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BIS Publishers B.V. Designing Tomorrow: Strategic Design Tactics to Change Your Practice, Organisation, and Planetary Impact
Don't get left behind: learn how to consider long-term and environmental perspectives through strategic design. Get ready to make a difference! This book is your ultimate guide, packed with practical tools and strategies to create positive change. Whether working solo, in a small agency, or a big organisation, you'll learn how to embrace planetary perspectives and think long-term, even in a profit-driven world. Discover how to make mindful decisions, transform your design practices, and influence company strategies to leave a positive impact for future generations. 'Designing Tomorrow' introduces three pillars - networks, interventions and partnerships - and tactics for designers, decision-makers, leaders and anyone looking for ways to create a positive impact through the work they do. - Learn how to align long-term thinking with short-term goals. - Go-to-guide for designers, as well as business leaders, who are seeking ways to lead in this new era. - Valuable learning resource for students studying design and business.
£23.40
BIS Publishers B.V. Design to Change: Drive change by mastering event design conversations
Discover why intentional event design is crucial and how you can create positive organizational changes.Curious about how events can make a difference and create a meaningful impact? Then this is the book for you. 'Design to Change' offers valuable insights into the power of purposeful and strategic event design. Find out why intentional event design is crucial to drive positive organisational changes. Learn how to identify an event's desired outcomes and design experiences that align with those goals. From crafting engaging content and curating immersive environments to leveraging technology and fostering participant engagement, this book gives you the tools needed to create transformative events. Furthermore, the book will introduce you to innovative event formats and methodologies that can amplify the impact of your events. Case studies and real-world examples demonstrate the effectiveness of purposeful event design in achieving organisational objectives. Whether you are an event professional, an organiser, or someone interested in understanding the potential of events as drivers of change, this book will provide practical techniques, approaches and inspiration to design events that drive positive change. - Learn how to design events that facilitate change. - Discover the possibilities and benefits of strategic event planning. - Gain practical insights to maximize the impact of events on organizational success
£25.20
BIS Publishers B.V. Start-Up Starters: Achieve success by focusing on what matters
The strength and quality of a start-up are determined by the strength and quality of the founding team. Start-up Starters is a toolkit that is designed to help founding team members achieve remarkable performance by focusing on what matters. The kit consists of 68 cards that are divided into three categories: micro-challenges, prompts and dilemmas that are meant to challenge alignment, strengthen ties, and ultimately build a better startup.The game is played by all founding members. Every founder gets 5 cards. Taking turns, every founder chooses one card to put on the table. Work with that card before putting the next card on the table, and so on. Play as many rounds as you feel, depending on time and energy. Playing Start-up Starters results in more clarity about the role of the founding team, as well as actionable feedback and relentless client focus. The game is underpinned by a decade of coaching hundreds of start-ups, ground-breaking scientific studies and validated by highly successful founding teams. In short, a game changer for start-ups!* Invaluable toolkit for startups. * Learn how you as a founding team can foster a growth culture where people thrive. * Exciting card game with quotes to inspire dialogue, dilemma's to challenge alignment and exercises to strengthen ties and build a better startup.
£19.80
BIS Publishers B.V. This Human - Design Character: Know who you are as a designer
Are you exhausted by the need to constantly advocate for the value of your work? Do you experience self-doubt when it comes to your authority and credibility in the field? Do you feel stuck professionally, in a cycle with no one to advocate for you? You are not alone. Whether you're lacking clarity, alignment, confidence, or motivation, you have the ability to build up your inner strength-your design character-to create resilience and impact in your life and work. Dr. Melis Senova, author and creator of This Human, has spent 23 years in the world of design and leadership and discovered there was a big conversation that wasn't taking place: It doesn't matter how good a designer you are if you don't know who is doing the designing. This susceptibility to "moral fading" and lack of confidence has been silently plaguing designers for years, so Dr. Senova built her Design Character blueprint to provide the tools needed to help you become clear and uncover the type of designer (and human) you want to be in this world. In this book you'll learn: * How to build values literacy and understand how values can inform your work. * How to become aware of and diminish blindspots in your work. * How to develop your own ethics and discover different ways to think about them. * How to have impactful conversations that propel your work and career forward. * How to establish strong boundaries to keep yourself, and others, safe. Design Character is not one of your typical personal growth books. Inside you'll not only find fun, interactive, and lively pages, but also 14 exercises based on research from human centered design, strategic design, design innovation, mindfulness, somatic psychotherapy, neuroscience, and more. If you're ready to find alignment in your work and life, gain a greater understanding of who you are, and make an impact on the world, begin your Design Character journey today.
£27.00
BIS Publishers B.V. Creative Block: Kids!
