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BIS Publishers B.V. This is a Good Guide - for a Sustainable Lifestyle
This is a good guide for a sustainable lifestyle. It’s as simple as that. Would you like to live more sustainably, but without putting a lot of time, effort or money into it? Then this is your book. It’s filled with practical and positive tips on fashion, beauty, food, home, work, travel and leisure, and shows that stylish and sustainable go very well together. In particular, it demonstrates that it is about being good, not perfect: about smart choices, doing what you can and what suits you. With this modern handbook, sustainable fashion and lifestyle expert Marieke Eyskoot makes green living fun and doable. The right addresses, beautiful labels, great places, surprising facts and handy solutions – exactly what you need. Because doing good and feeling good at the same time: this is what everyone is looking for.
£26.30
BIS Publishers B.V. The 7 Principles of Complete Co-Creation
The 7 Principles of Complete Co-Creation presents a comprehensive view on co-creation. Illustrated by various international case studies, it explains co-creation not as a method, tool or project, but as a new paradigm in which end-users play an ongoing, active role with and for organizations that are relevant to them. It reads like a practical handbook on how to utilise complete co-creation in order to create sustainable value with end-users and other relevant parties. Since co-creation is a relatively new discipline, not much has been written on the topic. The authors have bundled together their years of practical experience to fill this gap. Unlike any existing publication, this book provides the reader with a clear co-creation framework, giving practical answers to questions such as: ‘what is co-creation and how does it work?’, ‘whom to involve in a co-creation process?’, ‘how to convince others of the benefits of co-creation and overcome barriers?’.
£30.46
BIS Publishers B.V. Think Like An Athlete
£14.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Mindset to Startup
This guide navigates the entrepreneurial journey, highlighting the importance of a resilient mindset. It offers practical tools to overcome challenges and create meaningful value in business and the world.
£22.50
BIS Publishers B.V. Playful Type Memory
This unique and well designed memory game on fonts guarantees both fun and education. It is three games in one. Match letters or font styles and use the fonts as letterboxed to form your favourite words.
£12.59
BIS Publishers B.V. Lie Like an Artist
Discover the key to effective communication with 'Lie Like an Artist.' This essential guide uses the knowledge of artists to master the art of clear expression, ensuring your ideas resonate and captivate.
£15.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Interface Design
Interface Design explores the impact of everyday device interfaces on user behavior, while delving into recent trends and innovations to shape the interfaces of the future.
£22.49
BIS Publishers B.V. The Art of Co-Design: Solving problems through creative collaboration
The quintessential handbook on 'how to' co-design. In recent years, co-design has become something of a buzzword. While the term has gained in popularity, its true meaning and practical implementations are not widely understood. Existing resources, such as co-design toolkits, are freely available online but tend to be highly specialised and template-driven, limiting their usefulness for diverse contexts. The team behind "The Art of Co-Design" conducted a thorough review of existing co-design toolkits and created a comprehensive resource that provides a holistic understanding of co-design, its methods, and applications. This book examines the core steps in developing and delivering projects, from creatively designing the co-design itself to understanding how it can work best for different stakeholder groups to analysing results correctly and producing effective prototypes. Consider this book the ultimate guide on 'how to' co-design. - Gain the confidence to effectively engage in co-design. - Learn how to customize and apply co-design to any context. - Allow for more authentic and tailored approaches.
£25.20
BIS Publishers B.V. Dilemmarama: Junior Edition
Would you rather... wear the same underwear for a year OR walk on all fours for the rest of your life? Following the success of previous Dilemmarama games, there's a Junior edition for children and their families to enjoy. There is only one rule: you HAVE to choose! This hilarious card game features 60 absurd dilemma cards that will make you laugh and make for the silliest conversations. And because life is full of dilemmas, there are two play options. For option one, you have to present the most challenging dilemmas to the other players to become the 'dilemma champion.' Option two allows you to play in teams, and you have to guess what your teammates would choose. Guaranteed you'll get to know your friends and family better this way! - Learn to choose between challenging options. - Enjoy silly conversations and hilarious dilemmas. - Get to know your friends and family even better.
