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Books and gifts for the creative minds Fall 2016

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Different Brains, Different Approach Concept Code Strategic Design Thinking in Services Mastering the Art of Negotiation Handbook Event Design Design My Privacy Creative Thinker’s Exercise book The Divergent and Convergent Thinking Book Read Nothing in Here Creative Chef Postcards The Company Card Game Outsider Art Memory Game

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Think Like A Manager, Don’t Act Like One The Seven Laws of Guaranteed Growth The Innovation Maze Designing for the Common Good The Politics of Design The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker Are We There Yet? Don’t Read this Book The Fast Guide to Architectural Form Create with Artists Art Is Everywhere Once upon a time I wanted to be… Trashures Tips by Creative Chef This is my New York Dilemmarama The Game

Cover Image by Sébastien Thibault and taken from Think Like a Manager, Don’t Act Like One, p. 28

Dear reader, ‘If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together’ -African proverb While trying to create a meaningful world it is important to consider long-term solutions. The best ways to achieve (long-term) goals is to work with others. Cooperation is one of the cornerstones of our community and is intertwined in our lives, not only in our business environments, but also on a personal level. Achieve more, work together. This requires an essential skill: negotiation. Negotiation is about people. There are numerous facets in negotiation: how people influence each other, as well as the legal, economic, and cultural aspects. One encounters negotiations in daily situations, whether personal or in business. ‘Mastering the Art of Negotiation’ helps you to learn, develop, and maintain this important skill. This season we have a great list of new titles where personal engagement and interaction plays an important role. In ‘Handbook Event Design’ you will learn how to create a successful event by understanding who has what at stake and define behavioural changes required to deliver value. In innovation the role of the designer is moving towards a more strategic one; this involves working closely with the customer and engaging in creating the design brief, not merely limited to the position of an executor. ‘Strategic Design’ focuses on specific practices to act effectively on a strategic level. ‘Thinking in Services’ provides a groundbreaking method; expressing the design of a service in code, a uniform language that enables people across all layers of the service organisation to implement policy and strategy.

In our gift section we have some great exercise books to keep the brain active and boost your creativity. Improve your idea production by dividing your thinking in ‘Divergent and Convergent thinking’. Or strengthen your ability to make connections with the ‘Creative Thinker’s Exercise Book’. This is the follow-up to ‘The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker’ who entered #1 in the new release list at Amazon.com! But also the brain breaker, 21 things you should know about nothing. Read all about it in ‘Read Nothing in Here’. There is more, 14 new titles in total. So if you have some time on your hands or are in need of inspiration, read on… or wander around on www.bispublishers.com for even more information and a preview of our books. You can understand that cooperation is highly valued by us, we can’t do without it. What is more, we don’t want to do without it, because we want to go far and therefore we must go together! Together with our authors whose expertise we greatly appreciate, and together with you, our valued customer. Don’t forget to stay connected via our social networks; like, share, and spread the word. As ever, if you have a good idea for a new project, don’t hesitate to contact us. We would love to hear from you! The BIS Publishers team, Bionda Dias bionda@bispublishers.com

New titles Different Brains, Different Approach Successful Neuro Advertising for Both Genders: Male and Female By Huub van Osch

• Appeals to a wide range of target groups, from marketing professionals to people interested in neuroscience. • The only book about neuroscience based on neurological differences between men and women. • Written by a pioneer in neuroscience for the advertising industry.

Finally, a book that describes the neurological differences between the male and female brain and how this is implemented in advertising! The book describes how men and women think, the origin of their emotions, and why they make certain decisions. Find out why women like shopping so much, why humorous ads appeal to men, or why women make better decisions. 80% of all purchases worldwide are made or influenced by women. Why is advertising so often aimed at men? Find the answer to the life-long question about differences in purchasing motivation between men and women, and learn to implement this in advertising. Learn the do’s and don’ts for effective communication for both men and women. Although this book is written from a scientific perspective, thanks to the numerous interesting examples and tips, it is easy to implement and useful for advertising campaigns. In short, a must-have for all marketers, strategists, creatives, students, or anyone working with brands. Marketers and strategists will benefit from an enlarged body of knowledge, while creatives will learn how to develop more effective ad campaigns. Huub van Osch MBM is creative director, strategist, and owner of two advertising agencies in the Netherlands. Both specialised in neuro advertising. Huub graduated Cum Laude at the Erasmus University with his thesis about male and female neuro cognitive processes.

Related: Hidden Persuasion, p. 53

192 pages | 21 x 21 cm | paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 435 7 | £ 24.95 Pub date: August 2016

New titles Concept Code How to Create Meaningful Concepts By Gaby Crucq-Toffolo and Sanne Knitel Conceptual thinking involves adding vision to a product, service, or organisation. Content is key, as this 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.

• A practical guide to effectively improve ideas, policies, products, and services. • A comprehensible industry-approved method for concept-development. • For all professionals in any field of industry and governmental organisation.

Gaby Crucq-Toffolo works as a Lecturer in Concept Development at the Fontys Academy for Creative Industries in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Gaby is currently studying at the European Institute for Brand Management (EURIB). Sanne Knitel works as a lecturer in imagineering, concepting and design at the Fontys Academy for Creative Industries, Netherlands. 192 pages | 25 x 20 cm | Paperback with flaps | ISBN 978 90 6369 432 6 | £ 24.95 Pub date: August 2016

New titles Strategic Design 8 Essential Practices Every Strategic Designer must Master By Dr. Giulia Calabretta, Prof. Gerda Gemser and Dr. Ingo Karpen

• Targets design professionals who want to or have grown into a more strategic role in innovation. • Enables design professionals to play this role effectively through a set of up to-date and ‘hands on’ practices, tools, and illustrative cases. • Builds on the knowledge based experience and network of the Creative Industry Scientific Program.

The rol of design professionals’ in innovation is growing towards a more strategic one. They are no longer just executors of new product and/or service design briefs but are increasingly involved in the crafting of these briefs and in the strategic decisions leading to these briefs. In order to effectively play this role, design professionals need to master a set of strategic practices – i.e., routinized actions and ways of working. However, since the strategic role of designers is a relatively new development, many designers lack knowledge on specific practices for acting effectively on a strategic level in innovation projects. This book introduces ten strategic design practices: envisioning, inspiring, reframing, focusing, road mapping, simplifying, aligning, translating, educating and embracing. These ten practices will help the design professionals become familiar with effective tools for strategic innovation projects and give them a set of guidelines for easily and quickly applying these practices and tools. Dr. Giulia Calabretta is an Assistant Professor in Strategic Value of Design at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology (Delft Netherlands). Prof. Gerda Gemser is a Full Professor of Business and Design at RMIT University of Technology and Design, Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Ingo Karpen is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at RMIT University and a Member of the Design Research Institute at RMIT University.

224 pages | 19 x 24 cm | Paperback with flaps | ISBN 978 90 6369 445 6 | £ 29.95 Pub date: August 2016

New titles Thinking in Services Encoding and Expressing Strategy through Design By Majid Iqbal This book introduces a powerful design language that appeals as much to creative professionals and programmers as it does to accountants, engineers, and lawyers, with the belief of raising the bar by lowering barriers. Raising the bar in design requires multidisciplinary efforts that are easier without standard language barriers. Design is the ultimate expression of policy and strategy, and expressing design in the form of a code makes it possible for every layer of the service enterprise to execute the design (code) in a fast and parallel manner to deliver what has been promised at a much lower cost. For that purpose, the book introduces a system and method that go beyond blueprints and customer journey maps, to broaden the appeal of service design for strategists, economists, and budget analysts.

• A new system and method that combines industrial design with strategy. • A method that has only been available to a few large government and commercial enterprises. • Gives the confidence to pursue bigger and bolder ideas in the form of services.

This patented system and method has, until now, only been available to a few large government and commercial enterprises, (Boeing, United HC) through consulting projects or 2-day workshops. Majid Iqbal advises government and commercial enterprises in expressing their policies and strategies through a more dynamic portfolio of services. He began this inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, where he taught for six years, before becoming a consultant at Gartner and PwC. 240 pages | 23 x 17.5 cm | Paperback with flaps | ISBN 978 90 6369 430 2 | £ 29.95 Pub date: October 2016

Related: This is Service Design Thinking, p. 52 The Service Innovation Handbook, p. 51

New titles Mastering the Art of Negotiation 7 Guides for Creating your Journey By Geurt Jan de Heus You negotiate on a daily basis, although you just may not always notice it and/or be aware of it. Every day, at home and at work, you collaborate, find solutions, solve problems, or deal with differences of opinion or even conflicts.

• Creates a new mindset on how to view people and what to expect from the way one interacts with others. • A text, image, and workbook that builds on the good thoughts of Fischer & Ury. • Creates a different perception of the topic.

This book applies 7 basic principles for you to take ownership of the process of negotiation. It builds on the foundational theory of Getting to Yes. It provides insight into your personal pitfalls and allows you to handle increasing complexity in negotiations in a more conscious and resilient manner. This book answers the most frequently asked questions spanning over 20 years in the author’s training and coaching practice, with chapters such as Recognizing Negotiation Dynamics, Day-to-Day Dilemmas, The 7 Guidelines, Managing Yourself and Others, The Inner Game, Managing the Game Zone, Recognizing & Handling Biases, and Speeding Up Your Learning. Hundreds of books have been written on the topic of negotiation, as well as the psychological components, collaboration, project leadership, and so on. This book combines these elements and brings them together to address various challenges and reconcile them with consciousness, resilience, creativity, and strength. Geurt Jan de Heus is originally a medical doctor with 10 years of experience in marketing, sales, and business development for pharmaceutical and chemical companies. 240 pages | 20 x 26 cm | Paperback with flaps | ISBN 978 90 6369 431 9 | £ 29.95 Pub date: October 2016

New titles Handbook Event Design Systematically Design Innovative Events using the #EventCanvas By Roel Frissen, Ruud Janssen and Dennis Luijer Some of the most life-changing connections are made at events. But if you can’t design events, how can you change your world? The answer? This handbook will change the way you think about how events change the world you live in. It shows the way to re-design your world on one sheet of paper using the #EventCanvas.

• A breakthrough systematic approach to event design on a single sheet of paper. • The #EventCanvas distinguishes between 14 building blocks and dissects events on a stakeholder level. • A visual handbook to demonstrate the why, how, and what of event design with real world application and case studies that demonstrate effective event design.

This book identifies the starting point of any event and outlines steps of how events come to life. It focuses on the DNA of specific aspects of events, and provides insight into how to observe and analyze events, understand stakeholders, and define behavioural changes required to deliver value. It also identifies the levers and mechanisms that influence such behavioural changes in event design. This handbook lays the foundation for creating a common language. A language that can be spoken and understood by those who know and those who don’t yet know the mechanics of events. It is a pragmatic approach for designing and creating events that matter. Roel Frissen and Ruud Janssen are the founders of EventCanvas.org Foundation and Event Model Generation. Dennis Luijer is a visual thinker and a story engagement engineer. 192 pages | 21 x 21 cm | Paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 434 0 | £ 24.95 Pub date: September 2016

New titles Design My Privacy 8 Principles for Better Privacy Design By Tijmen Schep How can we protect our privacy in this digital era? This question is increasingly relevant to designers due to the emergence of ‘the internet of things’. Technology is now part of our daily items. Watches, clothing, cars, and houses are becoming ‘smart’ and connected to the ‘cloud’. This book provides guidance on how to design to address concerns regarding privacy. ‘Design My Privacy’ is written to encourage designers to think about, as well as design for privacy issues. The technology behind smart products and systems are so complex, that it is difficult to understand the consequences for the consumer’s everyday life. Designers must think about transparency and accessibility in the design of privacy-sensitive products and services. This book offers guidance in the form of 8 design principles for products and services.

• Based on 8 principles in privacy design. • This book encourage designers to think about privacy issues for products and services. • Written by a Dutch pioneer in privacy design.

Tijmen Schep holds an MA in both interactive media design from the HKU (graduating with an interactive urban screen) and new media theory from the University of Utrecht (graduating with distinction on a thesis that critically examined ubiquitous computing ideology). This duality of perspective allows for a nuanced view of the field of design and technology. 160 pages | 18 x 12 cm | Paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 437 1 | £ 11.95 Pub date: October 2016

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WAT IS PRIVACY EIGENLIJK? Privacy is een door de Verenigde Naties erkend mensenrecht. Privacy vormt een belangrijke pijler onder verschillende vrijheden die we in de westerse wereld uiterst belangrijk vinden, zoals de vrijheid van meningsuiting, de vrijheid van samenkomst, en het recht op een goede rechtsgang (wanneer je bijvoorbeeld een privégesprek voert met een advocaat). Tegelijkertijd blijkt privacy voor veel mensen een moeilijk te vatten begrip. Dat komt door de verschillende manieren waarop privacy gedefinieerd kan worden en door de verschillende belangen en contexten waarin privacy een rol speelt. Laten we eens een aantal verschillende perspectieven op privacy bekijken. Binnen discussies over de definitie van privacy maakt men vaak onderscheid tussen de waarde van privacy voor het individu en de waarde voor de maatschappij als geheel.