Creative Block: Kids! is a fun and practical art book for children (and their parents!) to start experimenting with creative ideas, play with art and test out new materials and means of making art. It encourages children to play with their creativity, develop new skills and have fun with the results.They are the artist in charge and get to make all the decisions to create their own weird and wonderful work that they would not explore at school. Creative Block: Kids! wants children to have fun and explore their creative ideas. If you can imagine it, you can make it!
£13.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Infinite Double Diamond Cards: Design Thinking Tools to Shuffle and Re-Shuffle
It does not matter whether you are innovating on your proposition, your team culture or something else. The authors Carola Verschoor and Rik de Vette view innovation as the creation, development and implementation of new forms of value. It is a verb, because ultimately for innovation to happen, thoughts and ideas must be set in motion by doing. To help bring about innovation, Verschoor and de Vette created the Infinite Double Diamond Cards. This card deck is based on the Double Diamond of Design (created by the British Design Council in 2004). What makes the deck infinite is that the cards can be shuffled and re-shuffled, giving the innovation teams unlimited possibilities and inspiration. Infinite combinations can be made in the application of design thinking tools through these cards. They are easy to use, versatile in application and deliver useful results time after time. The front of the cards contains the name of a design thinking tool, reference to the phase in the design process and guidelines regarding time, materials and mindset needed. On the back, players will find a simple, to-the-point description of the methodologies and tools. Together, the cards have the structure of a recipe: "1, 2, 3 and you are done when ...". Each card is a point in a network of alternative approaches to the issues at hand. Verschoor and DeVette have curated a selection of the best, most impactful methodologies and tools, drawing from disciplines as diverse as research, service design, experience design, business and growth-hacking. Because if any process could guarantee a successful outcome, life would be quite boring. By experimenting playfully with the Infinite Double Diamond Cards, designers and innovators will find new and exciting ways to address the problems they are trying to solve.
£20.69
BIS Publishers B.V. Brand Vision Cards: Brand Building Tool for Visionary and Strategic Thinking
The Brand Vision Cards are a brand building tool for visionary and strategic thinking designed to spark ideas and aid clarity. It is a playful and intuitive thinking tool designed to help you explore, discuss and identify all the vital ingredients that you will need to define your vision.The 243 cards consist of four categories: your Brand Values: what you stand for; your Brand Strengths: what will help you reach your goal; your Actions: what you will be known for and the Emotions: you aim to evoke.The Brand Vision Cards can be used by companies, designers, communication professionals and facilitators. It is a tool for goal setting, vision statements, sharpening your USP, future innovation or as inspiration. You can submerge yourself in some serious thinking or take the playful approach and consider your brand personality, values, beliefs and path forward.
£25.19
BIS Publishers B.V. Design Innovation and Integration
Design Innovation and Integration is more than just a toolkit; it is a guidebook for the industry leaders of tomorrow, providing a holistic understanding of the approaches, practices and tools required to integrate design strategically within an organisation. Novel solutions are required to meet complex problems, yet how to make these solutions a reality is rarely addressed. This book expands on existing design toolkits to provide an understanding of the principles and methods that underpin such tools and align them with organisational strategy. The aim is not to equip readers with a stocktake list of design tools, but to assist them to learn how to apply, adapt and re-mould tools to best suit their needs. It also demonstrates the more complex process of design integration, highlighting common pitfalls and opportunities. Drawing on over 10 years of independent research, authors Straker, Wrigley, and Nusem share experiences and outcomes (along with personal repartees) from their research, teaching and pet projects. The two key parts of this book, Design Innovation and Design Integration, equip the reader with an understanding of the theory encompassing these two areas. This book can be leveraged by readers seeking to develop their own design approach and to implement design in their organisation. If you are looking to grow your influence and create an environment in which design innovation can flourish, then this book is for you.
£28.80
BIS Publishers B.V. Bullshit Bingo: The 1-player Party Game
Bullshit Bingo is the 1-player party game that transforms the BS of everyday life into a party for 1. By encouraging people to gamify real life, the game offers a refreshing reminder not to take life too seriously. It is a bit like therapy, but way less expensive.With 21 tearable and single-use cards, Bullshit Bingo is the perfect companion to life's most generic occasions: weddings, the gym, first dates, vacation, parenting, break-ups, death, turning 30, Hollywood movies - you name it.