£13.49
BIS Publishers B.V. Relation of Elements: Using Prepositions to Shape Design
Discover a new way to explore three-dimensional design and architecture using prepositions. "Relation of Elements" explores the role of prepositions in architecture and design, a part of speech often overlooked when describing and designing architecture. The book demonstrates how language can shape our understanding of objects and spaces and allows you to discover new ways to shape and define space. The book aims to inspire architects and designers to think creatively by manipulating prepositions and exploring the connections between different composition and structure elements. By making subtle changes to the prepositions used in describing design problems, one can introduce novelty and improvements in the outcome of a project. - A thoughtful approach to reimagining the relationship between elements in a design. - Explore three-dimensional design through the use of the preposition
£19.80
BIS Publishers B.V. Creative Reboot: Catalysing Creative Intelligence
Catalyse creative intelligence with a game changing kit to ignite insights and innovations. A practical guide for change-makers wanting to tap imagination and amp-up creativity. Whether you are a rigid analytical thinker or an accomplished creative mind, over the course of these pages, you'll learn to use creativity to create, diverge from, and converge into new inventive pathways, finding innovative approaches to complex problems. By providing a sequential pathway of interdisciplinary creative exercises, Creative Reboot is the all-in-one toolkit that helps facilitate the building of your creative confidence. Creative Reboot comes as a kit, easily carried around in your pocket to give you access to your primary source of creativity whenever your day calls for it. Each of the six chapters is grounded in applied scholarly understanding and complemented by case studies that reveal real-world applications of creativity. These pages are further supported by a range of guided creative cards. Their potential for spontaneous combination allows you to develop creative flexibility, create a network of connections, and realise innovative solutions with your own creative intelligence. By using this book, you'll enter a new age of creative thought leadership, its potential for serendipitous association of the cards allowing you to combine, cross-pollinate, and reorientate the creative cards to push the bounds of creative problem solving even further. While embodying creative theory, Creative Reboot goes further and situates creativity as a catalyst of change within complex challenges, alchemically reframing once impossible tasks into physical paths to action. A practical guide for change-makers, this must-read book is the next step in thought leadership, helping to tap into the powers of imagination and amp-up creativity.
£25.19
BIS Publishers B.V. Online Innovation: Tools, Techniques, Methods and Rules to Innovate Online
After describing 10 common pitfalls, the authors share great tools and techniques that work in practice. They discuss the Achilles' heel of innovating online and present 10 methodologies you can use for hands-on online innovation. The Lightning Decision Jam, the Design Sprint and the FORTH innovation method are highlighted in the book. The authors combine these methodologies into a new hybrid version. At the end of the book, you will find systematic descriptions of 25 tools and 10 methods. These will give a clear overview that will help you to pick the right ones for your online innovation journey. Innovating online is here to stay. There is a huge increase in hybrid innovation projects, combining in-person and online workshops, using all the online advantages while being personally engaged offline. Online Innovation supports all professionals who want to innovate online: consultants, coaches, facilitators, managers, and students in design (thinking) and innovation.
£22.50
BIS Publishers B.V. Drag Queen Memory Game
Meet our 30 queens in and out of drag in Drag Queen Memory Game: a diverse, fierce and fabulous game. The vibrant photographs by Dim Balsem explore the different clothing styles, make-up and characters that represent the wide array of subcultures within the drag world. The before-and-after photos are taken in the same environment to allow easier recognition when picking sets of two. With this game you will enter the world of Dutch Drag Queens, they all have amazing and heroic stories to tell. In the accompanying booklet you can discover what their drag character taught them and what life lessons they have for us. In the end, you will find that we have more in common than the differences that separate us.
