There’s one thing I like more than a good book at the moment, and that’s a good design book. Getting into the swing of the whole design history is pretty interesting stuff. Finding out about the philosophies, work and different ideas of people who have gone before you in an extremely new profession is very […]
In this ‘world of art’ series from Thames and Hudson, Frank Whitford takes a look into the history of the Bauhaus. The book starts at the Bauhaus’ inception in 1919 and ends soon after the close of the Bauhaus in 1933.
This short book seems like the perfect introduction to the Bauhaus, and within the week […]
The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO’s Strategies for Beating The Devil’s Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organisation, by Tom Kelley and with Jonathan Littman.
IDEO are world leaders in their field. They are essentially an Industrial Design Consultancy with numerous offices worldwide and have a unique view on how to solve real world problems with […]
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Benjamin and Rosamund Stone Zander is the latest paper based factual adventure that I have partaken in. The reccomendation for this book came through Tom Kelley who mentioned one of the chapters within his book “The Art of Innovation.” After becoming intrigued within the type […]
Parallel thoughts in different times. Bright Minds, Beautiful Ideas: Bruno Munari, Charles and Ray Eames, Marti Guixe, Jurgen Bey. Edited by Ed Annink and Ineke Schwartz.
This is quite possibly the quickest book I have ever read in all of my learned history. Since setting the task for myself at the beginning of the year to […]
I’ve been idling over buying one of the world famous Moleskine sketchbooks for quite a while, and always thought that at around £12 in most bookshops they were a little too expensive for just a sketchbook of moderate size. But then I happened to stumble upon them for sale on Amazon.co.uk for a mere £4.80! […]
Many of us rely on our intuition to help guide us through every day life. This book delves into how much we can use our intuition and how much it can be completely wrong about a whole lot of things.
David Myers’ book is split into three main sections. The first is the powers of intuition, […]
Starting to learn about such a broad ranged subject like psychology, you need a book which can convey the basics of an idea as well as going into a little detail at times when it is required. A book which takes some of the basics and explains them enough for you to understand them and […]
It’s not very often that I am captured by a book that I would actually class myself as addicted to it. I believe that it takes great content, a great writer, an interesting sway of dialogue and it also takes an interest in the subject. For me, all of these virtual boxes have been ticket […]
Thoughtless Acts is a relatively new little book from Jane Fulton Suri and in partnership with IDEO. Jane Fulton Suri is worldwide Director of Human Factors Design and Research at IDEO, and much of the content for the book has been attributed to a life long view of the world, and taking note of the […]