Design the Life You Love: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Meaningful Future
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (946 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1607748819 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Who else but a designer could give you the tools you need to examine your life and make it the best it can be?” – John Edelman, CEO, Design Within Reach “If you want to stoke someone’s imagination, give them a picture book. For anyone who is looking for an imaginative yet logical way to think through life's challenges, this is for you. Taking what she’s learned from product design, she has developed a fun, playful approach to designing a life you love. The designer Ayse Birsel proposes just that in her book Design the Life You Love: A Step-by-Ste
She has received numerous design awards, including the IDEA Gold Award, ID Magazine Excellence Award, and Athena Award for Excellence in Furniture Design from RISD. Her work is in the permanent collections of the MOMA and Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. She teaches at SVA and has taught at the Pratt Institute. . She is the co-founder of Birsel + Seck, an innovative design studio in New York tha
Design the Life You Love is a joyful, inspirational guide to building the life you’ve always wanted, using the principles and creative process of an award-winning product designer. Through four steps that reveal hidden skills and wisdom, anyone can design a life they love!. You can’t have everything, so you have to be creative to make what you want and what you need co-exist. An interactive journal that serves as a joyful, inspirational guide to building the life you've always dreamed of, using the principles and creative process of an award-winning product designer.Life, just like a design problem, is full of constraints -- time, money, age, location, and circumstances
Its a must have in my creative life toolbox! primeshopper I can't find the words to express how life changing this book has been. It made me realize that you can apply the same rules of design into about just everything in your life. Commit 15 minutes in the morning with this book daily start seeing your life as a metaphor, you will be asked to chisel away until you get the core of what makes you HAPPY. You'll use that information as a tool to sketch out what a life like that might look like. Manifestos, to-do lists, venn diagrams, oh my!!! - your life in doodles. Its FUN, its CREATIVE and its a great tool for GROWTH. Don't worry no hardcore draw. Tony D. said This is a great book. I've been reading performance psychology books for. This is a great book. I've been reading performance psychology books for years. This is a refreshing new idea in a subject area that is pretty diverse. Ayse takes you through a design process commonly used by product designers in order to help you visualize the structure of your life currently and where you want to take it. Most people that have read anything in this genre know about goal setting and such but this book takes you through the process of analysis using visual cues vice just lists of things to do. The exercises and concepts in this book are well worth your hard earned dollars.. What I like the most about this book is its simplicity - What I like the most about this book is its simplicity - it doesn't pretend to have all the answers but is full of right-brain and visualization exercises to jump start your creativity. If you're looking for a concrete, linear step-by-step guide on how to fix your career then this book may not be for you. If you're open-minded about change and deconstructing your life/goals/whatever else is going on, then this book is definitely worth a try.