Author: Terry Taylor
Publisher: Lark Books
Keywords: recycling, bin, projects, inventive, books, eco
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-10-06
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1600593941
ISBN-13: 9781600593949
Here are projects for the “pages”: 40 innovative book-making ideas using recycled and green materials! More than just earth-friendly, they’re also beautiful, clever, and witty, stitched with traditional binding techniques. Egg cartons, wood, beer cans, and cassette tapes morph into covers, while brown bags, coffee filters, and discarded newspapers are transformed into pages. Create a boxed set of cereal box books, an exposed stitch sketchbook out of cardboard and remnants, and even a faux leather journal made from teabags.In addition to how-to drawings, close-up detail photographs, and
Author: Taylor Hagerty
Publisher: Lark Books
Keywords: projects, inventive, cuts, paper
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2010-01-05
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 160059512X
ISBN-13: 9781600595127
This modern approach to the age-old art will dazzle crafters of all skill levels. Long a folk-art tradition in cultures the world over, paper cutting has become the new darling of the fashion and design worlds. Paper Cuts hops on the trend, drawing on a variety of cultures, bringing together today’s top artists. The result is a collection of 35 smart, fresh, and contemporary projects for crafters, including party ware, centerpieces, ornaments, cards, and more.
Author: Michael A. Orloff
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: guide, practical, triz, thinking, inventive
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-07-28
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 3540332227
ISBN-13: 9783540332220
This is the second edition of the Michael Orloff’s successful practical introduction to TRIZ (Theory of Innovative Problem Solving) - a strategy and method for breaking out of rigid thought patterns to achieve truly creative engineering solutions. Gerry Altshuller, originator of TRIZ in the former Soviet Union, devoted his career to convincing engineers that TRIZ turns inventing into a controllable and systematic process. In this book, Michael Orloff , Altshuller’s former student, continues its algorithmic development and shows how to put TRIZ into action. Enabling readers to search for an
Authors:Jeff Mauzy, Richard A. Harriman,
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: organization, inventive, building, inc, creativity
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-04-16
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1578512077
ISBN-13: 9781578512072
Fostering Companywide Creativity Innovations, by definition, change and improve the status quo. Mostly, they do so in small ways, such as a twist on an already existing idea. But when they do so in big ways—such as a new idea altogether—innovations can catapult the inventing company years ahead of competitors. Those kinds of innovations—from the wheel to the assembly line, from the pen to the PC—are born of creativity. And many companies are allowing this critical wellspring to run dry. In Creativity, Inc., Jeff Mauzy and Richard Harriman marshal forty years of research into how
Authors:Robert J. Weber, David N. Perkins,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: technology, creativity, minds, inventive
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1992-11-26
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0195071700
ISBN-13: 9780195071702
Is invention really "99 percent" perspiration and "one percent inspiration" as Thomas Edison assured us? Inventive Minds assembles a group of authors well equipped to address this question: contemporary inventors of important new technologies, historians of science and industry, and cognitive psychologists interested in the process of creativity. In telling their stories, the inventors describe the origins of such remarkable devices as ultrasound, the electron microscope, and artificial diamonds. The historians help us look into the minds of innovators like Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bel
Author: Mark Montano
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Keywords: cool, homes, yours, projects, inventive, book, home, decor, ass
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2010-04-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 1584798254
ISBN-13: 9781584798255
You have a problem. Your current home décor” is ugly, shabby, and boring, but you can’t afford lots of new stuff. Or maybe your house is filled with tired old junk that you just can’t bear to throw away. Or maybe you bought all your furniture at a big box store, but it irritates you that it all looks like you bought it there. You have a solutionor, rather, a whole houseful of solutions. In this newest Big-Ass Book, do-it-yourself guru Mark Montano presents 105 practical, simple, and decidedly unboring projects for every space in your home. Montano’s wizardryaccomplished with ma
Author: Clive Priddle
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Keywords: future, inventive, imposters, classics, lines, sequel, first, book
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-05-30
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0786747811
ISBN-13: 9780786747818
After the last page is turned and the cover closed on a great book, is it really over? Ever wonder what happens to Harry Potter after, say, twenty years of marriage and a steady government gig? Or what Karl Marx would say about today’s financial crisis? What did Scarlett O’Hara really think about tomorrow? What comes after ’’ever after?’’ BOOK: The Sequel dares to answer these burning questions with imagined first sentences from would-be follow-ups to classics from The Bible to Lord of the Rings, and from Green Eggs to Hamlet. A delicious and unexpected ret
