Style Statement: Live by Your Own Design

Style Statement: Live by Your Own Design
By Danielle LaPorte, Carrie McCarthy

STYLE STATEMENT is an inspiring take on the power of style and authenticity. Deemed “style psychotherapists,” Carrie and Danielle are the creators of the Style Statement: a two-word compass that helps you make more confident choices in life — from your wardrobe to your relationships, your living room to your career plans.

Part workbook, part inspirational narrative, STYLE STATEMENT presents a series of inquiries that lead readers to the personal words that guide the spirit, look and feel of their life. The first word represents your foundation, your 80%. The second word, your 20%, is what motivates and distinguishes you.

Via Carrie and Danielle’s Lifestyle Map, readers then explore how their own unique Style Statement can generate momentum in every area of their life.

 

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10458 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-08
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

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Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Carrie McCarthy is a graduate of the London College of Fashion. A former fashion model, award-winning interior designer, and head of “Robe,” a successful wedding dress company, Carrie is a regular design personality in the media. She is featured on a regular basis in Canadian House & Home, Style at Home, Coastal Living, Western Living and Vancouver Magazine (where she was dubbed “one of the hottest designers in Vancouver”). Carrie is married and lives in Vancouver. Her Style Statement is Refined Treasure.
Danielle LaPorte is a writer and seasoned marketing strategist in Vancouver. She has worked as Executive Director of the Arlington Institute–a think tank in Washington, DC–where she led a team of world class analysts in studying market trends for the liked of IBM, The Pentagon, and The World Bank, and was granted a position on the White House Council in 2000. She also headed her own communications agency for ten years, providing branding expertise and national publicity campaigns for clients ranging from Pulitzer Prize winners to pop stars. Danielle has appeared in The Globe & Mail, Fashion Magazine, and Washington Post, to name a few. Her Style Statement is Sacred Dramatic.

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Customer Reviews

what a fun process of self-discovery
Although I’m not yet done reading and working through the exercises, I am thoroughly enjoying the inquiry process and learning things about me I wasn’t aware of. The colorful format and beautiful layout is exciting and inspiring. The book begs to be a book club book for women, or done with a group of friends. I’m having a blast and I look forward to sharing it with friends.

Style Statement
Lovely to look at and interesting section related to discovering one’s own style statement. However, not overly interested in the lengthy style statements of the authors’ chosen subjects.

So So
This is an interesting book and has some good tools for helping determine your style and design interests.

Caffeine for the Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain

Caffeine for the Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain
By Stefan Mumaw, Wendy Lee Oldfield

Packed Full of 15-Minute Creativity Sparking Exercises

*Chock-full of useful exercises designed to help readers tap into a daily creative buzz
*Features an edgy sketchbook design (by the authors) for visual allure
*Appeals to anyone looking for easy ways to jump start their creativity

For any designer or creative type who wants to quickly limber up their imagination on a daily basis, Wired helps readers get into the creative zone, from which all their best work springs. Packed with 15-minute simple and conceptual exercises, this guide will have readers reaching for markers, pencils, digital cameras, and more in order to develop a working and productive creative mindset.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53719 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-02
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 360 pages

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Customer Reviews

Not for Graphic Design
After reading the reviews and product description, I was looking forward to some fresh activities that would inspire some creativity for Graphic Design projects that I work on constantly. So when the book arrived I flipped through scanning activities and quotes to get a feel for the book and what it had to offer. I was surprised. To my disappointment this book almost had nothing to do with Graphic Design. It was filled with activities that lent themselves more to Elementary school creative activities -Build something out of “_”, describe your favorite “_” without using the words like or as. The book design itself even became tough to read as well with various typefaces, multiple type sizes scattered through the pages. In conclusion not what I was looking for.

Caffeine for the Creative Mind
Both my daughter (a regional marketing analyst) and I (a high school graphics design teacher) share several graphic design texts, and we are very satisfied this text as reference.

Creative, but lacking in substance
This book read more like a long marketing piece about how awesome the book is. Littered with quotes from people who obviously found previous editions useful, it just gets in the way of what I think it was built to do – excite and energise creative thought.

Some exersices are useful, some are good fun, but a lot are rather plain and boring. If you have no imagination at all, this book may be a useful kick-start to any brain storming or creative session. I would suggest that it might be useful for school teachers too – as some of the ideas leverage a lot of imagination which kids would be great at.

On the good side, the typographic treatment of the content is exciting and inspiring, each page has something new to look at and read, if nothing else it’s a nice example of how unconventinal type treatment can enhance an otherwise bland book.