£13.49
BIS Publishers B.V. Beyond Design: The Game of Social Solutions
Get ready! With this game, you'll gain insights into how you create, present, and evaluate social design solutions in a fast and fun way. PERFECT TOOL FOR GENERATING IDEAS, BRAINSTORMING & TEAM-BUILDING: Beyond Design The Game will help amp up your associative thinking skills and help you quickly generate ideas whilst working collaboratively. DEVELOP SYSTEM THINKING AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS: Get better at streamlining your thinking and communicating your ideas effectively. UNCOVER EXISTING INSPIRATION AND CREATE NEW OPPORTUNITIES: Spark new inspiration with existing ideas and explore new possibilities of bringing it to life. GET BETTER AT CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING: Learn to generate innovative solutions to complex social issues quickly. IMPROVE CONFIDENCE IN PITCHING YOUR IDEAS: Practice makes perfect. The game provides a supportive framework for anyone to practice and get better at enrolling people in their ideas. IDEAL FOR CLASSROOMS, WORKSHOPS, AND GROUPS: Whether you're using the game as an experiential teaching tool for students, facilitating a workshop for your team, or hosting an activity for you and your friends. The Beyond Design game is a perfect group activity for adolescents, adults, and kids age 12+.
£13.49
BIS Publishers B.V. Beyond Design: Making Socially Relevant Projects Successful
The time has come in which graphic designers are playing an important role in rendering ever more complicated information transparent and understandable for a wider audience. To stress this urgency, Renate Boere dove headfirst in the world of project management lingo, confidentiality statements, copyright, complicated contracts, the search for stakeholders, and grant applications. This journey resulted in the designer's novel Beyond Design.This nonfiction novel provides insights into the contemporary, often hybrid, practice of today's multi-talented graphic designers. The story tells how Boere decides to take matters into her own hands by working on socially relevant design projects. An exciting and informative book that gives insights into the designer's do's and don'ts while working on projects from start to finish.
£13.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Imagine Me: Visualising your Identity
How would you describe yourself or another person? Have you ever wondered how your identity could be visualised?It's not that easy, right?Imagine Me enables you to talk about the complicated and intimate subject of identity in a playful and accessible manner. Instead of using words and questions, you use visualisations to start a meaningful conversation about identity.The game consist out of 99 cards, each card has an authentic illustration that represents a particular trait. The cards are divided into three groups; Personality Traits, Character Traits and Colour Traits. The goal of this game is to compile and build a collage consisting out of 7 cards that represent your, or someone else's Visual Identity.The game can be played in various environments to uncover different social structures, for example, in a professional environment, at school or during a fun evening with friends and family. It can also be a helpful tool in the process of self-development as it can also be played alone.It is not about winning or losing. Instead, consider this game a playful tool to unravel visual identities and evoke meaningful interactions.
£15.29
BIS Publishers B.V. Framing Play Design: A hands-on guide for designers, learners and innovators
For many decades, play has been placed outside of learning spheres and only meant for children. What can be observed now is a revival of the phenomenal characteristics and potentials found in strong play experiences across life-long learning target groups and applied situations as well as broadly in the product, service and experience development industry. The effect play can have on participants and surroundings can be extremely effective. This book provides operational design guidelines on how to find strong balances in the making of specific play-based designs as well as how to involve users and stakeholders in the process of play design making. Through curious mindsets and surprising features, designers, learners and innovators are moved to new types of perspectives, approaches, beliefs and routines. This is considered to be a vital ingredient in the 21st century and of the coming decade because of rapid changes in school sectors and industry markets. This book provides frameworks and theories at a more operational level, which can guide those interested in designing for particular play experiences at a hands-on level.
£28.80
BIS Publishers B.V. Think Like an Engineer, Don't Act Like One
This edition of the Think Like a series displays the wonderful world of engineers. This bundle of insights shows why no one can hold you responsible for the impact of gravity, what Gerrit Rietveld can teach you about going against the flow, that Donald Trump says more than you think, and how Netflix goes beyond binge-watching. This book is for anyone who wants to widen their perspective and broaden their horizons.
£12.99
BIS Publishers B.V. FIZZ: The Beginner's Guide to Making Natural, Non-Alcoholic Fermented Drinks
Fermentation produces fantastic non-alcoholic drinks. Think of a fresh and tart kombucha, a thirst quenching water kefir, or an earthy beet kvass. They all fizz with healthy bacteria and they all surprise you with their complex taste. More and more, you'll see these drinks offered in top restaurants and cocktail bars. But you can also make them yourself. Fermented drinks, with their natural sparkle and slightly yeasty taste, are a great alternative to wine or beer. They are perfect for those who want to consume less alcohol and those who want to give a pro biotic boost to their body.This book tells you everything you need to know to brew these healthy and alcohol-free drinks yourself. You will find accessible recipes with step-by-step illustrations, scientific background information on the fermentation process, and 'juicy' anecdotes about the origin of these extraordinary drinks.