Privacy als recht Om alleen gelaten te worden Het recht op privacy, dat vlak na de uitvinding van de paparazzi ontstond, werd oorspronkelijk (1890) omschreven als het recht van het individu om alleen gelaten te worden25. We gaan ervan uit dat we thuis niet bespioneerd worden en daar geheimen kunnen bewaren, zoals bijvoorbeeld over onze gezondheid of wat we in de slaapkamer doen. Bijna iedereen heeft thuis gordijnen in de slaapkamer. We genieten eigenlijk continu van onze privacy. Het is zo normaal dat we er bijna niet meer bij stil staan.

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Denk al in de beginfase van een project na over hoe je met privacy en data omgaat. Dat klinkt (hopelijk) logisch, maar in de praktijk blijkt dit vaak niet het geval. In veel producten worden privacy features pas later ingebouwd, in het ergste geval pas na bezwaar door het brede publiek. Dit is niet altijd even eenvoudig, bijvoorbeeld omdat de software niet meer aangepast kan worden, de hardware infrastructuur niet goedkoop te vervangen is, of omdat het gekozen businessmodel het niet toestaat. Soms is privacyschending heel bewust tot stand gekomen, en wordt er gebruik gemaakt van zogenaamde 'dark patterns' om ervoor te zorgen dat mensen per ongeluk meer informatie weggeven dan ze willen. Onwil, bureaucreatie en kennisgebrek maken het lastig om deze problemen adequaat aan te pakken. Door er vroeg bij te zijn en deze vraagstukken op tijd te onderzoeken, kunnen deze problemen hopelijk zo goed mogelijk worden ondervangen. Dark Patterns p.123 Een goed voorbeeld is de OV-Chipkaart. Volgens Marleen Stikker, directrice van de Amsterdamse Waag Society, zijn bij het ontwerp van het OV-systeem duidelijk geen kritische hackers of privacy-deskundigen betrokken geweest49. Hierdoor doken er jarenlang veiligheidsproblemen op, die werden aangekaart door journalisten en hackers die zich zorgen maakten. Hoewel de oude OV-chipkaarten inmiddels zijn vervangen door duurdere, beter beveiligde varianten, blijft het systeem nog altijd privacy-onvriendelijk. Zo is het bijvoorbeeld onmogelijk om tegelijkertijd anoniem en met korting te reizen, iets dat voorheen wel kon50. Doordat anoniem reizen nu alleen tegen vol tarief mogelijk is, wordt dit effectief ontmoedigd. Slecht ontwerp kan zelfs levensgevaarlijk zijn. In 2015 bleek het mogelijk om een nieuw model auto’s van Jeep via het internet over te nemen en op afstand de remmen in te

drukken of de motor uit te zetten51. De enige manier om de software van updates te voorzien, was door een USBstick met update-software in het dashboard van de auto te steken. Chrysler, het moederbedrijf van Jeep, besloot toen om 1,4 miljoen Jeeps terug te roepen. Zo blijkt maar weer dat er schrikbarend slecht wordt nagedacht over de privacy en veiligheids-issues die kunnen ontstaan gedurende de volledige gebruikscyclus van een product of dienst. Dit is een probleem dat al langer speelt. Volgens een recente schatting door onderzoekers van het Franse kenniscentrum Eurecom en de Duitse RuhrUniversität is het, voor ongeveer een kwart van de op het internet aangesloten apparaten, zeer eenvoudig om ze over te nemen52. Deze apparaten zijn veelal te benaderen met bekende standaard wachtwoorden. De meeste problemen zullen niet snel worden opgelost. Vaak zijn bedrijven traag met het aanbieden van updates omdat het ze geld kost, iets dat een probleem vormt bij veel Android smartphones. In andere gevallen is er wel een oplossing beschikbaar, maar bereikt die het systeem niet. In het geval van de Jeeps van Chrysler moest er handmatig een USB-stick in het dashboard worden ingevoerd. Zo is er altijd een percentage apparaten dat door haar gebruikers niet geüpdatet wordt53. In het ergste geval is het product een flop, bereikt het ‘end of life’ status of gaat het bedrijf failliet. De meeste mensen blijven deze apparaten toch gebruiken. Zelfs een up-to-date apparaat kan morgen onveilig blijken wanneer hackers een nieuw lek ontdekken. Software bouwen is en blijft mensenwerk. Er gebeurt dus van alles tijdens de levensloop van een 'slim' product. Het is belangrijk dat een organisatie samen met een ontwerper op mogelijke problemen anticipeert en snel op in leert spelen. Dat kan door handleidingen en

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My Little Piece of Privacy Het interactieve kunstwerk ‘My Little Piece of Privacy’ van kunstenaar Niklas Roy bestaat uit een klein verticaal gordijntje in een verder groot leeg raam. Wanneer er een voorbijganger langs loopt gaat het kleine gordijntje precies voor hem hangen, zodat hij alsnog niet goed naar binnen kan kijken. Hoe belangrijk het is om je aan het publieke oog te kunnen onttrekken werd mooi duidelijk in het project Super Stream Me van de VPRO26. De makers, Tim den Besten en Nicolaas Veul, hadden gepland dat ze drie weken lang hun hele leven live via het internet zouden uitzenden. Zelfs wanneer ze sliepen of naar de toilet gingen waren ze in beeld en te beluisteren. Er ontstond een brede schare online volgers. Uiteindelijk maakten ze maar twee weken vol: het was psychisch te zwaar om continu ‘de beste versie van jezelf’ te moeten spelen. Panopticon p.127

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New titles Creative Thinker’s Exercise book By Dorte Nielsen and Katrine Granholm This exercise book is a spin-off to ‘The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker: How to make connections others don’t’. While this book is based on a dynamic balance of theory, technique, and exercises, the ‘Creative Thinker’s Exercise Book’ is a practical hands-on workbook, 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 eager to indulge in exercises to enhance their innate creativity by identifying connections.

• Hands-on exercises to strengthen the ability to make connections. • Insights into how highly creative people think. • Based on the theory of the book ‘The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker’.

Dorte Nielsen is a creativity expert, author, keynote speaker and the founder of FourSight Denmark. Dorte is also the founder of ‘Creative Communication’ an award winning BA education for Art Directors and conceptual thinkers at the Danish School of Media and Journalism. Katrine Granholm is an Art Director and Digital Concept Developer. She also works as a Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Danish School of Media and Journalism. 176 pages | 25 x 19 cm | Paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 438 8 | £ 16.95 Pub date: October 2016

Related: The Secret of The Highly Creative Thinker, p. 35

New titles The Divergent and Convergent Thinking Book By Dorte Nielsen Creativity research shows that dividing thinking into divergent and convergent forms improves and increases idea production; this leads to unexpected thoughts and original solutions. Divergent thinking is used to generate ideas; convergent thinking helps in selecting the best ideas. The concept of divergent and convergent thinking is so integral to the creative process and innovative thinking that it is known as ‘the heartbeat of creativity’. It is the underlying rhythm of creative thinking. This book is an introduction to divergent and convergent thinking and includes guidelines to enhance innovative thinking, as well as hands-on exercises to strengthen creativity.

• An introduction to divergent and convergent thinking. • Guidelines to enhance innovative thinking. • Hands-on exercises to strengthen creativity.

The concept of the book is supported by its triangular shape, illustrating divergent and convergent thinking: the top half of the book communicates divergent thinking, while the bottom half communicates convergent thinking. This principle remains the same throughout the book. Dorte Nielsen is a creativity expert, author, keynote speaker and the founder of FourSight Denmark. Dorte is also the founder of ‘Creative Communication’ an award winning BA education for Art Directors and conceptual thinkers at the Danish School of Media and Journalism. 152 pages | 25 x 12.5 cm | triangular hardcover | ISBN 978 90 6369 439 5 | £ 12.95 Pub date: October 2016

Related: The Secret of The Highly Creative Thinker, p. 35

New titles Read Nothing in Here 21 things you should know about nothing By Seema Sharma The word nothing might sound like a fart in the wind. A useless word that no one would bother to think about. But you might have forgotten that the greatest mathematicians have struggled with the question of where nothing begins and where it ends. The most brilliant philosophers have examined the meaning of nothingness for ages. Some of the world’s greatest thinkers have been racking their brains on whether there is even such a thing as nothing. In this book you will learn everything about nothing. This book is for the curious, the smart asses, and the conversation starters. And for everyone who needs more of nothing in their daily life. ‘Read Nothing in Here’ is an unscientific exploration into the meaning, function, history, and misuse of the word nothing. This is what makes this the first real book about nothing.

• A fun read for everyone who needs more of nothing in daily life. • Full of facts and beautiful illustrations about nothing. • By the same author of BIS Publishers’ ‘Write Nothing in Here’.

Related: Write Nothing in Here, p. 73

Seema Sharma is a Dutch creative and copywriter who creates ideas out of nothing on a daily basis. What started as a personal method to find original ideas, turned out to be a valuable source of inspiration for many creators, thinkers, and inventors. Her goal is to inspire more people to create ideas, thoughts, and things out of nothing. 144 pages | 18.5 x 13.5 cm | paperback with band | ISBN 978 90 6369 441 8 | £ 11.95 Pub date: July 2016

New titles Creative Chef Postcards By Jasper Udink ten Cate A postcard book with 25 postcards about food. The cards are the Creative Chef’s visuals inspired by his work as an artist, food designer, and chef. Think ‘MacGyver food solutions’ and ‘Make Food not War’. His humour, creativity, and unique way of viewing the world are reflected in these cards. These postcards will bring a smile to your face! And that is exactly the aim of the author Jasper Udink ten Cate. ‘Creative Chef’ is a concept and the title of the first extraordinary cookbook by Jasper Udink ten Cate, published by BIS Publishers, and sheds entirely new light on food and experiences. It is brimming with inspiring recipes that will transform your dinner into a special occasion. The book is unique in the saturated cookbook market, and is bursting with inspiration and creativity.

• Funny, creative, vintage style postcards. • For all your food-loving friends. • By BIS Publishers’ author of ‘Creative Chef’.

Related: Creative Chef, p. 43

Jasper Udink ten Cate is a food artist who designs food concepts to tease your brain. He loves food, art, music, stories, places, jokes, curiosa, old books, and most of all, the emotions people experience when they enjoy a meal. Besides being a chef, he is also an artist, designer and chocolate maker. 25 postcards in a book | 15 x 10 cm | ISBN 978 90 6369 440 1 | £ 8.95 Pub date: November 2016

New titles The Company Card Game Grow your business or inspire others to grow theirs By Bjorn Uyens How we work is changing. There are more start-ups than ever, and an entrepreneurial spirit is required within companies. In 2016 factories are no longer needed, as you can start a company out of a cardboard box. ‘The Company Game’ helps you to actually go and do it!

• 60 tool cards place you actively in the seat of an entrepreneur. • Fun to play with and lots of business examples. • Generates more effective ideas than any other game in just 30 minutes.

Invite your friends and family to help you grow your business or inspire others to grow theirs. ‘The Company Game’ generates more effective ideas than any other game in just 30 minutes. Define, Discover, Design, Develop, Deliver and Drive! 60 tool cards place you actively in the seat of an entrepreneur. Who would you hire? What would be your marketing campaign? Would your company be a tiger or a turtle? Would you rather have Obama or Branson in your virtual board? Every venture, whether personal, economical, social, technological, or otherwise starts with you. You are likely to be the first to do something, so don’t wait for the right time, or the right place. Start now. Bjorn Uyens is the owner of TrendLab, a trend research and consulting agency. He is the owner of To The Lobby, a collective reservation service, and is the co-founder of The Cardboard Company. He is passionate about being an entrepreneur and developing B2C markets with innovative products for companies like Sanoma and Endemol. 60 cards in a box | 14 x 11 x 4 cm | ISBN 978 90 6369 442 5 | £ 13.95 Pub date: November 2016

New titles Outsider Art Memory Game By Anja Brunt ‘Outsider Art Memory Game’ collects authentic works of art produced by off-beat artists. The task, as always, is to collect two cards that make one set. In this case, two artworks by the same artist. The sets are clearly recognisable by the style and expression of the artwork. To help, the brochure includes all the artworks in pairs and brief descriptions about the artists. The artists in this game do not consider art of the past; they have no formal artistic training and some are residents of psychiatric institutions. Their creativity has developed outside the framework of the mainstream art world and is largely ignored by it.

• Includes beautiful, self-taught, and non-academic artworks. • Surprising different art styles.

Works of these kinds have traditionally been disregarded and treated as ‘not real art’. However, in recent decades this has started to change. Works of art produced by ‘outsiders’ are increasingly shown at major venues like MoMA New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and last year’s Venice Biennale. Anja Brunt is a graphic designer with extensive experience in illustration. Her ‘Make a Face Memory Game’, which is full of funny faces created with everyday materials, was published by BIS Publishers. 2 x 30 cards in a box | 14.5 x 7.5 x 5 cm | ISBN 978 90 6369 443 2 | £ 13.95 Pub date: November 2016

Recent titles Think Like A Manager, Don’t Act Like One By Harry Starren Following the successful ‘Think Like a Lawyer Don’t Act like One’, we now present a book in the same format with 75 extremely short visual management lessons. Like the lawyer, the manager is a professional that many people have difficulties with. Mistakes managers make with people tend to fall into similar patterns – and they are all bad. This book clarifies those patterns in a very simple way to help the reader avoid mistakes that so many managers make. The book has 5 sections:

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• 75 extremely short visual management lessons. • Written by a recognised expert on leadership and entrepreneurship. • Following the successful ‘Think Like a Lawyer Don’t Act like One’ (36.000 copies sold) .

