Inspirability: 40 Top Designers Speak Out about What Inspires

By PASH, Dashka Slater, Matt Pashkow

What Inspires You? This was the question asked of forty of the world's top designers. The resulting interviews are thought-provoking, poignant, irreverent, hilarious, philosophical - and above all,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581805551
• ISBN13: 9781581805550
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: How Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful & Creative

This book is very beautifully designed and put together. Wonderfully eclectic. A good reminder about how we fo and can get inspired by the smallest things. Also very funny. Read one story everyday to remind yourself that you really are a creative.

Entertaining Motivation

I love the the featured designers' snapshots of themselves and their work space. The interviews are really well done, and I especially love the questionnaires with the designers' own scibbled notes and illustrations. It's really, really entertaining! You not only get to truly know them, but this book shows how unique these successful designers are and how they are deeply motivated-that in itself is inspiring. Every creative person should have this book. It's great fun and reference.

Fresh, Fuzzy & Fun!

I saw the author-Pash, speak at the How Design Conference in Chicago (June 2005). His presentation was about how he got the idea for this book. It was very cool and inspiring. I couldn't wait to get a copy and start reading it. This book is filled with 40 top graphic designers perspectives on what inspires them. Photographs of the designers and their work stations. As well as a survey page that they all filled out (and one for you to fill out too). It is the kind of book that is so much fun to read. You feel like you are right there in the moment. This book draws you in, includes you and most of all inspires you. This is a great book for a graphic designer to own.

Truly Inspiring

After buying this book (and being lucky enough to have it signed by the author!) I just couldn't wait to flip through it's pages and find out what inspires my heroes in the world of graphic design. I love the format the author has chosen for the interviews and being able to get a sneak peak into the designers' studios and see what inspires them. This book will remain a timeless addition to my bookshelf and I know I'll refer to it when I get stuck or need a bit of inspiration myself. The questionnaire is awesome, and I love how different they all are. It's a wonderful book and one that belongs in every designer's library.

4.5 Fuzzy Green Stars

Quite simply, the book is awesome. It's nothing short of delightful, that you can pick this book up, and randomly sort through level after level of creative inspiration, to discover that by the end, you too can't help but notice that you have a much higher appreciation for all of the things in your own life that affect everything you do. It makes its way elegantly into that special area of books on my shelf that i always reach to when I'm "stuck" and just need that little something going again. in short...READ THIS BOOK, then READ IT AGAIN. Then wait a little while, and don't read it because three times in a row and people start talking about you and your "fuzzy green book", and that's a hard one to shake...