BIS Publishers Catalogue Spring 2016 GBP by BIS Publishers

Books and gifts for the creative minds Spring 2016

Contents New Titles 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32

Designing for the Common Good The Politics of Print The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker Are We There Yet? Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Read this Book The Seven Laws of Guaranteed Growth The Innovation Maze The Fast Guide to Architectural Form 50 Strategies for Architecture Create with Artists Art Is Everywhere Once upon a time I wanted to beâ&#x20AC;Ś Trashures Tips by Creative Chef This is my New York Dilemmarama Recent Titles

34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 47

Change Ahead Simplicity: A Matter of Design LOIS Logos What Are They Saying About You? Save the Humans! The Do-It-Yourselfie Guide Ladyscaping Do-It-Yourself City Yournals The Writing Notebooks.. Food, City, Family Home Made Food Notebook Write Nothing in here Creatures of Creativeland Postcard Book Philographics Postcard Book Old Masters Memory Game Optical Illusions Game

Design and Creative Business Bestsellers 2015 Gift Books and Games Bestsellers 2015

Backlist by Category 52 56 64 67 72 74

Creative Business Design Architecture and Spatial Design Gift Books Notebooks & Postcard Books Games

81 85

Contact Index Cover Image by Rogier Boogaard and taken from Tips by Creative Chef, p. 24

Dear Reader, Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let’s all go exploring. - Edith Widder We should all put our weight into that. :) We are always curious what happens in the creative world; we explore the field. While doing this we often bump into the greatest people, all with really good (book) ideas! How do we find the time to do that? We are happy to share our secret with you through one of our new titles, Don’t Read this Book, following the ‘To Don’t List’ method. When you say ‘no’ to one idea, you have more time to execute another one. The more you subtract, the more focus and time you get. Which leaves us with a great list of new Spring 2016 titles! So we explore in order to drive innovation, but when design thinking is applied to strategy and innovation, the success rate of that innovation dramatically improves. So, how do you come up with a creative solution for problems? How do you become a creative thinker? Is this a talent possessed by a gifted minority or can this ‘secret’ be taught? Read all about it in The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker. The Innovation Maze helps us through our innovation journey and to navigate the maze. It shows four clear routes overcoming the obstacles to successfully deliver new business cases for products, services, and business odels. Not only should we innovate and change our ways of thinking in our businesses, but we should also take on the challenge of designing the future of our society by becoming innovation leaders, as described in Designing for the Common Good. This brings us to the question, Are We There Yet? This book is an insight into what it takes to compete by being design-led.

Innovating for BIS also means exploring new markets for our gift books and products, getting people acquainted with new game concepts like Dilemmarama and asking them to handle tricky choices with rough edges and quirky options based on the ‘Would You Rather?’ question. Not only are we Creating with Artists in cooperation with Stedelijk Museum of contemporary art, featuring workshops with Victor and Rolf, Marcel Wander etc., but we are also making Trashures (as the word says with rubbish) and teaching you how to become a Creative Chef by creating your own amazing eating experience. We have many more great new titles, 16 in total. We invite you to take a close look at them and all other titles not only in this catalogue but also on our brand new website www.bispublishers. com. Sign up for our newsletter and social media to make sure you don’t miss out on any news! I would like say a big thank you to all our fantastic authors making it possible to present such a great list each season and of course to our valued readers appreciating our books and completing the circle! 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 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.

• Social Design in practice • With a focus on social change in urbanspaces • Full of lessons learned, tips, and tricks

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 Publication date: January 2016

Related: Make Design Matter, p. 59 Convivial Toolbox, p. 58

New Titles The Politics of Print A Global Design Manual By Ruben Pater Many designs that appear in today’s society will circulate and encounter audiences of many different cultures and 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 to be neutral, but its meaning is always culturally dependent. If designers learn to be aware of global cultural contexts, we can avoid stereotyping and help improve mutual understanding between people.

• 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.

Politics of Print 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. Ruben Pater is a designer and researcher from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He finished the mas er programme of the Sandberg institute in 2012, and as ‘Untold Stories’ he works on self-initiated and collaborative projects between journalism and graphic design. Past projects are Double Standards (2012), the Drone Survival Guide (2013), and Behind the Blue Screen (2014). His work has received several international awards and is featured in exhibitions around the world. 160 pages | 17 x 11,1 cm | paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 422 7 | £ 12.95 Publication date: April 2016

T Y P O G R A P H Y A N D L A N G UAG E

Characters without a heart Research by Aiwen-Yin

love (traditional)

A culture war is being fought out between supporters of traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese characters. Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the diaspora use the traditional characters. Simplified Chinese is used on mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese was institutionalized during the Qin dynasty in the third century BC. These complicated characters could only be read and written by the elite. Some traditional characters needed eighteen strokes to be written. In daily use, the more practical simplified characters have been in use for centuries. Only during the cultural revolution in 1956 it was formalized by the communist regime to help raise literacy rates and strengthening the economy by standardizing the language across the country. The first version of simplification was rushed and had inconsistencies in symbol replacement, making it prone to errors. Over decades, rounds of character modifications were needed to correct the inconsistencies. Those who kept traditional characters, like Taiwan and Hong Kong, have argued that the original aesthetic of the writing was lost in simplified Chinese. They say those who write in simplified characters have no heart, because the traditional character for love (愛) has the symbol for heart (心) inside it, and simplification (爱) took out the heart and replaced it by friend (友). As a counterargument, proponents of simplified Chinese argue that those who use traditional Chinese ‘have no friends’. Thusly, the aesthetics of language have become an instrument in the political tensions between China and Taiwan.

love (simplifiedl)

New Titles The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker How Seeing Connections Can Enhance Your Creativity By Dorte Nielsen and Sarah Thurber People who are good at having ideas are good at seeing connections. Could teaching people to see connections be a way to help them be more creative? 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.

• 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

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 Publication date: April 2016

New Titles Are We There Yet? Insights on How to Lead by Design By Sam Bucolo The fundamental question that the book addresses is: Are our innovation efforts aligned to the challenges of our times? We face 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 technology investments as our source of competitive advantage, but our growth is declining. If we want to maintain our standard of living, we need fi ms 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 fi ms to make this transition. But with so much being written on design thinking, why do so many fi ms struggle to adopt this mindset and make this transition?