Related: Think Like A Lawyer, Don’t Act Like one, p. 69

* doing good things (leadership) * doing things good (organising) * doing things together (collaboration) * doing things for the future (strategy) * doing things differently (the end of management, as we know it) Harry Starren is the former CEO of de Baak VNO-NCW, the premier leadership development institute in the Netherlands. He is a recognised expert in leadership and entrepreneurship, and widely acclaimed as a publicist, lecturer, and facilitator. In addition, he is an active member of a number of supervisory boards and acts as an adviser in the field of innovation to large European organisations. 160 pages | 18 x 14 cm | Paperback with flaps | ISBN 978 90 6369 347 3 | £ 11.95 Pub date: July 2016

Recent titles The Seven Laws of Guaranteed Growth BITSING: The world’s first management model that guarantees success By Frans de Groot

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• The BITSING growth model is scientifically tested and proven in practice. • Hugely successful in the Netherlands and now available in English. • A hassle-free, action-oriented, visual business book that works.

Businesses are on the lookout for the one methodology that singlehandedly helps to achieve their goals, and definitively addresses issues such as ‘what needs to done’ and ‘which activities to avoid’. With BITSING, a scientifically proven methodology, one is able to predict results by using facts in order to be 100% certain of achieving goals. This book enables factual insight into (positive) financial returns, in advance of executing strategies accordingly. BITSING can be applied by the biggest multinational to the smallest startup. As a result of working closely with several universities, the methodology is scientifically validated, in addition to its proven performance within numerous organizations and businesses. Shell International, Hewlett Packard EMEA, and Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen are amongst those that have benefited from this method, by using it to meet targets time and time again. Some have experienced exponential growth and reached the magic 300% level. This book provides valuable insights for CEOs, as well as financial, commercial, and marketing directors/ managers, business owners, startups, and students. Frans de Groot is the founder of the revolutionary BITSING Methodology. Frans spent 20 years developing this method. 160 pages | 19 x 24 cm | paperback wit flaps | ISBN 978 90 6369 413 5 | £ 24.95 Pub date: September 2016

Recent titles The Innovation Maze 4 Routes to a Successful New Business Case By Gijs van Wulfen Many people experience innovation as a maze and get lost or stuck in their journey behind obstacles, such as a lack of internal support, resources, time, and inspiration. Statistically, this means that 80% of innovation projects never reach the market. This book is a practical guide on how to navigate the innovation maze. It illustrates four clear routes from various natural innovation starting points, and guides you through overcoming obstacles in order to successfully deliver new business cases for products, services, and business models. This much-needed hands-on guide gives clear directions on how to effectively overcome these obstacles and deliver results. ‘The Innovation Maze’ makes innovation simple, delivering a coherent approach to the creation of new business cases. Written for start-ups, entrepreneurs, managers, consultants, and those seeking practical real-life advice to successfully manage the innovation maze. Gijs van Wulfen is a recognised authority and worldwide keynote speaker on innovation. He was chosen as one of the first LinkedIn Influencers with over 270,000 people across the globe following his notably prolific and insightful posts. 240 pages | 19 x 24 cm | paperback with flaps | ISBN 978 90 6369 410 4 | £ 29.95

• By author of The Innovation Expedition (25.000 + copies sold). • It’s a practical, visual, step-by-step guide towards your new business case.

Related: The Innovation Expedition, p. 53

• Author is a LinkedIn influencer with over 270,000 followers.

Recent titles Designing for the Common Good By Kees Dorst, Lucy Kaldor, Lucy Klippan and Rodger Watson Our societies are becoming more complex, dynamic, and networked every day. Public organizations and companies alike are learning the hard way that the societal challenges before us cannot be resolved as they were in the past. We need new approaches to these problems. Over the past ten years, an increasing number of government organizations, companies, and individuals have realized that special practices from design can help us rise to the challenge. At the core of this book are twenty case studies from around the world that demonstrate how design approaches can be used for societal change. These extensive case descriptions are interspersed with reflections, lessons learned, and tricks and tips for the practitioner, culminating in a vision of how design can revolutionize society. This inspirational book helps the reader to become an innovation leader in creating for the common good. Kees Dorst is Professor of Design Innovation at the University of Technology, Sydney. Lucy Kaldor is an experienced workshop facilitator and rechearcher. Lucy Klippan is a visual communications designer. Rodger Watson is the Deputy Director of Designing Out Crime. 216 pages | 19 x 24 cm | paperback with flaps | ISBN 978 90 6369 408 1 | £ 29,95

• Social Design in practice. • With a focus on social change in urbanspaces. • Full of lessons learned, tips, and tricks. Related: Make Design Matter, p. 58 Convivial Toolbox, p. 57

Recent titles The Politics of Design A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication By Ruben Pater Many designs in today’s society encounter audiences of various cultures speaking different languages. With communication comes responsibility; are designers aware of the meaning and impact of their work? An image or symbol that is acceptable in one culture can be offensive or even harmful in the next. A typeface or colour in a design might appear neutral, however its meaning is always culturally dependent. If designers learn to be aware of global cultural contexts, we can avoid stereotyping and help to improve mutual understanding between people. ‘The Politics of Design’ highlights the importance of visual literacy when communicating beyond borders and cultures. It explores the cultural meaning behind symbols, maps, photography, typography, and colours used every day. It is a practical guide for design and communication professionals, as well as students to create more effective and responsible visual communication. Ruben Pater is a designer and researcher from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He works on self-initiated and collaborative projects between journalism and graphic design. 192 pages | 17.5 x 11,1 cm | paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 422 7 | £ 12.95

• Enhances your visual literacy for communication beyond borders and cultures. • Full of examples of political meaning in graphic design.

• Great for students to create more effective and responsible visual communication.

Recent titles The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker How Seeing Connections Can Enhance Your Creativity By Dorte Nielsen and Sarah Thurber Over the years, there’s a need for a book on creativity that complements the teaching of creative process and tools, and gives you a practical approach to how to enhance your innate ability to think creatively. This book as an opportunity to dispel the myth that creative talent is something possessed by a gifted minority. This is the opportunity to pass on ‘the secret’ of highly creative people to a much wider audience. It’s a chance to give others the knowledge, techniques, and training they need to enhance their own innate creativity and lead the way to fun, fulfilment, invention, innovation, and change. It’s a a unique book that combines a very handson and practical approach with a solid scholarly foundation. Dorte Nielsen is a creativity expert, author, keynote speaker, and the founder of FourSight Denmark. He is the head of the department and the program director of Creative Communication at the Danish School of Media and Journalism. Sarah is managing partner of the FourSight company in the USA. A leader in innovation and creativity, Sarah specializes in developing research-based tools to enhance innovation and team performance. 192 pages | 23,4 x 15,5 cm | hardcover with dust jacket | ISBN 978 90 6369 415 9 | £ 19.95

• The science, technique, and tools of 1 + 1 = 3. • Hands-on advice supported by the latest neuroscience on building your innate creativity. • High profile American and Danish authors.

Related: Creative Thinkers Excercise Book, p. 16 Divergent and Convergent Thinking Book, p. 18

Recent titles Are We There Yet? Insights on How to Lead by Design By Sam Bucolo The book addresses a fundamental question: are innovation efforts aligned with current challenges, such as high costs, global competition, low productivity, and technology disruptions? Our education system is geared towards solving known problems through an inductive thinking mindset. We have relied on massive investments in technology as a source of competitive advantage, while growth is declining. To maintain our standard of living, firms must grow. Firms, therefore, should implement a new approach to innovation; one that focuses on customer engagement in its business model. The concept of design thinking is often described as the mindset required for firms to make this transition. But with so much written on design thinking, why do so many firms struggle to adopt this mindset and make this transition? Sam Bucolo is a leading academic and practitioner in the emerging field of design-led innovation and has led projects that have transformed businesses by embedding design capability. As Professor of Design and Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney, he leads a team investigating the value of design-led innovation for the Australian economy. 216 pages | 21,5 x 14 cm | paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 409 8 | £ 13.95

• Design thinking for SMEs. • Understand what it means to lead by design in order to compete in the global economy.

Related: The Service Innovation Handbook, p. 51

• Understand the practical steps to achieve this and how firms need to be supported along this journey.

Recent titles Don’t Read This Book Time Management for Creative People By Donald Roos As creative people, we have ideas. Some of us have many ideas, others have really good ones, and most of us have many really good ideas. But most of these never see the light of day. Why? If you ask a creative person, the answer will always revolve around time. We simply need time to execute an idea (and do it well)—more time than we have. Don’t Read This Book focuses on how to make choices about everything you do in your daily creative practice and life. The book follows the ‘To Don’t List’ method: When you say ‘no’ to one idea, you have more time to execute another one. In short: the more you subtract, the more focus and time you get. The book is divided into three parts: Life, Workplace, and Projects. It covers everything from defining your life goals, to writing a five sentence-long email, to leaving out as much as possible in a project. Whether you are a student or professional, this book will save you time. (Of course, if you don’t read it, you will save some time directly.) Donald Roos is an independent typographic designer, entrepreneur, and teacher at the Royal Academy of Art in the Netherlands. In his daily life as a designer he creates movie titles for motion pictures and national television. He also designs complex interfaces and teaches type design and typography. 160 pages | 21,5 x 14.5 cm | paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 423 4 | £ 12.95

• Getting things done for creative people. • Packed with models, advice, and exercises on time management. • Links with the ‘To-Don’t-List’ app. 37

Recent titles The Fast Guide to Architectural Form By Baires Raffaelli Research, in almost every field of human knowledge, has practical goals. In architecture, however, research is often purely theoretically, conducted by insiders for other insiders, running the risk of being limited to the academic world. ‘The Fast Guide to Architectural Form’, while remaining on theoretical ground, is a very practical guide to basic forms and shapes in architectural planning and design. The book is foremost a visual guide. The author presents 60 architectural basic forms with schematic illustrations and images of the forms applied to buildings. The text is extremely short, and focuses on the do’s and don’ts of the forms, inlcuding tips to apply them. It is perfect for students and architects seeking inspiration and guidance. Baires Raffaelli is an architect and a lecturer at the University of Rome. His main interests are architectural projects. He is also one of the founders of the BrrE Group. 144 pages | 15 x 10,5 cm | paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 411 1 | £ 10.95

• 60 basic architectural forms with tips to apply them. • Grounded in theory. • Highly visual with schematic illustrations and architectural photography.

Related: Operative Design, p. 65 Conditional Design, p. 65

Recent titles Create with Artists An Art Activity Book For Everyone By Rixt Hulshoff Pol & Hanna Piksen The programme Create with Artists offers the most inspiring workshops the Stedelijk Museum of contemporary art in Amsterdam has organized for young people over the past decade. In response to their ever-increasing popularity, the workshops have been transformed into this book. Now everyone can do these fun workshops! All the artists have a special connection to the museum and many of them are world famous. In this book they give us insights into their ways of looking at the world and the questions they ask themselves. The artists also share their personal tips and techniques. The workshops all start with a question to trigger the imagination and are spread out over an array of media, from painting, to sculpture, video, design, graffiti, photography, and more. World famous artist, including, for example, Marina Abramovic, Atelier van Lieshout, Ed Atkins, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, Mark Manders, Piet Oudolf, Marcel Wanders, and Viktor & Rolf, have contributed. Rixt Hulshoff Pol is Head of Public and Education at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Hanna Piksen is responsible for the Stedelijk’s family programs. 120 pages | 25 x 20 cm | hardcover | ISBN 978 90 6369 416 6 | £ 13.95

• Create art in the spirit of worldrenowned contemporary artists. • It brings the famous Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam workshops to your home or school. • Wonderfully designed and illustrated.

Related: Trashures, p. 42

Recent titles Art Is Everywhere How to Really Look at Things By Lorenzo, SerraGlia, Servi Have you ever wondered why our senses become more alert and sensitive and we see things that continuously surprise and inspire us when we visit a city for the first time as a tourist? On the other hand, why does it often seem that nothing extraordinary or exceptional happens during our daily routine? Is it possible to discover something wonderful and special without necessarily visiting museums, monuments, or places that are different from where we habitually go? ‘Art is Everywhere’ combines science, hands-on practices used in art workshops, and clear and simple language to answer these questions (and raise others). This book includes illustrations and aims to stimulate readers to observe the world as they have never seen it before by suggesting that ordinary things can be seen differently and how art, if made more accessible to everyone, can help in this process. The author inspires the reader to see the world with a renewed perspective and to discover art in everyday objects. The supplementary workshop can be applied effectively in art education starting from secondary school level. SerraGlia is the alias of Lorenzo Servi, an Italian architect and visual designer/artist based in Helsinki, Finland. 112 pages | 20,3 x 12,7 cm | paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 418 0 | £ 9.95

• The most visual approach to the classic question: what is art? • Stimulates the reader to look at everyday objects in a novel way.

Related: How To Visit an Art Museum, p. 68

• A very accessible tool for art education.

