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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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ HOW Books; Illustrated edition (November 24, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1600617972
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1600617973
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.6 x 10 inches
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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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Madison
5.0 out of 5 stars It's like a crossword puzzle book for artists... keeps your mind sharp! Great graduation gift for my sister!
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2016
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I got this for my sister as a high school graduation present last May because she's now in college, majoring in graphic design. It's a really fantastic way to sharpen your creativity and graphic design perspective, both of which are important in her graphic design coursework. The challenges each center on one common theme, like using as little white space as possible, for example. I personally think it's a great way to prepare for working in the real world, where you may encounter strange requests like those in this book. By practicing these challenges, you're preparing yourself for those types of design obstacles. My sister also says the challenges are completely repeatable, especially since there are so many in this book. By the time she gets around to repeating a challenge, she's already learned so much more in her classes that she's able to come at the challenge from a totally new perspective. All in all, I'd definitely recommend this to challenge the minds of budding or even experienced graphic designers! Think of it like a crossword puzzle book for artists... keeps the mind sharp! :)
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Vero
5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2021
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This book is still a must have for anybody interested in digital communication. Every chapter contains a bunch of challenges to stimulate your brain and creativity. I love the fact that one uses also one hands, scissors, glue, paper, etc to envision its reflexion about the project as it should always be. The author is a designer, writer and teacher. At the beginning of the book he gives a few useful pieces of advice on how to use one's time to reach the deadline for example. The challenges are definitively various and some of them are really fun. Great to train oneself and acquiert a working discipline. Highly recommended.
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Charles H. Babb
4.0 out of 5 stars Learning and Teaching
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2012
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Creative Workshop is a good book to learn design. Furthermore, it has challenges to teach student designers. The 80 challenges not only get the design juices, but the creative juices flowing. This book is a well-designed design book. It is well crafted and shows progression from one challenge to the next challenge.

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.
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LauraO
5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2023
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lots of different and interseting mind practices thank you
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Jaye
5.0 out of 5 stars Cool and Informative.
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2012
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This is great book that really helps you hone your creative skills. It reminiscent of those little 2nd grade paper back work books-- except for adults. I use the phrase work book because that's, really what it is. It's full of creative activities that put your creative juices to work.
I purchased this book out of curiosity and also it was on the recommended for you list. I'm glad I did, it's a style conscious, high quality book that is just plain old fun.
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Junryou
5.0 out of 5 stars Up for the Challenge?
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2012
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I have found this book to be a wonderful tool. Whether I need a warm-up before a client project or need some new ideas for a personal project, 'Creative Workshop' helps give me a running start.

Beautifully and simply laid out, the book is easy to follow. I especially enjoyed seeing the samples of other designers' takes on the challenges. The workshops truly made my brain think outside of the box!

I highly recommend this book for beginner and advanced designers alike.
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Al Crowley
3.0 out of 5 stars Wish the projects were better.
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2014
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The projects are lame and the examples they use aren't the best either. I want to look at award winning designs, not stuff that was thrown together for the sake of a project. Some examples are really good, others are just not cutting it. Project wise, it still has essentials that you should know and helps you practice for them.... BUT they just dont feel fun, wish they had less story and more stricter deadlines too.
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William Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars A wide variety of exercises to create a regular discipline of self-development.
Reviewed in the United States on 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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HeyHey
5.0 out of 5 stars Wie erwartet
Reviewed in Germany on March 11, 2024
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Top Zustand, interessante Übungen
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Rafael M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book (apparently)
Reviewed in Mexico on December 31, 2018
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The book was for a gift, but before giving it, I took a look at its pages and seems like an intersting, useful tool to help improve creativyty, just as it's described. The book have attractive texts, with captivating images and colors, so I guess wouldn't result boring to read. The book also arrived in perfect conditions, with no wrinks on its pages and/or cover, thing that is appreciated, since it's a NEW book, but I have received new books bought on Amazon before that arrive with details.
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Niyam Bhushan
5.0 out of 5 stars Gift for Design professional I mentor
Reviewed in India on September 1, 2017
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Inspires you to start thinking and working in design on a set path. Offers inspirations and hints to keep you motivated.
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Jamefg
5.0 out of 5 stars Lo práctico que buscaba
Reviewed in Spain on March 6, 2018
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Un libro con 80 ejercicios prácticos - exactamente lo que buscaba. Algunos ejercicios son conocidos, otros totalmente nuevos. Al final, el libro es una fuente de inspiración y no me arrepiento nada haberlo comprado!
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Giulia
5.0 out of 5 stars Interessante
Reviewed in Italy on October 27, 2016
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Ottimo libro per studenti, freelancers e per chi comincia ad avere le prime esperienze di lavoro. Offre ottimi spunti, stimola la creatività e ti porta ad ottimizzare i tempi di progettazione.
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