£16.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Pregnancy Cookbook: A Collection of Recipes that Appeal or Appal Depending on your Trimester
This is a staple gift for the millenial parent. Being pregnant is an exciting time, your little avocado that finally grows to be a fantastic water melon brings a lot of change. Change in your body, your moods and, more often than not, also your appetite. Because for the next nine months your flavour will never be the same. And though we always celebrate the dawning arrival of a new family member, this book will celebrate the arrival of pregnancy cravings. Together we’ll celebrate 40 pregnancy dishes; one for every week you’re pregnant.
£16.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Good Services: How to Design Services That Work
Service design is a rapidly growing area of interest in design and business management. There are a lot of books on how to get started, but this is the first book that describes what a 'good' service is and how to design one. This book lays out the essential principles for building services that work well for users. Demystifying what we mean by a 'good' and 'bad' service and describing the common elements within all services that mean they either work for users or don't.A practical book for practitioners and non-practitioners alike interested in better service delivery, this book is the definitive new guide to designing services that work for users.
£17.99
BIS Publishers B.V. How to Research Trends Workbook
Have you ever wondered how you can research the future? Trend research is a powerful method to detect and recognise change at an early stage. This DIY guide has been developed to show you the way in the trend research cycle. It will help you to find direction and which corners to take when you are scanning, analysing and applying the trends for any type of challenge or topic. This guide is to be used in combination with the book 'How to Research Trends'. You can use it to challenge yourself or your team to ‘learn-by-doing’. For easy usage, the guide follows the same structure as the book and it has the same colour coding and signage navigation. Don’t just read 'How to Research Trends', get yourself into the action mode! The guide is not linear, it does not have to be followed step-by-step in a rigid manner. You can create your own itinerary. Use it whenever you feel you the need for guidance or inspiration.
£8.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Robot memory game
Robot Memory Game gives an overview of the many areas robots appear in our society. All robot domains will get a description to explain the robot on the latest developments and reason they exist. The introduction faces the position of the robot in our human environment. All memory sets will contain two different examples.
£13.49
BIS Publishers B.V. Creativity Works!: Unleash your Creativity, Beat the Robot and Work Happily Ever After: Unleash your Creativity, Beat the Robot and Work Happily Ever After
Scientists say half the work we do could soon be done by robots and creativity is the number one skill that keeps you relevant on the job market. Even if science is wrong, it’s still great fun to develop yourself creatively. In Creativity Works! the authors explain what creativity is and why we are less creative than we would like to be – blame it on our brains and the way we were treated as kids at school. In this book you’ll practise basic skills to become creative and learn how a smart creative process can be designed and executed. From the formulation of a good starting question to research methods that will give you great inspiration and insights, and from smart divergent thinking to brilliant idea judgement tools: it’s all in there. Furthermore, Creativity Works! gives you great instructions on successfully prototyping and selling your ideas, solutions and concepts. Let’s beat the robot and work happily ever after!
£14.99
BIS Publishers B.V. The Social Climber’s Handbook: A Shameless Guide
Some people are obsessively invested in climbing the social ladder. Author Nimrod Kamer (Vice, GQ) undermines this from within as he inserts himself in numerous political or celebrity events. His resumé lists Uber trolling, penetrating members clubs and having Kanye West ask for his information after presenting himself as the editor of his Wikipedia page. The book is full of humorous tips and tricks based on the experiences of the author (the self-proclaimed most ambitious social climber alive). With a witty and provocative pen he shows how to penetrate a world that’s obsessed with status. Highly skilled jobs are being given to machines, no one will help you get ahead in life if you don’t grow some guts mixed with disesteem and disrepute. Forget your dignity, let yourself be thrown out once in a while or blacklisted, wear their loathing with pride. Some say social climbing is crass and rude, actually it’s just an appropriate form of class warfare. The world’s obsessed with status not skill, and attempting to change it from outside is futile. The only way to throw some shade of your own is to shamelessly undermine high society from within.
