This exercise book is a spin-off to The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker: How to make connections others don't. While this book is based on a dynamic balance of theory, technique, and exercises, the Creative Thinker's Exercise Book is a practical hands-on workbook, the perfect outlet to get your hands dirty and dive into exercises that strengthen one's ability to see and make connections.

This book is for those seeking to enhance their creativity. It can be used to:

- Develop one's creat...

The role of design professionals' in innovation is growing towards a more strategic one. They are no longer just executors of new product and/or service design briefs but are increasingly involved in the crafting of these briefs and in the strategic decisions leading to these briefs. In order to effectively play this role, design professionals need to master a set of strategic practices - i.e., routinized actions and ways of working. However, since the strategic role of designers is a relativ...

After the success of 2017’s Visual Thinking, the author noticed that people enjoy discovering how easy it is to use drawings in business communication. But they still have no guide to satisfy their desire to tell a visual story in a very simple way. That is why the author has now written Visual Doing. This book will fulfil this desire, not by drilling deeper into the advice in the first book, but by ‘undeepening’ Chapters 3 and 4. These chapters, both about drawing in visual business se...

Products that Last starts where most books on product development end. This new edition (first self-published by the TU Delft) contains new examples and insights from recent publications. From the perspective of designers and entrepreneurs, once a product has been designed, produced and sold, it disappears beyond the newness horizon. They are little aware of the opportunities that exist in the next product universe, where money is made from products in use, as well as from a product’s after...

A must have for product design students!

Are designers still making drawings by hand? Isn’t it more advanced to use a computer in this computer era? Some may think sketching is a disappearing skill, but if you ever enter a design studio, you will find out differently. Studios still make sketches and drawings by hand and in most cases, quite a lot of them. They are an integral part of the decision-making process, used in the early stages of design, in brainstorming sessions, in the phase of ...

'Bullshit Bingo' is the 1-player party game that transforms the BS of everyday life into a party for 1. By encouraging people to gamify real life, the game offers a refreshing reminder not to take life too seriously. It is a bit like therapy, but way less expensive.

With 21 tearable and single-use cards, 'Bullshit Bingo' is the perfect companion to life’s most generic occasions: weddings, the gym, first dates, vacation, parenting, break-ups, death, turning 30, Hollywood movies – you name...

Do you dare to step away from the social media mandate? Are you ready to challenge yourself beyond the automatic solutions of creative work today? Can we break from business-as-usual and find alternative ways of approach?

Following the publication of Offline Matters: The Less-Digital Guide to Creative Work comes a game of 2 card decks: Truth or Dare?. Like the much-loved classic game of Truth or Dare, the tools on the cards are designed to challenge creative minds into unfamiliar places of th...

Notecard edition of The Book of Dog Poems with illustrations by Sarah Maycock. The perfect gift for dog lovers.

This puzzle in the shape of a cat features 26 breeds: piece them together to get one big cat! Features regular jigsaw pieces - large pieces perfect for little hands.

This deck of playing cards features Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple among Christie's other detectives and the characters and clues that they encounter on their crime-solving adventures