• Design thinking made concrete for SMEs • Understand what it means to lead by design to compete in the global economy • Understand what the practical steps are in achieving this and how firms need to be supported along this journey

Sam 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 to the Australian Economy. Sam is also the convenor of the recently established Australian Design Integration Network and is an executive board member of the Cumulusglobal network. 216 pages | 21,5 x 14 cm | paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 409 8 | £ 13.95 Publication date: January 2016 Related: The Service Innovation Handbook, p. 53

New 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.

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

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 our life goals, to writing a fi e 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. He set up several online projects because he loves to execute new ideas. His biggest problem: too much to do and too little time. That’s why he came up with the To Don’t List method and this book. 160 pages | 21,5 x 14 cm | paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 423 4 | £ 12.95 Publication date: May 2016

New Titles The Seven Laws of Guaranteed Growth BITSING: World’s first econometric model that guarantees succes By Frans de Groot The BITSING Method consists of a number of proven methods and models that have been proven to help organisations achieve their financial goal , using the ‘right’ activities and campaigns to generate more money than they cost. What is the BITSING Method anyway?

• The BITSING growth model is scientific lly tested and proven in practice • Hugely successful in The Netherlands and now available in English • Humbug free, action oriented, visual business book that works!

The BITSING Method consists of a number of defined s eps, which are executed on the basis of more than twenty rules or laws, all of which are a central part of the methodology. The truly revolutionary part of these rules is their application, and using them, you will discover how you can predict the results of your marketing efforts. BITSING is the world’s fi st and only econometric model that guarantees success. Frans de Groot is the founder of the revolutionary BITSING Methodology. Frans worked twenty years developing his method, which brings breathtaking results to the organizations that uses it. Organizations that work with the method unquestionably achieve their goals with predicted results and profitability. 160 pages | 19 x 24 cm | paperback wit flaps | ISBN 978 90 6369 413 5 | £ 24.95 Publication date: April 2016

New Titles The Innovation Maze Four 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 having no internal support, a lack of resources, no time, and no inspiration, meaning that statistically eighty percent of all innovation projects never reach the market.

• New book by author of The Innovation Expedition (25.000 + copies sold) • The Innovation Maze is a practical, visual, step-bystep guide towards your new business case • Author is a LinkedIn influen er with over 270,000 followers

This book is a practical guide on HOW to navigate the innovation maze. It shows four clear routes from different natural innovation starting points and guides you through overcoming the obstacles to successfully deliver new business cases for products, services, and business models. This much-needed hands-on guide— written by Gijs Van Wulfen, a recognised authority, author, and keynote speaker on innovation and creativity—gives clear directions on how to effectively overcome these obstacles and deliver.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 who are looking for practical real-life advice to successfully get through the innovation maze. Gijs van Wulfen is a recognised authority and worldwide keynote speaker on innovation. He was chosen as one of the fi st LinkedIn Influence s and over 270,000 people across the globe are following his notably prolific and insightful posts. In 2014 Gijs came sixth in the international Top 40 Innovation Bloggers. 240 pages | 19 x 24 cm | paperback with flaps ISBN 978 90 6369 410 4 | £ 29.95 Publication date: April 2016

Related: The Innovation Expedition, p. 54

New Titles The Fast Guide to Architectural Form By Baires Raffaelli Research, in almost every field of human knowledge, has practical goals, but while in Architecture, research is often purely theoretically, done by insiders for other insiders, risking being a product limited to the academic world. 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. The text is extremely short, just focusing on the dos and don’ts of the forms and some tips to keep in mind when applying these forms, perfect for students and architects looking to browse for inspiration and guidance.

• 60 basic architectural forms with tips to apply them • Theoretically grounded • Visualized with schematic illustrations and architectural photography

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 Publication date: January 2016

Related: Operative Design, p. 66 Conditional Design, p. 66

New Titles 50 Strategies for Architecture An Architect’s Guide to Words and the World Around Us By James Tait 50 Strategies for Architecture is a collection of architectural essays and explorations that propose ways of findin , formulating, and developing strategies that will better our buildings, shape our spaces, and further the architect’s role within society. Inspired by the complexity and heterogeneity of the world around us, the book intends to stimulate architects and designers to think outside their habitual professional domain and allow our processes and creations to be influenced y everything around us.

• Linguistic approach to architectural strategies • Reflect ve and practical • Great for students and practising architects alike

The central aim of 50 Strategies for Architecture is to allow architecture to be enriched by influences outside its habitual domain; allow architecture to be enriched by the complexity and richness of the world around it; allow everything around us to formulate our strategies for being better architects and creating better architecture. James Tait is an award-winning architect with a passion and commitment to a career in architecture. He is the winner of the internationally recognised RIBA Silver Medal in 2008. Parallel to his professional experience,he has also exhibited his work in Scotland, London, and the Far East, presenting to luminaries such as Alvaro Siza and Kenneth Frampton. 224 pages | 24 x 17,4 cm | paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 412 8 | £ 24.95 Publication date: May 2016

New 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—created by renowned contemporary artists and designers—at home, at a party, at a community centre, or at school.

• Create art in the spirit of world-renowned contemporary artists, with tips by the artists themselves • This book brings the famous Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam workshops to your home or school • Wonderfully designed and illustrated

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. The workshops are accessible for both children and grownups and can be done in groups as well as individually. 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 and author of various books published by the Stedelijk. Hanna Piksen is responsible for the Stedelijk’s family programs. 120 pages | 20 x 25 cm | hardcover | ISBN 978 90 6369 416 6 | £ 13.95 Publication date: January 2016

New 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 continually surprise and inspire us when we visit a city for the fi st time as a tourist? On the other hand, why does it often seem that nothing extraordinary or exceptional ever happens during our everyday routines? 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 some others). 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 most visual approach to the classic question: what is art? • Stimulates the reader to look at everyday things in a fresh way • A very accessible tool for art education

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. SerraGlia is the alias of Lorenzo Servi, an Italian architect and visual designer/ artist based in Helsinki, Finland. 112 pages | 22 x 14,5 cm | paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 418 0 | £ 9.95 Publication date: January 2016

New Titles Once Upon a Time I Wanted to be … An inspirational notebook to help you find our 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 our talent and passion and the job and life that matches best with who you are and what you want to be.