Recent titles Once Upon a Time I Wanted to be … An inspirational notebook to help you find your passion and talent By Lavinia Bakker 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. Lavinia Bakker is also the author of Once upon a time I was... published by BIS Publishers 144 pages | 22 x 17 cm | paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 419 7 | £ 9.95

• Notebook with prompts to find your passion and talent. • Full of questions and assignments to help you discover what you want to be. Related: Once Upon a Time I Was..., p. 68

Recent titles Trashures The Beauty of Useless Stuff By Anja Brunt and Tineke Meirink Rubbish Rocks! For whoever has an eye for it, there is beauty in everything, from rubbish to plain useless stuff. Designer, Anja Brunt, and illustrator, Tineke Meirink have always been intrigued by the beauty of the mundane. They both created a memory game for BIS Publishers and have now joined forces for a combination celebration and DIY book on rubbish art. The popularity of urban art, recycling, rubbish art, and the ‘make’ culture inspired the idea for a book that both shows recent works by international artists who work with useless things and gives the reader step-by-step instructions on how to make their own art work in the spirit of the artists. The book features 15 international artists who work with rubbish from various countries. It showcases some of their projects and has a DIY spread of a project by every artist. Anja Brunt is a designer who created the Make a Face Memory Game, which is full of funny faces made with every day materials, published by BIS Publishers. Tineke Meirink is an illustrator who created for BIS Publishers the Can You See What I See Memory Game, in which she gives a new meaning to pictures of everyday objects by adding small sketches to them. 80 pages | 28 x 21 cm | paperback with flaps | ISBN 978 90 6369 425 8 | £ 12.95

• Ties in with the upcycling trend. • Features 15 international artist and instructions to make your own rubbish art pieces. • With step-by-step instructions. Related: Create with Artists, p. 39

Recent titles Creative Chef How to Create a Mind-Blowing Food Experience By Jasper Udink ten Cate This book is not so much about cooking and recipes, but more about creating an amazing eating experience. The author is the Creative Chef who turns every meal into a true session of wonder and excitement. And with this book you can become that creative chef as well. The book is full of tips, ideas, and instructions for activities and presentation on and around the dinner table, with stories about scent, taste, music, art, presentation, interaction, ingredients, activities, and magic to turn your dinner party into an amazing food experience. Jasper Udink ten Cate Is a chef engaged with food design and with the development and realization of creative cook concepts. He is specialized in the optimization of an eating experience by using information, interaction, marketing, association, and creative thinking. And he is engaged in even more facets of the cooking industry: innovation of a solar cooker, product design, planning events, advice, shoots, and writing of recopies and cooking books. 240 pages | 25,4 x 20,8 cm | hardcover | ISBN 978 90 6369 414 2 | £ 19.95

• A creative activity book on food and eating. • A visual feast packed with ideas for things you can. do in and around your own home • Your dinner party will never be the same.

Related: Creative Chef Postcards, p. 22

Recent titles This is my New York Do-It-Yourself City Journal By Petra de Hamer This is the fourth of a DIY city journal series on the market, now with the most popular city in the USA: New York. These journals 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 personal 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 and to inspire friends to go there. Petra de Hamer works as a culinary writer and photographer. She has written articles and interviews for several magazines and newspapers in the Netherlands and Belgium. She has also produced numerous cookbooks and travel guides. 128 pages | 23,5 x 14 cm | paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 420 3 | £ 12.95

• A sketch and colouring book, notebook, and city guide in one. • Make your personal NYC guide. • Also available: Paris, London, Berlin.

Related: This is my Berlin, p. 72 This is my London, p. 72 This is my Paris, p. 72

Recent titles Dilemmarama The Game The Game is Simple, You Have to Choose! By Dilemma op Dinsdag Getting an electric shock every time you laugh out loud, or washing your mouth with soap every time you swear? Always sit on a stranger’s lap in public transport, or eat from your neighbour’s 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 out loud, 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. Dilemma op Dinsdag is a Dutch group of friends who invented illustrations with funny dilemmas. Their Facebook page is hughly successful and the Dilemma op Dinsdag book is sold over 20.000 copies. 64 cards in a box | 9,8 x 13,3 x 4 cm | ISBN 978 90 6369 424 1 | £ 13.95

• Card game based on the ‘Would you rather’ question. • Hugely successful in The Netherlands. • Tricky dilemmas, fun illustrations, excitement guaranteed. 45

Design and creative business bestsellers

Gift books and games bestsellers

Creative business

Strategic Design 8 Essential Practices Every Strategic Designer must Master Design professionals are no longer merely executors of new product or service design briefs, but are increasingly involved in strategic decisions leading to these briefs. In order to effectively play this role, design professionals must master a set of strategic practices, i.e. routine strategic actions and methods of working. This book provides an overview of these practices, as well as supporting tools. Authors: Dr. Giulia Calabretta, Prof. Gerda Gemser and Dr. Ingo Karpen | 224 pages | 19 x 24 cm | Paperback with flaps | £ 29.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 445 6 |

Mastering the Art of Negotiation

Different Brains, Different Approach

7 Guides for Creating your Journey

Successful neuro advertising for both genders: male and female

Negotiation is about people. One encounters various facets in negotiations: how people influence each other, and the legal, cultural, and economic aspects play a role. Negotiations arise in private, as well as in daily business situations. In this book you will learn, develop, and maintain essential skills to manage negotiations.

80% of purchases worldwide are made or influenced by women. Why is advertising so often aimed at men? Find the answer to this life-long question about differences in purchasing motivation and learn how to implement this in advertising. Learn the do’s and don’ts for effective communication for both men and women. A must-have for all marketers, strategists, creatives, students, or anyone who works with brands.

Author: Geurt Jan de Heus } 240 pages | 20 x 26 cm | Paperback with flaps | £ 29.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 431 9 |

Thinking in Services

Concept Coding

Handbook Event Design

Encoding and Expressing Strategy Through Design

How to Create Meaningful Concepts

Expressing design in the form of a code makes it possible for each layer of the service enterprise to execute the design (code) in a fast and parallel manner, in order to deliver what has been promised at a much lower cost. For this purpose, the book introduces a system and method that goes beyond blueprints and customer journey maps to broaden the appeal of service design for strategists, economists, and budget analysts.

Conceptual thinking involves adding vision to a product, service, or organisation. In order to attract and bind your consumer, your concept is vital. ‘Concept Coding’ guides you through each 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 mindset in order to make your concept successful.

Systematically Design Innovative Events using the #EventCanvas

Event design is a new approach to systematically decompose and recompose the success of events. The #EventCanvas template identifies where and for whom the event can be innovated. It is a handbook to document, design, and discuss design events worth attending, and illustrates good event design with real examples of world leading event designs. Authors: Roel Frissen, Ruud Janssen and Dennis Luijer | 192 pages | 21 x 21 cm | Paperback | £ 24.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 434 0

Creative business

Are We There Yet?

Don’t Read This Book

Insights on How to Lead by Design

Time Management for Creative People

The fundamental question that the book addresses is, Are our innovation efforts aligned to the challenges of our times? If we want to maintain our standard of living, we need firms to grow. Firms therefore need a new approach to innovation, one that focuses on customer engagement in its business model. The concept of design thinking is often described as the mindset for firms to make this transition.

We simply need time to execute an idea (and do it well)—more time than we have. Don’t Read This Book focuses on how to make choices about everything you do in your daily creative practice and life. The book fol-lows the ‘To Don’t List’ method: When you say ‘no’ to one idea, you have more time to execute another one. In short: the more you subtract, the more focus and time you get. Whether you are a student or professional, this book will save you time.

How to Have Your Cake and Eat It Too The process of designing services is very specific to each individual business. However, discovering what people actually want and value, is a universal process. This process of discovery is the subject of this book. How to Have Your Cake and Eat It Too is written in the spirit of the 80-minute MBA. The perfect book for all business readers who are looking for an accessible introduction to the topic: short, concrete with tangible benefits clearly defined. Author: J. Margus Klaar | 112 pages | 21,6 x 14 cm | paperback | £ 11.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 381 7

The Seven Laws of Guaranteed Growth BITSING: The world’s first business management model that guarantees success With BITSING, a scientifically proven methodology, one is able to predict results by using facts in order to be 100% certain of achieving goals. This book enables factual insight into (positive) financial returns, in advance of executing strategies accordingly. BITSING can be applied by the biggest multinational to the smallest startup.

Change Ahead

The Service Innovation Handbook

How research and design are transforming business strategy Change Ahead is about the emerging practices at the intersection of business strategy, research, and design. It introduces the need for an adventurous, explorative mindset in order to grow businesses that last by creating meaning and relevance with and for people. Author: Carola Verschoor | 240 pages | 19 x 24 cm | paperback with flaps | £ 29.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 398 5

This is an action-oriented book for managers and entrepreneurs searching ways to tackle issues they face in terms of developing and delivering services. The book focuses on service organizations, but has a broad interpretation of what services are. Directed to the business world and combines inspirational text that is full of examples, with the features of a useful handbook of practical methods with associated templates. Author: Lucy Kimbell | 240 pages | 19 x 24 cm | paperback with flaps | £ 29.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 353 4

Creative business

The Digital Metrics Field Guide

Not Invented Here

Creativity in Business

Today innovation is seen as one of the main driving forces for growth, development and profitability. Drawing analogies beyond the borders of one’s own industry can open up interesting new perspectives and be a significant source of major innovative steps. This inspirational, illustrated business book presents seven strategies for cross industry innovation. It emerged from hundreds of conversations with business leaders and innovators and is packed with ideas, approaches and cases that you can apply in your own industry.

Creativity Today - the management book on applied creativity and written by Ramon Vullings & Igor Byttebier - has inspired tens of thousands of managers, teachers and students around the world. Now this book is made available again in a revised version, under a new title, new subtitle and with a new cover design. All intended to focus this creativity classic more on education and to emphasize its attractiveness as a basic guide for businesses, schooling institutions and organizations that wish to understand the basics of applied creativity.

This Is Service Design Thinking (paperback)

This Is Service Design Thinking (hardcover)

Defining Creativity

Service design is a bit of a buzzword these days and has gained a lot of interest from major companies as well as from the business press. This book, assembled to describe and illustrate the emerging field of service design, was brought together using exactly the same co-creative and user-centered approaches you can read and learn about in the book.

This is the original hardcover edition that won the Gold Medal in the European Design Awards 2011 in the Category Book Layout. Includes three ribbon markers and the Customer Journey Canvas poster insert.

The Digital Metrics Field Guide is the definitive reference for brands of any size that advertise, market or engage with their customers and prospects through email, the Web, mobile or social. This unique, comprehensive resource was intended for those of us who use metrics and need straightforward, authoritative, non-technical guidance. To produce the book the author reduced a list of about 350 metrics to 197 and backed these up by referring to almost 150 studies. Author: Stephen D. Rappaport | 320 pages | 28 x 21,6 cm | paperback | £ 24.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 377 0

The Art and Science of Great Ideas Defining Creativity comprehensively explains what creativity is, from a biological, psychological and socio-cultural standpoint. At the same time, it makes for a concise and inspiring read that brings together everything there is to know about creativity. Author: Wouter Boon | 144 pages | 21,6 x 14 cm | paperback | € 17.00 | ISBN 978 90 6369 345 9

Creative business

The Innovation Maze 4 Routes to a Successful New Business Case Many people experience innovation as a maze and get lost or stuck in their journey behind obstacles such as having no internal support, a lack of resources, no time, and no inspiration. This much-needed hands-on guide gives clear directions on how to effectively over-come these obstacles and deliver. It makes innovation simple. Written for start-ups, entrepreneurs, managers, consultants, and those who are looking for practical real-life advice. Author: Gijs van Wulfen | 240 pages | 19 x 24 cm | Paperback with flaps | £ 29.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 410 4

Hidden Persuasion Visual messages are constantly attempting to persuade us to buy, learn and act. This book analyzes advertising beyond the persuasive power of the imagery itself. It explains the psychology behind 33 effective influencing techniques in visual persuasion and how to apply them. All techniques are supported by rich visual references. Authors: Marc Andrews, Dr. Van Leeuwen and Prof. Dr. Van Baaren | 192 pages | 24,5 x 18 cm | hardcover | £ 29.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 314 5

The Innovation Expedition

From Selling to Co-Creating

This is one of the first books on the market that deals with the difficult, fuzzy front end of innovation in a very visual way. In 9 steps the author takes the reader along on a journey towards ready-to-implement concepts for innovative products and services. It is a very inspiring, accessible and practical tool box for anyone interested in innovation.

This is a groundbreaking book that identifies the current and future trends in sales. It is based on 100+ interviews with senior sales executives and sales experts from the corporate industry and academia across central Europe, the UK and the USA. Explore how these businesses have been able to develop new, innovative and sometimes highly successful products and services by using their sales force strategically.

1 : 1 One to One The Essence of Retail Branding and Design In 1 to 1, Michel van Tongeren expands the Platform Development Model he introduced in Retail Branding 10 years ago. He follows the customer’s journey from the couch at home to buying the physical product and covering all the steps in between, offline and online. Author: Michel van Tongeren | 240 pages | 25 x 20 cm | hardcover | £ 34.00 | ISBN 978 90 6369 264 3

75 Tools for Creative Thinking Designers use many creative tools that can be helpful in different stages of a creative process. This box contains 75 cards, each devoted to one tool. The tools are clearly explained and ready to use when you need to solve a problem. A wonderful and resourceful box for creative professionals and anyone who wishes to apply creative thinking to solving problems in any profession. Authors: Booreiland | 75 cards in a box | 13 x 9,5 x 5,5 cm | £ 19.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 275 9

Creative business

Get Agile

Storytelling on Steroids

This book is a scrum manual, aimed at everyone who works on interactive products in a design & development environment. Scrum is a project management method that dissolves boundaries and distributes responsibilities which in other methods have been protected for years. If you are experienced, you will find the advanced tips and tricks useful. If you are just considering Scrum, this book will most certainly get you enthusiastic!

