The Visual Thinking Workbook is a great tool to help you kick-start your visual journey and gain the confidence to produce amazing, compelling drawings. The book is to be used in combination with the theory book Visual Thinking. The workbook is crammed with tons of visual exercises, ranging from tracing illustrations to drawing hacks. It will inspire you to design and share your own icons! Drawing people and interactions, highlights simple ways of drawing people, emotions and interactions. It...

Making connections is the underlying mechanism that helps us to think creatively.

This new visual twist on the classic domino game helps inquisitive minds, young and old, train their ability to make new connections, seek unusual visual combinations and look at things in a different way.

As with Little Creative Thinker’s Exercise Book, this wonderfully simple children’s game is built on the tried and tested theory that by enhancing your ability to see connections, you can enhance your crea...

Have you ever wondered how you can research the future? Trend research is a powerful method to detect and recognise change at an early stage. This DIY guide has been developed to show you the way in the trend research cycle. It will help you to find direction and which corners to take when you are scanning, analysing and applying the trends for any type of challenge or topic. This guide is to be used in combination with the book 'How to Research Trends'.

You can use it to challenge yourself o...

Delft Design Guide provides an overview of the perspectives, models, approaches, and methods used in the bachelor's and master's curriculum of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Some of these are unique to the university, others are well known and are used by designers worldwide. Designing products and services at this faculty is considered a systematic and structured activity, deliberately and purposefully, and with moments of increased creativity.

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Surround yourself with green and make your home a happier place with the authors of the wildly successful How to Raise a Plant.

SENSITIVE, ENGAGING ILLUSTRATIONS. Bee Grandinetti's approachable illustrations clearly and amusingly depict each emotion so that they can be recognized and explored in a fun, low-pressure way

EDUCATIONAL. Features 48 emotions ranging from happiness and sadness to anger, apathy, and anxiety. Written by Dr Emily Midouhas, a developmental psychologist and associate professor at UCL, specializing in the effects of the social and built environment on the emotional and behavioural problems of chil...

Deze editie in de bestselling Think Like a...-serie laat de wonderbaarlijke wereld van ingenieurs zien!

Deze bundel van kraakheldere inzichten laat zien waarom je nooit vliegende appels moet beloven, wat Gerrit Rietveld je kan leren over tegen de stroom ingaan, dat Donald Trump meer zegt dan je denkt, en hoe Netflix verder gaat dan bingewatchen. Dit boek is voor een ieder die verder kijkt dan zijn eigen neus lang is. Hoe lang precies, dat blijft in het midden.

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...

Delft Design Guide provides an overview of the perspectives, models, approaches, and methods used in the bachelor's and master's curriculum of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Some of these are unique to the university, others are well known and are used by designers worldwide. Designing products and services at this faculty is considered a systematic and structured activity, deliberately and purposefully, and with moments of increased creativity.

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Design Journeys through Complex Systems combines systemic design, leading thinking practices, and years of the combined authors’ experiences into a practitioner’s handbook for design thinking. By drawing upon the authors’ Systemic Design Toolkit, this book provides detailed knowledge of systems science, expanding upon essential systemic design texts in order to demonstrate the power of visual sensemaking.

No matter if you’re a design professional or have never come across design syste...