£13.49
BIS Publishers B.V. Connecting: Harness Your Emotions to Enhance Your Creativity
Connecting is an homage to our creative forces. Each page is an illustrative example designed to enlighten, illuminate, challenge and provoke. You can start anywhere, dip in and out or read it end to end. We are happier when we are more creative but are we more creative when we are happy? The longstanding view in psychology is that positive emotions are conducive to creativity. When we are feeling up, we feel we are more resourceful, but what if we are measuring the wrong thing? New studies have shown it is not the type of emotions, but the intensity with which we experience them that is the real driver of our creativity. Nor is our emotional palette limited to "good" feelings. All of our emotions offer creative gifts provided we experience them with depth and understanding. How to cultivate your creativity to live a more emotionally rewarding life. Drawing on insights from neuroscience and psychology, Connecting will explore the paradoxical aspects of our emotional experiences that fuel our creativity. These ideas will come to life through a visually immersive experience that will connect you to your creativity and help you live a deeper, more meaningful life.
£17.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Football Baby Names: Your Child is Born a Champion with a Name Like This
Future parents have many choices to make. Which colour should we paint the room? Do we give birth at home or in the hospital? And, most importantly: what will be the name of the baby? Evidently, you would like to pick a name that gives the child a headstart, that might even raise expectations and ultimately, a name that suits the successful and fabulous human being it will evolve into. In bygone days, children were named after Biblical or heroic figures. But where do you find modern-day heroes? On the football field, of course! Names like Jari, Lionel, Cristiano or Johan – they immediately evoke an emotion or an image. With these football names your baby is ahead of the game.
£12.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Food Futures: How Design and Technology can Reshape our Food System
Food Futures will radically alter your ideas about consuming and producing food. Food designer Chloé Rutzerveld questions and explores new food production technologies and translates multidisciplinary research into future food scenarios. This book explains her thoughts, process and work, which is often described as provocative, cheeky and playful - inspiring and involving consumers in the discussion about potential food futures. Follow the conceptualization of completely edible, ‘mini vegetable gardens’ with crispy plants and mushrooms, that become a full meal after being printed by a 3D printer. Engage in a quest for a new eating system in which we digest 100% of the nutrients we take in (instead of the current 75%) by breeding bacteria that are harvested into capsules (that also look, taste ánd smell good). Or get cooking yourself with the recipe for a healthy, typically Dutch ‘stroopwafel’ a recipe derived from her project STROOOP! in which she dives into the natural sweetness of root vegetables. Start exploring, cooking and fantasizing about what we are going to eat in the future.
£19.80
BIS Publishers B.V. Free your Mind Postcard Block
When times are particularly difficult, and you are likely to slip into despair, some of the greatest pop songs can provide true comfort to make it through the pain. The problem with advice in general is that we often don’t take it. The great thing about advice songs is that you can kick back and listen to someone else coach you through a tough situation while rocking out at the same time. Marcus Kraft’s bestsellers Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow and Don’t Talk Just Kiss struck a chord with music lovers. This sparked the idea for the Get off the Internet Postcard Block. In the footsteps of this popular postcard block, we present a new collection of postcards, using the same iconic design as the books. They contain the best advice from the most iconic pop songs. Surprise your friends or family with one of the 20 pieces of advice collected in these postcard blocks.
£7.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Inspiration for Innovation: 101 Lessons for Innovators: 101 Lessons for Innovators
Inspiration for Innovation helps you to become a successful innovator. It offers practical insights, tips and tools and teaches you how to innovate. With 101 columns, this book inspires, confronts and surprises everyone who is looking for more inspiration on this topic. Using an expedition metaphor, it reveals how to achieve a strategic mind-set: timing, breaking patterns, understanding customers, creating a culture for innovation, and implementing innovation projects successfully. Every spread is a mix of intriguing pictures, graphics and inspiring stories. It’s a wonderfully designed book to inspire yourself or to buy as a gift for other people. The 101 lessons in this book make you dream, think and act like a successful innovator.
£14.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Pixel-Art Game: Café Terrace at Night
This three-staged memory game invites you to observe masterpieces closely. Historically, a masterpiece was a work of a very high standard, produced in order to obtain membership of a guild or academy. Since the author never went to art school, her untrained eye wondered: “How should I look at art in order to fully appreciate it?” Trying to answer this question, she decided to design a system of observation based on different steps: games and activities following a set scheme that triggers the player to look at a masterpiece on a different scale. Pixel-Art Game allows you to zoom into these Dutch Masterpieces. Match the original image with its pixelated copies by zooming into Van Gogh’s famous Café Terrace at Night. The painter’s colour and use of light are emphasised through the pixels of the digitalised image, taking art into our contemporary digital language. With light packaging, perfect to take along with you, the Pixel-Art Game offers several games in one set. Each of these 3 games is a step towards understanding the artwork better, and they can be played with multiple players.
