Keri Smith Books

Contains one copy each of Wreck This Journal, This Is Not a Book, Mess, and now The Pocket Scavenger. It has been specially designed by Keri herself.

Now in spectacular full colour throughout, a special 10th anniversary edition of the internationally bestselling journal that started it all--with more than 7 million copies sold! Perhaps you're a seasoned Wreck-er, having made your way through one or more copies of Wreck This Journal. Or maybe you're new to the phenomenon (little do you know, this experience might just change your life). Whatever the case, you've found the perfect book to inflict damage on... The revolution is now in colour. Why colour? Because it's dangerous. And if it isn't dangerous, then it isn't worth doing. You are hereby challenged to now try everything you've never done with colour. Everything. Mixing, ripping, spewing, streaming, hurling, blowing up, throwing, dropping, exploding. Welcome to an all new-edition of Wreck This Journal, now in spectacular full colour! With a mix of new, altered, and favourite prompts, Wreck This Journal: Now in Colour invites you to destroy with colour. What colours will you use to &*%$ it up?

From the internationally bestselling creator of  Wreck This Journal , a book that celebrates mistake- and mess-making like never before...Your whole life, you’ve been taught to avoid making a mess: try to keep everything under control, color inside the lines, make it perfect, and at all costs, avoid contact with things that stain.This book asks you to do the opposite of what you have been taught. Think of it as your own personal rumpus room. A place to let loose, to trash, to spew, to do the things you are not allowed to do in the “real world.”There are only three rules you will find in this book:1. Do not try to make something beautiful.2. Do not think too much. (There is no “wrong.”)3. Continue under all circumstances.It's time to make a mess.

Discover dozens of fun ways girls can be creative while in the car, on a plane, on a bus--and when it rains! Every page offers fresh, new ways for girls to explore creativity, including: How to doodle the latest in fashion designs. A pack of craft projects to try. Fun ways to escape on long, summer days.

HOW TO BE AN EXPLORER OF THE WORLD: Portable Life Museum by Keri Smith, author of Wreck This Journal, an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art and science of everyday life (Product Description). Korean edition translated by Shin Hyeon Rim. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

We are living in a golden age of self-expression. The explosion of user-created content on blogs and social networking sites moved Time magazine to name "You" their 2006 person of the year. But while we may be spending a lot more time in virtual worlds, we have not lost the urge to make our physical world more meaningful. By leaving art and ideas in public places, you can affect someone's day, change their mood or their mind and maybe even change the world in the process! The Guerilla Art Kit shows how small artistic acts can start a revolution. Keri Smith, noted author of Living Out Loud and the blog Wish Jar Journal, uses her unique drawing and handwriting style to help anyone find and release their inner artist or activist. This visually exciting activity book full of step-by-step exercises, cut-out projects, sticker ideas, and more, has both fun assignments and handy tips to help you unleash your creative energy into the streets, where you can really make an impact. From the quick exercises; leaving books for strangers to find, chalking quotes on the sidewalk, to the more involved; making a "wish tree," guerilla gardening, or making your own stencils, The Guerilla Art Kit contains everything you need to put your message out into the world.

How many different shaped leaves can you find? How many blue things? A piece of red string? What would you do with them?

For anyone who's ever wished to, but had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes 'Wreck This Journal', an illustrated book featuring a subversive collection of suggestions, asking readers to muster up their best mistake - and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book. Through a series of quirkily illustrated prompts, Keri Smith encourages journallers to engage in 'destructive' acts - poking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting with coffee, colouring outside the lines, and more - in order to experience the true creative process.

'What kind of world would you like to inhabit?' Here, Keri Smith begins with a list. Writing down everything the reader is drawn to, from things they love or collect to things that fascinate and excite, including objects, colours, sounds, textures, memories, places and people, the list serves as the building block for the creation of a new world. This world is based entirely on who the reader is as an individual, and as such is completely unique. Prompted to think about landscape, place names, maps, currency and more Keri Smith encourages everyone to push their imaginations to the limit.

Remember those childhood days spent running in your bare feet, playing make-believe, and most of all, living life with wonderment? That youthful enthusiasm and playfulness are key to discovering who you are and what you love to do. Living Out Loud is the perfect prescription for a creative jump start to your life. Included are games, projects, activities, crafts, postcards, and playful ideas that will send you off on an exciting adventure, where you'll discover inspiration around and within you.

Asks readers to explore what it feels like to throw themselves off balance - on purpose. This book also asks you to do the opposite of what you have been taught.