£9.99
BIS Publishers B.V. The Art of Parenting: The Things They Don’t Tell You
There is an art to parenting, but nobody knows what it is. All the ‘how to’ books can never prepare you for the fun that lies ahead. The Art of Parenting is a must-have for soon-to-be or new parents. It is a pictorial guide to the things only parents of little ones know, and the new ones should know. The early years of parenting are graphically pictured in humorous one-page illustrations that everyone will recognise. In a straightforward and simplistic manner, Drew de Soto captures the funny, smelly and sometimes difficult moments with new-borns and toddlers.
£7.62
BIS Publishers B.V. Design My Privacy: 8 Principles for Better Privacy Design
How can we protect our privacy in this digital era? Because of the emerging of ‘The internet of things’ this question becomes more and more relevant to designers. Technology becomes part of our daily used products. Watches, clothing, cars, houses are becoming ‘smart’, all being connected to the ‘cloud’. This book gives you guidance on how to design for privacy. This book is written to encourage designers to think about and to design for privacy issues. The technology behind the smart products and systems are so complex, that for the consumer it is difficult to understand what the consequences are for everyday life. Designers have to start thinking about transparency and accessibility in the design of privacy-sensitive products and services. This book offers the designer guidance, in the form of eight design principles, that help with designing products and services.
£12.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Save the Humans: How to Survive
Smart Phones, Healthcare Robots, Wearable Computers and Self Driving Cars. They are arriving or already exists. We are becoming increasingly intimate with the machines that constantly count, control and watch the way we live. How can the growing world population of more than 7 billion people create a humane life for everyone? Let's find the errors and the holes in the technosphere that will give us space for free and creative thinking. What's at stake here is the remains of human agency. Let's use the brain pixels that are not taken yet. And Save the Humans!
£12.99
BIS Publishers B.V. This is my Berlin: Do-It-Yourself City Journal
This is the first DIY city guide series on the market, kicking off with three of the most popular European destinations: London, Paris, and Berlin. These guides are colouring and creative activity books, travel notebooks, and city guides 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 Paris, to cherish as a keepsake of your trip to the city and to inspire friends to go there, too.
£12.99
BIS Publishers B.V. This is my Paris: Do-It-Yourself City Journal
This is the first DIY city guide series on the market, kicking off with three of the most popular European destinations: London, Paris, and Berlin. These guides are colouring and creative activity books, travel notebooks, and city guides 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 Paris, to cherish as a keepsake of your trip to the city and to inspire friends to go there, too.
£12.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Creatures of Creativeland: Collective nouns for the creative workforce, A Postcard Guide
A murder of crows. A crash of rhinos. Why is it that animals got all the fun collective nouns? At long last we have a comprehensive taxonomy that does justice to the various subspecies of the creative workforce. Creatures of Creativeland, A Postcard Book aims to land the perfect collective noun for every breed of ‘creativeland animal’. In the natural world, animal collectives all have specific names a school of fish, a urder of crows, a pack of wolves. Sometimes those collective nouns are colourful and evocative of the creatures in question. For too long, the humble creative folk of officeland have sat there silently, letting the animal world revel in linguistic glory. The creative ad duo known as A+J (a.k.a. Adrian Flores and Jana Pejkovska) have now named packs of humans, based on their unique characteristics, and combined them into a postcard book. This postcard book contains 20 cards that visualize the tribes of the creative class, such as a feast of Freelancers, a rant of Copywriters, a miracle of Female Bosses, a gibberish of Technologists, a gloom of Developers, and so forth.
£6.99
BIS Publishers B.V. The Form of Design: Deciphering the Language of Mass Produced Objects
This is the first all-encompassing book about the visual language of man-made products, explaining how mass-produced objects evolve over time and what made them change. Form evolution behaves in a similar way to language evolution and, to some extent, even to natural evolution. In the book the author materializes the governing rules of form evolution by means of fourteen case studies.
