Here's
a list of some of the books that we've enjoyed reading and
that have influenced our thinking.
You will soon be
able to buy some of them directly from this site. Watch
this space...
On
Visual Thinking:
ART AND ILLUSION
E.H.Gombrich
Phaidon
THE IMAGE AND THE EYE
E.H.Gombrich
Phaidon
WAYS OF SEEING
John Berger
BBC & Penguin
VISUAL THINKING
Rudolph Arnheim
University of California Press
THOUGHTS ON ART EDUCATION
Rudolph Arnheim
The J. Paul Getty Trust
EXPERIENCES IN VISUAL THINKING
Robert H.McKim
Brooks/Cole Publishing Company
DRAWING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN
Betty Edwards
Fontana
DRAWING ON THE ARTIST WITHIN
Betty Edwards
Collins
EYE AND BRAIN
Richard L. Gregory
Oxford
VISUAL INTELLIGENCE –How we create what we see
Donald D.Hoffman
W.W. Norton & Company
UNDERSTANDING COMICS – the invisible art
Scott McCloud
HarperCollins
THINKING IN PICTURES
Temple Grandin
Vintage
On
metaphor and analogy in creative
thinking:
METAPHORS WE
LIVE BY
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
The University of Chicago Press
MENTAL LEAPS - ANALOGY IN CREATIVE THOUGHT
Keith J. Holyoak and Paul Thagard
MIT Press
METAPHORS IN MIND - Transformation through Symbolic
Modelling
James Lawley and Penny Tompkins
The Developing Company Press
On
creativity
HARE BRAIN
TORTOISE MIND - why intelligence increases when you think
less
Guy Claxton
Fourth Estate Ltd
A WHACK ON THE SIDE OF THE HEAD - how to unlock your mind
for innovation
Roger Von Oech
Warner Books
THINKERTOYS - a handbook of business creativity
Michael Michalko
Ten Speed Press
CRACKING CREATIVITY - the secrets of creative genius
Michael Michalko
Ten Speed Press
On
cognitive science
MIND AND BRAIN
Angus Gellatly and Oscar Zarate
Icon Books UK
STRANGERS TO OURSELVES
Timothy D. Wilson
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
DESCARTES ERROR
Antonio R. Damasio
Avon Books
THE FEELING OF WHAT HAPPENS
Antonio R. Damasio
Vintage
THE RIGHT MIND
Robert Ornstein
Harcourt Brace & Company
GOING INSIDE
John McCrone
Faber and Faber
SYNAESTHESIA
John Harrison
Oxford
...putting creativity to work
