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A journey through the minds of some of the most creative people on the planet reveals that creativity is rarely a “lightbulb moment” and instead arrives through a process of making and self-understanding.

The creative process is winding. It involves entertaining uncertainty and improvising new paths to knowing. In this insightful and informed book, Lorne M. Buchman, an international leader in art and design education and president of ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, guides readers through stories of a diverse and talented group of artists, entrepreneurs, innovators, and designers. Including such luminaries as Yves Béhar, Chris Kraus, Zack Snyder, Paula Scher, and Frank Gehry and businesses like Apple and Tesla who have changed the world as we know it, Buchman focuses on the revelatory nature of the creative journey itself.

Michelangelo is said to have seen the angel in the stone and carved away until he set him free. Make to Know is about making as a path to knowing―presenting creativity as a “carving away” toward a revelation, not as a fully formed epiphany gleaned from a mysterious ether. As Buchman reveals throughout this provocative book, uncertainty is the space where discovery happens and where creators can be both playful and imaginative. Whether you’re an artist, designer, writer, daydreamer, or doodler, anyone can learn from these lessons on the varied paths to self-expression.

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"Use the stories in Make to Know as a blueprint to liberate yourself from self-doubt, creative blocks, and fear of failure. A masterful thesis that unlocks the framework for us all to reach our creative potential."
― LYNDA WEINMAN, Cofounder and executive chair, Lynda.com (now LinkedInLearning)

"Make to Know is a vital and vibrant exploration of the creative process. The relationship between the artistic process and the intellectual process has rarely been broached in such an original way."
― STEVE VINEBERG, Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Humanities, College of the Holy Cross

"Make to Know is an inspiring read and an encouraging book for trying times. It is a meditation on finding one’s own creative way to move forward."
― ESTHER PEARL WATSON, artist, visual storyteller and creator of the award-winning comic Unlovable

"Make to Know will change your ideas about creativity, its relationship to making and uncertainty, and even how we live."
― CAROL T. CHRIST, Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley

"Make to Know provides access to the mind and process of creators, and we learn from them the labor, the sacrifice, and the strength it requires to serve as vehicle of the new. It is a profound exploration of creativity."
― JAMES HOLLIS, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst, and author of seventeen books, most recently, Prisms: Reflections on this Journey We Call Life

"In Make to Know, Lorne Buchman meticulously weaves multiple voices, disciplines, methodologies, and experiences of the creative process to reveal how uncertainty is at its core. By actively creating a state of unknowing, we make to know ourselves, our relations, and our world. I love this book. My students and the world need it!"
― REBECA MÉNDEZ, artist, designer and professor, Design Media Arts, UCLA

About the Author

Lorne M. Buchman is president of ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. Previously, Buchman served as president of Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center. He also served as provost and president of California College of the Arts, where he spearheaded the creation of its renowned San Francisco campus in 1994. He is the author of Still in Movement: Shakespeare on Screen.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thames & Hudson (October 12, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0500024529
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0500024522
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.28 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.1 x 9.6 inches

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Remarkable insights

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This book has a far greater purpose than a description of the processes of artists. Every human being is inherently creative and every one of us faces uncertainty. Teaching people to trust the disciplined process of discovery, open to learning, not knowing answers in advance, is a skillset the world needs very badly right now as we meet and solve the multitude of problems surrounding us. With carefully researched and crafted examples, Buchman unpacks the creative process. He uses the stories of brilliant artists to show how make-to-know results in discoveries that could be made no other way. Through his descriptions of various projects in multiple disciplines Buchman offers us an invitation to consider how we all might engage in a make-to-know dialogue with ourselves, with our challenges and with each other. I already use this book and the concepts within it in the work I do with people dealing with rehabilitation post neural injury, as one small example. Buchman's depth of knowledge and elegance of expression are a delight. This book is eminently satisfying to read.

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Make to Know is brilliant & a joy to read about the process of creativity!

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I have a deeper understanding of my creativity & my own process .
I feel like the author Lorne Buchman is speaking directly to me . It’s inspiring & a joy to read .

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A Recipe for Creativity

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Life has been busy these past few years so I don’t often get to read for pleasure, but when I do I hope to learn something about the world or something about myself, and this book succeeded to do both. The themes running throughout feel familiar, something we have all stumbled onto at one point or another, but haven’t fully understood. Elucidating the details of the creative process is this book’s genius, and has already helped drive more purposeful development in my life. Myriad examples from various artist interviews across multiple media were fun and enlightening—the access the author shares with us feels very exclusive. And his closing thoughts, considering science and drawing similarities to language, perfectly sum the thesis developed to that point. As he states, it’s not surprise, but recognition, of something that was there all along. Great read.

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my most highlighted book of the year

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Phenomenal book. Well researched and written. As an artist and entrepreneur, I can 100% relate to some of the ideas outlined in this book.

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Great read

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Eureka moments are seldom the keys to creative solutions. By detailed and highly entertaining examples of creativity at work, the author illustrates how many great creations came to be through collaboration, experimentation, and mostly simply by doing ("making"). A delightful, revelatory, and very accessible read.
If you're a writer, artist, or innovator, you'll say, "Of course!" and if you don't think you are any of those, you may say, "Hey, I can do that."

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Fascinating!

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I learned a lot from this book's thesis and found it most inspirational!

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