Every artist and designer, student or professional, needs a journal space to play in new ways, to think with a pencil in hand, by inventing, imagining, and thinking creatively. Unlike a blank journal, Take a line for a walk is a Creativity Journal--comprised of varied prompts, cuing people to respond to whatever creative action the prompt calls for--sketch/design/conceive/write. The author collaborated with esteemed designers, artists, architects, and experts in a variety of disciplines to deliberately vary prompts, which address numerous ways of thinking and creating. Designed by internationally acclaimed, Modern Dog Design Co., this imaginative, fascinating and playful journal entices all types of students, visual arts - and non-art majors alike, to supplement in-class projects or to stimulate thinking on a summer break or after graduation, to keep creativity flowing in this unique space.
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Robin Landa holds the title of Distinguished Professor in the Robert Busch School of Design at Kean University of New Jersey. She is included among the teachers that the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching calls the "great teachers of our time." Most recently, Landa was a finalist in the WALL STREET JOURNAL's Creative Leaders competition. Professor Landa has won numerous awards for design, writing, and teaching, and is the author of 12 published books about graphic design, branding, advertising, and creativity, including GRAPHIC DESIGN SOLUTIONS (Wadsworth/Cengage), ADVERTISING BY DESIGN (John Wiley & Sons), and DESIGNING BRAND EXPERIENCES (Wadsworth/Cengage).
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Robin Landa tells brand stories, designs, teaches, and presents at international conferences. She has won lots of awards (The National Society of Arts and Letters, The National League of Pen Women, Creativity, New Jersey Authors Award, the Art Directors Club of New Jersey, Graphic Design USA, Rowan University, Kean University, Carnegie Foundation "Great Teachers of Our Time", and she was a finalist in the Wall Street Journal's Creative Leaders competition) and has worn all-black since she was sixteen. She has written 18 books about branding, design, advertising, creativity, and drawing, including her first (but not last) children's book, The Dream Box, illustrated by Modern Dog Design Co.
Robin's numerous tomes include the bestseller Graphic Design Solutions, 5th edition, Essential Graphic Design Solutions, Build Your Own Brand, Advertising by Design, 2nd edition, Take A Line For A Walk: A Creativity Journal, and Designing Brand Experiences. You can read them in Chinese or Spanish, too.
With esteemed colleagues, Robin co-authored 2D:Visual Basics for Designers with Rose Gonnella and Steven Brower; Visual Workout with Rose Gonnella; and a set: Creative Jolt & Creative Jolt Inspirations with Denise Anderson and Rose Gonnella. (Stay tuned for Robin's next book, DRAW! A step-by-step guide to the basics of drawing.)
As a Distinguished Professor in the Robert Busch School of Design at Kean University, Robin appreciates the opportunity to mentor very talented people who are forbidden to check their phones while she's lecturing unless they slip her some low-fat treats. Her students have gone on to successful visual communication careers.
Robin has developed brand stories, designed, and written copy for Lava Dome Creative, among other design studios and ad agencies. Now, as creative director of her own firm, robinlanda.com, Robin works closely with marketing executives and their companies and organizations to develop brand strategy and stories as well as enhance corporate creativity through seminars. If you want to reach her to discuss design or life, you can find Robin on Twitter: @rlanda or at robinlanda.com or at rlanda@kean.edu.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Nancy Novick
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Playful, original, and sometimes challenging--in the best possible sense, "Take a Line for a Walk" will have you itching to pick up a pencil, pen or crayon and start drawing. More than 100 ideas/inspirations are presented and no special tools or experience are needed to begin. The book is intended to be used as a journal and its design (a spiral bound volume with a stiff back cover) lends itself to portability and ease of use whether you're sitting at a neighborhood cafe or riding the subway.
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looks like a great way to get your mind thinking in new ways. Excellent for designers and students who are stuck creatively
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As a child, I loved to draw. I always owned a sketchbook and would doodle on the backs of my elementary school assignments if I had extra time (I almost always did). Somewhere along the way, I stopped. I think that, as I got older, I worried about my lack of talent instead of focusing on the fact that drawing was something I enjoyed and that made me happy.
This journal provides some excellent prompts, along with the space to complete them, and the fact that they are for no one but me to see is remarkably freeing. I'm coming up with things that I didn't know were inside me, and it feels good to surprise myself. (I am a creature of habit and rarely ever do.)
My one complaint so far, and I know this is nitpicky, is that Project VI has a terrible error: "You're [sic] new perspective might identify these individuals as unsuspecting soul mates." How did no one catch that?
Note: I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads's First Reads program.
This journal provides some excellent prompts, along with the space to complete them, and the fact that they are for no one but me to see is remarkably freeing. I'm coming up with things that I didn't know were inside me, and it feels good to surprise myself. (I am a creature of habit and rarely ever do.)
My one complaint so far, and I know this is nitpicky, is that Project VI has a terrible error: "You're [sic] new perspective might identify these individuals as unsuspecting soul mates." How did no one catch that?
Note: I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads's First Reads program.
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