Recommended Resources

Recommended Resources

Recommended Audio Podcasts

• The Tim Ferriss Show Tim Ferriss deconstructs world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, sports, business, art, etc.) to extract the tactics, tools, and routines you can use. This includes favorite books, morning routines, exercise habits, time-management tricks, and much more.

• _Unmistakeable Creative_Srini Rao interviews instigators, rebels, and people with a pathological inability to accept the status quo.

• Revision Path Maurice Cherry interviews designers, developers, and other creators of color weekly.

• _StartUp Podcast_StartUp is a podcast series about what it’s really like to get a business off the ground.

  • In Season 1, Alex Blumberg told the story of launching this business, Gimlet Media, a podcast network.

  • In Season 2, Lisa Chow joined Alex to follow an entirely new company: a company called Dating Ring, founded by two women in their 20s, outsiders in the male-dominated world of Silicon Valley.

  • In Season 3, rather than following one company over many episodes, they are telling stories about many companies that all have something in common: their companies are stuck, and they know they need to make a big change.

Recommended Books

Idea Generation

• Cracking Creativity by Michael Michalko

• Writing for Visual Thinkers: A Guide for Artists and Designers by Andrea Marks.

• IdeaSpotting: How to Find Your Next Great Idea by Sam Harrison

• IDEO method cards

• Steal like an Artist by Austin Kleon

• The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher

• Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques by Michael Michalko

• Thinkpak cards

Artists’ & Designers’ Processes

• Creativity: The Perfect Crime by Philippe Petit

• Lynch on Lynch by Chris Rodley

• MTIV: Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer by Hillman Curtis

• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

• The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp and Mark Reiter

• Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz

Business

• Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur

Design

• Designing for Interaction by Dan Safer

• Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis by Jon Kolko

• Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo

• Universal Methods of Design by Bella Martin and Bruce Hanington

Ethnography

• Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping by Paco Underhill

• AIGA’s Ethnography Primer (available free online)

• IDEO’s Human-centered Design Toolkit (available free online)

Sketching

• Blah Blah Blah by Dan Roam

• Unfolding The Napkin by Dan Roam

Mapping

• Web Redesign 2.0 | Workflow That Works by Kelly Goto & Emily Cotler

• How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody 1.0 Edition by Abby Covert

• Any Edward Tufte book

Prototyping

• Getting Real by 37Signals

• Show Your Work by Austin Kleon

Recommended Media

• Afrigadget

• Brown, Tim. “Design Thinking” Harvard Business Review. June 2008.

• Citizen Architect, Sam Mockbee & Rural Studio –http://video.pbs.org/program/1548466406

• Cognitive Media Process and Work (visual scribing / note-taking)

• Dan Roam: "Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don't Work" | Talks at Google

• "The Deep Dive," ABC's Nightline

• Designing Interactions Interviews

• Exit Through The Gift Shop by Banksy

• Found Magazine – http://foundmagazine.com

• Hillman Curtis artist films

• Lost Image Desk

• Make Magazine

• An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth by Bruce Mau