£26.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Numbers Game
The Numbers Game is a new game concept that resembles the memory game play but with some interesting differences, which makes the game more exciting and flexible. The Numbers Game consists of four sets of 20 cards. Each set has a set of numbers running from 1 to 20. The goal of the game is to collect one set of 20 cards. However, the cards may only be added to your collection in ascending order, if you first pick a number-1 card, or in descending order, if you first pick a number-20 card. The player who first completes a full 1-20 row wins the game. The numbers on the cards have been photographed on the streets of cities around the world, from house numbers to traffic signs and commercial signage. Paul Baarss sharp eye for graphic candor resulted in a collection of thousands of street graphics depicting numbers. For this game, he selected 80 striking numbers in surprising settings from his large collection.
£13.49
BIS Publishers B.V. Mozaa
Mozaa is a colorful combination of domino and mosaic. It is the edge matching game that brings out the artist in you. The box contains sixty-four cards, each with a unique colour combination. Take a playing card from the stack and place it next to the cards on the table, in such a way that the colours on the edges match. The one who creates the most and largest colour fields wins the game.
£13.49
BIS Publishers B.V. Graduation Guide for Design Students
This book is the perfect gift for all design students who embark on their most stressful year in design education: graduation year. This guide helps the student to graduate as a designer by giving practical advice, design advice and by suggesting ways to make graduation less stressful and more enjoyable. The advice is always very much on point and presented as double page spread posters with smart and funny illustrations and short handwritten text. You would want many of the spreads to hang on the door of your student room or studio.The dust jacket is a fold out poster that you can actually put on your wall. It is maybe the most important advice for the final exam student: Work Hard, Have Fun & Nooo Drama!
£12.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Never Touch a Painting When It's Wet: And 50 Other Ridiculous Art Rules
Art rules the world. But what about the rules of art? In our current day and age, the general consensus seems to be that creativity, divine inspiration and art can never be bound by rules. Artists need to push the envelope, be ahead of the curve, and if there are any rules out there it is the artist’s prerogative, if not God-given right, to break them. But up to the early 20th century, artists did not have the complete artistic freedom that they are believed to enjoy today. They were bound by rules of art, of decency and indeed of taste. This books contains 51 art rules. From the age-old ‘Rule of Thirds’ to modern mantras like ‘Design isn’t art.’ Myths, like the one of the struggling artist, are dispelled, while other rules are merely confirmed with the help of quotes by artists, theorists and art enthusiasts.
£13.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Performative Geometries: Transforming Textile Techniques
As in architecture, fashion creates a second skin that can adapt to the human body. Depending on its programming, the skin changes. In terms of spatial organization, we can learn many things from techniques that are used by fashion designers. The book contains many visuals of the form studies between fashion, textiles, space, and architecture.
£17.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Concept Code: How to Create Meaningful Concepts
Conceptual thinking involves adding vision to a product, service, or organisation. Content is key, as it determines the coherence of the concept. Consumers want to experience every aspect of the concept. In addition, the producer must meet the emotional and functional needs of the consumer. Therefore, while it is necessary to "think conceptually", it is also important to "do conceptually"; a concept must be executable (doable). In order to attract and bind your consumer, your concept becomes vital for your success. Concept Code guides you through every stage of bringing life to an idea in order for it to grow into a fully matured concept. It also gives insight into the importance of the consumer's mind and how this functions in to make your concept successful.
£26.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Lick it: Challenge the way you experience food
Through 24 unique challenges, a diverse range of angles, and detailed insights into the world of food design, Lick It will radically transform your relationship to food. Whether mealtimes are your favourite part of the day or you're in the camp of 'eat to live' rather than 'live to eat, this book will help you reshape how you think about food. Much more than just body fuel, food is political, it's social, it's exciting and constantly shifting and changing. With a striking balance between creative tools and cutting-edge theory, these 30 chapters will examine everything from food politics and sex to hunger and queer food. Lick It is not a cookbook. Rather, it's an ultimate food experience, helping you challenge your mind and expand your mouth.
