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Your Idea Starts Here

77 Mind-Expanding Ways to Unleash Your Creativity
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Your Idea Starts Here by Carolyn Eckert is a creative guide designed to ignite innovative thinking and inspire new ideas. It provides practical advice and techniques to stimulate creativity, helping readers to overcome mental blocks and explore their full creative potential. The book serves as a resource for anyone looking to turn their imaginative sparks into tangible concepts.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy exploring creative processes and want practical inspiration to jump-start your innovative thinking. The book is filled with insights and visually engaging content, making it perfect for those who appreciate a blend of guidance and stimulation on their path to personal development and creativity.

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Your Idea Starts Here

For everyone who wishes to be a bit more creative in daily life, Your Idea Starts Here offers 75 practical, proven techniques and exercises for jump-starting creative thinking, presented in a stimulating, highly visual format.

For everyone who-wishes to be a bit more creative in daily life, Your Idea Starts Here offers 75 practical, proven techniques and exercises for jump-starting creative thinking, presented in a stimulating, highly visual format.

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Your Idea Starts Here is a 2016 Silver Nautilus Award Winner for Creative Process. In our tech-ruled world, where change is happening faster and faster, the ability to think creatively, flexibly, and quickly is more important than ever.

Graphic designer Carolyn Eckert presents 77 specific questions, techniques, and exercises cleverly combined with fascinating infographics and other visuals to jump-start creative thinking.

Don't know what you want your project to be? Make a list of things you don't want it to be. Wondering where to start? Say one word that relates to your idea and invite a friend to say another word that relates to yours. See where five or ten rounds take you.

Work within a time limit, look in unexpected places, think tiny, do the opposite, shuffle your papers, and explore your creativity to the fullest! There’s something here to inspire and strengthen every smart idea, all in an innovative little book that makes a perfect gift for anyone, including yourself.

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Your Idea Starts Here by Carolyn Eckert is praised for sparking creativity and encouraging readers to explore familiar and unfamiliar perspectives. The book is noted for its lively and unexpected prompts, blending compelling storytelling with striking visuals. It's described as a motivational guide to unearthing hidden genius and finding inspiration through visually rich and artful content.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781612127798

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 May 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC

Illustration: Full-color; photographs and il

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 180.0mm

Weight: 400g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Carolyn Eckert is an art director with more than 20 years experience designing books, magazines, logos, advertisements, and telephone operating systems. A BFA graduate of The Rhode Island School of Design, she s trained numerous graphic designers and has been a design consultant for classes at Smith College, Amherst College, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course. She lives and works in western Massachusetts.

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