£9.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Contrarian Branding: Stand Out by Camouflaging the Competition
The world is busier than ever. One of the major challenges for brands is how to stand out from the competition: brands competing for market share, new brands that are being introduced, and indeed politicians fighting for attention in a crowded arena. The answer is certainly not to create more and more messages. Instead, brand managers should be able to craft ‘polar’ brand associations. This book shows how brands catch the eye by creating polarity. This goes further than just being different. It’s a sophisticated technique to set brands apart from all other competitors in a radical way. This can be done by creating brand associations that radically split a competitive field into absolute opposites or are able to reconcile these in unexpected ways. Lightheartedly and with a wealth of examples, the book describes unique ways of guaranteeing that brands create a break through. Contrarian Branding is a must for brands eager to stand out from the crowd.
£14.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Once Upon a Time I Went To . . .: A Stimulating Notebook to Help you Travel to the Fullest
Travelling is one of the most exciting things you can do. Getting lost in a beautiful forest or visiting every museum in a city; whatever your idea of a perfect trip is, it will always enrich your life. This book helps you to enjoy your trip to the fullest and gives you the opportunity to write down your favorite new memories.It's perfect for people who love to travel, but want some help exploring. If you want to get more out of your trip, Once Upon a Time I Went is a book they should definitely take with them when they travel.It's a notebook with prompts to make the most of your trip and it's full of questions and assignments to help you explore a new city or country
£12.99
BIS Publishers B.V. CEX Sells: New Inspiration for Valuable Customer Experiences
Customer EXperience (CEX) is hot! Nowadays, it’s getting increasingly hard for companies to be distinctive through the products they offer. So it is key for them to stand out by means of the services they offer in addition to these product. A focus on the customer experience is needed. Many companies realize this, but only few manage to be successful. They understand the theory and the process to get there, but what they lack are concrete tools to bring the theory into practice. CEX SELLS is the inspiration book for companies that want to deliver distinctive customer experiences in order to achieve their business objectives. The authors discuss the various ingredients needed to deliver perfect customer experiences. Ingredients to define and design the optimal experience, but they also offer a description of what is needed in the organization for them to be able to deliver and manage that desired experience. They show how front runners worldwide have optimized their customer experience, and what other companies could learn from that. A book that will definitively inspire you to improve your own customer experience!
£26.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Once Upon a Time I Wanted to Be…: An Inspirational Notebook to Help You Find Your Passions and Talent
From the makers of 'Once Upon a Time I Was...', the guided notebook to create your own autobiography (now in its third printing), we present this new notebook, which helps you to find your talent and passion and the job and life that matches best with who you are and what you want to be. Whatever age you are, knowing what you want to be and do in your professional life can give such fulfilment. It can make you wake up with a smile every day and give you a sense of belonging. Like you have found your place in the world. But how many people do you know who really do what they love? And what about yourself? Do you have any idea of what you want? What makes you tic? And what (if somebody would ask you to) would you do for free because you are so happy doing it? This book will give you the tools to find out what that thing is that you want to do with the rest of your professional life and it will give you tips and insights on how to achieve it.
£12.99
BIS Publishers B.V. CO LAB: Collaborative Design Survey
The object of CO LAB: is to promote the ideals and methods of contemporary design collaboration by informing on cultural context, surveying some unexpected practitioners, and highlighting techniques and practices that apply to studio work and forward-thinking education initiatives. There will be three main sections with 10-20 short-burst chapters in each, befitting the collection/handbook format.
£26.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Always be Yourself Unless You Can Be a Unicorn Then Always Be a Unicorn A Snapshot of the Weird and Wonderful World of the Tumblr Generation
A guide to understanding some of what youngsters -referred to as Generation Y, Millennials, Digital Natives..- say, do and think.
£12.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Make Design Matter
Make Design Matter is an accessible book about a complex subject. It proposes strategic design guidelines based on holistic concepts. The guidelines facilitate convergence across different fields, inspiring designers and lay persons, companies and institutions, and teachers and students of design to envision and apply more meaningful solutions. This book will help you to design better… and to make design matter!
£12.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Never Photograph People Eating: And 50 Other Ridiculous Photography Rules
Anneloes van Gaalen never stops researching ridiculous rules in creative sectors and we are thankful for that, because it produces more of these wonderful and bestselling Ridiculous Design Rules books, which make perfect gifts for creative people and those who love creative work. Five books have been published and reprinted (!) so far, and we are now pleased to announce the next three new titles: Never Sleep with the Director and 50 other Ridiculous Film Rules, Never Photograph People Eating and 50 other Ridiculous Photography Rules and Never Paint by Numbers and 50 other Ridiculous Art Rules. These three fields of creativity will attract the interest of the general public, besides of course appealing to the professionals working in these sectors. For each of the 51 rules covered in each book, Van Gaalen refers to quotes by famous fellow creators, who either think there is something to the rule or have made a personal variation on it.