• Notebook with prompts to find our passion and talent • Full of questions and assignments to help you discover 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 Publication date: January 2016

Related: Once Upon a Time I Was..., p. 68

New 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. For BIS Publishers they both made a memory game and now they join forces for a combination celebration and DIY book on rubbish art.The popularity of urban art, recycling, rubbish art, and the whole Make culture gave them 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.

• Ties in with the upcycling trend • Features 15 international artist and instructions to make your own rubbish art pieces • With step-by-step instructions

Anja Brunt is a designer who published with BIS the Make a Face Memory Game, which is full of funny faces created with every day materials. Tineke Meirink is an illustrator who created for BIS the Can You See What I See Memory Game, in which she gives a whole new meaning to pictures of everyday objects by adding small sketches to them. 64 pages | 28 x 21 cm | paperback with flaps | ISBN 978 90 6369 425 8 | £ 12.95 Publication date: May 2016

New Titles Tips by Creative Chef How to Create a Mind-Blowing Food Experience How to create a mind-blowing 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.

• 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

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. 192 pages | 25,4 x 20,8 cm | hardcover | ISBN 978 90 6369 414 2 | £ 19.95 Publication date: April 2016

New 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 City. 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, inspi ational to-do lists, and fun facts about the city. But it also leaves plenty of space for your own stories, drawings, pictures, tickets, notes, and tips. With this journal you create your own city guide full of memories and tips about your trip to the city to cherish as a keepsake of your trip and to inspire friends to go there, too.

• A sketch and colouring book, notebook, and city guide in one • Make your own personal NYC guide

Petra de Hamer works as a culinary writer and photographer. She wrote articles and interviews for several magazines and newspapers in the Netherlands and Belgium. She also made a lot of cookbooks and travel guides. 128 pages | 23,5 x 14 cm | paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 420 3 | £ 12.95 Publication date: May 2016

• Also available: Paris, London, Berlin

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

New Titles Dilemmarama The Game is Simple: You Have to Choose By Dilemma op Dinsdag Would you rather.… We all know the game of hard choices between alternatives that are both equally (un)desirable. 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 card game, discuss the pros and cons, and learn a thing or two about each other.

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

The dilemmas in here all have alternatives that are both very undesirable. The fi st rule of the game is, you HAVE to choose. The game consists of 60 parts of a dilemma, enough to create over 1,000 different dilemmas. The goal of the game is to create the hardest dilemmas by playing out a dilemma card that makes the dilemma on the table as equal as possible. The other players then have to vote for their choice. The more even the voting turns out, the more points you score. Or in this game the less punish points you get. The game is a bitch. A second game play option is ‘How good you know your friends?’ In this variation you have to predict what your friends will choose and you score when you are right. Dilemmarama guarantees hours of awkward moments, laughter, and tough discussions over hard choices. This has FUN written all over it. Don’t forget: you have to choose! Master it and you become the Dilemmaestro. 64 cards in a box | 9,8 x 13,3 x 4 cm | ISBN 978 90 6369 424 1 | £ 13.95

Publication date: May 2016

Recent Titles Change Ahead How research and design are transforming business strategy By Carola Verschoor 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. This book reveals the philosophy, working processes, and approaches to business creation and development through research and design. It provides a model for integrating user insights into business strategy beyond the literal understanding of the user and into the creative application of insights for the development of meaningful propositions. It is a must-read in these changing times because it discusses what needs actualization as we emerge out of the industrial model into an age of creative empowerment. Furthermore, it goes beyond the discussion to provide practical tools for businesses in the 21st century to evolve into adaptive systems through an integrative model of learning and doing, understanding and making, research and design. Change Ahead is about the transformative power of research and design within business practice for relevant value creation in a changing world.

‘A fresh and practical way of looking at business, with an inspirational framework that highlights the human aspect of business.’ - Pablo Beramendi, Director of Branding, Google

Carola Verschoor is the founder of groh! She is an innovator, growth agent, brand builder, creative doer, marketing strategist and foodie. Her natural habitat is where innovation, marketing and design intersect. She has worked for over 20 years for and with some of the world’s largest branded goods companies. 240 pages | 19 x 24 cm | paperback with flaps | ISBN 978 90 6369 398 5 | £ 29.95

Related: The Service Innovation handbook, p. 53 The Innovation Expedition, p. 54

Recent Titles Simplicity: A Matter of Design By Per Mollerup As the world becomes increasingly complex and complicated, simplicity becomes increasingly in demand. We all seek simplicity in small or large measure. We strive to create simplicity at work and at home. While the lives of our early ancestors may appear simple to us, it would not be simple for us to live those lives. This takes us to the root of simplicity: Simplicity is not an absolute quality. It depends on our experience, knowledge, understanding, and skills. Simplicity: A Matter of Design offers a set of terms that will allow us to discuss simplicity in design with precision. It looks into the basics of simplicity and researches more in depth three aspects of design: functionality (simplicity for comfort), aesthetics (simplicity for pleasure) and ethics (simplicity for conscience). There is an extra chapter on simplicity in communication. If there is one quality all designers are seeking it is simplicity. Nevertheless, very little is written on the subject. Simplicity: A matter of design is a very clearly written and illustrated must read for students and practitioners who are intrigued by the concept of simplicity. Professor Per Mollerup is an experienced writer and teacher. With BIS Publishers he has published Wayshowing>Wayfinding on sign design. 192 pages | 29,5 x 16 cm | hardcover | ISBN 978 90 6369 402 9 | ÂŁ 29.95

Simplicity is a key features in almost every design project. Only a few books discuss and show simplicity from a designerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s point of view. Related: Wayshowing Wayfinding, p. 6

