Book recommendations #1
"Designing design" - Kenya Hara
“Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself.” ~ Kenya Hara
On the importance of nothingness by the wonderful design philosopher from Japan.
"The Dance of Life" - Edward T. Hall
"Culture hides more than it reveals and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from it's own participants. Years of study have convinced me that the real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own." ~ Edward T. Hall
We design for cultures and we create cultures. Time invested in understanding more about them is time well spent.
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High"
Book by Al Switzler, Joseph Grenny, and Ron McMillan
“At the core of every successful conversation lies the free flow of relevant information.”
How to talk with managers. How to be a manager. How to achieve goals, solve problems and still be a person that others like. It is an ugly book visually, but information is truly useful, especially for creatives.
