Start Somewhere - A Handbook of Dubious Exercises, Tips and Rants About Becoming a Designer Who Writes

Start Somewhere

Start Somewhere: A Handbook of Dubious Exercises, Tips and Rants About Becoming a Designer Who Writes is a zine to help designers grapple with generating their own content.

Start Somewhere is a 76-page handbook about how to become a designer who writes. Most designers grapple with generating their own content. This zine is full of writing about *how* to write and more importantly, how to get started.

Start Somewhere: A Handbook of Dubious Exercises, Tips and Rants About Becoming a Designer Who Writes is designed as a friendly guide for designers grappling with generating their own content. This zine is about how to write and most importantly, how to get started. Includes fourteen hybrid design and writing exercises, numerous helpful tips, and many illustrations.

Start Somewhere includes 14 hybrid design/writing exercises, a number of helpful tips, and is copiously illustrated. You can order a copy here.

Start Somewhere: A Handbook of Dubious Exercises, Tips and Rants About Becoming a Designer Who Writes is designed as a friendly guide for designers grappling with generating their own content. This zine is about how to write and most importantly, how to get started. Includes fourteen hybrid design and writing exercises, numerous helpful tips, and many illustrations.

Ian Lynam writes about exactly *why* designers have a hard time making their own content, design theory, design research, guilty pleasures, shoe fetishes, design curation, and a number of other topics.

Start Somewhere: A Handbook of Dubious Exercises, Tips and Rants About Becoming a Designer Who Writes is designed as a friendly guide for designers grappling with generating their own content. This zine is about how to write and most importantly, how to get started. Includes fourteen hybrid design and writing exercises, numerous helpful tips, and many illustrations.

A variety of creative methodologies are included, notably creative writing, curating, exploring history, and getting in touch with your own practice.

Start Somewhere: A Handbook of Dubious Exercises, Tips and Rants About Becoming a Designer Who Writes is designed as a friendly guide for designers grappling with generating their own content. This zine is about how to write and most importantly, how to get started. Includes fourteen hybrid design and writing exercises, numerous helpful tips, and many illustrations.

Start Somewhere is a self-initiated and self-published project. It can be purchased via my publishing imprint Wordshape, as well as through Draw Down Books and Amazon.