How to Have Great Ideas is the essential guide for students and young professionals looking to embrace creative thinking in design, advertising and communications. It provides 53 practical strategies for unlocking innovative ideas. Strategies include improvisation techniques, changing the scenery, finding hidden links, looking to nature for inspiration, combining unusual systems, challenging set boundaries and many more. Each strategy is packed with great examples of successful contemporary and historical designs – from a designer dress made out of an old typewriter to ticket machines powered by recycled bottles in China, via the reimagining of famous brand logos and mis-use of photocopiers. Packed with practical projects to kick-start inventive thought in idea-blocked moments, this book explores creative thinking across all visual arts disciplines.
Everybody wants to be creative. Creativity makes life more fun, more interesting and more full of achievement, but too many people believe that creativity is something you are born with and cannot be learned. In How to Have Creative Ideas Edward de Bono - the leading authority on creative thinking - outlines 62 different games and exercises, built around random words chosen from a list, to help encourage creativity and lateral thinking. For example, if the task were to provide an idea for a new restaurant and the random word chosen was 'cloak', ideas generated might be: a highwayman theme; a Venetian theme with gondolas; masked waiters and waitresses. Or, if asked to make a connection between the two random words 'desk' and 'shorts', readers may come up with: both are functional; desks have 'knee holes' and shorts expose the knees; traditionally they were both male-associated items. All the exercises are simple, practical and fun, and can be done by anyone.
This engaging and highly regarded book takes readers through the key stages of their PhD research journey, from the initial ideas through to successful completion and publication. It gives helpful guidance on forming research questions, organising ideas, pulling together a final draft, handling the viva and getting published. Each chapter contains a wealth of practical suggestions and tips for readers to try out and adapt to their own research needs and disciplinary style. This text will be essential reading for PhD students and their supervisors in humanities, arts, social sciences, business, law, health and related disciplines.
Come up with 10x More Ideas AND Get Rid of Your Mental Blocks Many of us want to be creative, but where are the ideas supposed to come from? You probably already know that simply wanting to get ideas isn’t enough to make them magically appear. Instead of getting frustrated and giving up, there is an easier way. Now, it will be a realistic goal to come up with a hundred or more ideas in a day. You can do this regardless of your profession or background, and with virtually any topic. Internationally bestselling author I. C. Robledo has developed and tested 16 “idea hacks”. You can use them to come up with many more creative ideas, and in much less time than you ever have. The more you use the hacks, the more you will tend to come up with better and better ideas as well. Inside, you will discover: - Why even your worst ideas are MUCH more valuable than you think they are - How William Kamkwamba, a boy who came from nothing, was able to build a windmill - Why the convenience of looking up answers too quickly can hurt your creativity - The #1 Habit of the most creative people (Hint: You’ve been doing it since you were One) - Why Neil Gaiman (sci-fi & fantasy author) purposely chooses to get bored, to get creative - BONUS: 101 Creative Exercises to Try Get a head start on coming up with your next bright idea with Idea Hacks. Idea Hacks will help you to think creatively, maximize your creative potential, master idea generation, be more innovative and produce tons of brilliant ideas all on your own. It will help you to put an end to mental, creative, and writer’s blocks that agonize and slow us down. We all have an inner creativity that is dying to get out, and when you learn how idea hacking works with the tips, tricks, and tools herein, nothing can stop you. There is no true limit to what you can make, design, build, or invent just with your own mind. You could even create or found your own business or company. The world can’t wait to see your creation! This book is ideal for high school and college students, gifted and talented students, standardized test takers, teachers, educators, adult learners, independent learners and self-starters, school administrators, managers and leaders, and parents. It’s also great for CEOs, MBA students, and business executives that lead creative companies. Similar authors you may have enjoyed include Sean Patrick, Daniel Coyle, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Malcolm Gladwell, Steven Pressfield, Walter Isaacson, Michael Michalko, Ed Catmull, David McRaney, Tony Buzan, Barbara Oakley, Joshua Foer, Sanjay Gupta, Harry Lorayne, Edward de Bono, Joseph Murphy, John C. Maxwell, Robert Greene, Peter Hollins, Peter C. Brown, Jim Kwik, and Josh Waitzkin. Similar genres of books you tend to read will be nonfiction, self-help, self-improvement, personal development, mind and brain improvement, philosophy, applied psychology, biographies and memoirs, education, learning, academic, textbooks, health, mind & body, business and investing, religion and spirituality, and Christian books. If you liked Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield, or Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert, you won’t want to miss this book. Idea Hacks is available as an eBook, paperback book, and as an audiobook. Pick up your copy today by scrolling to the top of the page and clicking BUY NOW.
Sliver award winner in Business Reference 2020 Axiom Business Book Awards What makes a great idea? Where do great ideas come from? The highly practical lessons in HOW TO GET TO GREAT IDEAS are based on neuroscience,psychology, and behavioral economics. Written by the former Creative Director of OgilvyOne, Dave Birss, this book offers a brilliant new system for conceiving original and valuable ideas. It looks at how to frame the problem, how to push your thinking, how to sell the idea and build support for it, and how to inspire others to have great ideas. It proves that any organization - and any department within an organization - can become a fertile environment for ideas. Combining a practical research-based system with fascinating insights and inspiring and humorous writing,the book is also accompanied by the problem-solving system RIGHT THINKING. This is a tool that shows organizations a more effective way to generate more effective ideas and is based on the thinking in the book. This is available online and in person from the author.
"In today's business world, success is determined more and more by our ability to come up with new ideas and creative solutions. It's all about thinking differently and more often than not we just need a bit of prodding to do just that. [This book] is a practical tool to help you think creatively and find 'out-of-the-box' creative solutions to conundrums." - introduction.
"This is an essential guide for students and young professionals who are looking to embrace creative thinking in design, advertising, and communications. Numerous strategies are accompanied by practical projects, each showing how to unlock creative ideas in different ways. Packed with great examples of innovative thinking in graphic design, advertising, photography, illustration, architecture, product design, furniture design, industrial design, animation, digital design, car design engineering, art, and fashion"--page 4 of cover.
How to solve critical business challenges by generating more and better ideas Every organization needs a steady supply of fresh, relevant ideas, but managers can?t just lock teams in a room with a mandate to brainstorm and hope for the best. Ideation is both a science and an art, and when group ideation processes are well-designed and well-facilitated, anyone can generate an abundance of creative, implementable options?not to mention true breakthroughs?for any business need. Drawing on his work leading high-stakes ideation sessions at over 300 organizations, Mattimore explains the how, what, and why of successful ideation and provides a framework for when and how to apply various techniques. Identifies Mattimore?s top ideation and innovation techniques (including ?brainwalking,? finding inspiration in worst ideas, the unexpected effectiveness of wishing, and more) and lays the groundwork for you to invent successful processes of your own Tells real stories of ideation at work in Mattimore?s consulting business, including how Ben & Jerry?s named a new strawberry fudge flavor, how Thomas? invented a new, healthier English muffin that now accounts for over 30% of its sales, how IBM transformed the culture of one of its divisions to make it more innovative, and many more Mattimore is a world-class expert on applied creativity and an innovation process consultant to over one-third of the Fortune 100 companies; he and his team have helped create and launch products and services worth over $3 billion in annual US retail sales With a diverse range of tested methods, Idea Stormers is the indispensable guide for developing original, practical solutions to even the most intractable-seeming creative challenges.