, glass workers, ceramicists, quilters, basket weavers, and woodworkers, to name just a few. It also offers the best of industrial development processes – brainstorming techniques used by professional designers, construction strategies from the automotive industry, and iterative development methods from software companies. These industrial methods, fused with more traditional craft approaches, provide a powerful new process for finding and exploring new ideas, for translating those ideas into solid design, for constructing the final piece, and for reflecting on the finished project.

In addition to offering a creative framework, Master Your Craft contains suggestions for growing as a designer – whether on the artist’s path, the businessperson’s path, or as a passionate amateur. It includes tips from established artists and successful craft businesspeople for developing your creative voice, networking to find opportunities for show and sale of your work, and ideas for pricing and promoting your work.

And (should you want to share with your friends), here’s the sales flyer. Please help me spread the word!!

Sales flyer for Master Your Craft: Designing, Making, and Selling Artisan Work

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  1. Nancy Warren says

    April 28, 2016 at 8:34 am

    I would like to preorder your book but the link wouldn’t open on my laptop. Can you email me a new link? Thank you!!
    Nancy

  2. Nancy Warren says

    April 28, 2016 at 8:37 am

    Found a working link. Thanks!
    Nancy

  3. kherbaugh says

    April 29, 2016 at 6:18 am

    Tien, I am so excited for you. I love the cover design. Although I am not an artisan I look forward to reading it. Your writing style is so accessible and interesting I always find myself sucked in even when the complexities of your weaving projects are over my head! Best, Karen

    • Tien Chiu says

      April 29, 2016 at 1:37 pm

      Thanks, Karen! 🙂

  4. Eve Alexander says

    April 29, 2016 at 8:13 am

    Hi Tien,

    It looks great and I’d love a copy. Will you send to UK??

    All the best,
    Eve

    • Tien Chiu says

      April 29, 2016 at 1:36 pm

      Yes, but you’ll have to pay for international shipping – to the UK that would be $22.50 First Class Mail (no guarantees on dates) and $33 for Global Priority Mail (6-10 days). Email me at tien@tienchiu.com if you would like a copy, and I’ll send you a PayPal invoice – that’s probably easiest.

      • Eve Alexander says

        May 5, 2016 at 2:42 pm

        Thanks Tien,
        As it nearly doubles the price and there will be duty to pay on it too, I might wait until I get to the States.
        I do want to get it sometime but will just have to wait.
        All the best,
        Eve

        • Tien Chiu says

          May 7, 2016 at 8:16 pm

          No problem! You might be able to get it from Amazon, too, though I’m not sure if Amazon.uk will carry it.

  5. Darlene Frank says

    April 29, 2016 at 1:28 pm

    Congratulations, Tien!! Very exciting! I like the cover design!

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