This work provides a 12-week course that guides the reader through the process of recovering their creative self. It aims to dispel the I'm not talented enough conditioning that tends to hamper the creativity of many people.

Intended for any designer or creative type who wants to quickly limber up their imagination on a daily basis, this book helps readers get into the creative zone, from which all their best work springs. It features an edgy sketchbook design for visual allure, 15-minute simple and conceptual exercises, and more.

AlterKnits is a collection of nearly 30 projects, each one introducing an alternative way of thinking about the construction and application of knitting. For example, some projects call for unusual materials (such as bracelets and necklaces knitted with leather and silver).

Looks at the history of advertising. This book covers online advertising, and gives you advertising guidance for traditional media and the possibilities of new media and technologies. It helps you learn why bad ads sometimes work, why great ads fail, and how you can balance creative work with the mandate to sell.

Whether you feel you have little talent and you doubt you could ever learn, or you enjoy drawing, but have not been able to get much beyond a childlike level, this book aims to give you the skill you have always wanted.

In SARK's New Creative Companion, you'll discover insight and suggestions for creating everyday magic in your life no matter what your everyday surroundings. You'll find stories, poems, and exercises that provide inspiration, self-reflection, and discovery - all cheerfully handwritten in SARK's trademark style and embellished with her vibrant illustrations. This book reminds you that it's never ..

This anthology brings together material from 38 well-known writers, artists and scientists who attempt to describe the process by which original ideas come to them.

A primer that puts the power of design in the hands of ordinary people.

Spolin's improvisational techniques have changed the very nature and practice of modern theatre. This third edition updates the more than 200 now-classic exercises and adds 30 new ones. It adds 30 traditional theatre games that are frequently used as warm-ups.

A sequel to The Artist's Way that presents the next step in Julia Cameron's course of discovering and recovering the creative self. Full of valuable strategies and techniques for breaking through new creative ground, this is the intermediate-level of the programme.

This is a pocket bible for the talented and timid to help make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible. Top advertising guru Paul Arden offers his wisdom on issues as diverse as problem solving, responding to a brief, communicating, playing your cards right, and making mistakes.

Mythic Structure for Writers. Christopher Vogler, one of Hollywood's most renowned story consultants and teachers, expands his vision to show how storytelling evolved from sacred rituals and how inexhaustible powers can be adapted to the needs of modern storytellers. Third edition.

A compelling book of the confessions and secrets from the PostSecret website - the project that captured a nation's imagination

LIVING JUICY is a jump for joy from the inside out, where Sark feeds her readers the juice to nourish their creative souls in the form of daily affirmations under weekly topics like Procrastination, Energizing, Adventuring, Aging, and Shouting. Sark's positive and creative affirmations are designed to stop those dry asnd cracked feelings and give us those sweet, wild moments we crave.

An inspirational handwritten and illustrated guide that teaches readers to open their lives to creativity and fulfilment by re-learning how to draw.

A graphic memoir from the man behind 'The Creative License' - who found salvation through art when his life was at its lowest point.

With insight, humour, and practicality, Natalie Goldberg inspires writers and would-be writers to take the leap into writing skilfully and creatively. She offers suggestions, encouragement, and solid advice on many aspects of the writer's craft: on writing from 'first thoughts', on listening, on using verbs, on overcoming doubts - even on choosing a restaurant in which to write. Goldberg sees ...

A collection of humorous drawings and observations by nomad artist and free spirit, Dan Price. It seeks to inspire would-be journal writers.