Emily Campbell 
A Few Minutes of Design 
52 Activities to Spark Your Creativity

‘A marvelous invitation to anyone with an interest in creativity, invention, and design.’ (Michael Bierur) This colorful, handy card deck presents fifty-two

exercises and activities to jump-start your creative juices, free you from

creative block, start a new project, or finish an existing one. Each exercise

offers insight into the innumerable small decisions involved in design:

How to establish a pattern, continue a series, how to say it without words, how to name a project, what fits, and what doesn’t? These cards benefit established practicing designers or creatives in any field with activities that are sometimes playful, sometimes

challenging, but always enlightening. Each activity is estimated to take 15 minutes.

About the author

Creative Education Trust provides an integrated curriculum format for primary and secondary schools in England. Emily Campbell, Creative Education Trust’s Director of Programmes, was formerly a graphic designer, a pattern maker in fashion, and design director at RSA and the British Council Arts Group. She lives in London, England.