In this captivating book, American writer and branding specialist John Weich explores the stunts, campaigns, exhibitions and visualizations that helped transform storytelling from a fringe communication movement into a pop culture phenomenon. Weich offers an original perspective on how storytelling became the favorite buzzword of global communication and creativity.

Indie Brands New brands are created every day, but only a few find a place in consumers’ minds and hearts. This book delves into the world of indie brands: brands that are driven by independent entrepreneurs and have a unique story to tell. These cutting-edge brands have great brand design, smart marketing and an innovative approach. Loads of visual eye candy is included. Author: Anneloes van Gaalen | 200 pages | 27 x 21 cm | hardcover | £ 16.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 219 3

Creative Personal Branding After eight years of work in creative personal branding, Jürgen Salenbacher has distilled his ideas in a book. He examines the work of leading theorists in business culture and explains how our success in exploring change depends on our ability to think creatively. A unique resource for creative minds, but also for anyone facing major life decisions. Author: Jürgen Salenbacher | Editor: Vicky Hayward | 228 pages | 21,5 x 14 cm | paperback | £ 14.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 315 2

Design

Design My Privacy 8 Principles for Better Privacy Design 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 that help with designing products and services.

The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker How Seeing Connections Can Enhance Your Creativity Over the years, there’s a need for a book on creativity that complements the teaching of creative process and tools, and gives you a practical approach to how to enhance your innateability to think creatively. This is the opportunity to pass on ‘the secret’ of highly creative people. It’s a chance to give others the knowledge, techniques, and training and lead the way to invention and innovation.

The Politics of Design

LOIS Logos

A Global Design Manual

The Creative Punch of Big Idea Branding

Politics of Design shows the importance of visual literacy when communicating beyond borders and cultures. It explores the cultural meaning behind the symbols, maps, photography, typography, and colours that are used every day. It is a practical guide for design and communication professionals and students to create more effective and responsible visual communication. Author: Ruben Pater | 192 pages | 17.5 x 11,1 cm | Paperback | £ 12.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 422 7

Designing for the Common Good Public organizations and companies alike are learning that the societal challenges before us cannot be resolved as they were in the past. We need new approaches to these problems. This book demonstrate how design approaches can be used for societal change. These case descriptions are interspersed with reflections, lessons learned, for the practitioner, culminating in a vision of how design can revolutionize society. Authors: Kees Dorst, Lucy Kaldor, Lucy Klippan & Rodger Watson | 216 pages | 19 x 24 cm | Paperback with flaps | £ 29.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 408 1

Simplicity: A Matter of Design

George Lois is an American icon in graphic design. This book showcases his logos with his own comments on why they work. His Big Idea branding and logo design, developed with a built-in, conceptual, “catchy” brand name, can visually impart information in a nanosecond, delivering a specific ethos with a penetrating promise of power that immediately sears a product’s virtues into a viewers’ brain—and has the potential of bringing instantaneous success.

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. 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, aesthetics and ethics. There is an extra chapter on simplicity in communication.

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CO LAB:

Material Alchemy

Sketching

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.

Material Alchemy has been devised to showcase the most innovative, thought-provoking design approaches to materials within the 21st century. Enlisting the help of luminaries from the world of science, technology, and design showcases new responses to material innovation and provides key insights into how material will be utilised to shape our future environments.

A book on sketching for product designers has long been desired. The lack of a good manual led the authors of this book, who both teach design drawing techniques, to take the task into their own hands. The result is an incredibly broad and practical survey of sketching techniques for product designers. This book can be regarded as a standard book on design sketching for product design students.

Sketching: the Basics Following the global success of Sketching, authors Koos Eissen and Roselien Steur now bring out the sequel entitled Sketching: the Basics. In fact, prequel would be a better word for this book, since it is aimed at the novice designer. The Basics explains the rudiments of learning to draw both clearly and comprehensively using step-by-step illustrations, examples and strategies. Authors: Koos Eissen and Roselien Steur | 204 pages | 27 x 21 cm | hardcover | £ 29.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 253 7

Sketching Product Design Presentation We are very pleased to announce the third book by our bestselling writers Koos Eissen and Roselien Steur. After the worldwide success of Sketching and Sketching: the Basics the authors now shift their focus from ‘how to sketch’ to ‘why you sketch’. Authors: Koos Eissen and Roselien Steur | 192 pages | 27 x 21 cm | hardcover | £ 29.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 329 9

Product Sketches This is a fully illustrated book with over one thousand product sketches organized in -chapters covering the main product categories that designers design for, such as furniture, electronic devices, household appliances, accessories, garments, et cetera. A wonderfully inspirational book for anyone who wishes to improve their sketching abilities. Author: Andres Parada | 192 pages | 19 x 24 cm | paperback | £ 19.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 309 1

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The Exceptionally Simple Theory of Sketching People who cannot draw well usually think that professional sketching is a complex and difficult process. However, after reading this book you will see that even the most complex sketches are just a structure of very simple, yet confidently drawn segments built on each other. Inserted in the front cover are 14 practice sheets on thick paper for the reader to practice with adding shadows to basic shapes. Author: George Hlavács | 48 pages + 14 practice sheets | 22 x 17 cm | paperback | £ 10.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 334 3

Convivial Toolbox

Delft Design Guide

This book introduces generative design research: an approach to bring the people we serve through design directly into the design process to ensure that we can meet their needs for the future. The first part of the book covers the underlying principles of the approach, the second part presents cases and the third part is a how-to section.

The Delft Design Guide presents an overview of product design approaches and methods used in the Bachelor and Master curriculum at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering in Delft. In this guide you will find some 70 strategies, techniques and methods, each described in a practical one-page text, illustrated for clarification and enriched with further reading suggestions.

ViP Vision in Design

Meta Products

The Form of Design

The authors, design practitioners and educators bringing together 15 years of knowledge in this publication have produced the first book on how designers can formulate a vision for new and appropriate products. They call this approach Vision in Product Design (ViP). The approach strikes a good balance between structuring the process of design and allowing the designers to take a personal position and fully express themselves in the process of producing a product.

Over the last few years, the web has become the standard for advertising, -communication, socialising and so on. However, we are living in a world of atoms, filled with things created either by nature or by ourselves. It will become more and more useful to get physical -products connected to the web. Design studio Booreiland is taking on the adventure of designing these Meta Products.

The Form of Design is the first all-encompassing book about the visual language of man-made products. It explains how mass produced objects evolve over time and what made them change. In the book the author materializes the governing rules of form evolution by means of 14 case studies. These case studies encompass a diversity of product families such as smart phones and bicycles, coffee machines and chairs, accompanied by charts and numerous illustrations that illuminate and elucidate the evolutionary processes involved.

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Make Design Matter

Understanding Design

Identity Colour Codes

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.

What does it mean to be a designer and what does it take to be a good designer? This book stimulates designers to think about what they do, how they do it and why they aim for a certain effect. This edition contains more than 170 essays and is updated with the latest design science for students and practitioners.

This book is an explorative journey through all kinds of (sub)cultures and shows along the way how companies, governments and people use colour to identify themselves. It is a 100% visual style atlas for creative professionals, forecasters and anthropologists; an image book for people who look with their brains and think with their eyes.

The In Vitro Meat Cookbook Some researchers expect that in vitro meat could provide a sustainable and animal-friendly alternative to conventional meat. Because in vitro meat is still in an early phase of development, this is a cookbook which cannot be used for cooking just yet. The author’s aim is not to promote lab-grown meat, but to visualize a wide range of possible new dishes and food cultures to help us decide what future we -actually want. Authors: Koert van Mensvoort and Hendrik-Jan Grievink | 192 pages | 21,2 x 16,2 cm | hardcover | £ 19.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 358 9

Connect

Sustainist Design Guide

While working in the field of technology and aging, the authors of this book discovered that there is a new field to be explored: the field of connectedness. They discovered new opportunities for the emerging market of ‘aging-driven design’ and invite readers to join them in an effort to design for connectedness: to reframe the picture, rethink options and reinvent how to connect.

Sustainist Design Guide is the first book that takes the recent idea of ‘sustainism’ - as the new ethos of the 21st century into the realm of social design thinking and practice. It brings together the key principles for sustainist design, maps out best practices and explores workable ideas for developing future social design.

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Design Transitions

The Designer As…

Design Transitions presents 42 unique and insightful stories of how design is changing around the world. Twelve countries are represented from the perspectives of three different communities: design agencies, organizations embedding design; and design academics. A must-read for anyone interested in the future of design.

The role of designers in the communication and visual culture is changing more and more from designers as ‘hired guns’ to various roles of design authorship. In this book, Steven McCarthy provides an overview of the phenomenon of Design Authorship and interviews many international designers who have taken on different roles as authors or producers of their own projects.

Know Your Onions: Web Design

Anthon Beeke

This book will show you how to get your head around web design without getting your hands dirty in code. There is no code in this book, only the hidden secrets that will make you an excellent web designer and very popular. The book is written in a conversational style and more resembles having a chat with a bloke that knows his stuff than any kind of ‘how to’ manual.

Anthon Beeke is one of the prolific designers in the Netherlands that shaped the history of Dutch Design in the 20th century. This landmark book celebrates his impressive body of work through the stories that define the different aspects of Anthon Beeke’s life in design, including Amsterdam, jazz, erotica, collecting, typography, photography, provocation and communication.

It’s a Miracle!

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. Read this book and gain 20 years’ experience in how to think like a creative, act like a businessman and design like a god. Author: Drew de Soto | 186 pages | 20 x 15 cm | paperback with elastic band | £ 14.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 258 2

Dynamic Identities This visual book looks into design systems that produce living brand identities that can change in color, pattern or shape. The book offers a systematic process of creating living brand identities and gives the reader a wealth of examples of international identities that were built on the discussed systems. Concept: Irene van Nes | 192 pages | 25 x 21,5 cm | paperback | £ 24.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 339 8

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Creative Characters

Reading Letters

Shaping Text

This book is a collection of in-depth interviews with the most influential type designers in the business as well as up-and-coming young guns about the motives and methods behind their typefaces. The interviews have been published before in the monthly newsletter of MyFonts.com, the world’s largest web shop for digital fonts based in the USA.

Few of us will appreciate whether the typeface we read is legible, but we quickly notice if it is not. Creating type for optimal legibility is therefore an ungrateful task, since readers only register your failures. This book will not only help type designers create high-legibility typefaces, but also help graphic designers determine the optimal typeface for a given project.

Writing, typesetting and printing have become part of almost everyone’s experience. However, many users are clueless about how fonts work and how to communicate best with readers. Shaping Text takes a practical and broad approach to typography. It examines the constituting elements of graphic products, including type, image, ornament, layout, and color.

BIG Black & Beautiful

Designing Diagrams

Blue is the New Black

In 1922, the undeniable poker face of all typefaces entered the world: Cooper Black. Cooper Black is a survivor; it outlived World War II, the first step on the moon, sleazy magazines and hurricanes. This book is a celebration of the typeface. It tells its history, but first and foremost it shows how Cooper Black has been used the world over by designers of all sorts.

Designing Diagrams is a guide to the world of diagrammatic presentation of facts, thoughts, processes and relations. The effective design of a diagram is an art form in itself; it takes an understanding of the practice to create effective diagrams, and this book presents the -information and inspiration that will allow designers to put the art into practice.

Written for fashion graduates, those in entry-level positions within the industry and fledgling entrepreneurs, this book demystifies the process of how to make a fashion collection. It is written for people who want to know how to create a collection – who want to roll up their sleeves and do it, but who need practical instruction on the different stages.

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Work Hard Play Harder

Ideas are Immortal

Modern Living

This is the fourth monograph of Studio Kluif, following Purists are Boring, Pacifist Punks and Ideas are Immortal. Work Hard Play Harder is packed with new creative projects and proves that they still master the magic of attractive designs that go right to the core and the hearts of the public.

The very productive Dutch design agency Studio Kluif keeps on bringing home international and national design prizes for their playful design projects ranging from graphic design, illustration, and packaging to design for fashion. This is their third monograph with BIS Publishers following Purists are Boring (2006) and Pacifist Punks (2009). It features the same beautiful production quality and binding as hardcover in slipcase, and is packed with new creative projects.

This book and full-length DVD show the unparalleled and offbeat work of one of the most original and popular animators around: Han Hoogerbrugge. Topics include animation and sound design for his groundbreaking flash animation series Hotel, Nails and of course Modern Living/Neurotica.

Pro Stress #1

Pro stress #2

In a follow-up to the overview Modern Living, BIS presents the cartoon album of Pro Stress, the Internet project that occupies Han Hoogerbrugge on a daily basis. In the work of draftsman and animator Han Hoogerbrugge, the artist wrestles with humour in everyday life and investigates his obsessions, neuroses and emotions. In over 200 short cartoons, Hoogerbrugge observes the world and people like David Lynch, Nick Cave and Dr. Phil.