Recent Titles LOIS Logos The Creative Punch of Big Idea Branding By George Lois George Lois is an American icon in graphic design. This book showcases his logos with his own comments on why they work. A bonus in the book is a chapter of world logos made by others with George Lois’s comments on why they are so good. George Lois continues to prove that a memorable brand name interacting with a strong visual symbol to communicate a humanistic idea is the ultimate art form in popular graphic communication. 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 penet ating promise of power that immediately sears a product’s virtues into a viewers’ brain—and has the potential of bringing instantaneous success. If anyone wants to experience the creation of Big Idea Branding, this astounding compilation of the work of George Lois is the ultimate form of clear, precise, eye-popping communication. George Lois, born June 26, 1931, in the Bronx, New York City, is an American art director, designer, and author. Lois is perhaps best known for over 92 covers he designed for Esquire magazine from 1962 to 1972. In 2008, The Museum of Modern Art exhibited 32 of Lois’ Esquire covers. 204 pages | 24 x 19 cm | paperback with flaps | ISBN 978 90 6369 399 2 | £ 19.95

“The “Lois Logos” book, of George Lois, is truly his best effort so far. This book is instructive for today’s creative’s. What can I say, great commentary with an outstanding selection of colorful imagery to support the observations of George.” - The Advertising Show 36

Related: Logo Life, p. 63

Recent Titles What Are They Saying About You? 50 lessons to manage your personal reputation By Frank Peters You are what they say about you when you’ve just left the room.... That is your personal reputation. With the omnipresence of social media, reputation is becoming increasingly important, both in business and in private. Society has become more critical and transparent and as a result our reputations have become more vulnerable. Pressure can easily be applied: one tweet can be enough to cause serious reputation damage. Our times offer opportunities for those who are aware of the possibilities and laws of reputation management. In this visual and highly practical book, you will find fty short lessons that help you build and maintain your personal reputation. The lessons are based on the author’s 30 years of experience in reputation management and crisis consulting for brands, organizations, and managers. Consider this book as your personal reputation management coach, or spin doctor, if you will. Whether you are a board member of an organization, a doctor, a teacher, or the director of your own company; following the advice in this book will help you differentiate yourself in a positive manner. Frank Peters is the founder and owner of Virtus Communications. He has extensive experience in corporate reputation management and crisis management. He won the SABRE Awards for Best Benelux Campaigns and Best Benelux Agency, the European Excellence Award (merger FrieslandCampina) and an Effie for most effectively integrated campaign. 144 pages | 18 x 14 cm | paperback with flaps | ISBN 978 90 6369 400 5 | £ 11.95 Related: Think Like a Lawyer, Don´t Act Like One, p. 69 Think Like a Manager, Don´t Act Like One, p. 69

50 short lessons form 30 years of experience in reputation management. From spindoctor’s secrets to plain advise that works for everyone. With striking examples and fun illustrations of reputation do’s and don’ts.

Recent Titles Save the Humans! How to Survive By Mieke Gerritzen and Koert van Mensvoort Smart Phones, Healthcare Robots, Wearable Computers and Self-Driving Cars. They are arriving or already exists. We are becoming increasingly intimate with the machines that constantly count, control and watch the way we live. How can the growing world population of more than 7 billion people create a humane life for everyone? Let’s find the er ors 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 contributors to curate the strongest quotes they can find on the subject It made no difference whether they were written yesterday or a thousand years ago. From Plato to Marshall McLuhan to Mark Zuckerberg. The aim was to make a selection of quotes that currently question the autonomy of mankind in the digital computer era, and study the future of the independent creative spirit. The main questions are: What is the significance of independent thinking in the networked society where everything and everyone is connected? What is the influence of echnology on humanity? Do software standards, templates and algorithms stimulate creativity? Does the digital domain make our world larger? Or is every space pixel a danger for the free spirit? Is there any communication without control?

Very current topic. A typographic visual feast. Attractively priced gift book for the digital natives.

Mieke Gerritzen is a designer, producer and the director of the Dutch Museum of the Image (MOTI). Dr. Koert van Mensvoort is an artist and philosopher best known for his work on the philosophical concept of Next Nature. 160 pages | 19 x 13 cm | hardcover | ISBN 978 90 6369 401 2 | £ 11.95 Related: Everyone is a designer in the Age.., p. 62 Analogue vs Digital Memory Game, p. 75

Recent Titles The Do-It-Yourselfie Guide The Ultimate Selfie Guide o Capture The Best Version Of Yourself By Willem Popelier Perhaps you’re new to the art of the selfie. Maybe the validation from Oxford Dictionaries has given you the courage to final y try one out for yourself. If that’s the case, be careful. You are about to enter a minefield of potential disasters. Willem Popelier analyzed tens of thousands of selfies, thousands of tips, and some dozen research articles on selfies for the ultimate selfie guide to capture the best version of yourself. 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. Willem Popelier (1982, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) is a visual artist who uses photography. His work has been exhibited worldwide, has been published in magazines such as C Photo and Foam Magazine, was awarded with several prizes including a C/O Berlin Talent, a Bronze Medal for Best Book Design from all over the World, and was nominated for the ICP Infinity Award and the Prix Pictet, among others. 160 pages | 15 x 10,5 cm | paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 387 9 | £ 7.95

“Many fans of social media may think Kim Kardashian is the undisputed queen of the selfie - but a m le artist begs to differ. And to increase the comic potential, he has recreated the most famous celebrity selfies earing nothing but a pair of black pants and a T-shirt for this new photo book.” - Dailymail.co.uk 39

Recent Titles Ladyscaping A Girl’s Guide to Personal Topiary By Caroline Selmes A landing strip or a Martini glass? A Mohawk or a postage stamp? What exactly does your private garden hide? If you’ve 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 self-expression and super hip. Ladyscaping is therefore the essential guide for a complete update on the matter, the chance to do some personal experimenting, or to just have fun with your partner. It is the definiti e handbook on both a taboo and an ‘obscure’ subject that no book has ever had the courage to discuss... Until now, that is… A witty, entertaining analysis of the new trends and secret fashions in women’s intimate shaving styles, interpreted by the skilful hand of the French illustrator Caroline Selmes. Ladyscaping is the definiti e handbook about this presently very hot topic. It offers humoristic, woman-friendly illustrations and contains 36 lovely grooming styles. Caroline Selmes is a French illustrator and former art director in advertising agencies. She now lives in London, after years spent in Paris, Barcelona and Madrid. When she is not drawing, she is traveling the world, cooking vegetarian food, practicing yoga, dancing salsa, making ceramics and drinking wine. 80 pages | 21 x 15 cm | hardcover | ISBN 978 90 6369 406 7 | £ 9.95

