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This is a good guide for a sustainable lifestyle. It’s as simple as that. Would you like to live more sustainable, but without putting a lot of time, effort or money into it? Then this is your book. It’s filled with practical and positive tips on fashion, beauty, food, home, work, travel and leisure, and shows that stylish and sustainable go very well together. And especially that’s about good, not perfect: about smart choices, doing what you can and what suits you. With this modern handbook, sustainable fashion and lifestyle expert Marieke Eyskoot makes green living fun and doable. The right addresses, beautiful labels, great places, surprising facts and handy solutions – exactly what you need. Because doing good and feeling good at the same time: this is what everyone is looking for.

"Creativity+ is the perfect launch point for anyone looking to better understand how creativity can be used no matter where you work. Learning should always be this much!" - Theresa Smout, Office of the Special Envoy of the United Nations Creativity+ is a toolkit that gives you the keys to unlock your curiosity, questioning skills and creative forces. It is more than a toolkit that helps you achieve your aims, Creativity+ is a philosophy for infusing creative thinking in all aspects of your life, supported by practical tools to bring your ideas to fruition. Divided into the four phases of innovation (Vision, Discovery, Ideation and Momentum), you are provided with the Mindset (attitudes), Skillset (knowledge), Toolset (techniques) and a supporting Case Study that gives a real-life example of these skills in action. Navigate easily through the colour-coded phases in this flip board design - because the creative process is iterative, sometimes you have to step back in order to leap forward.

Whatever kind of creative you are, this game will get you out of your comfort zone. This mind experiment game based on the ‘ToDon’tList Method’ stimulates creativity through limitation. How to play You take 3 “Do” cards that define a unique imaginary project. You need to come up with a solution for this project. But you also get 3 “Don’t” cards, which give you a set of rules. For Example Don’t: Don’t use any other forms than squares | Don’t make the height less than 3 times the width | Don’t use less than 2 colours Do : Create clothing that is also a landmark | For two persons | To become more productive Don’t: Don’t use straight shapes | Don’t make the size static | Don’t use non-recyclable material The “Do” and “Don’t” cards make you think differently than you normally would. In the beginning, the rules might feel like a big obstacle. But once you start playing, you will see that limitations also give you possibilities. Rules make you think about loopholes. Play the game by yourself to get inspired, use it as a conversation starter or play it in teams to find out who comes up with the most surprising solution. The outcome could even be the beginning of a real project! ‘Don’t/Do This’ picks up where the book ‘Don’t Read This Book ? Time Management for Creative People’ leaves off. Like the book, the game is based on the ‘ToDon’tList Method’: the more you subtract, the more focus and time you gain.

By enhancing your ability to identify connections, you can enhance your creativity. This exercise book especially for kids strengthens their ability to recognize connections. The exercises are based on the theory of the book The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker , as well as observations in neuroscience, and seventy years of creativity studies. This exercise book is based on a dynamic balance of theory, technique, and exercises, it’s a practical hands-on workbook. It’s the perfect outlet to get your hands dirty and dive into exercises that strengthen one’s ability to see and make connections. This book is for those seeking to enhance their creativity. It can be used to: - Develop one’s creative capacity - Train underlying mechanisms in creative thinking - Enrich educational purposes - Increase idea production. Litlle Creative Thinker’s Exercise Book is for kids that are eager to indulge in exercises to enhance their innate creativity by identifying connections.

There are many thorough books about design approaches - methodologies and instruments. Central goal is to design a good solution, in various forms such as products, services and interactions. These books pay less attention to the question how to establish a design process within organizations, especially within those that are unfamiliar with (and sometimes even hostile towards) a design approach, so that a solutions eventually gets implemented. Designers collectively experience that a well-designed solution by itself does not lead to the intended change. Designers are often taken by surprise when they meet resistance during the design process, or when they deliver their proposals. In order to make them more successful, we need to design the context that facilitates the design process and its outcomes. The last six years I have built up a practice with designing with and within the public sector - including public-private partnerships. I learned that design approaches put current approaches about change management, project management and collaborating to the test - and vice versa. In all phases of the design process, from contracting an assignment, to empathic research, to reframing and prototyping, we need new sets of playing rules and perhaps even a new language to successfully apply design. In our projects, this is a designated role, we describe as the 'context-builder'. This book shares the lessons we have learned. My ambition is to deepen the knowledge about design within the public sector. I think this is an important challenge, since a large number of public institutions all over the world are currently experimenting with design. This brings about a lot of enthusiasm, but also disappointment, when process nor outcome can be integrated in the primary processes of the organizations involved.