£12.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Know Your Onions: Graphic Design
This book is practical and immediate, without being condescending or overly technical. It is like having a graphic design mentor who will help you come up with ideas, develop your concepts, and implement them in a way that is engaging and humorous. It gives readers the experience and ability that normally comes from years of on-the-job training. All of the essential techniques of graphic design and its digital implementation are covered. Read this book and gain 25 years of experience in how to think like a creative, act like a businessman and design like a god. This book is designed like a notebook, with all the authors’ tips and knowledge already inside. However, it also includes blank pages that allow the user to personalize this reference book with specific notes that are relevant to his or her studio, suppliers or clients.
£15.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Everyday Innovator: 4 powerful habits to cultivate team creativity
This hands-on guide empowers individuals of all backgrounds to cultivate effective habits for enhancing creativity. Today, leaders and employees are expected to demonstrate increased creativity in their work. However, many lack the skills to be creative on command or challenge conventional thinking. This book provides a practical approach to developing creative skills, boosting confidence and foster a culture of creativity in your team. It guides readers through the four key creative skillsets, helping them turn each into a habit. The book equips readers with tools to challenge assumptions, generate novel ideas, stay open-minded and persuade others. It also highlights the benefits of creativity, such as driving innovation and better decision-making. Readers will learn to explore new areas, imagine ideas for better decisions, evaluate ideas with a learning mindset and present ideas persuasively. Everyday Innovator offers a hands-on guide for developing your creative skills, boosting your creative confidence and fostering a culture of creativity in your team. - Learn how to prepare for the creative journey and practice essential creative skills. - Discover how to integrate creativity into daily tasks and set expectations. - Kickstart your journey to make creativity a natural part of your daily work and your innovative projects.
£18.00
BIS Publishers B.V. This is a Good Guide - for a Sustainable Lifestyle: Revised Edition
This is the definitive and comprehensive guide for what you can do about climate change and to contribute to a better world. It contains lists of go-to shops, beautiful brands, inspiring insights, surprising facts and useful solutions. Through in-depth interviews with leading pioneers, such as Livia Firth, Green Kitchen Stories and Andrew Morgan, you will find exactly what you need to live a more sustainable life. After all, doing good and feeling good at the same time: does it not get any better than that?This revised edition is the newly updated version of the international bestseller This is a Good Guide - for a Sustainable Lifestyle (30.000 copies sold worldwide). All stores, brands, addresses and initiatives are up-to-date with new shops and labels. The book has new interviews, revised facts and figures, and an additional eight pages of tips and tricks.
£19.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Creative Thinker’s Exercise Book
By enhancing your ability to identify connections, you can enhance your creativity. This exercise book strengthens your ability to recognise connections. The exercises are based on the theory of the book The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker, as well as observations in neuroscience, and seventy years of creativity studies. This exercise book is based on a dynamic balance of theory, technique, and exercises, it's a practical hands-on workbook. It’s the perfect outlet to get your hands dirty and dive into exercises that strengthen one’s ability to see and make connections. This book is for those seeking to enhance their creativity. It can be used to: - Develop one’s creative capacity - Train underlying mechanisms in creative thinking - Enrich educational purposes - Increase idea production Creative Thinker’s Exercise Book is for everyone that’s eager to indulge in exercises to enhance their innate creativity by identifying connections.
£16.99
BIS Publishers B.V. How to Research Trends (Revised Edition): Move Beyond Trendwatching to Kickstart Innovation
Welcome to the all-new, revised and revamped edition! Embark on an exciting journey into the future, using trend research as your compass. Take a deep dive into the future with this book as your trusty companion. "How to Research Trends" shows you how to navigate and explore using the powerful tool of trend research. Learn how to scan the environment for signs of change, analyze trend spots, and apply insights to kickstart innovation. This revised edition is designed for professionals who want to incorporate trend research into their own work. It features new interviews with professionals and agencies, as well as new theories, including Shalom Schwartz's human values model and Sharpe's Three Horizons Framework. Learn how to use trend research to explore the future, and you'll be prepared for change and the uncertainties it brings. Interviews with professionals that provide insights on how to implement trends. Various activities and tools to be used individually or in a team. A dedicated chapter on how to set up your own trend practice within your organisation.