This is the second album of Pro Stress, the hilarious but also sometimes uncomfortable daily comic by Han Hoogerbrugge. Pro Stress #2 collects over 200 new short cartoons in which Hoogerbrugge observes the world, in delightfully humorous fashion. Besides the protagonist, who has always been an alter ego of Hoogerbrugge himself, the comics depict such famous figures as Silvio Berlusconi, Vladimir Putin, Karl Lagerfeld, the Pope and many more.

Everyone is a Designer in the Age of Social Media BIS published the first Everyone is a Designer in 2001. The editors now revisit its subject based on the assumption that the proposal of the democratization of the design world has become reality. This edition looks at the position of design itself in the ever-expanding areas in which it finds itself. Editors: Mieke Gerritzen and Geert Lovink | 144 pages | 19 x 13 cm | paperback | £ 6.50 | ISBN 978 90 6369 227 8

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Next Nature Next Nature is a critical and visual take on man’s continuous efforts to imitate and improve nature itself. A child walking through a pineapple grove, telling her father that it smells like her shampoo. Greener grass, you get used to it. A book full of statements, short essays and images from designers and thinkers from around the world. Compilation: Mieke Gerritzen and Koert van Mensvoort | 144 pages | 15 x 10,5 cm | paperback | £ 4.50 | ISBN 978 90 6369 093 9

Graduation Guide for Design Students This book is the perfect gift for all design students embarking on their most stressful year in design education: graduation year. This guide helps the student to graduate as a designer by giving practical advice and design advice, and by suggesting ways to make -graduation less stressful and more enjoyable. Author: Moniek Paus | 144 pages | 15,5 x 12 cm | hardcover with poster as dust jacket | £ 12.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 286 5

I Don’t Know Where I’m Going but I Want to be There This book shows the expanding field of graphic design from 1900 right through to 2020. It showcases visual rhymes between the visual productions of today and their historical -counterparts. It also offers text contributions by international authors who paint a picture of the fields of creativity that designers will explore in the coming decade. Editors: Sophie Krier, Minke Kampman and Marjolijn Ruyg | 168 pages | 25 x 17,5 cm | paperback in slipcase | £ 19.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 257 5

Logo Life In Logo Life, you can read the short histories of the Apple logo and 99 other logos for world-famous brands, seeing all the little steps and great leaps in the visual evolution of these logos, as well as some of their most iconic uses in brand advertising. Logo Life is a great book full of visual details and facts worth knowing about the evolution of many of the world’s greatest logos. Author: Ron van der Vlugt | 312 pages | 21 x 14 cm | hardcover | £ 19.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 260 5

The Pop-Up Generation The pop-up generation is the youngest generation of designers who easily shift between the 2nd and 3rd dimension, between acting in the physical and the virtual world. This book examines the pop-up phenomena and captures the essence of the time we live in. It is a visual overview of the concept in architecture, design and art. Edited by: Lidewij Edelkoort | 280 pages | 19 x 15 cm | hardcover | £ 19.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 282 7

Architecture and spatial design

Pop-Up City City-making in a fluid world This book showcases eye-opening ideas, concepts and trends that make a difference in the city of today and tomorrow. Based on five years of blogging on popupcity.net for an international audience of millions, Pop-Up City shows the birth of a new dimension in city-making based on groundbreaking ideas that take ‘pop-up’ as a starting point, varying from modular hotels and parasite cinemas to urban hacking, rooftop farms, and foldable houses. Authors: Jeroen Beekmans and Joop de Boer | 288 pages | 24 x 19 cm | hardcover | £ 29.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 354 1

Wayshowing > Wayfinding This is the completely renewed edition of the standard reference book Wayshowing. This new edition by Per Mollerup is fully updated with digital signage systems and has much more tool-oriented, practical content. Moreover, all signage examples are newly selected for this edition. The cases include traditional print solutions, as well as all types of digital wayfinding/wayshowing. Author: Per Mollerup | 240 pages | 30 x 19 cm | hardcover | £ 29.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 323 7

Inspiration

Performative Geometries

Design methodology in design and architecture has changed significantly over the last ten years. More than ever, graphic attributes are used in contemporary architecture. A number of new design methods and applications emerged through the use of digital media, leading to a paradigm shift in the way we design. Inspiration aims to achieve a full overview of these exciting new topics from a theoretical and practical background.

Within the scope of the workshop on Performative Geometries, students at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki developed individual spatial design strategies by analyzing textile techniques and their underlying geometrical spatial appearance. The book contains visuals of the form studies between fashion, textiles, space and architecture.

The Spontaneous City This book presents the concept of the Spontaneous City as an alternative direction of design thinking and urban planning, as opposed to traditional rigid city planning. This city is user-centered, never finished, and the result of supply and demand. The book draws on the work and experience of Gert Urhahn, who works as an urban designer and architect in the city of Amsterdam. Authors: Urhahn Urban Design | 176 pages | 30 x 24 cm | paperback | £ 24.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 265 0

Architecture and spatial design

Folding Architecture

Supersurfaces

Soft Shells

Folding is a relatively new trend in architecture. It’s a very playful way of designing and offers free rein to spontaneity during the design process. This book gives insight into the possibilities together with results of the research the architectural faculty of TU Delft conducted into this technique since 2001. Vividly illustrated with a survey of much-discussed concepts, projects and buildings.

This is the sequel to Folding Architecture. It shows the results of Sophia Vyzoviti’s design method of design through folding. The research in here goes a step further using more durable materials than paper but with similar qualities. The booklet makes clear how the technique of folding can be applied not only in architecture, but also to industrial, product or textile manufacture.

Soft Shells is a follow-up title to Sophia Vyzoviti’s bestselling books, Folding Architecture and Supersurfaces. Soft Shells investigates textile as a retronovel architectural device which is porous and deployable. The book is lavishly illustrated with form experiments and has three essays that provide the reader with a state-of-the-art context for the architectural discourse on form-generative surface.

Modular Structures

Digital Manufacturing

Modular Structures examines morphogenetic processes based on a combination of digital and analogue modelling and manufacturing techniques. The visual studies shown in this book have been produced in the academic context of the Technische Universität Darmstad in classes and workshops held by the author.

This book examines the possibilities emerging for design and architecture by the -introduction of novel CAD and digital manufacturing techniques, organised within five production techniques: cross-segmentation, accumulation, frameworks, loops and folding.

Computational Architecture Computational Architecture showcases many form studies using digital tools and techniques like drilling, twisting, knotting, triangulating, lofting and framing. These techniques are used systematically to explore spatial, geometrical and structural conditions, leading to the emergence of abstract prototypes. Author: Asterios Agkathidis | 160 pages | paperback | 15 x 10,5 cm | £ 10.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 287 2

Architecture and spatial design

Bio-structural Analogues In architecture

Eccentric Structures in Architecture

This inspirational book seeks to discover the architectural potential of biological structures as can be found in nature, in the world of seashells, corals, plants and animals. The structures that give biological forms strength, movement and firmness are studied, illustrated and used as an inspiration for design experiments.

This book presents studies in architectural form focusing on the relationships between force, form and space to develop structure. The design processes of different structures vary from inherently unstable forms to multi-span spaces in buildings to the creation of multi-layered spaces within physical shells.

Conditional Design Conditional Design is the sequel to Operative Design. This book will further explore the operative in design in a more detailed, intentional, and functional manner. In order to further understand these volumetric studies, it is imperative to give the volumes scale along with connection between volumes, if -applicable, and openings within the volumes. The conditions presented are not definitive, but are meant to serve as explorations of an iterative process. Author: Anthony Di Mari | 160 pages | 15 x 10,5 cm | paperback | £ 10.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 365 7

Operative Design The core idea for this book is the use of operative verbs as tools for designing space. These operative verbs abstract the idea of spatial formation to its most basic terms. Examples of these verbs are expand, inflate, nest, twist, lift, embed, merge and many more. The verbs are illustrated with threedimensional diagrams and pictures of designs which show the verbs ‘in action’. Authors: Anthony Di Mari and Nora Yoo | 160 pages | 15 x 10,5 cm | paperback | £ 10.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 289 6

The Fast Guide to Architectural Form The Fast Guide to Architectural Form, while staying on theoretical ground, is a very practical guide to the basic forms and shapes in architectural planning and design. The book is foremost a visual guide. The author presents sixty different architectural basic forms with both a schematic illustration and images of the forms applied in buildings. Perfect for students and architects looking to browse for inspiration and guidance. Author: Baires Raffaelli | 144 pages | 15 x 10,5 cm | paperback | £ 10.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 411 1

Gift books

Creative Thinker’s Exercise book

The Divergent and Convergent Thinking Book

This book is for those seeking to enhance their creativity. It can be used to develop creative capacity and train the underlying mechanisms for creative thinking, as well as for educational purposes and to increase idea production. This book is for those who loved ‘The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker’, who can’t wait to indulge in more exercises to enhance their innate creativity by seeing connections.

Creativity research shows that by dividing your thinking into divergent and convergent forms of thinking, you can improve your idea production and as a result produce more ideas, unexpected thoughts and original solutions. You use divergent thinking to generate lots of ideas. You use convergent thinking to help you select the best ideas. The concept of divergent and convergent thinking is so integral to the creative process and innovative thinking it’s known as “the heartbeat of creativity”. It’s the underlying rhythm of creative thinking.

Read nothing in here 21 things you should know about nothing In this book you’ll learn everything about nothing. It is for the curious, the smart asses, and the conversation starters. And for those who need more of nothing in their daily lives. ‘Read Nothing in Here’ is an unscientific exploration into the meaning, function, history, and misuse of the word ‘nothing’. Author: Seema Sharma | 144 pages | 18.5 x 13.5 cm | paperback with band | £ 11.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 441 8

Create with Artists

Art Is Everywhere

Creative Chef

An Art Activity Book

How to Really Look at Things

The programme Create with Artists offers the most inspiring workshops the Stedelijk Museum of contemporary art in Amsterdam has organized over the past decade. In response to their everincreasing popularity, the workshops have been transformed into this book. Now everyone can do these fun workshops. In this book they give us insights into their ways of looking at the world and the questions they ask themselves. The artists also share their personal tips and techniques.

This illustrated book aims to stimulate readers to observe the world as they have never seen it before by suggesting how ordinary things can be seen differently and how art, if made more accessible to everyone, can help us see things differently. The author triggers the reader to see the world with fresh eyes and to discover art in everyday things. The workshop that is part of this book can be applied very well in art education starting form secondary school level.

Turn Your Dinner Party Into an Amazing Food Experience!

This book is not so much about cooking and recipes, but more about creating an amazing eating experience. The book is full of tips, ideas, and instructions for activities and presentation on and around the dinner table, with stories about scent, taste, music, art, presentation, interaction, ingredients, activities, and magic to turn your dinner party into an amazing food experience. Author: Jasper Udink ten Cate | 192 pages | 25,4 x 20,8 cm | hardcover | £ 19.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 414 2

Gift books

Trashures The Beauty of Useless Stuff Rubbish Rocks! For, whoever has an eye for it, there is beauty in everything. The popularity of urban art, recycling, rubbish art, and the whole Make culture gave the idea for a book that both shows recent works by international artist who work with useless things and gives the reader step-by-step instructions to make their own art work in the spirit of the artists. The book features fifteen international artists who work with rubbish from various countries, showcases some of their projects, and has a DIY spread for a project by every artist. Author: Anja Brunt | 64 pages | 28 x 21 cm | paperback with flaps | £ 11.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 425 8

What Are They Saying About You? 50 lessons to manage your personal reputation

Once Upon a Time I Wanted to be … An inspirational notebook to help you find your passion and talent This new notebook 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. It 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.

Once Upon a Time I Was... The autobiography of: This is a guided diary which helps you create your own autobiography by means of questions and space for pictures, little drawings, lists of your favorite things, your memories and more. Record the stories of your life – or that of a loved one – in this keepsake that will be cherished for generations to come! Author: Lavinia Bakker | 144 pages | 22 x 17 cm | softcover | £ 9.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 421 0

hardcover | £ 14.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 346 6

The Do-It-Yourselfie Guide

Ladyscaping

The Ultimate Selfie Guide To Capture The Best Version Of Yourself

A Girls Guide to Personal Topiary

You are what they are saying about you, when you just left the room.... That is your personal reputation. With the omnipresence of social media, your reputation becomes more and more important, in business and in personal life. In this visual and very practical book you will find fifty short lessons that help you build and maintain your personal reputation.

Willem Popelier analyzed tens of thousands of selfies, thousands of tips, and some dozen research articles on selfies for the ultimate selfie guide. This guide contains 66 rules, accompanied by 66 pictures in which Willem Popelier re-enacted some of the most famous selfies on earth. Go and make your own Justin Biebers, Kim Kardashians, Bradley Coopers, Sasha Obamas, P Diddy’s, and many more.

A witty, entertaining analysis of the new trends and secret fashions in woman’s intimate shaving styles. If you’d never considered the possibility that style and pubic shaving might go together, well perhaps it would interest you to know that this new trend is both an instrument of characterization as well as a trend, a contemporary ‘must’ if you intend to face the ‘unexpected’ encounter while keeping your head held high. An essential guide for a complete update on the matter.

Gift books

Somethink Completely Different

Save the Humans!

