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Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills Paperback – Illustrated, November 24, 2010
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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.
- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHOW Books
- Publication dateNovember 24, 2010
- Dimensions8 x 0.6 x 10 inches
- ISBN-101600617972
- ISBN-13978-1600617973
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--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 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.
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- Publisher : HOW Books; Illustrated edition (November 24, 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1600617972
- ISBN-13 : 978-1600617973
- Item Weight : 1.71 pounds
- Dimensions : 8 x 0.6 x 10 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #429,008 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #357 in Popular Psychology Creativity & Genius
- #1,012 in Graphic Design Techniques
- #1,773 in Design & Decorative Arts
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About the author

David Sherwin is co-founder of Ask The Sherwins, LLC with Mary Sherwin. He helps organizations develop the capabilities they need for better cross-functional teamwork, research, and design. This includes the development of bespoke training programs and toolkits, workflow and process auditing, org design, and advising on design projects that require new skills. Most recently, he's worked with Philips Oral Healthcare, Google UX Community and Culture, Eventbrite, Tipping Point Community, MetaLab Design, and Designlab Learning.
David is a former Fellow at frog, a global product strategy and design firm, where he was previously an Interaction Design Director and co-authored frog's Collective Action Toolkit. In past roles, he's led product and service design teams, including those focused on online learning through Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning.
David's books include Turning People into Teams: Rituals and Routines that Redesign How We Work, which he co-authored with Mary Sherwin. His other books on design include the design bestseller Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills and Success by Design: The Essential Business Reference for Designers.
He is a contributor at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design's Summer School, on faculty at PNCA in the MFA Collaborative Design program, and he speaks and teaches regularly at corporations, nonprofit organizations, schools, and conferences worldwide.
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In the visual aspect the design seems a bit dated, and I include in this appreciation the cover of the book too.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 1, 2021

Content: 4 out of 5
The challenges are great lessons to hone design skills. The teacher's guide actually is useful for teaching. The organization of the book is an excellent design example. The only tool that I wished the book contained was "best" solutions for the design challenges. It is even useful to budding and novice designers. It also presents challenges for master designers.
Readability: 5 out of 5
This book is easy to understand. I recommend it to creatives in a variety of fields.
Not that damaged.
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If you are an aspiring graphic designer, try some of these do them properly, record your workings in detail in a sketchbook (Your Lecturers and often your potential employers are often MUCH more interested in your process than the final product.) and you will end up with a worthy portfolio.
If you are a teacher of graphic design, each one of these projects is a gem and will save you time and angst in developing stuff from scratch. That not to say you have to copy; I use them more for inspiration (I teach design in a large SW college) but they will get the grey matter moving and to top it all the author has written a teacher's guide that you can find on his website. Brilliant and throughly recommended.


This book challenges you to create new things and allows your imagination to roam free rather than being stifled by a client who has their own ideas and boundaries. This is like playtime but taken seriously can help you expand your ideas and push your designs. Some ideas are a little similar to other 30 day challenges found across the web but there is enough here to keep you active.


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