£27.00
BIS Publishers B.V. Powerful Women Puzzle: Herstory in Pieces: Celebrating Women in Art
Explore the amazing world of art with the 1000-piece Powerful Women Puzzle! It showcases women bringing their stories to life. This puzzle isn't just about putting the pieces together; it's a joyful celebration of women's significant contributions to art history. Inside the package, you'll find a leaflet with fascinating insights into women's remarkable role in shaping the art world. Based on the popular Powerful Women Affirmation Deck, this puzzle highlights the strength and resilience of incredible women. It's a fantastic combination of fun and learning, allowing you to dive into the inspiring journeys of female artists who have impacted the art scene. Whether you're an art lover, a puzzle enthusiast, or searching for a meaningful gift, this puzzle offers a unique and uplifting perspective on the immense impact women have had on the art realm. - Celebrates women in art and their contributions to history. - Includes a leaflet with valuable insights into the remarkable role of women in shaping the art world. - The perfect blend of entertainment and education.
£18.40
BIS Publishers B.V. Great Leaders Mix and Match: Get ready for the future with the ideaDJ strategy
This book serves as a manual and toolbox and outlines how leaders can become 'ideaDJs'. A perfect ideaDJ mix consists of beauty, value and impact. By creating beauty, the solutions have more elegance in their implementation. It adds more value to all stakeholders, not just shareholders. And finally, the solutions create more sustainable and scalable impact.Great Leaders Mix and Match is a manifesto for more beautiful combinations in (business) life. The world faces complex challenges and these challenges can only be resolved by mixing and matching ideas. The beauty here lies in the elegance of the solutions which actually make the (business) world a better place and how we are able to solve multiple challenges in one go. Think of a waste incarnation plant which doubles as ski hill. Or think of new solutions for care: an elderly home, combined with children day care and an animal farm, where all parties benefit from the combination. These are real cases where the total (combination) is clearly more than the sum of its parts. This book serves as a manual and toolbox and outlines how leaders can become 'ideaDJs'. A perfect ideaDJ mix consists of beauty, value and impact. By creating beauty, the solutions have more elegance in their implementation. It adds more value to all stakeholders, not just shareholders. And finally, the solutions create more sustainable and scalable impact. Besides many exciting examples, this book contains a clear methodology and tool kits. The main focus is to help (business) leaders to change the mindset and attitude of the people around them.
£17.99
BIS Publishers B.V. A Spectator is an Artist Too: How we Look at Art, How we Behave Around Art
Is there anything more entertaining, inspiring and instructive than observing art? Yes, it is watching the people interacting with this art. This book may forever change your approach to art as it urges you to always consider both the work and the response. Because ultimately artists create, but we – the audience – complete the picture.A Spectator is an Artist Too is a visual essay about human behaviour around art: what happens when we are confronted with something immensely beautiful, challenging, or puzzling? Art historians only study objects, but how these objects are received is also worthy of our attention.The book also captures how art museums are changing, as they draw increasingly diverse audiences. The way the museum visitors responds to art is becoming more casual and creative – but also more swift or even banal. This shift is increased by a whole new breed of Instagram-friendly 'museums' worldwide, attracting experience-hungry visitors with immersive exhibitions defined by their Instagrammability.
£14.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Design. Think. Make. Break. Repeat.
Revised edition: 20 additional methods, three new case studies and a new chapter to introduce life-centred design. This book introduces the reader to the changing role of design as a way of thinking and a framework for solving complex problems and achieving systemic change.This book introduces the reader to the changing role of design as a way of thinking and a framework for solving complex problems and achieving systemic change. It documents 80 methods that cover all stages of a design process, providing actionable guidance for applying the methods across a range of projects. The methods are complemented by seven case studies to demonstrate their application in different domains, from designing interfaces for autonomous vehicles to addressing health and wellbeing. Free templates and resources, available at designthinkmakebreakrepeat.com, make this a great resource for design educators as well as practitioners leading workshops in their organisation or looking for inspiration to transform their practice.In this revised edition, the authors look beyond the human-centred design paradigm and provide an introduction to life-centred design. This extended focus is reinforced through design methods for considering the broader ecosystem in which products and services are used, including the use of natural resources, ethical concerns and the long-term impact of design decisions.
£26.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Lay Your Cards on The Table: Spark the conversation between different generations
Chatting with colleagues at the coffee machine is easy enough. Talking to a new colleague is a little less easy. Having an in-depth conversation with someone you do not know, is anything but easy. And, if that someone is either half your age or twice as old, it becomes difficult. This game turns that task into a joyful experience. Lay Your Cards on The Table consists of 60 cards with conversation starters. Choose questions from 3 different categories and you will be having great conversations in no time. You can play this game with 2 people or more. You can start the conversation by randomly asking or answering some of the questions or, if you need some more guidance, you can use the game rules. Although in the end, there really is just one rule: Whatever is discussed on the table, stays there!
