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You might have heard of the unicorn and the griffin, but what about the unifin? This fantastical flipbook collects together magical and mythical creatures from all over the world, then lets you mix and match their fronts and backs to create even more wondrous beasts of your own!

From the wolpertinger and the bakeneko to the kraken and the qilin, this mixed-up magical bestiary has over 1,000 possible creations to fascinate, bewitch and beguile.

Do you want to become a master in photography? Then, this is the book for you!

Using real photographs for inspiration, this fantastic new book features 20 exciting and instant photo challenges to help you create your own masterpieces. All you need is a camera and your super snapping skills. Learn how to be invisible, play with your food, stop time and much more!

Perfect for budding artists who want to learn the art of photography.

“Be A Super Awesome Photographer is filled with optimism and encouragement and I hope you will have a lot of fun doing each of the challenges.” – Traveling Curiosity

Ever wanted to be a superhero, but just didn’t know how to go about it? The Superhero Handbook features 20 exciting activities to help you develop your superhero powers. Choose your superhero name, discover your superpower, make your own superhero costume and gadgets, and much more!

Een informatief én komisch prentenboek over alle berensoorten op aarde. Leer meer over de 8 verschillende berensoorten en waarom de ene beer vegetarisch eet terwijl de andere beer zijn neus ervoor ophaalt. Wie is de beste klimmer, waarom houdt de Amerikaanse beer van kamperen en nog veel meer.

In the company of Felicity the cat, discover the phases of the moon, the constellations and how to spot the Northern Lights and the Milky Way.

This beautiful, fun book will introduce you to the beauty of the night sky and show you the stars like you’ve never seen them before.

Few themes in history have had as strong a hold on people’s imagination. Fewer still have managed to alter the course of civilization.

This is Charles Allen’s definitive account of the Aryans, offering a grand sweep of language, mythology, contested histories and conflict. Spanning continents, cultures and societies: from the Russian steppe to the Indus valley, the Iliad to the Mahabharata, Greek to Sanskrit, Putin to Trump, and Müller to Vivekananda, Aryans astonishes with its scope. Allen, true to a style that has endeared him to a legion of admirers, weaves a narrative that is startling and illuminating.

The product of a great investigation and meticulous scholarship, Aryans, Allen’s last book, is his crowning achievement and marks the end of an illustrious career.

In Boom Country, Alan Rosling, entrepreneur and strategic advisor in India for over 35 years, explores an unmistakeable and profound change that is underway in the Indian business landscape. A fresh wave of enterprise and start-ups; rapid advancements in technology; government reform; and recently developed pools of risk capital, he holds, are contributing increasingly to a massive expansion in new business – all of it underpinned by a deep social change, a willingness to ‘do things differently’, especially among the young. Drawing upon his own experiences and more than 100 interviews with Indian entrepreneurs – representing traditional leading business houses (Tata, Mahindra, Birla and Godrej), established first-generation entrepreneurs (Sunil Mittal, Kishore Biyani and Narayana Murthy, among others) and new-generation start-ups (including Sachin Bansal, Bhavish Aggarwal and Vijay Shekhar Sharma) – as well as forces of the government, Rosling provides an incisive and in-depth analysis of the opportunities and challenges, both traditional and contemporary, of doing business in India. Yet, the growing uncertainty of global trends and India’s own record of under-performing despite its massive potential, lead him to one vital question : Can the current upsurge in entrepreneurial activity – imperfect and early as it may be – really reshape India’s economy and propel it towards becoming a true boom country for new enterprise?

In Mindset to Startup, you’ll go on an enlightening journey that transcends the conventional boundaries of entrepreneurship. Naguib invites readers to explore the true essence of entrepreneurship, going beyond the pursuit of profit.

With insights drawn from 10,000 hours of mentoring founders, Naguib offers a highly experienced perspective, emphasizing the significance of value literacy to attain tangible progress on the uncertain journey of entrepreneurship. The book delves into the latent entrepreneur within each of us. Using real-life examples, Naguib illustrates how the entrepreneurial journey isn’t merely a binary tale of success or failure but a continuous path of growth. By interweaving the entrepreneurial mindset with practical startup guidance, he presents a completely new and revolutionary approach to entrepreneurship: the Braided Journey.

This book is like a warm conversation with a trusted mentor, making it a valuable resource for aspiring founders, seasoned entrepreneurs, and mentors alike. Explore the profound essence of entrepreneurship and its potential to make a meaningful impact in the world.

In this unique memory game, fonts take centre stage. Actually it is three games in one. Match the same letters, each with a unique font. Or select pairs of the same typeface. Moreover, these fonts can be used as letterboxes to form your favourite words: love, play, or your name. The box includes a leaflet with information about all the special fonts.

This visually stunning game guarantees both fun and education. Playful Type Memory is an excellent form of entertainment for families, but it will also undoubtedly delight font enthusiasts.

