How to Make Mistakes On Purpose: Bring Chaos to Your Order
Based on Laurie Rosenwald's popular workshop, How to Make Mistakes On Purpose reveals an intuitive, entertaining way to come up with truly original ideas.
 

Three generations of humans have now been molded into results-oriented workers who cannot mess up, and therefore may never innovate either. Shared software, skills, and experiences equal no surprises. Surrounded by the unwavering, reliable results made possible by a machine, we all marinate in this ubiquitous cybersauce. Behold! Thousands of shiny new apps, sites, products, and services that look, feel, and are essentially the same. Because computers don’t make mistakes.

Chance is the natural foil to the digital. We combine both for originality. This makes for the kind of exciting, hopeful future we want. We embrace technology but need to slap it around a bit to get someplace new.

Human error sparks connections. In a relaxed situation where one’s hypercritical demons are AWOL, the snap, crackle, pop of brainstorms happen all around us.

A fresh, colorful guide to discovery, with clearly marked directions and witty prompts, this is a book about living a productive, individualistic life. Whatever your job, it gives you a way to zig while everyone around you can only zag. It will also make you laugh along the way.
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How to Make Mistakes On Purpose: Bring Chaos to Your Order
Based on Laurie Rosenwald's popular workshop, How to Make Mistakes On Purpose reveals an intuitive, entertaining way to come up with truly original ideas.
 

Three generations of humans have now been molded into results-oriented workers who cannot mess up, and therefore may never innovate either. Shared software, skills, and experiences equal no surprises. Surrounded by the unwavering, reliable results made possible by a machine, we all marinate in this ubiquitous cybersauce. Behold! Thousands of shiny new apps, sites, products, and services that look, feel, and are essentially the same. Because computers don’t make mistakes.

Chance is the natural foil to the digital. We combine both for originality. This makes for the kind of exciting, hopeful future we want. We embrace technology but need to slap it around a bit to get someplace new.

Human error sparks connections. In a relaxed situation where one’s hypercritical demons are AWOL, the snap, crackle, pop of brainstorms happen all around us.

A fresh, colorful guide to discovery, with clearly marked directions and witty prompts, this is a book about living a productive, individualistic life. Whatever your job, it gives you a way to zig while everyone around you can only zag. It will also make you laugh along the way.
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How to Make Mistakes On Purpose: Bring Chaos to Your Order

How to Make Mistakes On Purpose: Bring Chaos to Your Order

by Laurie Rosenwald
How to Make Mistakes On Purpose: Bring Chaos to Your Order

How to Make Mistakes On Purpose: Bring Chaos to Your Order

by Laurie Rosenwald

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Overview

Based on Laurie Rosenwald's popular workshop, How to Make Mistakes On Purpose reveals an intuitive, entertaining way to come up with truly original ideas.
 

Three generations of humans have now been molded into results-oriented workers who cannot mess up, and therefore may never innovate either. Shared software, skills, and experiences equal no surprises. Surrounded by the unwavering, reliable results made possible by a machine, we all marinate in this ubiquitous cybersauce. Behold! Thousands of shiny new apps, sites, products, and services that look, feel, and are essentially the same. Because computers don’t make mistakes.

Chance is the natural foil to the digital. We combine both for originality. This makes for the kind of exciting, hopeful future we want. We embrace technology but need to slap it around a bit to get someplace new.

Human error sparks connections. In a relaxed situation where one’s hypercritical demons are AWOL, the snap, crackle, pop of brainstorms happen all around us.

A fresh, colorful guide to discovery, with clearly marked directions and witty prompts, this is a book about living a productive, individualistic life. Whatever your job, it gives you a way to zig while everyone around you can only zag. It will also make you laugh along the way.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780306925160
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication date: 11/23/2021
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Laurie Rosenwald is a New York City-based illustrator, artist, designer, and book creator whose work is a mix of collage, drawing, painting, and storytelling. In addition to her many editorial illustrations for a wide variety of publications, Rosenwald has created animation, product design, and leads an ongoing workshop, "How to Make Mistakes on Purpose."

She has designed book jackets as well as books for Vintage, Little Brown, Houghton Mifflin, and Knopf. Her many illustration clients include the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, Harper's, the Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, The Believer, The Baffler and countless others.

As a designer, Rosenwald has worked for Ikea, Sony Music, Warner Brothers, Target, the Sundance Channel, Noggin, Bloomingdale's, Barney's, Neiman Marcus, Ogilvy, Jay Walter Thompson, Bravo, Nickelodeon, Conde Nast, and The Whitney Museum.

She is also the author of New York Notebook, All the Wrong People Have Self-Esteem, and And to Name Just a Few: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue.

Table of Contents

Introduction 14

Chapter 1 Trying to Be Creative Works About as Well as Trying to Be Charming 25

Chapter 2 Your Pointless Quest for Perfection 32

Chapter 3 FOES: Fear of Empty Space 41

Chapter 4 Bring Chaos to Your Order 44

Chapter 5 Divine Accidents 46

Chapter 6 Fireworks, Viagra, LSD, Champagne, Pringles, and Popsicles? Yes, Please 55

Chapter 7 The Problem with Problem Solving 65

Chapter 8 Sometimes Not Trying Works Better Than Trying 70

Chapter 9 Mindfulness Causes Angst, or Why P. G. Wodehouse Is My Therapist 74

Chapter 10 Errare Humanum Est! 78

Chapter 11 Do the Random Thing 82

Chapter 12 To Zig When Others Zag 90

Chapter 13 It's a Canary Because I Say So! 92

Chapter 14 Giotto's Big 0 96

Chapter 15 Quantity over Quality 101

Chapter 16 Make War, Not Love 106

Chapter 17 Pacifism … the Hard Way 110

Chapter 18 Vox Populi Knows Better Than You Do 113

Chapter 19 Get Lost on Purpose 116

Chapter 20 Misdirection 120

Chapter 21 That's Not the Rashomon I Remember! 122

Chapter 22 There's a Nipple in My Room! 124

Chapter 23 The Emperors New Nudity 133

Chapter 24 Do the Opposite 138

Chapter 25 Spoiled for Choice 144

Chapter 26 Amortize This! 148

Chapter 27 Be Bad 152

Too Late to Die Young Now! 154

Image Credits 158

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