Designing Creative Tools by Richard Shackleton - ISBN: 9789063697761
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Tools shape creativity: design the future of making.
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Designing Creative Tools

Revealing the Design Principles Behind the Tools that Shape Art, Culture and Imagination

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  • Paperback

    172 pages

  • Release Date

    16 November 2026

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Summary

Designing Creative Tools explores how both physical and digital tools shape the creative acts they enable. The book speaks to designers building the next generation of creative hardware, software, and interfaces, while also offering valuable insights to the wider design community seeking new ways to think about intention, control, and authorship. Creatives who use these tools—musicians, photographers, artists—will find inspiring stories behind iconic instruments from the Leica I to the TR-808…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9789063697761
ISBN-10:9063697767
Author:Richard Shackleton, Guillaume Couche, Sanya Rai
Publisher:BIS Publishers B.V.
Imprint:BIS Publishers B.V.
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:172
Release Date:16 November 2026
Weight:580g
Dimensions:248mm x 208mm x 18mm
About The Author

Richard Shackleton

Authors

  • Guillaume Couche: Co-founder of Oh Hi Tomorrow and author of Interface Design.
  • Richard Shackleton: Co-founder of Oh Hi Tomorrow and author of Interface Design.
  • Sanya Rai: Designer at Google DeepMind.

Together, they bring decades of expertise in creative tools, interaction design, and innovation to this collaborative work.

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