“It’s instructive and yet a very hilarious book about the newest tips & tricks in lady grooming. Fantastic illustrated!” - Cosmopolitan magazine

Recent Titles Do-It-Yourself City Journal This is my Berlin, Paris, London By Petra de Hamer BIS Publishers is introducing a new series of DIY city journals to the market, kicking off with three of the most popular European destinations: London, Paris, and Berlin. These journals are colouring books, creative activity books, travel notebooks, and city guides in one. They include handcrafted illustrations for you to colour in, handy tips to try out and fun facts about the city. With many pages for colouring, writing, drawing and ticking off to-do and to-see lists, the DIY city journals are the best personal companions for any creative person to compile their very own personalized city guide. To cherish as a keepsake and to inspire friends to go there, too. Each book contains beautiful illustrations of the city to colour in or finish, inspi ational to-do lists, and fun facts about the city. Moreover, it also leaves plenty of space for personal stories, drawings, pictures, tickets, notes, and tips. With this journal you can truly create your own personal city guide in all the colours of your pencil set. So next time you go on a trip, pack your pencils, tape, glue and go! Petra de Hamer works as a culinary writer & photographer. She wrote articles and interviews for several magazines and newspapers in the Netherlands and Belgium. She has also created many cookbooks and travel guides. 128 pages | 23,5 x 16 cm | paperback | £ 12.95 | This is my Paris ISBN 978 90 6369 394 7 This is my London ISBN 978 90 6369 395 4 | This is my Berlin ISBN 978 90 6369 396 1

Related: This is my New York, p. 72

“It’s actually funny that so far nobody had come to the idea to apply this successful principle in the travel book market, after all, city breaks are a very individual thing. These new city guides are the next style of trendy activity books, where the reader contributes to the content” - Page-online.de 41

Recent Titles The Writing Notebooks… Food, City & Family The notebook for your next book By Shaun Levin The only way to write a book is to write it. The Writing Notebook, the fi st notebook for writers and explorers of all levels, is both a guide and a workbook. It offers writing prompts and activities, suggestions on structuring your book, and enough blank pages on which to write it. With description workouts, list-making exercises, a reading list, and ideas for cover design, you’ll never be at a loss for inspiration wherever you are. Each notebook has a different topic: 1. The Writing Notebook: Family will help you unravel and bring to life any family drama. Here you’ll find the inspi ation to explore your own ancestry, write a vast family saga spanning generations, or tell the story of a wildly dysfunctional family. 2. 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 in redient, or a sumptuous novel. 3. The Writing Notebook: City you’ll be able to write about your time in any city, a novel set in a real or imagined city, or a book about a specific place, be it Paris, Mumbai, or Buenos Aires. Shaun Levin’s collection of short stories, A Year of Two Summers, was published in 2005. His novella, Seven Sweet Things, was published in 2003. He is the founding editor of Chroma: A Queer Literary Journal, teaches creative writing, and is the director of Treehouse Press.

The first not book for (aspirant) writers. Creative writing is a hobby and a passion for millions of people. With writing tips and exercises and plenty of room to write a first d aft of your book.

160 pages | 21 x 14 cm | paperback with elastic band | £ 12.95 | The Writing Notebook City ISBN 978 90 6369 391 6 The Writing Notebook Food ISBN 978 90 6369 392 3 The Writing Notebook Family ISBN 978 90 6369 393 0

Recent Titles Home Made Food Notebook By Yvette van Boven Home Made is a unique cookbook that is all about making everything yourself, as Yvette van Boven did to make her fi st book. She made her own fonts, drew the illustrations, wrote all the recipes, prepared the food for the photographs, and designed the book. Now, a series of award-winning and internationally successful cookbooks further, she created the perfect companion to her cookbooks for the DIY cook and aficionad . That companion is the Home Made Food Notebook, written and illustrated by Yvette, but created to be taken over by all the foodies who loved her books 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. Most pages are, however, only lightly illustrated for you to fill with your recipes, lists, tips, and memories. Yvette van Boven (Ireland, 1968) divides her time between Amsterdam and Paris. She is a freelance food stylist and recipe writer who owns, together with her cousin, a restaurant and catering company in Amsterdam. She also illustrates books and magazines. Her work appears regularly in magazines such as Delicious, Elle Food, and Flow, as well as in newspapers and books. Home Made is published in Dutch, English, German, and French. 160 pages | 21 x 16 cm | flexibound with ribbon and elastic band | ISBN 978 90 6369 397 8 | £ 13.95 |

First food notebook by international bestselling cook book writer. Sumptuous production with beautiful water colours and illustrations. A true keepsake for foodies to take notes of their food and eating adventures.

Recent Titles Write Nothing in here a sketch and doodle book By Seema Sharma You want to come up with new ideas. With things that others haven’t thought about. There are a million ways to do so, but the majority of theories focus on connecting or improving existing things. Like how to connect a with x or how to think outside the box. But what if you don’t think in boxes?And what if you don’t want to improve things around you, but really want to focus on new stuff? Your nose is at the right place, because this book is about exactly that. The author argues that while the whole world is focusing on things, you should focus on nothing. She challenges you to focus on the gaps, the spaces in between and all the things that ordinary thinkers wouldn’t care to notice. This notebook and sketchbook is full of prompts, assignments, fun facts and quotes from the world of science, arts and philosophy about exploring the virtues of nothingness. You’ll find out once ou get the hang of it, that focusing on nothing really helps to create new ideas. That’s why this book is a doodle and sketch book – with plenty of space to capture your notes and to create out of nothing. Seema Sharma is a dutch creative and copywriter with experience in creating conversations and interactive campaigns. 160 pages | 23,5 x 16 cm | paperback | ISBN 978 90 6369 403 6 | £ 12.95

