Your Perfect Home-Based Studio: Guide For Designers & Other . . .

Creative professionals who work out of their homes face a number of challenges, both anticipated and unexpected. Simply knowing where to start is perhaps the most difficult obstacle of all. In Your Perfect Home-Based Studio, everything from taxes and setting up a workspace to the psychological aspects of working at home is covered. Whether the reader is a graphic artist, a new media designer or an illustrator, all the information they need is here, including:

* the basics of setting up and running a business
* sure-fire methods for getting clients and getting paid
* suggestions for structuring a studio environment
* guidelines for putting together a powerful business plan
* how to get the best deals in equipment and furniture
* information on getting legal and professional advice
* how to stay in compliance with federal and local tax and zoning regulations

Designers will also find invaluable sidebars full of tips and advice, and samples of business forms and bookkeeping systems that make Your Perfect Home-Based Studio the perfect home business reference.

Poppy Evans is a freelance graphic designer and writer who has been working from her Park Hills, Kentucky home since 1991. She has authored eight titles and is a frequent contributor to many design magazines and teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.