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Creative Acts for Curious People
Sarah Stein Greenberg
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We’re excited to share a brand new resource with you: Creative Acts for Curious People. It’s a vibrant, illustrated book full of unconventional and practical ways to help you bring creative approaches to any challenge you face. Exercises like Expert Eyes hone your observation skills, How to Talk to Strangers fosters understanding, and Designing Tools for Teams builds creative leadership. They’re at once light-hearted, tough, surprising, and impactful — and they’ll help you turn curiosity into ideas, and ideas into action.
Creative Acts for Curious People includes more than eighty assignments, countless ideas, and memorable stories from throughout the d.school’s decade-plus history. This collection was curated by executive director Sarah Stein Greenberg from some of the world's most inventive minds, including d.school and IDEO founder David Kelley, Readymade magazine founder Grace Hawthorne, innovative choreographer Aleta Hayes, Google chief innovation evangelist Frederik Pferdt, and many more.
This book was so much fun to create, and it will be even more exciting to see what you create with it.
Grab the entire set
Expand your library with this collection of 12 books from celebrated d.school educators. Discover activities, stories, and tools focused on topics from social change and reflection to prototyping and telling visual stories with data.
And, we scored you a discounted rate for the whole set!
Sarah Stein Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Stanford d.school. She leads a community of designers, faculty, and other innovative thinkers who help people unlock their creative abilities and apply them to the world. Sarah speaks regularly at universities and global conferences on design, business, and education. She holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and a BA in history from Oberlin College. Sarah also serves as a trustee for the global conservation organization Rare. She lives in San Francisco.
Mike Hirshon
Illustrator
Michael Hirshon is an award-winning illustrator and Assistant Professor of Illustration at the University of Utah. His drawings have appeared on book covers, beer cans, board games, and thousands of sketchbook pages. Michael revels in the creative process and can usually be found doodling animals on available white space.
