Instructor: Angela Riechers, Art Director

Duration: 33:41 minutes

Added November 2008

Designers have to work with the tools and materials available, and those are not always ideal. Making assets out of familiar design liabilities is the subject of this tutorial by noted art director Angela Riechers. In Angela's accomplished career, she's triumphed over obstacles such as bad stock art, total lack of art, total lack of a budget, super-demanding deadlines, dry subject matter, and more. Armed with a vivid array of examples, Angela offers practical advice and creative strategies that will help you make great design out of a not-so-great situation.

About Angela Riechers

Angela Riechers is an art director specializing in magazine launches and redesigns, with an ongoing interest in book, logo and identity design. From 1995 to 2002 she was art director of Harper's Magazine and most recently the art director of Home Magazine. Angela has contributed to More, O at Home, Domino, The New York Times T Magazine, Hollywood Life, People, and custom publishing products for Hearst and G+J. She teaches and lectures on design at CCNY and SVA. Her work has been recognized by the Society of Publication Designers and the Art Director's Club and was featured in the The Speck Report: A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things. Angela is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design.