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"Think Like a Lawyer Don't Act Like One" provides strategies to solve conflicts. Based on principles, research, and real life examples ranging from Harvard University, Mikhail Gorbatsjov, two kissing boxers, and Sun Tze to John Rambo, "Think Like a Lawyer Don't Act Like One" can be used when dealing with grumpy police officers, angry neighbors, unwilling debtors, nasty lawyers, and other conflict seekers.Each strategy is thoroughly tested and can be used at the kitchen table, on the street, and in the boardroom. All seventy-five rules are illustrated in a funny way.

Learn the tips and tricks of making your sketches look professional. The book provides you with a very short course, which does not teach you all the details and techniques of sketching, but will teach you in a very simple way how to make your sketches look beautiful.

This book showcases eye-opening ideas, concepts and trends that make a difference in the city of today and tomorrow, ranging from urban hacks, modular hotels, and parasite cinemas to pop-up retail. The world is becoming more fluid and, as a result, citizens, enterprises, and civic governments are coming up with refreshing solutions in order to deal with a permanent state of change. Based on five years of blogging on popupcity.net for an international audience of millions, Pop-Up City shows the birth of a new dimension in city-making based on groundbreaking ideas that take 'pop-up' as a starting point, varying from modular hotels and parasite cinemas to urban hacking, rooftop farms, and foldable houses. Pop-Up City is an eye-opening must have for both professionals and scholars working in urbanism, design, and marketing. Whether or not you are already a follower of the blog, the Pop-Up City book is meant for anyone who is interested in exploring what is happening with today's urbanized world and which great ideas emerge from it.

"Sketching" is an incredibly broad and practical survey of sketching techniques for product designers. It goes without saying that the book is suited for the classroom, but every design studio will also find this manual an asset, because in spite of the ascendancy of the computer, hand-drawn sketches are still a very much used.

Visual messages are omnipresent in our daily life. They are constantly attempting to persuade us to buy, learn, and act. Some are more successful than others in influencing our behavior and choices.What is the secret power of these messages? How do they succeed in changing our behavior?This book explains the psychology behind fifty effective influence techniques of visual persuasion and how to apply them. The techniques range from influence essentials to more obscure and insidious methods. The reader will gain deep insights into how visual means are constructed to influence behavior and decision making on an unconscious level.All techniques are supported by rich visual references and additional information on the psychology of behavior change. This publication is not just an eye-opener for professionals and students in the communication and design fields, but also for anybody who wants to understand how our behavior is influenced unconsciously by advertising, social campaigns, and government messages.The book is co-authored by leading figures in social influence and visual persuasion. It is designed as an accessible modern reference book for creating and understanding persuasive visual imagery.

Generations, like people, have personalities, and Millennials--the teens and twenty-something's currently making the transition into adulthood--have begun to forge theirs: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat, and receptive to new ideas and ways of living. This book is a guide in Tumblr style for whoever wishes to understand this generation.

This is the first all-encompassing book about the visual language of man-made products, explaining how mass-produced objects evolve over time and what made them change. Form evolution behaves in a similar way to language evolution and, to some extent, even to natural evolution. In the book the author materializes the governing rules of form evolution by means of fourteen case studies.

Young, hungry, interdisciplinary designers and artists are teaming together in small packs to tackle personal and client projects, while bucking old world views of authorship and agency-based assembly line production. Armed with cheap gear and accessible programs, they can design anything for anyone, wearing their voice proudly on their sleeves. Authors/designers/faculty ras+e--themselves a small, interdisciplinary team--explore this collaborative landscape with an overt sense of humor, original illustrations, custom typography, dozens of Q+As with a diverse range of contemporary practitioners, and buckets of bright red ink (0, 100, 100, 0). Because design theory needs an imp, this collection of accessible essays and tightly curated Q+As refuses to bore.

Perhaps you're new to the art of the selfie. If that's the case, be careful. 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 sixty-six rules, accompanied by sixty-six pictures.

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

For this game Paul Baars has selected a broad range of mind-boggling illusions from the famous classical ones to new illusions created by contemporary designers and artists. The goal of the game is to collect four cards that form one optical illusion.

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 his comments on why they are so good. George 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 graphic communication. If anyone wants to experience the creation of Big Idea Branding, this astounding compilation of his work is the ultimate form of clear, precise, eye-popping communication.

The only way to write a book is to write it. For writers and explorers of all levels, this is a guide and workspace. You'll be able to write about your time in any city, or a novel set in a city, or a book about a specific place.

This notebook 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. With prompts and activities, suggestions on structuring your book and enough blank pages in which to write it.

This notebook will help you unravel and bring to life any family drama. Here you'll find the inspiration to explore your own ancestry, write a vast family saga spanning generations, or tell the story of a wildly dysfunctional family. It will take you to surprising places and spark your imagination.

Smart Phones, Healthcare Robots, Wearable Computers and Self Driving Cars. They are arriving or already exists. We are becoming increasingly intimate with the machines that constantly count, control and watch the way we live. How can the growing world population of more than 7 billion people create a humane life for everyone? Let s find the errors and the holes in the technosphere that will give us space for free and creative thinking. What s at stake here is the remains of human agency. Let s use the brain pixels that are not taken yet. And Save the Humans! 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 technology 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?