Your Idea Starts Here: 77 Mind-Expanding Ways to Unleash Your Creativity

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Your Idea Starts Here: 77 Mind-Expanding Ways to Unleash Your Creativity
by Carolyn Eckert
Storey Publishing
2016, 224 pages, 5.1 x 7.2 x 0.9 inches
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Art director Carolyn Eckert originally wrote Your Idea Starts Here for artists and designers who needed a creative boost, but soon realized that the book can actually help any inventive soul. This hardcover pocket-sized book pops with fun images along with 77 exercises to dislodge the blockages that are damming up your creative juices. For instance, Exercise 19 suggests changing up your routine (inspired by a Steve Jobs practice). Exercise 35 says to Stop Whatever Youre Doing. In other words, If you were using blue, use orange. If its square, make it round

Interspersed between the idea-generating exercises are inspiring stories about inventions (such as the potato chip, Slinky, and windshield wipers) and what sparked them. More brainstorming tool than self-help book, Your Idea Starts Here is fun and simple yet super inspiring for anyone who looking for new ideas.