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| Caffeine for the Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain | 
 enlarge | Authors: Stefan Mumaw, Wendy Lee Oldfield
Publisher: How
Category: Book
List Price: $16.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 6975
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 359
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5 x 1.2
ISBN: 1581808674
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.35
EAN: 9781581808674
ASIN: 1581808674
Publication Date: October 2, 2006
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Book Description
Packed Full of 15-Minute Creativity Sparking Exercises *Chock-full of useful exercises designed to help readers tap into a daily creative buzz
*Features an edgy sketchbook design (by the authors) for visual allure
*Appeals to anyone looking for easy ways to jump start their creativity For any designer or creative type who wants to quickly limber up their imagination on a daily basis, Wired helps readers get into the creative zone, from which all their best work springs. Packed with 15-minute simple and conceptual exercises, this guide will have readers reaching for markers, pencils, digital cameras, and more in order to develop a working and productive creative mindset.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 If You're Not a Graphic Designer, This book is not for you August 28, 2008
I'm a hobbyist and thought this book would be good to help me out of my creative rut sometimes. Most of the exercises applied to people working in a creative field, not those that are creative in their spare time.
Not for Graphic Design May 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
After reading the reviews and product description, I was looking forward to some fresh activities that would inspire some creativity for Graphic Design projects that I work on constantly. So when the book arrived I flipped through scanning activities and quotes to get a feel for the book and what it had to offer. I was surprised. To my disappointment this book almost had nothing to do with Graphic Design. It was filled with activities that lent themselves more to Elementary school creative activities -Build something out of "_", describe your favorite "_" without using the words like or as. The book design itself even became tough to read as well with various typefaces, multiple type sizes scattered through the pages. In conclusion not what I was looking for.
 Caffeine for the Creative Mind May 8, 2008
Both my daughter (a regional marketing analyst) and I (a high school graphics design teacher) share several graphic design texts, and we are very satisfied this text as reference.
Creative, but lacking in substance April 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book read more like a long marketing piece about how awesome the book is. Littered with quotes from people who obviously found previous editions useful, it just gets in the way of what I think it was built to do - excite and energise creative thought.
Some exersices are useful, some are good fun, but a lot are rather plain and boring. If you have no imagination at all, this book may be a useful kick-start to any brain storming or creative session. I would suggest that it might be useful for school teachers too - as some of the ideas leverage a lot of imagination which kids would be great at.
On the good side, the typographic treatment of the content is exciting and inspiring, each page has something new to look at and read, if nothing else it's a nice example of how unconventinal type treatment can enhance an otherwise bland book.
Awesome Find! September 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
On first view (size and inside design) I was not impressed!
I took a few minutes to review the pages and I was sold! I took the book home and dove right into the exercises that span 6 types of activities! My son, who wants to be a designer @ 16, completed some of the projects until midnight!
I love this book, the breakdown of the projects in the back and the interviews inspire even rookie designers and reignite the fire of the design practitioner. It is a breakdown of the the elements of creativity, including writing projects, design, writing, and problem solving!
Enjoy!
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