Keri Smith came to us with the idea for a more unstructured datebook meant to inspire creativity more than strictly plan your life. As you might guess by the name, this is not your everyday planner, in many senses of the word. The Non-Planner Datebook randomly intersperses undated monthly overviews with journal and idea pages so that you can have some sense of framework, but not feel constricted or bound by predictability. And Keri s whimsical structure and art are meant to amuse and make you reflect, but also just capture current moments and states. It may seem paradoxical to be simultaneously looking towards the future and the present moment, but it works in reminding you that organizing the later can be just as enjoyable as living the now. Datebook -new 2nd printing-12 undated month-at-a-glance pages-reference mini-calendars for 2009-2011-81 note/jounal pages with varying degrees of customization-two-color cover and olive ink on natural interior pages-printed in Oakland, CA on 100% post-consumer recycled paper with soy-based inks-5 wide x 7 tall spiral-bound book with chipboard back cover-96 pages, 70# text natural

You will discover that this book can be: A secret message - tear out a page, write a note on it for a stranger, and leave it in a public place. A recording device - have everyone you contact today write their name in the book. An instrument - create as many sounds as you can using the book, like flipping the pages fast or slapping the cover. This Is Not a Book will engage readers by having them define everything a book can be by asking, 'If it's not a book, what is it then?' - with a kaleidoscope of possible answers.

Dear Reader,One dark and stormy night, I found some strange scattered pages abandoned in a park...I collected and assembled them, trying to solve the mystery of this unexpected discovery, and I am now passing the task on to you.Your mission is to become the new author of this work. You will continue the research and provide the content. In order to complete the task, you will have to undergo some secret intelligence training, which I have included in this volume. Since no one knows what lies ahead, please proceed with caution, but know...This book does not exist without you.Yours truly,Keri Smith

What if there were a book that changed every time you read it? Actually, every book does this. We are all part of the books we read, because our individual reactions, ideas, and emotions make the book whole, and these things are changing all the time. Keri Smith has helped millions of people free their creativity and find their own voice with her interactive books, and now she brings that sensibility to children and to the act of reading. This picture book is an invitation to honour your own vision and to welcome imperfection. Kids will discover that reading can engage all five senses, and that what they themselves bring to a book is an important contribution. (And of course they'll be invited to do a bit of harmless wrecking!) Praise for Keri Smith: A conceptual artist and author luring kids into questioning the world and appreciating every smell, texture and mystery in it." --TIME "Keri Smith may well be the self-help guru this DIY generation deserves." --The Believer "Not gonna lie, this is probably the coolest journal you'll ever see. . . . Wreck This Journal is here to inspire you." --BuzzFeed "Smith pushes kids (and adults) to break convention by seeing the world as inspiration, rather than simply 'things.'" --GeekDad (of The Pocket Scavenger)

You are electing to join a secret underground movement. Membership will require you to conduct research on your immediate environment and complete a variety of assignments designed to creatively disrupt your everyday life. That is all you need to know for now. All else will be revealed in time. Society wants us to live a planned existence. The path of the wanderer is not this! The path of the wanderer is an experiment with the unknown. To be idle, to play, to daydream. The Wander Society offers us all a way to experience the joys and possibilities of unplanned time.

A brand new, deluxe box set designed by Keri Smith, containing Finish This Book, How to be an Explorer of the World and The Imaginary World of. It has been specially designed by Keri and includes an original map, created by the author.

Ausprobieren und Anarchie, Chaos und Unordnung, Dreck und Durcheinander, Fehler und Versehen, Unfall und Zufall: Keri Smith lädt dazu ein, das kreative Potenzial des Ungeplanten, des nicht Perfekten, des Ganz-und-gar-nicht-Erwünschten und komplett Misslungenen zu erkunden. Einfach mal die Kontrolle aufgeben. Schauen, was der Augenblick bringt. Sich locker machen. Loslassen. Herumsauen. Verwüstung anrichten. Und begreifen, dass Scheitern immer auch eine Chance ist: Denn es ist nicht nur befreiend, sondern produktiv, einmal richtig Mist zu bauen. Doch Keri Smith wäre nicht Keri Smith, würde sie den Lesern, die mehr wissen wollen, nicht zusätzliche Türen öffnen: zu Künstlern und Designern, die den Zufall als Arbeitsprinzip entdeckt haben – in eine Welt spannender künstlerischer Experimente.

Entdecken Sie das Revival der analogen Post mit kreativen Postkarten von Keri Smith. Diese Karten können individuell gestaltet oder einfach verschickt werden, um den Empfänger mit einzigartigen Aufgaben zu überraschen. Perfekt, um echte Verbindungen herzustellen und Freude zu bereiten.

