How to Have Great Ideas
eBook - PDF

How to Have Great Ideas

A Guide to Creative Thinking

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eBook - PDF

How to Have Great Ideas

A Guide to Creative Thinking

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Publisher
Laurence King
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781780679891
184
Hats 
off
to 
Jo 
Lightfoot, 
Sarah 
Batten 
and 
Laurence 
King, 
who 
helped 
to 
shape 
this 
book, 
Gaynor 
Sermon 
who 
edited 
it, 
Peter 
Kent 
for 
his 
excellence 
in 
helping 
to 
gather 
the 
pictures 
and 
Charlie 
Smith 
for 
the 
design. 
Thanks 
to 
students 
in 
Shanghai, 
Suzhou, 
Dalian, 
London 
and 
Gloucestershire 
for 
trying 
out 
the 
projects.
Many 
thanks 
are 
also 
due 
to 
the 
following 
people 
for 
their 
invaluable 
contribution 
to 
this 
book: 
Chris 
Bailey, 
Dan 
Knight, 
Nina 
Saunders, 
Stan 
Wilson-Copp, 
Rod 
Shaw, 
Jack 
Schulze, 
Dominic 
Wilcox, 
David 
Myerson, 
Christine 
Bailey, 
Jerome 
Bailey, 
Elizabeth 
Bailey, 
Jack 
Southern, 
Mark 
Unsworth, 
Nick 
Pride, 
Jen 
Whiskerd, 
Stuart 
Wilding, 
Tim 
Adams, 
Trudie 
Ballantyne, 
Sharon 
Harper, 
Kieren 
Phelps, 
Piers 
Wall, 
Ruth 
Edge, 
Johnnie 
Shand 
Kydd, 
Jack 
Wimperis, 
Paul 
Grellier, 
Harley 
Grellier, 
Sarah 
Jackson, 
Paul 
Jackson, 
James 
Kriszyk, 
Jonathan 
Garnett, 
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Kwan, 
Tom 
Mitchell, 
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Duery, 
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Beeson, 
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Summerville, 
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Subsakul 
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Glaister, 
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Garcia, 
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James 
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Reed, 
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Reed, 
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Jones, 
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Lin, 
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Fan, 
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and 
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Thanks 
also 
to 
the 
following 
supporters, 
collaborators, 
consigliere 
and 
inspirations: 
John 
Brewer, 
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Langford, 
Kevin 
Jones 
ñ 
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and 
bar, 
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Douglas, 
Kate 
Vincent-Smith 
and 
Red 
Saunders. 
Dedicaton:
For 
Mo, 
Sarah 
and 
Umar.
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Acknowledgements 

Table of contents

  1. Introduction: What's the big idea?
  2. Exercise your imagination
  3. Be playful
  4. Write your manifesto
  5. Question, question, question
  6. Keep it simple
  7. Just get started
  8. Value first ideas
  9. Voice your wildest concept
  10. Act like a kid
  11. Take notice
  12. Visualize it
  13. Get help
  14. Know who's the daddy
  15. What would Terry do?
  16. Ask 'What else can I do with this?'
  17. Find your inner genius
  18. Make 'em laugh
  19. Reposition
  20. Hoard
  21. Find a link
  22. Make leaping jumps
  23. Fail towards success
  24. Find an analogy
  25. Change what appears to be fixed
  26. Fix your frustrations
  27. Look to nature
  28. Change the room
  29. Build your own space
  30. Try osmosis
  31. Change the scenery
  32. Improvise
  33. Go to the factory
  34. Trust your hunches
  35. Potter, ponder and tinker
  36. Try translating
  37. Sleep on it
  38. Take a break
  39. Spend time daydreaming
  40. Embrace absurdity
  41. Take a chance
  42. Fence yourself in
  43. Try swapping systems
  44. Try combining systems
  45. Be a storyteller
  46. Appreciate accidents
  47. Talk your way in
  48. Criss-cross borders
  49. Take things literally
  50. Be contrary
  51. Make it personal
  52. Understand your process
  53. Just in time
  54. Practise, practise, practise
  55. Index
  56. Credits and acknowledgements