Perhaps, as customers, or as service providers, we don’t understand services as much as we think we do. Services are such integral parts of the daily of individuals and organizations that a day without paying for or providing them is inconceivable. They come in so many different “shapes and sizes”, we have difficulty defining them. Many are so intangible, always and everywhere, we don’t even realize they’re there until they fail. The universe of services is expanding faster than ever creating new problem new kinds of services, and along with it, new modes of failure exposing us to unexpected costs and risks. Even simple services are dynamic and complex in the way supply meets demand to fulfill a promise. Therefore, when services fail to meet expectations because their design is simplistic or superficial, we’re even more disappointed. This book is about having new eyes and new perspectives for exploring the universe of services, grasping their realities, and deepening our understanding of them; what services really are, what they could be, and why they even exist. Narrowing down on the true nature of services, broadens the possibilities for design. With simple drawings, symbols, and a few extraordinary words, this book introduces the basis of a design language for services. Anyone can learn this language, with a little bit of curiosity, imagination, and quiet time. You do not need a degree in economics, biology, or computer science.

Scientists say half the work we do could soon be done by robots. Creativity is the number one skill that keeps you relevant on the job market. And even if science would be wrong, we still have an interest to develop it: it's big fun. In Creativity Works! the authors explain what creativity is and why we are less creative than we would like to be. It turns out to be a matter of how your brains work and how school treats kids. And there is one more enemy: the f*ckoff gnome that must be killed. In this book you'll learn what basic skills you can practice to become creative and how a smart creative process can be designed and executed. From the formulation of a good starting question to research methods that will give you great inspiration and insights and from smart divergent thinking to brilliant idea judgment tools: it's all in there, Furthermore, Creativity Works! gives you great instructions to successfully prototype and sell your ideas, solutions and concepts. Let's beat the robot and work happily ever after!

PRODUCTS THAT FLOW is an unusual book about common things that surround us every day. Fast-moving consumer goods, such as food, packaging, disposables, fashion, cheap gifts and gadgets. How can we deal with this huge amount of products in a more sustainable way? Our main challenge is to slow down and make our products last longer. Then we have to organize the flow and design our products in such a way that they can be easily transported and recycled or to render it harmless. This book offers a wide range of practical examples and points different ways to managing the flows that currently often are out of control. It is a field of concern that many share and for that reason is destined to turn into fertile soil for improvement. It is an important extension to the book PRODUCTS THAT LAST and goes beyond the point where design and entrepreneurship tend to come to a halt.

The Visual Doing Workbook is connected to the Visual Doing book. It's a pre-printed sketchbook in which you see things printed in grey, after which you're invited to copy or trace the drawings or add things to them, through how-to's and examples.

The Visual Thinking Workbook is connected to the Visual Thinking book. It's a pre-printed sketchbook in which you see things printed in grey, after which you're invited to copy or trace the drawings or add things to them, through how-to's and examples. Possible workbook examples VISUAL THINKING: emotion & interactions, people going places VISUAL THINKING: typografie & connection elements VISUAL THINKING: visual interview VISUAL DOING: (facilitate) customer journeys VISUAL DOING: facilitation templates VISUAL DOING: (facilitate) strategy and change sessions VISUAL DOING: scrum, agile and sprinting

How do you decide what you will do today - and what you won't do? There simply isn't time to realise every brilliant idea and to execute every little task. And as we cannot create extra time, we need to make choices. The To Don't List is a notebook and planner that helps you make those choices, whether they concern your daily tasks, your new projects or even your professional or creative life. It gives you the gift of simplicity: Just make a list for your life/work/project/year/month/day and throw out everything after the 3rd item. It will give you time and focus. The author used the To Don't List concept a lot in his studio while brainstorming, developing new ideas or working on projects: "That's a good idea, but let's put it on the To Don't List for now." In that way, he kept his focus on his goals. The To Don't List concept became a method, and the method became the inspiration for writing Don't Read This Book. Like the Don't/Do This - Game, the To Don't List is an addition to the ToDon't--Family.

