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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 for you.

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

This book also includes useful brainstorming techniques and wisdom from some of today's top designers. By road-testing these techniques as you attempt each challenge, you'll find new and more effective ways to solve tough design problems and bring your solutions to vibrant life.

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"This book will help you connect the eye to the brain to the hand, so you won't have to search for inspiration the next time you generate a design."
--Michael Surtees, DesignNoted.com

"This book strikes me as a collection of exceedingly useful exercises; not just as a means for practice and exploration, but useful to developing designers in discovering processes that work best for them. 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. Creative Workshop gives you a toolbox of methods for everything from coming up with an idea to refining and executing it. Just like today's real world of design, the tools freely cross boundaries between graphic, product and interaction design. 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

About the Author

David Sherwin is an interaction designer and creative director with a depth of expertise in developing compelling solutions for challenging business problems. His first book was Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills (HOW Books).

David is currently an Interaction Design Director at frog, a global innovation firm, where he helps to guide the research, strategy and design of novel products and services for some of today's leading companies and nonprofit organizations. He is also a senior lecturer in the BFA in Interaction Design program at California College of the Arts. 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. His writing has appeared in Smashing Magazine, TheAtlantic.com/Life, A List Apart, PSFK.com, HOW and many other periodicals.

He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, the poet and writer Mary Paynter Sherwin. In his free time, he maintains the blog ChangeOrder at changeorderblog.com.

Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: HOW Books; 3025th edition (November 24, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1600617972
ISBN-13: 978-1600617973
Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.6 x 10 inches
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Average Customer Review: 134 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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William Brown

A wide variety of exercises to create a regular discipline of self-development.

April 3, 2018

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This book is great at forcing you to move outside of the way you normally work to embrace something different. It might be helpful for designers and artists to look at this book as something that requires discipline to get the most out of it. That means you’ll have to make a commitment to working the projects and then set aside regular time in your schedule to do so. That’s not always in the wheel house of some artistic temperaments but if you make the commitment and follow through, it will be worth the effort. In fact, giving artists a foundation for regular self-development may be the best benefit of this book.

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Great book. Reminds me of taking art classes in ...

May 31, 2016

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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.

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Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills

April 30, 2014

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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 concepts to your current work.

The "Challenges" are a nice balance of fun and difficulty, whose end result can nicely expand a portfolio with a variety of work.

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This book has may good tools that can be used to generate ideas in ...

February 28, 2018

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This book has may good tools that can be used to generate ideas in an ideation workshop. Reader will find it handy and practical.

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S. Cooper

Amazing book for anyone looking to help channel their creativity

September 17, 2015

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Amazing teachers aid. I used this book in my GD classes and it was a huge help, both to me and my students. HIGHLY recommended for anyone looking how to channel their creativity.

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Adore Yourself

Great Design Exercises! Highly Recommended.

November 30, 2013

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I am really liking this book. It gives you concrete exercises in design, which are timed, which really makes them more effective as each exercise must be COMPLETED in a short time. I have learned a lot doing these exercises and would like to buy a Volume 2 of this book!! I highly recommend this book.

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Very informative. I learn some techniques that really help with my graphics design skills

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It was less for organizating a group workshop and more for individual brainstorming methods.

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