As we enter an era where AI and sensor-driven interfaces redefine our interaction with technology, ‘Interface Design’ emerges as an indispensable guide for crafting physical and digital interfaces. This book transcends mere technicalities, offering a unique conceptual approach to discussing and designing user interactions – an invaluable asset for those looking to innovate in the field.

Beginning with foundational principles, ‘Interface Design’ delves into practical case studies and explores future trends, particularly the evolving role of AI in design. It’s a crucial read for product designers, engineers, software developers, students, and professionals looking to understand the nuanced balance of control in device design and the intent behind user interfaces. In essence, ‘Interface Design’ serves as a powerful lens to view and shape the future of interaction. It challenges and inspires a broad range of designers to create interfaces that resonate with users and adapt to the dynamic landscape of technology.

Creating with Nature is a thoughtfully designed deck of cards, crafted to ignite new ways of thinking and doing by reconnecting with the natural world.

Nature’s role in enhancing creativity and wellbeing has been recognized for centuries, but is more crucial now than ever before. This deck is an invitation for artists, creators, and problem solvers to reconnect with the outdoors, nurture their creative selves, and view creative challenges in a fresh light. Whether you’re tackling a specific project, seeking to break through a creative block, or guiding a brainstorming session, Creating with Nature offers invaluable inspiration.

It’s not just for structured projects; these cards can also be integrated into daily life, serving as a tool to create moments of reflection, rejuvenation, and care for your creative spirit.

Lie Like an Artist is about mastering the art of communication, drawing inspiration from how artists convey profound truths in engaging and memorable ways.

This book addresses a common challenge: the frustration that comes from miscommunication. By adopting the techniques of artists – who expertly dramatize and exaggerate to capture attention and convey messages – you’ll learn to clarify your thoughts and express your ideas in ways that truly resonate and stick in people’s minds.

A perfect guide for anyone aspiring to elevate their communication skills, the book invites you to transform the way you express your thoughts and ideas, reshaping your communication into an art form.

Get ready to rock your world with ‘Rock your Life,’ a virtual treasure trove of geological fun and facts.

The card deck consists of 50 cards, with each card spotlighting a different stone’s story, from ancient lore to modern marvels. For instance, did you know that obsidian was a portal to the supernatural for the Maya? Or that ancient Greeks believed clear quartz to be solidified ice? Or that amber has been used as a medicine for over 12,000 years? Whatever qualities of precious stones you admire most, this deck of cards certainly has some new insights for you. The deck comes with a specially designed leaflet with even more background info.

In short, the perfect gift for gem enthusiasts, budding geologists, or anyone who loves a good adventure.

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are currently making a dynamic appearance in the architectural realm. Social media are being bombarded by word-to-image/image-to-image/word-to-3D/image-to-3D illustrations of fictive buildings generated by 2D or 3D AI algorithms. However, these ‘designs’, while visually appealing, have initiated a debate about their substance and the impact they have on conventional design methods. This book investigates the integration of generative AI-assisted methods into architectural design education and practice, its influence on design aesthetics, and its potential to enhance creativity and critical thinking in the architectural community.

The book highlights the advantages and challenges of the utilisation of AI image generator tools in the architectural design process. It includes 10-12 hands-on case studies on how AI can contribute to a creative design process as well as handbook instructions on how to utilise AI in order to achieve the required results.

Collage to Change the World is not just a book; it’s a revolution in paperback. This extraordinary collage activity book is designed for everyone, from budding artists to seasoned creatives, aged 16 to 90.

The book maintains a positive tone, encouraging readers to adopt a critical, optimistic outlook. In this book, you will: Explore the origins and evolution of collage art. Gain invaluable tips, tricks, and step-by-step instructions.

Discover influential artists who are paving the way. Find beautiful material to work with including 29 beautiful backgrounds and inspiring cut-out images. Collage to Change the World requires no prior knowledge, just a willingness to engage and create. It’s a unique combination of learning, practice, and activism, all bound together.

Whether you want to reflect on your surroundings, advocate for change, or simply explore your creative side, this book is your guide to making a visual impact on the world.

Are you a female entrepreneur aiming to reach your highest potential? Then this is the book you need!

Authored and designed by Abigail and Chloe Baldwin-dynamic twin sisters and successful business owners-this book unveils a unique roadmap to building confidence and a strong personal brand. Drawing from their own entrepreneurial journey, the Baldwins intertwine personal anecdotes with a practical branding framework. Emphasizing teamwork, personal growth, and strategic business development, it offers ten actionable strategies for women to enhance their brand and elevate their business. Follow their framework, and you’re not just boosting your profile-you’re transforming your revenue.

Only a small percentage of change programs in organizations are successful. Too often, companies rely upon top-down communication campaigns that tell or show employees about change, but don’t involve them actively, emotionally or holistically.

