Limit Yourself
Trade Paperback
And Unleash Your Creativity
Packed with with quotes, checklists, cool illustrations and encouraging words, Limit Yourself packs a punch, revealing the simplest and most effective way to tap into your creative genius and set goals.
Telling yourself you have all the time, all the resources and all the money in the world just kills creativity and self discipline. Instead, why not try to limit yourself and unleash your creativity?Designer and advertiser Ralph Burkhardt has put together this inspirational book, with a proven method that can help you tap into your creative and business potential and, above all, get results. Limit Yourself is a great tool to help you during brainstorming meetings with colleagues, or to keep handy on your desk Limit Yourself and Unleash Your Creativity contents:What, why, who?ABOUT CREATIVITYWhat is creativity?Everyone can be creative!The true creative mythThe creative processReflect on your creativityThink inside the boxABOUT LIMITATIONS'Limitation' might sound like a bad wordWho needs limitations?What kind of limitations are there?What limitations can do for youWhat you need to bringWho's afraid of the blank page?The creative trajectoryWhy total freedom doesn't liberateCreative boundariesReady, mindset, go!01 LIMITATIONS OF TIMELearn to love deadlinesMake better use of your timeThe five–minute time limitOne painting / poster / logo / lettering a day02 LIMITATIONS OF RESOURCESHow to deal with a limited budgetImprovisation = innovationExploration through limitation03 LIMITATIONS OF DESIGN PRINCIPLESRefine your colour paletteLimit your typefacesWhy Frank Gehry loves limitationsMusic at the limits04 LIMITATIONS OF A BRIEF'Do whatever you like!'Discovering the client's needsJust don't do itWhat to learn from Dr. Seuss05 LIMITATIONS OF MEDIUMWhat is minimalism?How to simplify and intensifyMaximum meaning, minimum means!Embracing technical limitationsUse your digits!06 LIMITATIONS OF SKILLSMaintain momentumTeam up with othersTry random limitationsHarness someone else's creativity07 LIMITATIONS OF SPACESize does matter!Decide what's importantDo it 'Like a Rolling Stone'The ultimate limitation scaleFINAL THOUGHTSTake the first step!What to do with immutable limitationsA generation of demandsLimited to only one worldBuy now!
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- ISBN: 9781786275035
- Author: Ralph Burkhardt
- Pub date: 04.11.19
- RRP: $37.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
Author
Ralph Burkhardt
Ralph Burkhardt is managing partner of the award-winning design firm burkhardthauke, based in Germany. He also teaches typography at the Media University in Stuttgart and internationally as a guest lecturer. In 2018 he started his own brand, called hinzkunst lifetime objects made with love.
Burkhardt s previous books include Famous Last Words, Printdesign, Rotis a polemic paper and Hotchpotch: Lexicon of (un)Useful Creative Knowledge.