£16.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Transforming While Performing: Find your North Star and get everyone to act in days, not months
"Help me transform while performing!" Transforming While Performing is a book for decision-makers, entrepreneurs, innovators and change drivers that realise the old methods of building plans and strategies for the future no longer suffice.This book is a practical guide with real-life cases and stories that inspire, visuals that speak volumes and tools and best practices that allow readers to co-create their future.The book consists of three parts. Part one reveals how you can find your true North and build your vision, strategy and culture. Part two explain how you can co-create your strategy and engage your wider organisation. And in part three, you'll learn how to transform yourself and your organisation, offering you inspiration on the personal, the business and cultural aspects of transformation. In short the book will help you:* Find your North Star, develop your strategic plan and get everyone to act in days, not months.* Sense the world around you and transform while performing both as a person and a business.* Turn transformation into a strategic capability.* Unleash the power of 3: inspiration, visualisation and co-creation to spark imagination, maximise group genius and accelerate the process.* Get inspired by real life cases and the visual tools.The authors of the book worked for over twenty years at the headquarters of global technology giants and industry pioneers Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft. They have first-hand experience with the challenges of working in organisations that are constantly transforming. As independent entrepreneurs, they currently provide advice to start-ups and organizations in all major industries around the world.
£22.50
BIS Publishers B.V. Innovation Accounting: A Practical Guide For Measuring Your Innovation Ecosystem's Performance
When a company is committed to growing through innovation - not just exploiting the existing business models - standard accounting documents offer insufficient and, oftentimes irrelevant data. Innovation Accounting is a practical guide for these companies to help them measure and track innovation. Most established organizations have understood the need to innovate and become more digital, however the management tools available to leaders seeking to understand the investments in innovation are lacking. Financial accounting in particular is difficult to use in the context of (digital) innovation. Therefore a new complementary system for measuring and tracking innovation is needed.The book provides tools, frameworks, templates, and visualizations that can be easily understood and applied. These can all be used by executives looking for a new way of measuring corporate performance in a world where accounting-recognized assets are becoming commodities, by investors seeking better ways of looking at a company's growth potential, and by managers who need to valuate innovation product teams using more than just financial indicators. Innovation Accounting is an essential go-to book for anyone that wants to measure their company's innovation ecosystem.
£27.89
BIS Publishers B.V. Offline Matters Cards: Truth or Dare?: A Tool for Less-Digital Creativity
Do you dare to step away from the social media mandate? Are you ready to challenge yourself beyond the automatic solutions of creative work today? Can we break from business-as-usual and find alternative ways of approach? Following the publication of Offline Matters: The Less-Digital Guide to Creative Work come the first two decks of the Offline Matters Cards series: Truth or Dare?. Like the much-loved classic game of Truth or Dare?, these tools are designed to challenge creative minds into unfamiliar places of thinking. Whether starting with a problem that needs solving or a blank state waiting action, the decks bring a fresh take to the task at hand. Draw a prompt card from each or either pack, then apply the perspective or action for counter-cultural results. The goal is to (re)introduce elements of experimentation and play that press against the dry digitality typical of creative work today.
£12.59
BIS Publishers B.V. Type Tricks: Layout Design: Your Personal Guide to Layout Design
Type Tricks: Layout Design is the follow-up to Type Tricks and the second book in the trilogy of user manuals about typography related matters. The first book was about type design, the second book is about type layout and the final book will be about type usability. Sometimes you do not have the time to read a book cover to cover, but you simply are looking for some main pointers to help you move forward. This book is precisely for these kinds of situations. The book covers both key typography rules as well as the underlying structure of the working process in layout design. In an illustrative format and easily accessible style, it presents the different stages of working with typography. The collection of rules provides more than 200 tips for creating readable layouts and typography settings. The book touches on matters of typography for both print and digital media: from letter spacing, paragraph breaks, text adjustment, leading, emphasis, hierarchy to grid systems.Layout guidelines are difficult to remember, but with this book you do not have to know them all by heart. The format is small and handy, so you can always have it on hand when you need to check the rules. Type Tricks: Layout Design takes its outset in the author's experience as a teacher of typography, her practical experience with designing layouts and her academic research into improving reading through good typography.