Transformation Tactics is a deck of 48 cards designed to help organizations activate the behaviours of their people. These are experiences that activate employee behaviours, promote reflection, and encourage employees to share their insights. The cards are based on eight design principles for activation that have been developed and refined by the authors over three decades of work with companies around the world. Each card includes a title, a story to bring the tactic to life, guidance for applying the tactic to a change program, and a question to spark conversation and inspire breakthrough solutions. The cards can be used in a variety of settings, including change management team meetings, brainstorming sessions, and design workshops.

A little book about the big and overwhelming issues humanity is dealing with.

Taking economics as a surprising stepping stone, it connects the dots between essential developments in science, history, sociology, technology, design and culture. It is not a book about terrifying numbers, but about key stories from our past and present and how they affect our future. How do we as creatives help create the world we want? The ‘ToDon’tList-Method’, which featured in this book’s two predecessors, unveils a surprising truth: sometimes, the best action is inaction. This book gives you insight into how simple choices affect the manner in which we designed and can redesign our world. As a creative, you could have a greater effect not by adding more, but by thoughtfully subtracting. You may not be able to change the world completely, but there are things you can control.

This book gives the creative reader an easy-to-apply philosophy that helps them make choices. Sometimes, the outcome may be that it’s best to do nothing – if you want to save the world.

Agile practices have become the backbone of large companies, but Scrum Masters often grapple with the challenge of establishing and sustaining high performance.

That’s where this book comes in: The Little Book of Agile Wisdom is a distinctive and practical guide tailored for Scrum Masters and passionate Agile practitioners. Within its pages, you’ll encounter 66 carefully selected quotes organized into six thematic areas. Each quote is complemented by an appropriate image and interpretation, enriched by the author’s own experiences. Additionally, every quote is accompanied by a hands-on team exercise, bridging the gap between theory and tangible outcomes.

Consider this book your secret weapon for fostering a thriving Agile culture within your team. It is designed for easy consumption, allowing you to absorb valuable insights at your own pace, making it an indispensable resource for your Agile journey.

Designers are visual thinkers: they are used to sketches, not drafts, and rely on visuals instead of words. As a result, writing is a strange skill for a designer, leading to blank-page anxiety and procrastination. But no more! This book helps designers overcome the challenge of communicating with words. It introduces a writing method that fits how designers think, guiding them in clarifying thoughts, breaking down complex ideas into manageable pieces, and using writing to spark new ideas. Writing is a communication problem at its core: the writer knows something the reader doesn’t and must show it using words. So, like design, writing should be simple, clear, and precise. By mastering the craft of writing, designers shape more than just sentences; they shape thoughts. Writing is a journey into harnessing the human mind’s ability to generate insights. And while writing may look like a skill, it’s a creative superpower, and – thanks to his book – one anyone can master!

Get a deeper understanding of the brilliance and limitations of AI, our added human value on creativity and the future of work in the creative industry.

The creative industry is rapidly evolving due to the rise of artificial intelligence. Some fear that the increase in machine-learning technologies could end human creativity. Seema Sharma, a renowned creative director at one of the world’s largest independent communication agencies, believes the future of the creative industry lies in collaboration between human creators and machines.

The book “The New Creatives,” which Sharma co-authored with Artificial Intelligence, offers a ground-breaking exploration of the changes to come. The authors examine the skills, processes, and work ethics that AI will affect and discuss the emotional and economic value of creativity in this new landscape. They explore the potential disappearance of certain jobs, the changing dynamics of client relationships and discuss the currency of creativity in the age of AI. The book also sheds light on new roles emerging in the industry and elaborates on the new formats that will become necessary.

The quintessential handbook on ‘how to’ co-design.

In recent years, co-design has become something of a buzzword. While the term has gained in popularity, its true meaning and practical implementations are not widely understood. Existing resources, such as co-design toolkits, are freely available online but tend to be highly specialised and template-driven, limiting their usefulness for diverse contexts.

The team behind “The Art of Co-Design” conducted a thorough review of existing co-design toolkits and created a comprehensive resource that provides a holistic understanding of co-design, its methods, and applications.

This book examines the core steps in developing and delivering projects, from creatively designing the co-design itself to understanding how it can work best for different stakeholder groups to analysing results correctly and producing effective prototypes. Consider this book the ultimate guide on ‘how to’ co-design.

Are you interested in making a positive social impact? In his book Society Driven Design, Judah Armani explains the role of design in community development and the designer’s role in social change.

Based on Armani’s decades-long experience in social innovation, the book offers a framework for cultivating the conditions for social change. Armani is a designer and educator who draws from almost twenty years of co-creating with people who are homeless, incarcerated, or on probation. He believes that everyone has the potential to make better choices, and he sees the design process as a powerful tool for empowerment. His book is a reflection of his journey, and with it, he aims to empower a broader community to make better choices through design. Are you a service designer, social entrepreneur, innovation lead at a charity, or policymaker interested in making a positive social impact?

Society Driven Design teaches you how design can foster social change and community development.