If there is one thing that unites those who work in the creative world and beyond, it is the constant need to find inspiration and keep one’s imagination alive. We know that sometimes creativity needs to be stimulated: it can come from a new experience, from art, or – why not – from the pages of a good book. In this article we offer a selection of 5 books to keep on hand at all times, designed to awaken the creative side in each of you, wherever you are. From practical tips to exercises that challenge conventions, you will find texts that don’t just talk about creativity but put it to the test right away. Ready to pick up new ideas and turn them into something unique?
#1 Steal Like an Artist: The Interactive Journal – Austin Kleon
A guide-book for cultivating your creativity. In addition, the book has a rubber band to mark the place and a special pocket in the back to store snippets of inspiration. Because if you want to steal like an artist, you need a place to keep your loot.
#2 1 Page at a Time: A Daily Creative Companion – Adam J. Kurtz
Each of the 365 suggestions on one page at a time will encourage you to draw, write, list, reflect and share. This book will become your new best friend.
#3 Zen writing. Handbook of creative writing– Natalie Goldberg
This book is dedicated to the practice of writing; it is intended to promote it, facilitate it, cultivate it, pamper it, protect it, love it, suffer from it, spread it, recognize its complicated geography, and draw a map of it as of an inner process as articulate, rich, complex and personal as any other ever.
#4 Steal like an artist – Austin Kleon
A guide to creativity in the digital age, “Steal Like an Artist” offers readers ten valuable principles for discovering and enhancing their talents.
#5 This Is Not a Book – Keri Smith
These are just a few of the titles that can help unleash the creative potential each of us possesses, ready to be browsed anywhere, anytime. At Collater.al, we are always looking for new ways to inspire you, and our guides are meant to be a valuable tool for those who are looking for new stimulation.
