Creativity

The arrival of the Android smartphone is a revolution in the compact camera field: not the phone in your pocket is a powerful creative tool, with the digital processing power to turn any photo into something truly unique.

This book takes the fun-and-free spirit of Lomography, and applies it to the camera that's already in your pocket. 

Create your own toys, remote controllers, alarms, detectors, robots, and many other projects with the Arduino device.

This simple microcontroller board lets artists and designers build a variety of amazing objects and prototypes that interact with the physical world.

With this cookbook you can dive right in and experiment with more than a hundred tips and techniques, no matter what your skill level is.

Searching to find a project to to spend quality time with the chips of the ol’ block?

Check this out, a book of 25 awesome project guides, ranging from simple (5 minutes) to challenging (a full weekend). The book includes directions to make a tight BMX ramp, tree house, tire swing, and more, all using materials from around the house or the local hardware shop. With the color photos, easy-to-follow instructions, and detailed illustrations, Handy Dad is full of creative and inexpensive ways to put some of that pent-up energy to proper use.

Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output?
€22.50

In a homogenized world dominated by electronic and computerized type forms, author Simon Jennings takes a unique look at the real world, and presents over five hundred found letterforms in a remarkable book.

For anyone interested in visual art and design, this beautifully produced and refreshingly tangible alternative to the digital world is a treasure trove of the typographic delights to be found in our everyday lives.

Jennings has been recording letterforms for over forty years, and the book is his tribute to the anonymous talents of vernacular artists around the world.

Body art meets popular science in this elegant, mind-blowing collection, written by renowned science writer Carl Zimmer. This fascinating book showcases hundreds of eye-catching tattoos that pay tribute to various scientific disciplines, from evolutionary biology and neuroscience to mathematics and astrophysics and reveals the stories of the individuals who chose to inscribe their obsessions in their skin.€26.00

State of Craft is a brand new craft book from the team behind the hit Making Stuff (Black Dog Publishing 2006). It featuress over 60 clearly explained step-by-step ideas ranging from pom-pom necklaces and cross-stitched tote bags to jam-jar lamps and old-jumper pouffes. Interviews with craftsters provide further inspiration and a how-to section covers the basics of knitting, crochet and sewing. Craft’s second wave is upon us – it’s time to break away from the high street and into your toolbox!

This ship, which has become a symbol in itself, is still as fascinating as ever. Vast sums of money have been spent and enormous efforts have been made to explore the wreck, now lying 12,000 feet under the sea.

However, if you are a Titanic enthusiast and you enjoy making things with your hands, then there is a far less troublesome alternative: a model of the ship measuring 135 cm/ 53 in.

Scale 1:200

In the images in this book, M. C. Escher shows us the limitless, the infinite, and the impossible -- continuous staircases that rise and yet end at their beginning points, two hands reaching out of a page to draw each other.