The first b ok that is all about Nothing. A doodle and sketch book for creative minds. With inspirational facts and prompt s that help you to achieve Nothing and be surprised. 44

Recent Titles Creatures of Creativeland Collective Nouns For The Creative Workforce A Postcard Guide By Jana Pejkovska and Adrian Flores A murder of crows. A crash of rhinos. Why is it that animals got all the fun collective nouns? At long last we have a comprehensive taxonomy that does justice to the various subspecies of the creative workforce. Creatures of Creativeland, A Postcard Book aims to land the perfect collective noun for every breed of ‘creativeland animal’. In the natural world, animal collectives all have specific names a school of fish, a urder of crows, a pack of wolves. Sometimes those collective nouns are colourful and evocative of the creatures in question. For too long, the humble creative folk of officeland have sat there silently, letting the animal world revel in linguistic glory. The creative ad duo known as A+J (a.k.a. Adrian Flores and Jana Pejkovska) have now named packs of humans, based on their unique characteristics, and combined them into a postcard book. This postcard book contains 20 cards that visualize the tribes of the creative class, such as a feast of Freelancers, a rant of Copywriters, a miracle of Female Bosses, a gibberish of Technologists, a gloom of Developers, and so forth. Jana Pejkovska is a Senior Creative with over ten years’ experience, from international print and TV campaigns to zero-budget social media campaigns. Adrian Flores is a Copywriter and has done advertising-related chicanery for well-known brands. 20 postcards in a book | 16,5 x 12 cm | ISBN 978 90 6369 390 9 | £ 8.95

Related: Get off the internet, p. 72

Superbly illustrated cliché’s about the tribes of the creative work force. Tongue in cheek, tasteful, and smart: a true mirror for creative types. Great gift for anyone working in the creative industry 45

Recent Titles Philographics Postcard Book By Genis Carreras Following the success of Philographics, in which the most important ‘isms’ are clarified by simple graphic images, BIS Publishers releases the Philographics Postcard Book. 20 designs, each depicting a different ‘ism’, combined into a postcard book. Carreras explains concepts from realism to idealism, and relativism to emotionism. A new postcard book with new symbols and shapes, beautifully designed and in balance with the ‘isms’. Genis Carreras’ project went viral on the Internet in 2013 and raised over GBP 65,000 on Kickstarter. Soon after, his gorgeous project was published as a book called Philographics, conceived as a visual dictionary of philosophy. The project merges the world of philosophy and graphic design, two areas that seem complete opposites: one is heavy and complex, the other eye-catching and rapidly consumed. Philographics is all about explaining big ideas with simple shapes. It consist of 95 designs, each depicting a different ‘ism’ and using a unique combination of geometric shapes, colours and a short definition of the theo y. Genis Carreras (Salt,1987) is a Catalan-born graphic designer, illustrator and author. His work has been exhibited in the UK, France, the US, the Netherlands and Spain, and published in several design books and magazines. He currently works as an independent designer, with clients such as Sony Music, Ray-Ban and Red Cross.

“It takes the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 28,250 words to explain the woolly concept of relativism. It takes Genis Carreras 23 words and a single image” - FastCo.Design

24 postcards in a book | 16,5 x 12 cm | ISBN 978 90 6369 389 3 | £ 8.95

Related: Philographics, p. 69 Get off the internet, p. 72

Recent Titles Old Masters Memory Game

Optical Illusions Game

By Mieke Gerritzen

By Paul M. Baars

The Old Masters Memory Game collects the most famous and beloved portrait painters from the 16th and 17th centuries. The game is fun to play, educational, and a feast for the eyes. The task, as always, is to collect two cards that make one set: in this case, two portrait paintings by the same painter.

The Optical Illusions Game is a new game that resembles the memory game, but with some interesting differences. The optical illusions in this game were selected by Paul Baars, a world famous author and expert on optical illusions. For this game he has selected a broad range of mindboggling illusions, from the famous classical ones to new illusions created by contemporary designers and artists.

This is a wonderful gift item for gift shops, museums that collect the old masters, and art lovers in general. The game consists of 50 cards and 25 sets featuring world-famous portraits by the likes of Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticello, Titian, Frans Hals, Albrecht Durer, Goya, and many others. The sets are clearly recognizable by the posture of the figu e, the facial expression, the style of painting, and attributes such as clothing and hairstyle. To help you along, you always have the brochure to refer back to, which has all the paintings in pairs and a short explanation on the painters. Mieke Gerritzen is a designer and the director of the Dutch Museum of the Image (MOTI). 2 x 25 cards in a box | 14,5 x 7,5 x 4,5 cm | ISBN 978 90 6369 386 2 | ÂŁ 13.95

The goal of the Optical Illusions Game is to collect four cards that form one optical illusion. The player who collects the highest number of optical illusions wins the game. It consists of 80 cards and 20 illusions, as well as a brochure with a picture of each illusion and a brief explanation. It contains three game bonuses: 1. Instead of a set of two, the player has to find a set of our. 2. When the set is completed, the player has to fit the four cards together to form one image. 3. And, presto: the four cards form the image of an optical illusion to discover and marvel at. Paul M. Baars is a designer, producer of design products, and author living in Amsterdam. He has written many books about optical illusions and street photography. His latest book Confusion Illusion was published this year by Thames & Hudson. 20 optical illusions | 80 cards in a box | 14 x 14 x 2,6 cm | ISBN 978 90 6369 388 6 | ÂŁ 13.95

Related: Street Art Memory Game, p. 76 Numbers Game, p. 74

Design and Creative Business Bestsellers 2015

Gift Books and Games Bestsellers 2015

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 fi ms 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 fi ms 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.

