Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills

. He has spoken and conducted workshops at events such as SxSW, Interaction 11, HOW Design Live, as well as at several design schools around the world. In his free time, he maintains the blog ChangeOrder at changeorderblog. His first book was Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills (HOW Books).David is currently an Interaction Design Director

Just like today's real world of design, the tools freely cross boundaries between graphic, product and interaction design. Creative Workshop gives you a toolbox of methods for everything from coming up with an idea to refining and executing it. And because innovative ideas never happen in a vacuum, Sherwin gives each design challenge a clear goal, meaningful context, and some inspirational examples." --Adam Richardson, Creative Director at frog design and author of Innovation X. In that regard and others, much of what is offered here will serve designers throughout their careers." --Andy Rutledge, Principal and Chief Design Strategist at Unit Interactive "Creativity really is mostly perspiration, but it still starts with inspiration, and with this energizing book David Sherwin provides plenty of ways to spark that next great idea. From the Back Cover "This book will help you connect the eye to the bra

Each exercise includes compelling visual solutions from other designers and background stories to help you increase your capacity to innovate. 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. 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. 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

"Great book. Reminds me of taking art classes in" according to John Shpati. Great book. Reminds me of taking art classes in college. This book forces you to do projects that you may not be comfortable with but will increase your artistic skills. Beautiful book.. Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills I do a lot of in-house design for marketing material production. Since I work in-house, I regularly do "similar" work and wanted to grow my abilities and learn some new things.This book offers a nice change of pace and offers projects to make you better at designing and applying new concep. Five Stars Beri Very good book, inspiring if you are looking for ideas.