A01=Sven Volker
Author_Sven Volker
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forthcoming
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- ISBN 9781800660779
- Dimensions: 115 x 170mm
- Publication Date: 20 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Cicada Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A visual guide to unsticking yourself…. Without becoming unstuck.
When creativity stalls, pushing harder rarely helps. Looking at things differently does. This is a small, charming book of visual punchlines to break the creative inertia. Created by award-winning graphic designer Sven Völker, whose work spans global brand identities for Suzuki and the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book, A Million Dots, this book is a collection of stripped back, sideways provocations designed to loosen up ideas and reconnect with play. It emerged from his work as a professor of design at Potsdam University as way in which to get students thinking laterally. Illustrated in Volker’s distinctive, minimalist approach, each page offers a small shift in perspective, inviting you to pause, reframe and see what’s been there all along. There are no answers here. Just better ways of asking.
When creativity stalls, pushing harder rarely helps. Looking at things differently does. This is a small, charming book of visual punchlines to break the creative inertia. Created by award-winning graphic designer Sven Völker, whose work spans global brand identities for Suzuki and the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book, A Million Dots, this book is a collection of stripped back, sideways provocations designed to loosen up ideas and reconnect with play. It emerged from his work as a professor of design at Potsdam University as way in which to get students thinking laterally. Illustrated in Volker’s distinctive, minimalist approach, each page offers a small shift in perspective, inviting you to pause, reframe and see what’s been there all along. There are no answers here. Just better ways of asking.
Sven Volker is is the author and illustrator of the New York Times award-winning A Million Dots (Cicada, 2019) and the critically acclaimed Are We There Yet? (2023). His minimalist aesthetic has featured on car branding, stage design and art installations. He is a professor at Potsdam University.