The Innovation Maze

Change Ahead

Four Routes to a Successful New Business Case

How research and design are transforming business strategy

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. Author: Gijs van Wulfen | 240 pages | 19 x 24 cm | Paperback with flaps | £ 29.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 410 4

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

The Seven Laws of Guaranteed Growth BITSING: World’s first econometric model that guarantees succes The BITSING Method consists of a number of defined s eps. The truly revolutionary part of these steps is that you will discover how you can predict the results of your marketing efforts. It have been proven to achieve financial goal , using the ‘right’ activities and campaigns to generate more money than they cost. Author: Frans de Groot | 160 pages | 19 x 24 cm | Paperback wit flaps | £ 24.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 413 5

What Are They Saying About You? 50 lessons to manage your personal reputation 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 fty short lessons that help you build and maintain your personal reputation. Author: Frank Peters | 144 pages | 18,5 x 13,5 cm | paperback with flaps | £ 11.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 400 5

Creative Business

How to Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

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.

The Service Innovation Handbook

This Is Service Design Thinking (paperback)

This Is Service Design Thinking (hardcover)

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.

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 process of designing services is very specific o 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

Creative Business

The Digital Metrics Field Guide

The Innovation Expedition

From Selling to Co-Creating

The Digital Metrics Field Guide is the definiti e 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.

This is one of the fi st 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.

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

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 ad anced 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.

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

Indie Brands New brands are created every day, but only a few find a place in consume s’ 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

Design

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. Authors: Dorte Nielsen and Sarah Thurber | 176 pages | 23,4 x 15,5 cm | Hardcover with dust jacket | £ 19.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 415 9

LOIS Logos The Creative Punch of Big Idea Branding

Designing for the Common Good

The Politics of Print

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.

A Global Design Manual

The Form of Design The Form of Design is the fi st 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. Author: Prof. Josiah Kahane | 24 x 19 cm | 240 pages | paperback with flaps | £ 29.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 375 6

Design

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 confident y 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

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 fi st 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 authors, design practitioners and educators bringing together 15 years of knowledge in this publication have produced the fi st 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.

Convivial Toolbox

Defini g Creativity The Art and Science of Great Ideas Defining C eativity 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 | 11 illustrations | 144 pages | 21,6 x 14 cm | paperback | £ 14.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 345 9

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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 fi st 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 di ferent 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 ype 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 fi st step on the moon, sleazy magazines and hurricanes. This book is a celebration of the typeface. It tells its history, but fi st 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 unks 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 unks (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 figu es 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 fi st 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 itsel . 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

Blood In Blood Out Designer Floor Wesseling dived deep into the phenomenon of heraldry, the 15th-century visual coding system by which families and kingdoms could be identified. Today we can find a lot of similarities on the jerseys of football clubs. This book combines jerseys from different teams into new jerseys and in doing so tells emotional stories about rivalry, social communities and latter-day football battles. Author: Floor Wesseling | 224 pages | 24 x 18 cm | hardcover | £ 16.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 244 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

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

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

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

Architecture and Spatial Design

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.

An Architect’s Guide to Words and the World Around Us 50 Strategies for Architecture is a collection of architectural essays and explorations that propose ways of findin , formulating, and developing strategies that will better our buildings, shape our spaces, and further the architect’s role within society.

Pop-Up City City-making in a fluid

orld

This book showcases eye-opening ideas, concepts and trends that make a difference in the city of today and tomorrow. Based on fi e 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.

Author: James Tait | 224 pages | 24 x 17,4 cm | paperback | £ 24.95 ISBN 978 90 6369 412 8

Wayshowing > Wayfindi g

The Spontaneous City

Inspiration

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 esult 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.

Design methodology in design and architecture has changed significant y 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.

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/ ayshowing. Author: Per Mollerup | 240 pages | 30 x 19 cm | hardcover | £ 29.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 323 7

50 Strategies for Architecture

Architecture and Spatial Design

Performative Geometries

Folding Architecture

Supersurfaces

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.

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

Modular Structures

Digital Manufacturing

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 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 fi e production techniques: cross-segmentation, accumulation, frameworks, loops and folding.

Architecture and Spatial Design

Computational Architecture

Bio-structural Analogues In architecture

Eccentric Structures in 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.

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 fi mness 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.

Operative Design

Conditional 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’.

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 definiti e, but are meant to serve as explorations of an iterative process.

Gift Books

How to create a mind-blowing experience

Create with Artists

Art Is Everywhere

Tips by 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!

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

Once Upon a Time I Wanted to be … An inspirational notebook to help you find our 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. Author: Lavinia Bakker | 144 pages | 22 x 17 cm | paperback | £ 9.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 419 7

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

Save the Humans! How To Survive 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 er ors 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! Authors: Mieke Gerritzen and Koert van Mensvoort | 160 pages | 19 x 13 cm | hardcover | £ 11.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 401 2

Gift Books

The Do-It-Yourselfie Guide

Ladyscaping

The Ultimate Selfie Guide o Capture The Best Version Of Yourself

A Girls Guide to Personal Topiary

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.

Once Upon a Time I Was...

Dear Fashion Diary

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 90 636 9 hardcover | £ 14.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 346 6

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

Somethink Completely Different 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. Author: Mwah | 112 pages | 10,5 x 14,8 cm | hardcover | £ 8.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 374 9

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

Gift Books

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 fi st-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.

Always Be Yourself. Unless You Can Be a Unicorn. Then Always Be a Unicorn. This is the fi st 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 .

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

Think Like a Manager Don’t Act Like One

Think Like a Lawyer, 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.

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.

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

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

Iconic Packaging

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 ules very enjoyable.

In this fi st 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 Heinz Ketchup Bottle

Iconic Packaging The Fruittella Roll 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. Author: Marcel Verhaaf | 64 pages | 21 x 15,8 cm | hardcover | £ 10.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 303 9

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 and Postcard Books

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.

Collective Nouns For The Creative Species

Get off the Internet Postcard Book

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.

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: Jana Pejkovska and Adrian Flores | 20 postcards in a book | 16,5 x 12 cm | £ 8.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 390 9

Concept: Marcus Kraft | 20 cards | 16,5 x 12 cm | £ 8.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 328 2

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, inspi ational 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.

Design: Genis Carreras | 24 postcards in a book | 16,5 x 12 cm | £ 8.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 389 3

Creatures of Creativeland

Notebooks and Postcard Books

This is my Paris 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, inspi ational 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

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

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 inspi ation 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.

