👍Recommended Resources

Fall 2019 • Carla Gannis • Mondays and Wednesdays • 4:30 – 6:20pm • 370J Rm 312

Student Insurance (so you can check out from the IDM Equipment Room) https://www.collegestudentinsurance.com/

Recommended Audio Podcasts

• Revision Path Maurice Cherry interviews designers, developers, and other creators of color weekly.

• Reply All “‘A podcast about the internet’ that is actually an unfailingly original exploration of modern life and how to survive it.” – The Guardian

• FunnyAsTech A tech ethicist & comedian tackle the thorniest issues in tech!

• Should this Exist It’s the question of our times: How is technology impacting our humanity? On Should This Exist? we invite creators of radical new technologies to set aside their business plan, and think through the human side: What is the technology’s fullest potential? And what could possibly go wrong? Show host Caterina Fake (founder of Flickr, Partner at Yes VC) drops listeners into the minds of today’s edgiest entrepreneurs and guides them through the journey of foreseeing what technology might do to us, and for us. Should This Exist? is a WaitWhat original series in partnership with Quartz.

• IBM ThinkLeaders thinkLeaders tells the stories behind AI and business transformation through engaging interviews with top entrepreneurs, technologists, and researchers at the forefront of disruption.

• State of the Art Each week host (and NYU ITP professor) Gabriel Barcia-Colombo speaks with a new artist, curator, technologist, AI, collector, innovator, about the ever-changing relationship between art and tech.

Recommended Books

Idea Generation

• Cracking Creativity by Michael Michalko

• IdeaSpotting: How to Find Your Next Great Idea by Sam Harrison

• IDEO method cards

• Steal like an Artist by Austin Kleon

• The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher

• Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques by Michael Michalko

• Thinkpak cards

Culture

• The Fuzzy and the Techie by Scott Hartley

Artists’ & Designers’ Processes

• Creativity: The Perfect Crime by Philippe Petit

• Lynch on Lynch by Chris Rodley

• MTIV: Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer by Hillman Curtis

• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

• The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp and Mark Reiter

• Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz

Business

• Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur

Design

• Designing for Interaction by Dan Safer

• Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis by Jon Kolko

• Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo

• Universal Methods of Design by Bella Martin and Bruce Hanington

Ethnography

• Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping by Paco Underhill

Note Taking

• The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking

Sketching

• Blah Blah Blah by Dan Roam

• Unfolding The Napkin by Dan Roam

Mapping

• Web Redesign 2.0 | Workflow That Works by Kelly Goto & Emily Cotler

• How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody 1.0 Edition by Abby Covert

• Any Edward Tufte book

Prototyping

• Getting Real by 37Signals

• Show Your Work by Austin Kleon

Recommended Writing Resources

• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by Strunk & White

• The Mac is Not a Typewriter by Robin Williams

• How to Write Footnotes and Endnotes in MLA Style

• The OWL at Purdue: MLA Formatting and Style Guide

• The OWL at Purdue: Annotated Bibliographies

Recommended Media

• Afrigadget

• Brown, Tim. Design Thinking Harvard Business Review. June 2008.

• Citizen Architect, Sam Mockbee & Rural Studio

• Cognitive Media Process and Work (visual scribing / note-taking)

• Dan Roam: "Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don't Work" | Talks at Google

• "The Deep Dive," ABC's Nightline

• Designing Interactions Interviews

• Exit Through The Gift Shop by Banksy

• Found Magazine – http://foundmagazine.com

• Hillman Curtis artist films

• Lost Image Desk

• Make Magazine

• An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth by Bruce Mau

Recommended Software

Mapping

• Coggle

• Freemind

• Inspiration Software

• OmniGraffle

• MindMeister

Recommended Resources for Creative Process Annotated Bibliograpy and Video Documentary

• Animatic

  • http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/six-feet-under/

• Fair Use Media (images / audio /video)

  • http://creativecommons.org

  • https://www.pond5.com/

• Royalty-Free sound

  • http://freesound.org

  • http://freemusicarchive.org

  • http://ccmixter.org

  • http://soundbible.com

  • http://www.audioblocks.com

  • http://incompetech.com

• Creative Commons Video

  • http://archive.org

Miscellaneous Articles

• This is Your Brain on Instagram: Effects of Social Media on the Brain