Failed it! : How to turn mistakes into ideas and other advice for successfully screwing up

By:

Kessels, Erik

Publication details: London : Phaidon Press Ltd, 2016Description: 167pISBN:

9780714871196

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

BF 637

Summary: Failed it! celebrates the power of mistakes and shows how they can enrich the creative process. This is part photobook and part guide to loosening up and making mistakes to take the fear out of failure and encourage experimentation. It showcases the best and most hilarious examples of imperfection and failure across a broad range of creative forms, including art, design, photography, architecture and product design, to inspire and encourage creatives to embrace and celebrate their mistakes. We live in an era when everyone is striving for perfection and we have become afraid of failure, which limits our potential. Mistakes help us find new ways of thinking and innovative solutions, and failures can change our perceptions and open up new ways of looking things.

List(s) this item appears in: Stenhouse Library: Wellbeing & Personal Improvement Collection

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Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Stenhouse Library (Kingston Hospital) Shelves	WEL / BF 637 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		ST00476

Failed it! celebrates the power of mistakes and shows how they can enrich the creative process. This is part photobook and part guide to loosening up and making mistakes to take the fear out of failure and encourage experimentation.

It showcases the best and most hilarious examples of imperfection and failure across a broad range of creative forms, including art, design, photography, architecture and product design, to inspire and encourage creatives to embrace and celebrate their mistakes.

We live in an era when everyone is striving for perfection and we have become afraid of failure, which limits our potential. Mistakes help us find new ways of thinking and innovative solutions, and failures can change our perceptions and open up new ways of looking things.

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