Somethink Completely Different is about playing with words differently, making you smile differently, textually inspiring you differently and inviting you to contemplate things in a slightly different way. Text artist Mwah has created his own distinctive signature by getting to the core of situations and emotions and turning them into creative and witty one-liners that are recognizable, yet fresh at the same time.

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!

The True Size of Food About Our Absurd Ways With Food In this richly illustrated book, the designer and author Marijke Timmerman examines how we deal with nutrition and food. She goes about this in a manner that is characteristic for creative designers: visually, often by means of infographics, investigation and asking questions. A book to spark amazement and full of visual stories that you will want to pass on. Author: Marijke Timmerman | 160 pages | 22 x 17 cm | paperback | £ 14.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 349 7

How To Survive

How to Visit an Art Museum How to Visit an Art Museum offers fresh perspectives on how to behave once inside the museum. Whether a first-timer or a frequent visitor, it shows you the sense and nonsense of museum etiquette. The typical museum behavior – “Walk slowly, but keep walking” – is seldom the most rewarding. That’s why this book encourages you to look outside the box and tackle the challenges that art presents to us by taking matters into your own hands. Author: Johan Idema | 144 pages | 18,5 x 15 cm | hardcover | £ 12.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 355 8

Dear Fashion Diary Dear Fashion Diary is an illustrated diary full of fashion assignments for young fashionistas to entrust with their deepest fashion longings. It encourages you to collect your personal favorite outfits, create lists of your seasonal must-haves, tidy up the content of your wardrobe and much more. When your diary is full, you will have a wonderful collection of your fashion life of the past year and will be ready to start filling a new volume. Authors: Emmi Ojala and Laura de Jong | 160 pages | 22 x 17 cm | paperback | £ 11.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 310 7

Always Be Yourself. Unless You Can Be a Unicorn. Then Always Be a Unicorn. This is the first book to make use of Tumblr-like elaborate imaging and tongue-in-cheek captions in order to paint a picture of the generation of adolescents also referred to as Generation Y, Millennials, Generation Einstein, Digital Natives or even Gypsies. The authors dive into the Brave New World of this new generation . Authors: Pernille Kok-Jensen and Els Dragt | 144 pages | 17 x 12 cm | hardcover | £ 11.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 350 3

Gift books

Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow (Frank Zappa) is a collection of all the famous advice songs and many surprises as well. It gives the reader the song titles, painted by hand by the designer and a striking quote from the song lyrics as well as indexes on artists and themes. This well-produced, iconic album of words of advice from musicians is the perfect gift for music lovers of all ages. Concept: Marcus Kraft | 512 pages | 18 x 12 cm | hardcover | £ 14.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 288 9

Philographics Big Ideas in Simple Shapes Philographics is all about explaining big ideas in simple shapes, merging the world of philosophy and graphic design. Philographics consist of 95 designs, each depicting a different ‘ism’, using a unique combination of geometric shapes, colors and a short definition of the theory. As FastCo.Design wrote: “It takes the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 28,250 words to explain the woolly concept of relativism. It takes Genís Carreras 23 words and a single image” Author: Genís Carreras | 208 pages | 20 x 17 cm | paperback | £ 16.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 341 1

Think Like a Manager Don’t Act Like One Following the successful Think Like a Lawyer Don’t Act like One, we now present a book that presents 75 extremely short and visual management lessons. Like the lawyer the manager is a professional that many people have problems with. Mistakes managers make while managing people tend to fall into similar patterns – and they are all bad. This books will clarify those patterns in a very simple way to help the reader to avoid those mistakes that so many mangers make. Author: Harry Starren | 160 pages | 18 x 14 cm | paperback with flaps | £ 11.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 347 3

Think Like a Lawyer, Don’t Act Like One

Iconic Packaging

The Heinz Ketchup Bottle

The Fruittella Roll

This book offers 75 successful strategies for avoiding or solving conflicts. Developed with input from e.g. Winston Churchill, Al Capone, Harvard University, three bonobos, two kissing boxers, one cowboy, Mikhail Gorbachev, Sun Tzu and John Rambo. Once you have read this book, you will be able to solve almost any conflict in a simple manner.

In this first publication in our Iconic Packaging series, designer and branding expert Marcel Verhaaf tells the story of the Heinz Ketchup bottle. In 64 richly illustrated pages, we learn all about this iconic bottle, as well as the evolution of ketchup, the Heinz Corporation itself and their advertising campaigns.

The Fruittella roll is the subject of the second instalment in the Iconic Packaging series. This book tells you all about the rich history of this confectionery brand and the company behind it. It sheds light on how “the roll that doesn’t cut corners on flavor” has become a unique packaging icon.

Gift books

Never Touch a Painting When it’s Wet

Never Sleep with the Director

Never Leave the House Naked

Art rules the world. But what about the rules of art? It may seem that art should never be bounded by rules, but there are strong rules that live in the world of art. This book contains 51 art rules and quotes by artists and critics who think there is something the rule, or just strongly oppose it.

Ridiculous Film Rules is the sixth book in the Ridiculous Design Rules series and is meant for movie lovers, silver-screen starlets and the people who get to yell ‘cut’ and ‘action’ on set. It contains 51 movie-related rules, their history and quotes by industry leaders, Hollywood big shots, indie directors and a whole list of actors and actresses.

The international fashion police is a force to be reckoned with. Armed with an endless list of rules, it acts as both judge and jury in dealing with those guilty of committing a crime against fashion. While some of these rules are nothing short of ridiculous, others serve as words of wisdom that can help prevent committing a fashion faux pas.

Never Photograph People Eating

Never Use White Type on a Black Background

Never Use Pop Up Windows

This book, the 7th volume in the Ridiculous Design Rules series, contains 51 photography rules that will appeal to both the professional photographer and the enthusiastic amateur. Rules that some will consider words of wisdom, while other perceive them as ridiculous guidelines that need to be twisted or broken altogether.

The world of design is inundated with a seemingly endless list of rules. They’re familiar sayings that some designers consider to be valuable words of wisdom, but others think of them as mere restrictions. Whichever side of the fence you are sitting on, you’re bound to find this book a source of inspiration.

This volume in the Ridiculous Design Rules series is about rules in the use of the Web. It is not only about web design, but also about rules that apply to communicating through the Internet. For each of the 51 rules covered, Van Gaalen refers to quotes by famous designers who think there is something to the rule or who have made it their own.

Gift books

Never Use More Than Two Different Typefaces

The Medium is the Message

This is the fifth book in the Ridiculous Design Rules series. This one is about ridiculous – or not? – rules in typography. A joy for type designers and everyone who has anything to do with designing texts.

Every single day we’re bombarded with a regular onslaught of advertising. The paper you read, the magazine you buy, the radio show you listen to: they all feature ads. Not surprising then that advertising has been called the greatest art form of the 20th century, as well as the biggest evil man has ever produced. Whether or not you believe in a thing called ARTvertising or think that advertising is downright diabolical, you’re at least bound to find this list of 51 rules very enjoyable.

Logo R.I.P. Fully updated and revised, LOGO R.I.P. is a commemoration of defunct logos that were once an integral part of the landscape, our visual culture and our lives. Many are icons of their time or can be deemed design classics. In this updated edition, several iconic trademarks (AT&T, Kodak, Lucent, Rover and Xerox and more) are added to the logo graveyard. Authors: The Stone Twins | 192 pages | 17 x 12 cm | hardcover with gold gilded edges | £ 14.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 290 2

Notebooks

This is my New York

This is my Berlin

This is my London

Do-It-Yourself City Journal

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 New York, to cherish as a keepsake of your trip to the city and to inspire friends to go there too.

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.

This is my Paris

The Writing Notebook: City

The Writing Notebook: Family

The notebook for your next book

With the help of The Writing Notebook: City you’ll be able to write about your time in any city, or a novel set in a real or imagined city, or a book about a specific place, be it Paris, Mumbai, or Buenos Aires. The only way to write a book is to write it. For writers and explorers of all levels, It offers writing prompts and activities, suggestions on structuring your book, and enough blank pages in which to write it.

The Writing Notebook: Family will help you unravel and bring to life any family drama. Here you’ll find the inspiration to explore your own ancestry, write a vast family saga spanning generations, or tell the story of a wildly dysfunctional family. For writers and storytellers of all levels, It offers writing prompts and activities, suggestions on structuring your book, and enough blank pages in which to write it.

Do-It-Yourself City Journal 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. Author: Petra de Hamer | 128 pages | 23,5 x 16 cm | paperback | £ 12.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 394 7

Notebooks

The Writing Notebook: Food The notebook for your next book The Writing Notebook: Food will steer you through writing a book on any culinary subject, whether it’s a cookbook, a food memoir, a book about a specific ingredient, or a sumptuous novel. The only way to write a book is to write it. For writers and foodies of all levels. It offers writing prompts and activities, suggestions on structuring your book, and enough blank pages in which to write it. Author: Shaun Levin | 160 pages | 21 x 14 cm | paperback with elastic band | £ 12,95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 392 3

Home Made Food Notebook

Write Nothing in here

This Notebook is created to be taken over by all the foodies so they can now keep notes of their own adventures in food heaven. This food notebook has handy information on measures and conversions, food names in different languages, a seasonal calendar, and more. In the section, “My Kitchen”, Yvette shares her pantry staples and how she makes them, from mustard to mayonnaise, butter to vinaigrette, and more.

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? 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.

a sketch and doodle book

Postcards

Creative Chef Postcards A postcard book with 25 postcards about food. The cards illustrate the Creative Chef’s visuals inspired by his work as an artist, food designer, and chef. Think ‘MacGyver food solutions’ and ‘Make Food not War’. The Creative Chef’s humour and unique way of looking at the world are reflected in these cards. Author: Jasper Udink ten Cate | 25 postcards in a book | 15 x 10 cm | £ 8.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 440 1

Philographics Postcard Book Philographics is all about explaining big ideas in simple shapes. Now the author of the much-beloved book Philographics has selected 24 of the most popular isms and images and turned them into a postcard book. So you can send out the ones you love best to your friends or just pin them on your wall or frame them. Design: Genis Carreras | 24 postcards in a book | 16,5 x 12 cm | £ 8.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 389 3

Creatures of Creativeland Collective Nouns For The Creative Species A murder of crows. A crash of rhinos. Why is it that animals got all the fun collective nouns? For too long the humble creative folk of officeland have sat there silently. Enough is enough. At long last we have a comprehensive taxonomy that does justice to the various subspecies of the creative workforce. This postcard book contains 20 cards that visualize the tribes of the creative class, like a panic of Account Managers, a feast of Freelancers, and so forth. Concept: Jana Pejkovska and Adrian Flores | 20 postcards in a book | 16,5 x 12 cm | £ 8.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 390 9

Get off the Internet Postcard Book The book Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow was published in the autumn of 2012 and is now already in its third printing. Apparently, Marcus Kraft’s collection of famous advice songs struck a chord with music lovers. In this postcard block, Marcus collected the 20 best advice songs which you can send to someone as a postcard. Ideal for when you want to send someone a comforting thought, invite them for dinner or any situation you feel would fit one of these famous pop song cards. Concept: Marcus Kraft | 20 cards | 16,5 x 12 cm | £ 8.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 328 2

Games

The Company Card Game Grow your business or inspire others to grow theirs Being Entrepreneurial is hard, you take risks, think out of the box, have to convince people and start from zero. You win some and you lose some. So while you are at it the most important thing is that you have fun. To have your friends and families, your classmates helping you out and supporting is essential. This game is fun, it looks good and it produces great ideas and all your friends and family like it. What more do you expect from a partner in entrepreneurship? Author: Bjorn Uyens | 60 cards in a box | 14 x 11 x 4 cm | £ 13.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 442 5 |

Old Masters Memory Game Old Masters Memory Game collects the most famous and beloved portrait painters from the 16th and 17th centuries. 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. Concept: Mieke Gerritzen | 2 x 30 cards in a box | 14,5 x 7,5 x 5 cm | £ 13.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 386 2

Outsider art Memory Game ‘Outsider art’ is a collective term used to describe authentic works of art produced by off-beat artists who listen only to the voices within themselves. They do not consider the art of the past, they have no formal artistic training, and some of them are resident in psychiatric institutions. Their creativity has developed outside the framework of the mainstream art world and is largely ignored by it. The task is to find two cards of the same artist.

Dilemmarama The Game The game is simple, you have to choose! Dilemmarama turns the old question into a social and exciting game full of hard choices with rough edges and quirky options, to laugh about, discuss, and battle over. The creators brought the ‘Would you rather’ question to new heights by adding funny illustrations and by inventing some tricky rules so you can play Dilemmarama with your friends as a game.

Concept: Dilemma op Dinsdag | 64 cards in a box | 9,8 x 13,3 x 4 cm | £ 13.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 424 1

Optical Illusions Game

Mozaa

Optical Illusions Game is a new game that resembles the memory game, but with three bonuses: 1. Instead of a set of two the player has to find a set of four. 2. When the set is completed, the player has to puzzle the four cards into one image. 3. Presto: the four cards form an image of an optical illusion to discover and marvel at.

Mozaa is a colorful combination between domino and mosaic. It is the edge matching game that brings out the artist in you. The box contains 64 cards (tiles) which all have a unique color combination. Take a playing card from the stack and place it next to the cards on the table, in such a way that the colors on the edges match. The one who creates the most and largest color fields wins the game.