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

Games

Dilemmarama The Game is Simple: You Have to Choose equally (un)desirable. 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.

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 figu e, 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.

Optical Illusions Game 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 our. 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. Concept: Paul M. Baars | with playing rules in English, Dutch, German, Spanish and French | 20 optical illusions | 80 cards in a box | 14 x 14 x 2,6 cm | £ 13.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 388 6

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

Concept: Mieke Gerritzen | 2 x 25 cards in a box | 14,5 x 7,5 x 4,5 cm | £ 13.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 386 2

Mozaa

The Stewardess Game

Numbers Game

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.

This is a funny version of the classic quartet game in which players collect sets of four cards by exchanging cards with other players. This version covers topics of the world of aviation. Collect four planes, stewardesses, food items, arrivals by night, items you will find in a stewardess’ bag, destinations and pilot gear.

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.

Old Masters Memory Game

Games

Dice for Change 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

Make a Face 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.

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 aces made with the same materials. Playing the game gives you tons of inspiration for creating your own faces or other figu es with everyday materials.

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

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

Street Style Memory Game

Street Style Memory Game II

Street Style Memory Game III

Street Style Memory Game challenges players to find combinations of oung 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 second edition of our bestselling Street Style Memory Game by Barbara Iweins. This game allows you to play with new street styles and iconic people from all corners of the globe, all photographed on the streets of Amsterdam. The game teaches you to become a Vogueista by matching the right faces and legs of fashionable people from Amsterdam.

This is the new third edition of Barbara Iweins’ much applauded Street Style Memory Game. The fi st 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.

Concept and photography: Barbara Iweins | 2 x 25 cards in a box | 13 x 10 x 3 cm | £ 10.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 270 4

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

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

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

After fi e printings of the fi st 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 (new edition)

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 set , 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 consis ent 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 ypographic 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

London Memory Game

Van Gogh 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.

Van Gogh is one of the world’s most admired painters and the Van Gogh Museum is a must on every Amsterdam visitor’s list. In collaboration with the museum, BIS produced the Van Gogh Memory Game. Each set of cards consists of two different images, together forming a clear theme and telling a little story about Van Gogh.

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 Gogh Museum Amsterdam | 2 x 30 cards in a box | 14,5 x 7,5 x 5 cm | £ 13.95 | ISBN 978 90 6369 245 2

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

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

Notes

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Index 1/100:

1 to 1 The essence of Retail Branding and Design 7 Laws of BITSING, The 50 Strategies for Architecture 75 Tools for Creative Thinking

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

BIG Black & Beautiful Bio-Structual Analogues in Architecture Blue is the New Black Blood In Blood Out Brand Memory Game

Can You See What I See Memory Game Change Ahead Co Lab: Collaborative Design Survey Computational Architecture Conditional Design Connect Convivial Design Toolbox Create with Artists Creative Characters Creative Personal Branding Creativity in Business (Creativity Today) Creatures of Creativeland

Dear Fashion Diary Defining C eativity - The art and science of great ideas Delft Design Guide Design Transitions Designer As…, The Designing Diagrams Designing for the Common Good Dice for Change Digital Manufacturing in Design and Architecture Digital Metrics Field Guide, The Dilemmarama Do It Yourselfie Guide Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow Don’t Read this Book Dynamic Identities

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

Fake for Real Memory Game Fast Guide to Architectural Form, The Folding Architecture Form of Design, The From Selling to Co-Creating

Get Agile Get off the Internet Postcard Book Graduation Guide for Design Students

Hidden Persuasion Home Made Food Notebook How to Have Your Cake and Eat it too - introduction to Service Design How to Visit an Art Museum

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where I am going, but I want to be there Iconic Packaging - Fruitella Iconic Packaging - The Heinz Ketchup bottle Ideas are immortal Identity Colour Codes In Vitro Meat Cook Book, The Indie Brands Innovation Expedition, The Innovation Maze, The Inspiration - design methodology in architecture

Know your onions Know Your Onions Web design

Ladyscaping: A Girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guide to Personal Topiary Logo Life Logo RIP LOIS Logos London Memory Game

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Index Make Design Matter Material Alchemy Medium is the Message, The; Ridiculous Advertising Rules Meta Products, Building the internet of things Modern Living Modular Structures in Design and Architecture Mozaa Game

Never Leave the House Naked Never Photograph People Eating Never Sleep with the Director Never Touch a Painting when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wet Never Use More Than Two Different Typefaces; Ridiculous Typography Rules Never Use Pop Up Windows; Ridiculous web design rules Never Use White Type on a Black Background Next Nature Not Invented Here Numbers Game

Old Masters Memory Game Once Upon a Time I Was... Once Upon a Time I Wanted to beâ&#x20AC;Ś Operative Design Optical Illusions Game

Performative Geometries Philographics Philographics Postcard Book Politics of Print, The Pop-Up City - City-Making in a Fluid World Pop-Up Generation , The Pro Stress Pro Stress #2 Product Sketches

Reading Letters

Save the Humans! Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker, The Service Innovation Handbook, The Shaping Text , Simplicity: A Matter of Design Sketching Sketching -The Basics Sketching: Product Design Presentation

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Index Soft Shells Somethink Completely Different Spontaneous City, The Storytelling on Steroids Street Art Memory Game Street Style 1 Street Style 2 Street Style 3 Supersurfaces Sustainist Design Guide

Think Like a Lawyer Don’t Act Like One Think Like a manager Don’t Act Like One This is my Berlin This is my London This is my New York This is my Paris This is Service Design Thinking Tips by Creative Chef Trashures True Size of Food, The Twins Memory Game Twins Memory Game - New edition Typeface Memory Game

Understanding Design

Van Abbe Memory Game Van Gogh Memory Game Vision in Product Design Visual Power Memory Game

Wayshowing > Wayfindin What Are They Saying About ? You Write Nothing in here - a sketch and doodle book Writing Notebook: City, The Writing Notebook: Family, The Writing Notebook: Food, The Work Hard, Play Harder

You are what you eat Memory Game

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