£13.49
BIS Publishers B.V. Know Your Onions - Corporate Identity: Get your Head Around Corporate Identity Design and Deliver One Like the Big Boys and Girls
Not all of us get to work on multimillion corporate identity projects for airlines and huge conglomerates. If you are new to the sector or honing their skills, this book if for people who have tackled identity projects in the real world, then this is for you. This is a broad introduction on identity design - not branding - don't worry, you'll learn the difference.If you want a book that tells you how to do it, this is for you - if you want a book about how other people have done it - then this isn't the book for you.This book is for graphic designers and people who commission corporate identity projects who want to understand the process and how to deliver one, be it new to the sector or honing their skills.
£15.29
BIS Publishers B.V. Visual Doing Workbook
As a follow-up to the bestseller Visual Thinking and the second book Visual Doing, the author is releasing two workbooks. These books are great tools to help you kick-start your visual journey and gain the confidence to produce amazing, compelling drawings. The books are crammed with tons of visual exercises, ranging from tracing illustrations to drawing hacks. It will inspire you to design and share your own icons! The Visual Doing Workbook: Create clear and compelling layouts; focusses on flipcharts and larger, more complex drawings and how to tie together their different elements. It will show you how to grab people’s attention and make your ideas stand out by framing your canvas or making sure it has an eye-catching title.
£11.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Designing With and Within Public Organizations: Building Bridges Between Public Sector Innovators and Designers: Building Bridges between Public Sector Innovators and Designers
Many contemporary societal issues have grown to be too complex to solve with traditional approaches. It is no wonder that design practices increasingly appeal to public organisations as a new and promising approach. But, before we can make the collaboration between designers and public organisations a success, we have to acknowledge that there are vast differences between their approaches. Because if we don’t, we will experience major upsets and often a disappointing impact. In this book, the author introduces the art of context building – creating and maintaining the right context within public organisations for an honest, thorough and yet manageable design process. In the first part of the book, the author introduces in clear chapters change management, stakeholder management, coalition building and power from a design perspective. In the second part of the book, the author explains how to apply the new insights in order to establish and maintain the right context for designing within public organisations.
£31.25
BIS Publishers B.V. This Human: How to Be the Person Designing for Other People
This Human is about the person who is doing the designing. There are many great design books in existence that teach us about design process, tools and methods. With the increasing popularity of design thinking and human-centered design we've also seen more material discussing various aspects of the practice. One missing aspect, almost in an ironic twist, is what it takes to be the actual person who is doing the designing. The name This Human is referring to that person. The person who needs to observe to gain insight, to makes sense of their observations in a way that isn't biased by their own world views. The person who needs to communicate in many different ways with many different intentions to communicate information which is often hard to access, difficult to grasp and just not that tangible. The person who is so passionate about having a positive impact they become exhausted one third of the way into their project. This book helps these people to learn more about themselves and how to think and be in their practice of design - to help them grasp all that is going on inside that then influences their creations.
£26.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Pitching Ideas: Make People Fall in Love with your Ideas
We are good at designing beautiful products and we offer good services. We always know exactly what the user wants and we know dozens of methodologies. However, if we have to convince our customers and colleagues, we find it rather difficult. For one reason or another, pitching ideas is one of the most undervalued practices in the creative field. From convincing a colleague to opt for a certain methodology to persuading a customer to go for a certain concept, you can have the best ideas in the world, but if you are not able to bring them across, they will never become reality. In this book the author will take you inside the heads of the people you have to convince. Pitching Ideas will help you to find the essence of the idea you want to get across and will explain how you can really convince the right people in the end.
£14.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Creative Chef Postcards
A postcard book with twenty postcards: visuals about food inspired by the Creative Chef's work as an artist, food designer, and chef. Think 'MacGyver Food Solutions' and 'Make Food not War'. The Creative Chef's humor and unique way of looking at the world are presented in these cards.
£6.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Trashures: The Beauty of Useless Stuff
Have you seen the Waste Land documentary? It's about the largest landfill in the world in Brazil where people make a living out of garbage in the dump. Until artist Vik Muniz comes and Art is born out of rubbish materials and ends up in Phillips, an auction house in London, one of the most important in contemporary art. Inspired? Through Trashures useless garbage will become indispensable to your project. You can also get to know how other artists reacted to the transition from useless, scrap, ordinary things to unique pieces of art, ingenious assemblages of beautiful and smart designed new products. For whoever has an eye for it, there is beauty in everything, from rubbish to stuff that is plain useless. This book features fifteen international artists who work with rubbish, showcases some of their projects, and includes a DIY spread for a project by every artist.
£12.99
BIS Publishers B.V. This is my New York: Do-It-Yourself City Journal
This is the fourth of a DIY city guide series on the market, now with the most popular city in the USA: New York City. These guides are colouring and creative activity books, travel notebooks, and city guides all in one. Each book contains beautiful illustrations of the city for you to colour in or finish, inspirational to-do lists, and fun facts about the city. But it also leaves plenty of space for your own stories, drawings, pictures, tickets, notes, and tips. With this journal you create your own city guide full of memories and tips about your trip to the city to cherish as a keepsake of your trip and to inspire friends to go there, too.
