Do the F*cking Work: Lowbrow Advice for High-Level Creativity

A wake-up call for creatives who need that inspiring kick to finally create the thing they’ve been meaning to make, while celebrating the journey of trying, learning, and failing.

Over the last eight years, Jason Bacher and Brian Buirge of Good F*cking Design Advice (GFDA) have made a name for themselves in the international design community, providing creative inspiration for artists, and entrepreneurs with their products, weekly e-mails, and most important, their unorthodox advice about work ethic and the creative process.

Do the F*cking Work is a collection of 100 beautifully packaged pieces that showcase their irreverent advice—inspiration that will help unstick even the most dedicated procrastinators and provide the tools for real personal growth. Covering everything from drinking your morning coffee to handling productive criticism, from embracing failure to rejecting the status quo, their unconventional insights upend conventional thinking and teach you to embrace and celebrate the journey of creation—the joy of trying, failing, learning, and sometimes failing again.

To make something good we have to make some mistakes. Bacher and Buirge teach you to embrace the unknown and to f*cking laugh at yourself during the process. There is a method to their madness—a surprising reassurance that is baked into their bluntness. We’re all trying, messing up, and trying again. And there’s joy to be found in that—something we often overlook in our rush to get everything done and get it right the first time.

With personal insights, actionable advice for goal setting, stylish visuals, and lots of colorful language, Do the F*cking Work will leave you feeling renewed and inspired, and will make you see that the value of work is as much about the process as the outcome.

This is the tough love and practical self help you need to get moving:

Creative Block: Break through the excuses and unstick your most dedicated procrastination with 100 pieces of irreverent, actionable advice. Embrace Failure: Learn why trying, messing up, and trying again is the most direct path to making something good, and even f*cking laugh at yourself in the process. Work Ethic: Move beyond conventional thinking with GFDA’s unorthodox insights on everything from handling criticism to celebrating the journey of creation. Motivational and Inspirational: Find renewed passion not just for the outcome, but for the entire creative process, with stylish visuals and lots of colorful language.