“Not gonna lie, this is probably the coolest journal you’ll ever see. . . . Wreck This Journal is here to inspire you.” — BuzzfeedThe internationally bestselling phenomenon with more than 10 million copies sold —and an excellent holiday gift! Paint, poke, create, destroy, and wreck—to create a journal as unique as you are For anyone who's ever had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes this expanded edition of Wreck This Journal, a subversive illustrated book that challenges readers to muster up their best mistake- and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book — or destroy them.Through a series of creative and quirky prompts, acclaimed guerilla artist Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in destructive acts — poking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting pages with coffee, coloring outside the lines, and more — in order to experience the true creative process. With Smith's unique sensibility, readers are introduced to a new way of art- and journal-making, discovering novel ways to escape the fear of the blank page and fully engage in the creative process.To create is to destroy. Happy wrecking!

Also schnapp dir einen Stift. Setz ihn aufs Papier. Und mach einen Strich. Dein Strich wird von einer Seite auf die nächste wandern, er wird im Buchfalz verschwinden, er wird über die Kanten der Seiten hüpfen. Er wird versteckt, durchtrennt, jemand anders übernimmt ihn für eine Weile. Er wird Dinge umkreisen, in Schreibschrift übergehen, er wird schnell werden und langsam - oder ganz zum Stillstand kommen. Er wird ein riesiges Labyrinth zeichnen, explodieren und das Buch vorübergehend verlassen. Er überwindet Hindernisse, verknüpft lose Enden und entwickelt eine befreiende Energie. Dein Strich wird ein Abenteuer, eine überraschende Reise in den Kopf und die eigenen Gefühle, ein aufregendes Spiel, das grenzenlose Kreativität in Gang setzt. Denn, wie Keri Smith sagt: Ein Strich ist ein Punkt, der sich auf den Weg macht.

Keri Smithová pomohla milionům lidí osvobodit jejich kreativitu a nalézt vlastní hlas pomocí interaktivních knížek a teď chce to samé umožnit (nejen) mladším čtenářům. Další ze série jejích destrukčních knížek vás motivuje k tomu, abyste se na čtení podívali novýma očima a oslavili nedokonalost v její plné kráse. Začněte číst všemi pěti smysly a proměňte knihu po svém! A nebojte, bude se vám k tomu hodit i nějaká ta drobná destrukce.

Kreativní destrukce není nikdy dost! Proto vydáváme speciální DESTRUKČNÍ DENÍČEK do kapsy! Jak název napovídá, má kapesní formát a najdete v něm oblíbené úkoly z klasického Destrukčního deníku, ale taky celou spoustu nových, takže se máte na co těšit :) Ideální na cesty či pro chvíle nudy během dne, stačí vytáhnout z tašky nebo kapsy a začít zaznamenávat, kreslit a čmárat všechno, co kolem sebe vidíte.

Celý život ťa učili, aby si nerobil neporiadok a chyby: Dávaj si pozor! Kresli tak, aby si nevyšiel za čiaru! Urob to najlepšie, ako vieš, a to za každú cenu! Nechytaj nič, z čoho by si sa mohol zašpiniť! V tejto knihe to budeš robiť naopak. Ber to ako svoju súkromnú zbierku výtržností. Miesto, kde sa môžeš uvoľniť, urobiť neporiadok, vyvádzať, čo sa ti len zachce, robiť veci, ktoré inde robiť nesmieš. Nastal čas vzbúriť sa a urobiť totálny chaos. Zapamätaj si tieto tri pravidlá: 1. Nesnaž sa vytvoriť niečo krásne. 2. Príliš nepremýšľaj. (Neexistuje nič „nesprávne“.) 3. Pokračuj za každých okolností.

Imaginární svět Keri Smithové nabádá čtenáře k vytvoření něčeho jedinečného: vlastního světa, který si sami vymyslíte. Stačí si připravit seznam všeho, co vás přitahuje nejvíc: věci, které máte rádi nebo sbíráte, oblíbené barvy, tvary, nápady a vše, co vás fascinuje. Tento seznam se stane základním kamenem vašeho vymyšleného světa. Kniha vás provede celým procesem k vytvoření dokonalého místa, v němž se stačí už jenom zabydlet. Tak do toho!

Konečně deník, s kterým se nikdy nudit nebudete! Světový bestseller nyní i pro české tvořitele a kreativce! Destrukční deník je pro všechny, kteří si vždycky přáli vést si deník nebo skicář, ale měli potíž s tím začít, pokračovat, nebo ho dokonce dokončit. Jeho autorkou je kanadskákonceptuální umělkyně Keri Smithová, která se zaměřila na výrobu kreativních deníků, a donutí vás podívat se na svět z jiného úhlu pohledu. V téhle knížečce najdete nesmírnou sbírku nápadů, jak ji zničit (pardon kreativně vyzdobit!). Nebojte se trhání, polévání kávou či jiných destrukčních metod, tahle kniha je k tomu určená! Destrukce je hra!