£12.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Write Nothing in Here
You want to come up with new ideas. With things that others haven’t thought about. There are a million ways to do so, but the majority of theories focus on connecting or improving existing things. Like how to connect a with x or how to think outside the box. But what if you don’t think in boxes? And what if you don’t want to improve things around you, but really want to focus on new stuff? Your nose is at the right place, because this book is about exactly that. The author argues that while the whole world is focusing on things, you should focus on nothing. She challenges you to focus on the gaps, the spaces in between and all the things that ordinary thinkers wouldn’t care to notice. This notebook and sketchbook is full of prompts, assignments, fun facts and quotes from the world of science, arts and philosophy about exploring the virtues of nothingness. You’ll find out once you get the hang of it, that focusing on nothing really helps to create new ideas. That’s why this book is a doodle and sketch book – with plenty of space to capture your notes and to create out of nothing.
£12.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Simplicity: A Matter of Design
As the world becomes increasingly complex and complicated, simplicity becomes increasingly in demand. We all seek simplicity in small or large measure. We strive to create simplicity at work and at home. While the lives of our early ancestors may appear simple to us, it would not be simple for us to live those lives. This takes us to the root of simplicity: Simplicity is not an absolute quality. It depends on our experience, knowledge, understanding, and skills. Simplicity: A Matter of Design offers a set of terms that will allow us to discuss simplicity in design with precision. It looks into the basics of simplicity and researches more in depth three aspects of design: functionality (simplicity for comfort), aesthetics (simplicity for pleasure) and ethics (simplicity for conscience). There is an extra chapter on simplicity in communication. If there is one quality all designers are seeking it is simplicity. Nevertheless, very little is written on the subject. Simplicity: A matter of design is a very clearly written and illustrated must read for students and practitioners who are intrigued by the concept of simplicity.
£26.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Old Masters Memory Game
Old Masters Memory Game collects the most famous and beloved portrait painters from the 16th and 17th centuries in one game that is fun to play, educational, and a feast for the eyes. The task, as always, is to collect two cards that make one set: in this case, two portrait paintings by the same painter. The sets are clearly recognizable by the posture of the figure, facial expression, the style of painting, and attributes like clothes and hairstyle. To help, there is always the brochure with all the paintings in pairs and a little explanation on the painters. This is a wonderful gift item for gift shops and all museums that collect the old masters. The game consists of 50 cards of 25 sets featuring world-famous portraits by the likes of Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticello, Titian, Frans Hals, Albrecht Durer, Goya, and many others.
£13.49
BIS Publishers B.V. ViP Vision in Design: A Guidebook for Innovators
The authors, design practitioners and educators, bringing together in this book 15 years of knowledge, practice and research, have produced the first book about how, as a designer, to formulate a vision for new and appropriate products. They call this new approach Vision in Product Design (ViP). It strikes a good balance between structuring the process of design while allowing the designers to take a personal position and fully express themselves in producing a product. ViP is both a method and a design philosophy. Besides explaining what ViP is all about, the book offers a rich array of narratives like conversations, cases, literature and creative materials (both academic and popular) and illustrations like models and pictures. Through these different pathways the reader will better understand ViP and will be able to interact with the book, both in practice as in educational context in more various ways.
£26.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Conditional Design: An introduction to elemental architecture
Conditional design is the sequel to Operative Design. This book will further explore the operative in a more detailed, intentional, and perhaps functional manner. Spatially, the conditional is the result of the operative. It is not a blind result however. Both terms work together to satisfy a formal manipulation through a set of opportunities for elements such as connections and apertures.
£12.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Eccentric Structures in Architecture
Structures which are conceived rationally have an order and logic which do not always fit into real world conditions of the irrational and the unpredictable in architecture. But what if structural ideas were explored as a condition in architecture which challenged the predictable? What if structure were not bound by its rational ethos but instead conceived in alternative approaches relevant to real-world irrationalities? And if the approaches lead to what is possible, then is structural eccentricity a norm or an anomaly in architecture? This book documents a series of design investigations that engage with conditions of shape, change and mutation, giving rise to design propositions dealing with eccentricity in structure. With illustrations and accompanying descriptions of the design process, this book is a useful reference for structural strategies in architecture.
£12.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Never Use More Than Two Different Typefaces: And 50 Other Ridiculous Typography Rules
Rules in typography--a joy for graphic designers and everyone who has anything to do with designing texts.
£12.99