£14.39
BIS Publishers B.V. My Icon Library: Build & Expand Your Own Visual Vocabulary
The concepts are grouped into categories that regularly crop up at the workshops: 'finance', 'technology', 'innovation', 'agile' and 'sales', as well as broader themes such as 'team dynamics', 'way-of-working', 'politics' and 'the world we live in'. This is not a definitive list: every story is different and has its own blend of icons and visuals. My Icon Library is a source of inspiration and a go-to reference for whenever you need a visual that's a tad too complicated for your imagination or a Google Images search. It also works as a great companion to author's other bestselling books: Visual Thinking and Visual Doing.
£17.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Frame your Imagination: Stimulate your creativity with over 90 drawing challenges
Frame Your Imagination stimulates your creativity with over 90 drawing challenges. Each page contains a shape or line, some with color, others not. Include the shape or line into a drawing/illustration of anything that comes to mind. You can use the mentioned hashtags merely as an inspiration for your creation. The drawing challenges are designed to stimulate your creative mind and stretch your imagination. No artistic skills are required, use the art of creative thinking!
£10.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Creative Content Kit: A Method to Ideate and Create Content Strategy
Creative Content Kit is a four-step process for creating content strategy, inspired by 'The System of Publishing' theory (Bhaskar, 2013). Each stage contains a set of cards with methods, content types, platforms and tools.The deck of 65 cards is made for content professionals and non-specialist to ideate, test and solve content problems. It provides a helpful visual structure to ease communication in planning alone, with your team and clients.The first stage, Model, consists of cards with methods and tools that help you define the reason why your content needs to exist. You will start with the cards about Audience and progress to work with the cards about Product, Brand or Business.The second stage presents Content types that you can choose to include in your editorial approach. With the information you gather from the previous stage, you will think about what types of content you need to address your audience, aligned with your product/service, brand or business. There are no rules to pick one type or the other, but as you go through the cards, you will know which is a priority for you.Platforms are the channels and frames that will represent and distribute your content. They represent how and where your audience will experience it: videos on Facebook, photos on Instagram, short texts on Twitter, etc. At this stage, you will check your editorial ideas and goals to define which platform best suits it.Finally, you want to ensure your strategy will Reach your audience, to make sure content is not lost or ignored. You can then make use of practical tools, tips and tactics regarding exposure to capture their attention.HOW TOThe cards have numbers, a title, a subtitle - guiding you to make your choices - and body text that will indicate what you can start doing with call-to-action bullet points.Start by thinking about your content problem, the number of people involved, and overall investment. The four steps will serve as a guide, and you will organise and choose the cards according to your needs.There is no limit for the use of cards although it will have an impact on the time you will spend at each stage.
£16.19
BIS Publishers B.V. Type Tricks
‘Type Tricks’ is about typographical rules and the underlying structure of the work process in the design of new typefaces. In that way, it is both a reference book and a user manual. In an illustrative format, it presents the different stages of type design in an easily accessible manner. Being an expert as a typography professor, Sofie Beier knows exactly what the students need to know and how they can improve their skills. ‘Type Tricks’ is not only perfect for students, it also comes in handy for every type designer. It gives them the opportunity to reread information they were taught at during their time at school. It’s the perfect reference book. The book contains a number of essential tricks that designers need to know and understand. The typographic guidelines are difficult to remember, but with this book you don’t have to remember every single one of them.
£15.99
BIS Publishers B.V. Dilemmarama the Game: You Always Walk Backwards or You Sweat Olive Oil
Getting an electric shock every time you laugh out loud, or washing your mouth with soap every time you swear? Always sit on a strangers lap in public transport, or eat from your neighbours rubbish bin one day a week? In this game there is only one real rule: you HAVE to choose! Dilemmarama’s absurd dilemmas have been moulded into a fun social card game that will not only make you laugh, but will also cause heated debates and duels. There are two game options to choose from. After all, everything in life is a dilemma. In one of the game options the aim is to become the Dilemmaestro by creating as-difficult-as-possible dilemmas for the other players. In the other option, you play in teams and try to guess what your teammates choose. This way you will really get to know your friends and family! The game consists of 60 parts of a dilemma, enough to create over 1,000 different dilemmas.
£13.49