Games

Numbers Game

Dice for Change

The Numbers Game is a new game concept that resembles the memory game play but with some interesting differences. The game consists of four sets of 20 cards. The goal of the game is to collect one set of 20 cards. 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.

Random acts of kindness have been shown to increase our self-esteem and happiness. At the same time, the paradox of choice is known to increase our cognitive load to a degree that makes us frustrated and, ultimately, dissatisfied. So how do we benefit from acts of kindness without straining our brains at the myriad of possibilities? Get your hands on Dice for Change – a wonderful designer set of dice featuring pictograms that help us choose a good deed for the day.

Concept: Creative Heroes | Three dices in a box | 14,5 x 7,5 x 4 cm | £ 10.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 278 0

Analogue vs. Digital Memory Game This new title in the BIS collection of memory games celebrates all things going from analogue to digital and back again. It contains 30 sets of objects and phenomena that migrated from atoms to bits, or were born in the digital world and have been planted in the physical world afterwards. This memory game makes players of all ages aware of how the two spheres – digital and physical – have evolved and changed our lives. Concept: Mieke Gerritzen | 2 x 30 cards in a box | 14,5 x 7,5 x 5 cm | £ 13.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 378 7

Make a Face Memory Game

Street Style Memory Game

Street Style Memory Game III

The cards of this new memory game depict all kinds of funny faces created with everyday DIY materials such as paper, cardboard, elastic bands, brushes, buttons, etcetera. Your task, as ever, is to find the matching faces made with the same materials. Playing the game gives you tons of inspiration for creating your own faces or other figures with everyday materials.

Street Style Memory Game challenges players to find combinations of young people with special characteristics and street-style clothing. These are beautiful photographs of people from all nationalities, photographed in the streets of Amsterdam during 2009. For the game, the pictures have been cut in two. Based on their clothing, their attitudes and backgrounds of the people in the photographs, players can join the slightly enlarged faces with the rest of the bodies.

This is the new third edition of Barbara Iweins’ much applauded Street Style Memory Game. The first two versions of this game sold over 15,000 copies and the international press was unanimous: The Cool Hunter declared it one of the coolest products of the year; Vogue Italy named it an excellent exercise for aspiring Vogueistas; Wired loved it and Nylon just called it brilliant.

Author: Anja Brunt | 2 x 30 cards | 14,5 x 7,5 x 5 cm | £ 13.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 348 0

Concept and photography: Barbara Iweins | 2 x 25 cards | 13 x 10 x 3 cm | £ 10.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 231 5

Concept and photography: Barbara Iweins | 2 x 25 cards in a box | 13 x 10 x 3 cm | £ 10.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 336 7

Games

Street Art Memory Game This new title in the series of memory games celebrates the popular field of international street art. Your task is to match two works by the same street artist. Great fun to play and you will gain more knowledge of the iconic and often visually engaging works of modern street artists such as Banksy, Os Gêmeos, Aakash Nihalani, JR, Kobra, Shepard Fairey, Boxi and Jilly Ballistic. Editors: Janne Ettwig and Lilian van Dongen Torman | 2 x 30 cards in a box | 14,5 x 7,5 x 5 cm | £ 13.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 322 0

Twins Memory Game (new edition) After five printings of the first Twins Memory Game, the creator of the game, Maaike Strengholt, has come up with a complete new version of this familiar mind teaser. 30 pairs of identical twins, new people, new photography, same assignment: find the most matching sets of identical twins and win. Concept: Maaike Strengholt | Photography: Dim Balsem | 2 x 30 cards in a box | 14,5 x 7,5 x 5 cm | £ 13.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 301 5

Visual Power Memory Game

Fake for Real Memory Game

The photographs on the playing cards of this game are picture montages sampled from images imprinted on our visual memory as icons of the mass culture in which we live. This surprising and contemporary version of the memory game is great fun to play and good for training people’s power to remember. It guarantees hours of amusement around the kitchen or dining room table.

The images of Fake For Real Memory Game – both historical and contemporary – playfully visualise the classic theme of fake and real. The fun isn’t just in playing the memory game, but also in the surprising, slightly dissimilar images. Can you tell what is fake and what is real?

Authors: Mieke Gerritzen and Koert van Mensvoort | 14,5 x 7,5 x 5 cm | 2 x 30 cards in a box | £ 13.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 098 4

Twins Memory Game A new variation to this familiar mind teaser. The objective in the Twins Memory Game is to find the most sets of identical twins. But be warned: identical twins are not always completely identical! For the game, Agnes Kappert has produced splendid and very naturalistic photographs of thirty sets of identical twins. Concept: Maaike Strengholt | Photography: Agnes Kappert | 2 x 30 cards in a box | 14,5 x 7,5 x 5 cm | £ 13.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 103 5

Brand Memory Game This game is all about knowledge of brands. Hendrik-Jan Grievink has made a selection of 30 internationally well-known brands, showing neither logo nor name on the images. The challenge is to find matching sets, based solely on their style elements and characteristic colours and a short description of the brand. Playing this game offers great fun and an excellent test of your brand knowledge. Concept: Hendrik-Jan Grievink | 2 x 30 cards in a box | 14,5 x 7,5 x 5 cm | £ 13.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 262 9

Games

You Are What You Eat Memory Game

Can You See What I See Memory Game

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog

Marije Vogelzang, author of the successful Eat Love book, adds a fantastic game to the BIS list of memory games; unsurprisingly, it is all about food. Marije Vogelzang selected food that has a specific and consistent effect on our body. The task is to correctly match a food to its effect on our body. Examples include cola and burping, garlic and bad breath and pepper and sneezing.

Everyday objects get a whole new meaning or come to life by adding small sketches to them. This is the principle for this new poetic and funny memory game. One card shows an everyday object and the matching card makes you look at the object in a different way because the artist added a little drawing.

This attractively finished typographic memory game includes 25 variations of the letter ‘A.’ Players attempt to find matching cards and the one who has most sets wins the game. Information about the letter is included on the card, and a separate folder provides a general history of typography.

Concept: Tineke Meirink | 2 x 30 cards in a box | 14,5 x 7,5 x 5 cm | £ 13.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 299 5

Published in collaboration with ps.2 arquitetura + design | 2 x 25 cards in a box | 13 x 9 x 5 cm | £ 13.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 221 6

Concept: Marije Vogelzang | 2 x 25 cards in a box | 14,5 x 7,5 x 4,5 cm | £ 13.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 272 8

London Memory Game

Play Van Abbe

London Memory Game is made up of 25 pairs of cards on typical London themes: Big Ben, shopping, London architecture, bridges, pubs, museums, greasy food, et cetera. Creatively visualised, it is an extra treat to play a game while getting to know the city better and from a new perspective. A folder that gives insight into the chosen subjects is included.

The Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven is famous for its experimental approach towards art’s role in society. Its collection includes key works by Lissitzky, Chagall and Picasso. It is no sur-prise that the museum welcomed the idea of creating a memory game. The sets have striking similarities in subject or technique, but are never by the same artist.

Photography: Patrick Gleeson | 2 x 25 cards in a box | 14,5 x 7,5 x 4,5 cm | £ 10.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 233 9

Edited by: Van Abbemuseum | 2 x 30 cards in a box | 14,5 x 7,5 x 5 cm | £ 13.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 241 4

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Index 1/100: 1 to 1 The essence of Retail Branding and Design p. 53 75 Tools for Creative Thinking p. 53

A: Analogue vs Digital Memory Game p. 76 Anthon Beeke It’s a Miracle! p. 59 Are We There Yet? p. 51 Art Is Everywhere p. 66 Always Be Yourself, Unless You Can Be A Unicorn.. p. 69

B: BIG Black & Beautiful p. 60 Bio-Structual Analogues in Architecture p. 65 Blue is the New Black p. 60 Brand Memory Game p. 77

C: Can You See What I See Memory Game p. 78 Change Ahead p. 51 Co Lab: Collaborative Design Survey p. 56 Company Card Game, The p. 75 Computational Architecture p. 64 Conceptcode p. 50 Conditional Design p. 65 Connect p. 58 Convivial Design Toolbox p. 57 Create with Artists p. 66 Creative Characters p. 60 Creative Chef p. 66 Creative Chef Postcards p. 74 Creative Thinkers Excercise Book p. 66 Creative Personal Branding p. 54 Creativity in Business (Creativity Today) p. 52 Creatures of Creativeland p. 74

D: Dear Fashion Diary p. 68 Defining Creativity p. 52 Delft Design Guide p. 57 Designer As…, The p. 69 Designing Diagrams p. 60 Designing for the Common Good p. 55 Design My Privacy p. 55 Design Transitions p. 59 Dice for Change p. 76 Different Brains, Different Approach p. 50 Digital Manufacturing in Design and Architecture p. 64 Digital Metrics Field Guide, The p. 53 Dilemmarama The Game p. 75 Divergent Convergent Thinking Book, The p. 66 Do-It-Yourselfie Guide, The p. 67 Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow p. 69 Don’t Read this Book p. 51 Dynamic Identities p. 59

Index E: Eccentric Structures in Architecture Everyone is a designer; In the age of social media Exceptionally Simple Theory of Sketching, The

p. 65 p. 61 p. 57

F: Fake for Real Memory Game p. 77 Fast Guide to Architectural Form, The p. 63 Folding Architecture p. 64 Form of Design, The p. 57 From Selling to Co-Creating p. 53

G: Get Agile p. 54 Get off the Internet Postcard Book p. 74 Graduation Guide for Design Students p. 62

H: Handbook Event Design p. 50 Hidden Persuasion p. 53 Home Made Food Notebook p. 73 How to Have Your Cake and Eat it too p. 52 How to Visit an Art Museum p. 68

I: I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where I am going, but I want to be there p. 62 Ideas are immortal p. 61 Identity Colour Codes p. 58 In Vitro Meat Cook Book, The p. 58 Indie Brands p. 54 Innovation Expedition, The p. 53 Innovation Maze, The p. 51 Inspiration - design methodology in architecture p. 63

K: Know your onions p. 59 Know Your Onions Web design p. 59

L: Ladyscaping: A Girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guide to Personal Topiary p. 67 Logo Life p. 62 Logo RIP p. 71 LOIS Logos p. 55 London Memory Game p. 78

M: Make a Face Memory Game p. 76 Make Design Matter p. 58 Mastering The Art of Negotiating p. 50 Material Alchemy p. 56 Medium is the Message, The; Ridiculous Advertising Rules p. 71 Meta Products, Building the internet of things p. 57 Modern Living p. 61 Modular Structures in Design and Architecture p. 64 Mozaa Game p. 75

N: Never Leave the House Naked Never Photograph People Eating

p. 70 p. 70

Index Never Sleep with the Director p. 70 Never Touch a Painting when it’s wet p. 70 Never Use More Than Two Different Typefaces; Ridiculous Typography Rules p. 71 Never Use Pop Up Windows; Ridiculous web design rules p. 70 Never Use White Type on a Black Background p. 70 Next Nature p. 62 Not Invented Here p. 52 Numbers Game p. 76

O: Old Masters Memory Game p. 75 Once Upon a Time I Was... p. 68 Once Upon a Time I Wanted to be… p. 67 Operative Design p. 65 Optical Illusions Game p. 75 Outsider Art Memory Game p. 75

P: Performative Geometries p. 63 Philographics p. 69 Philographics Postcard Book p. 74 Politics of Design, The p. 55 Pop-Up City - City-Making in a Fluid World p. 63 Pop-Up Generation , The p. 62 Pro Stress p. 61 Pro Stress #2 p. 61 Product Sketches p. 57

R: Reading Letters p. 60 Read Nothing in Here p. 66

S: Save the Humans! p. 67 Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker, The p. 55 Service Innovation Handbook, The p. 51 Seven Laws of Guaranteed Growth, The p. 51 Shaping Text , p. 60 Simplicity: A Matter of Design p. 55 Sketching p. 56 Sketching -The Basics p. 56 Sketching: Product Design Presentation p. 56 Soft Shells p. 64 Somethink Completely Different p. 68 Spontaneous City, The p. 63 Storytelling on Steroids p. 54 Strategic Design p. 50 Street Art Memory Game p. 77 Street Style 1 p. 76 Street Style 3 p. 76 Supersurfaces p. 64 Sustainist Design Guide p. 58

T: Thinking in Services p. 50 Think Like a Lawyer Don’t Act Like One p. 69 Think Like a manager Don’t Act Like One p. 69 This is my Berlin p. 72 This is my London p. 72

Index This is my New York p. 72 This is my Paris p. 72 This is Service Design Thinking p. 52 Trashures p. 67 True Size of Food, The p. 68 Twins Memory Game p. 77 Twins Memory Game - New edition p. 77 Typeface Memory Game p. 78

U: Understanding Design p. 58

V: Van Abbe Memory Game p. 78 Vision in Product Design p. 57 Visual Power Memory Game p. 77

W: Wayshowing > Wayfinding p. 63 What Are They Saying About You? p. 67 Write Nothing in here p. 73 Writing Notebook: City, The p. 72 Writing Notebook: Family, The p. 72 Writing Notebook: Food, The p. 73 Work Hard, Play Harder p. 61

Y: You are what you eat Memory Game

p. 78

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