Visual thinking is hot! Agile, scrum, lean-startup and design thinking are widespread examples of new methods using visual thinking in their way of working. We see walls full of epics, stories, tasks and colored post-its. Companies are changing and in order to adapt to these quickly changing circumstances companies need to be flexible and fast in order to keep up. This calls for new tools. Visual Doing teaches you how to use these tools properly and increases your visual craftsmanship. It's a practical guide to incorporate visual thinking into your daily business and communication, picking up where the previous book Visual Thinking left off. A great new range of exercises, techniques and subjects help you tell your own visual story. We approach the subjects from different perspectives: 'me as an individual', 'we as a team' and 'us as a company'. Simplify complex information, show innovative strategies or start a visual culture within your organization. Learn how to show and share your ideas in a fun, clear and attractive way so you can inspire, engage and activate yourself and others. We introduce the power of VISUAL THINKING and DOING and make this as natural behavior as speaking and writing. Everytime, anywhere. Enjoy your skills!

In 101 short columns, Inspiration for Innovation offers practical insights and tips on you to become a successful innovator. In an inviting and jargon-free tone, this book inspires, surprises and teaches you how to be an innovator bit by bit. With the use of an expedition metaphor, it shows the key elements achieving a strategic mindset: timing, breaking patterns, understanding customers, creating a culture for innovation, and implementing innovation projects successfully. It's a wonderfully designed book to inspire yourself or to buy as a gift for other people. The 101 lessons in this book make you dream, think and act like a successful innovator.

Have you ever wondered how you can research the future? Trend research is a powerful method to detect and recognise change at an early stage. This DIY guide has been developed to show you the way in the trend research cycle. It will help you to find direction and which corners to take when you are scanning, analysing and applying the trends for any type of challenge or topic. This guide is linked to be used in combination with the book How to Research Trends by the same author. You can use it to challenge yourself or your team to 'learn-by-doing'. For easy usage, the guide follows the same structure as the book and it has the same colour coding and signage navigation. Don't just read How to Research Trends, get yourself into the action mode! The guide is not linear, it does not have to be followed step-by-step in a rigid manner. You can create your own itinerary. Use it whenever you feel you the need for guidance or inspiration.

Experience Design, the enterprise of creating immersive worlds around people seems to be the biggest star in todays marketing firmament. No other medium is more promising in connecting people to stories, places and ideas. What is the story behind this movement? How did it evolve and what is the best way of navigating in this sector? In this revealing book, two pioneers reconstruct the past 25 years, showing how constructed experience came to be central in our lives. They arrive at an original conclusion: immersive experience design is not just the latest new media extension. It is related to our way of being, of finding our way in life. When used in the right way, it serves as an instrument for massive, multi agent change. The Art of Wonder not only gives a thorough analysis of the psychological foundations of Experience Design and its rise into cultural and commercial realms, it also provides practical tips for how to build engaging worlds for your audiences. Larded with the light hearted history of their own XD-firm, one gets more than a feel for this way of work. From museums to theme parks and from A-brands to governments, Experience Design (XD) is paramount in today’s creative industry. Imagination is becoming the ultimate canvas for connecting people to brands, stories, and places. It will be of interest to all students and professionals active in experience design, including their bosses and clients. Since the book contains a first person account of discovering what XD is, it will function as a companion for designers and senior managers alike, since a growing segment of todays’ bigger organizations launches experiential marketing initiatives, posing new questions to their Marketing & Communication departments.

Food Futures will radically alter your ideas about consuming and producing food. Food designer Chloé Rutzerveld questions and explores new food production technologies and translates multidisciplinary research into future food scenarios. This book explains her thoughts, process and work, which is often described as provocative, cheeky and playful - inspiring and involving consumers in the discussion about potential food futures. Follow the conceptualization of completely edible, 'mini vegetable gardens' with crispy plants and mushrooms, that become a full meal after being printed by a 3D printer. Engage in a quest for a new eating system in which we digest 100% of the nutrients we take in (instead of the current 75%) by breeding bacteria that are harvested into capsules (that also look, taste ánd smell good). Or get cooking yourself with the recipe for a healthy, typically Dutch 'stroopwafel' a recipe derived from her project STROOOP! in which she dives into the natural sweetness of root vegetables. Start exploring, cooking and fantasizing about what we are going to eat in the future.