Identity Crisis! book signing: November 8, 2007St. Johns Booksellers, Portland OR USA

St. Johns Booksellers, the neighborhood bookstore of North Portland graphic designer and author Jeff Fisher, will be the location of a presentation and book signing for his new book, Identity Crisis!: 50 Redesigns That Transformed Stale Identities Into Successful Brands, on Thursday, November 8th at 7:30 p.m. Bookstore owners Liz Dorman and Nena Rawdah will host the event in their store, located at 8622 N. Lombard in the St. Johns neighborhood - about 15 minutes north of downtown Portland.

St. Johns Booksellers is a full-service, independent neighborhood bookstore offering new and used books. The store is one of only two U.S. bookstores featured in the 2008 Unique Bookstores calendar published by the International Booksellers Federation.

Anyone having questions about the Identity Crisis! book signing event is encouraged to contact the store at 503.283.0032, Tuesdays through Sunday.

Check out independent bookstores in your local area through Book Sense, and contact them to see if they have Identity Crisis! available.

GDUSA gives Identity Crisis! a mention

The design industry publication Graphic Design USA has given the book Identity Crisis! a mention in its October eGDUSA newsletter. GDUSA writes that Identity Crisis!: 50 Redesigns that Transformed Stale Identities into Successful Brands "delivers exactly what the title promises."

In introducing "New Designer Books," the column also notes the release of The Graphic Designer's Guide to Better Business Writing, by Barbara Janoff and Ruth Cash-Smith. Identity Crisis! author Jeff Fisher is featured several times in the Allworth Press selection.

Graphics.com shares Identity Crisis news

Design industry Internet presence Graphics.com is sharing the news of the release of Identity Crisis! with their website readers today.

Unbeige gives Identity Crisis! 'seal of approval'

A great way to start the week is with the industry website Unbeige posting a positive review (the first review I've seen so far) of my book Identity Crisis!: 50 Redesigns That Transformed Stale Identities Into Successful Brands. I'm honored to have their virtual "seal of approval."

Creatively Self-Employed plugs Identity Crisis!

This afternoon writer Kristen Fischer's monthly email newsletter counterpart to her book, Creatively Self-Employed: How Writers and Artists Deal with Career Ups and Downs>, arrived in my inbox - and she was kind enough to give Identity Crisis! some highly visible promotion.

I was honored to be one of the contributors to her book. Any self-employed "creative type" should give it a read - and stop by the Creatively Self-Employed website for much more valuable information.

Online bookseller ranking fun

Yes, the rankings do change hourly - and there are a multitude of categories - but it is fun to see Identity Crisis! in the listings on Amazon.com. The book seems to be doing very well as a "Hot New Release" in the categories of Advertising, Illustration and General Graphic Design.

Identity Crisis! - part of HOW's 'Creative Life'

I earlier posted that a download of some teaser spreads from Identity Crisis! had been made available through the HOW Blog. The same PDF preview of the book is also available on HOW Magazine's website on the "Your Creative Life" page of the Design & Creativity section. Enjoy!