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"James Victore is a dangerous man. His ideas on optimizing your creativity, doing wow work, and building a life that inspires will devastate your limits. And show you how to win. Read this book fast." - Robin Sharma, bestselling author of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. Begin before youre ready and other lessons on living a happy and creative life: Renowned designer and professional hell-raiser James Victore wants to drag you off your couch and throw you headfirst into a life of bold creativity. In Feck Perfuction, Victore will guide you through all the twists, trials, and triumphs of starting your creative career, from finding your voice to picking the right moment to start a project (hint: Its now) . Bring your biggest, craziest, most revolutionary ideas, and he will give you the kick in the pants you need to make them real. Filled with humor and stern advice, Feck Perfuction provides "dangerous ideas" for unearthing your authentic self, including "the things that made you weird as a kid make you great today," "the struggle is everything," and many more. No matter what industry or medium you work in, this book will help you live, work, and create freely and fearlessly. James Victore is an award-winning designer for bold believers, an advocate for creativity, a sought after teacher and speaker, and an artist whose work is exhibited around the globe. Fans of Austin Kleons Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad and Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative will love James Victores inspiring book on embracing authenticity and unleashing your creative self. . Begin before youre ready, live dangerously, take a risk, and other lessons on living a purpose-driven lifeA perfect coffee table or bar top conversation-starting bookMakes a great gift for a new graduate or someone embarking on a personal or professional adventure
About the Author
James Victore is a self-taught, independent artist and designer. Design clients include Moet & Chandon, Aveda, Esquire and TIME Magazines, Yohji Yamamoto, Bobbi Brown cosmetics, The New York Times, and The School of Visual Arts. Awards include an Emmy for television animation, a Gold medal from the Broadcast Designers Association, the Grand Prix from the Brno (Czech Republic) Biennale, and Gold and Silver Medals from the New York Art Director's Club. Victore's posters have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and are in the permanent collections of the Palais du Louvre, Paris, the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, the Design Museum in Zurich and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. His work is regularly featured in magazines around the world. Victore lectures and teaches regularly around the globe as well as being a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He lives, loves and works in Austin, TX.His first book, VICTORE, OR WHO DIED AND MADE YOU BOSS? was released by Abrams in 2010. His second book, FECK PERFUCTION is forthcoming from Chronicle Books.
