'How to Create Better Ideas' gives insight in the design process and how to create better ideas with examples ranging from Precious Plastic to the Sheltersuit. It is divided into two sections: the right and left brain. The first part analyses the general design process. The second part introduces six self developed methods that teach you to create more and better visual ideas relevant for all design disciplines.

It is a book for anyone who would like to learn and understand design more in-dep...

'Offline Matters' is a handbook of radical strategies for today’s creative worker. The guide blows open the true state of today’s creative work where digital solutions are doctrine, overwork culture results in burnouts and ideas churn out into depressing marketing noise.

We are dreaming of offline. Not offline as a romanticised past, a punishment, quick detox or WiFi-free café. Offline is not a lifestyle, it is a space of possibility.

A wake-up call for the digital age, 'Offline Matters'...

'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...

Don’t Buy This Book is the sequel to the highly successful Don’t Read This Book – Time Management for Creative People. Like its predecessor, it uses the ToDon’tList method to help you make the right choices – choices that help you achieve your goals as a creative entrepreneur. Don’t Buy This Book walks you through the necessary steps: testing your idea, getting it ready for business, and building on it. It covers everything you need to get started or improve your business as a cre...

Knowing your users stimulates your imagination and helps you create more exciting and effective design solutions. But there is a problem: the normal conception of ’the user‘ is incomplete and based on outdated notions. These notions of simple, direct relationships between people and products are no longer valid in today’s complex, technologically interconnected world. This fun and practical book with a set of cards will change the way readers think about users.

'Rethinking Users' introd...

Op basis van eigen ervaringen ontdekte Anke Weber Smit hoe ze haar gedachten en emoties kon sturen en hoe dit vaak een verrassend andere en positieve kijk opleverde. Ze was zo onder de indruk van het effect van haar gedachten dat ze zich verdiepte in de wereld van gedachtekracht en -manifestatie.

Ze verzamelde eigen ervaringen en bundelde de 28 krachtigste in dit boek. Het zijn voorbeelden van situaties die duidelijk maken hoe snel een kleine verandering in je gebruikelijke waarnemings- en ge...