BIS (83 kníh )
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Dorte Nielsen, Sarah Thurber Secrets of the Highly Creative Thinker
Highly creative people are good at seeing connections. By enhancing your ability to see connections, you can enhance your creativity. Supported by the latest neuroscience, this book gives you hands-on advice on how to enhance your own creativity...
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Koos Eissen, Roselien Steur Sketching
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...
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Roselien Steur, Koos Eissen Sketching The Basics
This book explains the basic sketching techniques and decisions more in depth and provides much more step-by-step example drawings, which makes it even more suitable for students and professionals who want to become better sketchers...
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Giulia Calabretta Strategic Design EN
Design professionals are no longer just executors of new product/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 strategic role, design professionals need to master a set of strategic practices – i.e., routinized strategic actions and ways of working. However, since the strategic role of…
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Drew de Soto The Art of Parenting
There is an art to parenting, but nobody knows what it is. All the ‘how to’ books can never prepare you for the fun that lies ahead. The Art of Parenting is a must-have for soon- to- be or new parents. It is a pictorial guide to the things only parent
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Dorte Nielsen The Divergent and Convergent Thinking Book EN
Creativity research shows that by dividing your thinking into two, divergent and convergent thinking, you can improve your idea production and as a result produce more ideas, unexpected thoughts and original solutions. You use divergent thinking to generate lots of ideas. You use convergent thinking to help you select the best ideas. The concept of divergent and convergent thinking is so integral to the creative…
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Valérie Alma-Marie The F***ing History of Swearing
Swearing is and always has been regarded as undereducated, obscene, rude and profane in society. It has been censored, forbidden and the institutions of power continue to ban it from society and all media. Due to censorship there are groups of people who fight against swearing, certain religions who think the devil is the father of “fuck” and whole hordes of mothers who don’t want their kids to say words like shit,…
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Baires Raffaelli The Fast Guide to Architectural Form EN
While staying on theoretical ground, this is a very practical guide to the basic forms and shapes in architectural planning and design. The book is foremost a visual guide. The author presents sixty different basic architectural forms with both a schematic illustration and images of the forms applied in buildings.
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Josiah Kahane The Form of Design EN
This is the first all-encompassing book about the visual language of man-made products, explaining how mass-produced objects evolve over time and what made them change. Form evolution behaves in a similar way to language evolution and, to some extent, even to natural evolution. In the book the author materializes the governing rules of form evolution by means of fourteen case studies.
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Deepika Jeyakodi The Innovation Matrix
The present-day business world is competitive, complex, and interconnected. Organizations must innovate to survive. Innovation is an expensive exercise and needs smart people to work on it, those that are not always within your organization...
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Gijs van Wulfen The Innovation Maze EN
This book is a practical guide on how to navigate the innovation maze. It shows the reader four clear routes from different natural innovative starting points and guides you through overcomingobstacles to successfully deliver new business cases for products, services, and business models.
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Dorte Nielsen, Sarah Thurber The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker EN
Supported by the latest neuroscience, this book gives you hands-on advice on how to enhance your own creativity. You will find it an inspiring combination of theory, techniques, anecdotes and exercises to help you access better ideas and bigger breakthroughs. People who are good at having ideas are good at seeing connections. Could teaching people to see connections be a way to help them be more creative? Over the…
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Lucy Kimbell The Service Innovation Handbook EN
This is an action-oriented book for managers and entrepreneurs who want new ways to tackle the issues they face in terms of developing and delivering services. The book focuses on service organizations, but has a broad interpretation of what services are. This is because these days, even jet engines and cars are bundled into services that create value by bringing people and resources together in different ways. The…
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Nimrod Kamer The Social Climber's Handbook
Some people are obsessively invested in climbing the social ladder. Author Nimrod Kamer (Vice, GQ) undermines this from within as he inserts himself in numerous political or celebrity events. His resumé lists Uber trolling, penetrating members clubs and
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Stan Boshouwers, Erik Bär The Worlds of Wonder : Experience design for curious people
Experience Design, the enterprise of creating immersive worlds around people seems to be the biggest star in todays marketing firmament. No other medium is more promising in connecting people to stories, places and ideas...
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Jeroen van Erp Think Like a Designer, Don't Act Like One
Think Like A Designer, Don’t Act Like One gives you 75 inspiring, educational and sometimes hilarious insights in the adventurous minds of the designer. The insights give every professional tools to apply in their own innovation processes. Learn from th
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Aernoud Bourdrez Think Like a Lawyer, Don't Act Like One
The first edition in the 'Think Like a Pro' series (sold over 94.000 copies)! The series provides 75 quirky, one-paragraph lessons taken from the field of law, management, design, and art – ready-to-implement into your daily life...
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Harry Starren Think Like a Manager, Don't Act Like One
The second edition in the 'Think Like a Pro' series (sold over 94.000 copies)! The series provides 75 quirky, one-paragraph lessons taken from the field of law, management, design, and art – ready-to-implement into your daily life...
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Koos de Wilt Think Like an Artist, Don't Act Like One
This book presents 75 ways to look at art and 75 life lessons you can learn from it. From the works of ancient Egypt and Greece to today’s abstract and conceptual pieces, by way of Leonardo, Dürer and Rembrandt, Picasso, Warhol and Ai Wei Wei, art insp
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Majid Iqbal Thinking in Services EN
Implementing bold policies or strategies can place enormous stress and strain on human capital and financial assets. Under pressure, when service enterprises fail to find the necessary breakthroughs, they often react by scaling down their ideas and ambitions. Risk-aversion sets in and sets up dissatisfaction, disillusionment, and disruption. There is a way to break free from that vicious cycle: Encoding policy and…
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Majid Iqbal Thinking in services
Perhaps, as customers, or as service providers, we don’t understand services as much as we think we do. Services are such integral parts of the daily of individuals and organizations that a day without paying for or providing them is inconceivable. They
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Marieke Eyskoot This is a Good Guide for a Sustainable Lifestyle
This is a good guide for a sustainable lifestyle. It’s as simple as that. Would you like to live more sustainable, but without putting a lot of time, effort or money into it? Then this is your book. It’s filled with practical and positive tips on fash
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Petra de Hamer, Anne van Haasteren, Kim Snijders This is My Berlin EN
This guide is a coloring and creative activity book, travel notebook, and Berlin city guide in one, to cherish as a keepsake of your trip to the city and to inspire friends to go there, too. It contains beautiful illustrations and you can add drawings, pictures, tickets, memories and tips.