Have you ever struggled to complete a design project on time? Or felt that having a tight deadline stifled your capacity for maximum creativity? If so, then this book is for you.
Within these pages, you'll find 80 creative challenges that will help you achieve a breadth of stronger design solutions, in various media, within any set time period. Exercises range from creating a typeface in an hour to designing a paper robot in an afternoon to designing web pages and other interactive experiences. Each exercise includes compelling visual solutions from other designers and background stories to help you increase your capacity to innovate.
Creative Workshop also includes useful brainstorming techniques and wisdom from some of today's top designers. By road-testing these techniques as you attempt each challenge, you'll find new and more effective ways to solve tough design problems and bring your solutions to vibrant life.

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- English
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Design GeneralTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- FOUNDATION
- 01: Hello, My Name Is
- 02: Easy as ABC
- 03: Time Machine
- 04: One Line Logo
- 05: Iām Drawing a Blank
- 06: Mr. Blue
- 07: Gridlocked
- 08: Spray Paint Wars
- 09: Tragic Sans
- 10: Grungevetica
- 11: Future Penmanship
- 12: Strange Chemistry
- 13: Three in One
- 14: 10 x 10
- EXECUTION
- 15: Sixty-Second Deadline
- 16: Hey, You Made That Up!
- 17: Free Association
- 18: Iām Feeling Really, Really Lucky
- 19: It Sounds Better on Vinyl
- 20: Storybook Ending
- 21: Dead Philosphers Rock
- 22: Opposites Attract
- 23: Book Report
- 24: He Shaves, She Shaves
- 25: Totally Cereal
- 26: Imaginary Film
- 27: Creature Feature
- 28: Ten-Second Film Festival
- 29: Iāve Got a Golden Ticket
- 30: Flapping in the Wind
- 31: Going to Seed
- 32: Sell Me a Bridge
- 33: Letās Take a Nap
- MATERIALITY
- 34: Type Face
- 35: Lick It Good
- 36: Never Tear Us Apart
- 37: Trompe LāOh Wow
- 38: I Heart Plaid Candles
- 39: Outdoor Wedding
- 40: Crane Promotion
- 41: Just My Prototype
- 42: Reduce, Reuse, Redecorate
- 43: Printed and Sewn
- 44: Record Store Puppet Theater
- INSTRUCTION
- 45: Robot Army Mail-Order Kit
- 46: Poster by Numbers
- 47: Seeing What Sticks
- 48: Check Me Out
- 49: The Game of Sustainability
- OBSERVATION
- 50: Patience, Grasshopper
- 51: Tour de Home
- 52: Wacky Vendo
- 53: Excuse Me, Iām Lost
- 54: Thinking Outside the Wrist
- INNOVATION
- 55: CD, LP, EP, DP
- 56: iPhone Americana
- 57: Biodegradable Backyard
- 58: More Is Less
- 59: Veni, Vidi, Vino
- 60: E.V.O.O. to Go
- 61: TechnoYoga
- 62: I Think, Therefore I Shop
- 63: Ready When You Are
- 64: Letās Dish
- 65: Listen Up, Write It Off
- INTERPRETATION
- 66: Iād Buy That For a Dollar
- 67: Whatās in Store?
- 68: Urban Diapers
- 69: Out of Gamut
- 70: Future-Casting
- 71: This Is for Your Health
- 72: Paper, Plastic, Glass, Vapor
- 73: Free Tibet Blog
- 74: Blinded by the Light
- 75: Touch Screen of Deaf Rock
- 76: Sniff Test
- 77: Can You Hear Me Now?
- 78: Bending Geography
- 79: What Do I Know?
- 80: Well, in My Book
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- RESOURCES
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