I'm excited to share with you the cover for my first book, Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills, due out in November 2010 from HOW Design Press. Kudos to Grace Ring, the art director and designer at my publisher that put together this very sweet cover.
Pre-sales are now available on Amazon.com! Here's a few words about the book:
Have you ever struggled to complete a design project on time? Or felt that having a tight deadline stifled your capacity for maximum creativity? This book is for you.
Within these pages, you’ll find eighty creative challenges that will help you reach a breadth of innovative design solutions, in various media, within any set time period. By completing these challenges, you’ll round out your skills by exploring projects along the full continuum of design disciplines, from the bread and butter of branding and collateral to the wild world of advertising to the user-centered practices of creating interactive projects. Along the way, we’ll take brief forays into wayfinding, editorial design, video and motion graphics, and many other areas of our continually expanding practice.
To aid you in conquering these challenges, I’ll provide you with useful brainstorming techniques and strategies for success. By road-testing these techniques as you attempt each challenge, you’ll find new and more effective ways of solving tough design problems and bringing your solutions to life.
The book is illustrated by a range of professional designers, students, and teachers across all disciplines of design. When layout is finished, we'll be able to share the final list of those included.
If you want a taste of the material in advance, check out my presentation at the 2010 my talk at the HOW Design Conference entitled "Better Ideas Faster: How to Brainstorm More Effectively."
YAY!!! Can't wait to get my copy!!
Posted by: Jessica Thrasher | March 30, 2010 at 09:50 AM
It looks great, David. It must be so exciting for you to see it start to come to life!
Posted by: Michelle | March 30, 2010 at 10:04 AM
You are a great teacher. You have groundbreaking design skills.
Posted by: Meg Doyle | March 31, 2010 at 04:21 PM
I paid Meg to say that.
Posted by: David Sherwin | March 31, 2010 at 09:15 PM
yow ! fantastic !
Posted by: Kate | April 02, 2010 at 10:50 AM
Looks great David, excited to see it when it's finished!
Posted by: Grace Cheong | June 17, 2010 at 04:26 PM
Just got the book... Really eager to try these excercise out! Thank you David, for sharing your expertise with everyone:)
Posted by: Hillary | December 20, 2010 at 11:57 AM