Make creative connections and have fun. This simple memory game is made of visual connection sets. The idea is simple and based on the theory that by enhancing your ability to see connections, you can enhance your creativity. So, the main goal is to find two matching cards that are visually connected. This new version of the well-known memory game is useful for training both the power of memory and your ability to make creative connections. The photographs on the cards are observational art p...

While writing the journalistic novel, 'Beyond Design', Renate Boere discovered 10 steps that can be taken in order to set up one’s own project. These steps allow designers to render complicated information transparent and understandable for a wider audience. Boere wanted to make this easily accessible and transformed these 10 steps into a game.

'Beyond Design, The Game of Social Solutions' guides you to set up your own socially relevant design project. This game navigates you through the 1...

When everything is destined to be designed, design disappears into the everyday. We simply do not see it anymore because it is everywhere. This is the vanishing act of design. At this moment, design registers its redundancy: our products, environments and services have been comprehensively improved. Everything has been designed to perfection and is under a permanent upgrade regime. Within such a paradigm, design is taken over by the capitalist logic of reproduction. But this does not come wit...

Is there anything more entertaining, inspiring and instructive than observing art? Yes, it is watching the people interacting with this art. This book may forever change your approach to art as it urges you to always consider both the work and the response. Because ultimately artists create, but we – the audience – complete the picture.

'A Spectator is an Artist Too' is a visual essay about human behaviour around art: what happens when we are confronted with something immensely beautiful,...

You get to have a robot butler OR you can become any animal you like? You have a magic tap that contains all the drinks you want OR you snap your fingers and your entire house is tidy and clean? This game only has one rule: you HAVE to choose! And this time around, both options will make you feel happy. For this happy edition of Dilemmarama we’ve only selected positive dilemmas. The kind that will put a smile on your face, but that will also cause heated debates and feisty duels. And, becau...

The Holey Bible is a book that helps us more easily spot the holes in our thinking, hence the title. It illustrates how you can successfully orchestrate personal and professional breakthroughs. It does not promise it will make you creatively enlightened. Yet, it does provide detailed guidance on how to develop your mind’s creative power.

If you’re interested in harnessing creative thinking to bring about change, The Holey Bible is for you. It will help you identify the questions that will...

'Creative Block' is a book set out to ruffle feathers, get out of ruts and start those juices flowing. Focussing on creative process and theory, it is filled with over 100 tasks to get your head into a conceptual and creative space, encouraging experimentation and playfulness in art.

Ideal for artists, industry creatives and individuals who simply want to delve deeper into their own creativity. This book helps to improve your process and technique when approaching art, in all its forms. Intr...

Some of the most life-changing connections are made at events. But if you can't design events, how can you change your world? The answer? This handbook will change the way you think about how events change the world you live in. It shows the way to re-design your world on one sheet of paper using the #EventCanvas.This book identifies the starting point of any event and outlines steps of how events come to life. It focuses on the DNA of specific aspects of events, and provides insight into how...

Creative Content Kit is a four-step process for creating content strategy, inspired by ‘The System of Publishing’ theory (Bhaskar, 2013). Each stage contains a set of cards with methods, content types, platforms and tools.

The deck of 65 cards is made for content professionals and non-specialist to ideate, test and solve content problems. It provides a helpful visual structure to ease communication in planning alone, with your team and clients.

The first stage, Model, consists of cards ...

This edition of the Think Like a series displays the wonderful world of engineers. This bundle of insights shows why no one can hold you responsible for the impact of gravity, what Gerrit Rietveld can teach you about going against the flow, that Donald Trump says more than you think, and how Netflix goes beyond binge-watching. This book is for anyone who wants to widen their perspective and broaden their horizons.