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Creative workshop: 80 challenges to sharpen your design skills Sherwin, David

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cincinnati, Ohio : HOW Books, 2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 231 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781600617973
  • 1600617972
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153.35 S4C7
Summary: Exercise your creativity and perform your best Have you ever struggled to complete a design project on time? Or felt that having a tight deadline stifled your capacity for maximum creativity? If so, then this book is for you. Within Creative Workshop, you'll find 80 creative challenges that will help you achieve a breadth of stronger design solutions, in various media, within any set time period. Exercises range from creating a typeface in an hour to designing a paper robot in an afternoon to designing web pages and other interactive experiences. Each exercise includes compelling visual solutions from other designers and background stories to help you increase your capacity to innovate. This book also includes useful brainstorming techniques and wisdom from some of today's top designers. By road-testing these techniques as you attempt each challenge, you'll find new and more effective ways to solve tough design problems and bring your solutions to vibrant life. (http://www.davidsherwin.com/creative/)
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Includes index.

Contents

Introduction 1
Foundation 11
Execution 47
Materiality 94
Instruction 121
Observation 136
Innovation 152
Interpretation 181
Acknowledgments 225
Resources 226
Exercise Index 228
Permissions 229
Copyright

Exercise your creativity and perform your best

Have you ever struggled to complete a design project on time? Or felt that having a tight deadline stifled your capacity for maximum creativity? If so, then this book is for you.

Within Creative Workshop, you'll find 80 creative challenges that will help you achieve a breadth of stronger design solutions, in various media, within any set time period. Exercises range from creating a typeface in an hour to designing a paper robot in an afternoon to designing web pages and other interactive experiences. Each exercise includes compelling visual solutions from other designers and background stories to help you increase your capacity to innovate.

This book also includes useful brainstorming techniques and wisdom from some of today's top designers. By road-testing these techniques as you attempt each challenge, you'll find new and more effective ways to solve tough design problems and bring your solutions to vibrant life.

(http://www.davidsherwin.com/creative/)

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