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Failed It!: How To Turn Mistakes Into Ideas And Other Advice For Successfully Screwing Up

A fun and fabulous take on the art of making mistakes. Erik Kessels celebrates imperfection and failure and shows why they are an essential part of the creative process.Failed it! celebrates the power of mistakes and shows how they can enrich the creative process. This is part photobook and part guide to loosening up and making mistakes to take the fear out of failure and encourage experimentation.It showcases the best and most hilarious examples of imperfection and failure across a broad range of creative forms, including art, design, photography, architecture and product design, to inspire and encourage creatives to embrace and celebrate their mistakes.We live in an era when everyone is striving for perfection and we have become afraid of failure, which limits our potential. Mistakes help us find new ways of thinking and innovative solutions, and failures can change our perceptions and open up new ways of looking things. This book transforms mistakes from something to be embarrassed about into a cause for celebration.It includes over 150 visual examples drawn from Kessels personal collection of artworks and found photographs, along with tips, quotes, anecdotes and wisdom for celebrating with failure. To quote Kessels: 'the ubiquity of Apple + Z, means that we can literally undo any mistake before it has had time to breathe, be considered and — perhaps — evolve into something else: a fascinating, strange, provocative or even original piece of work. This book asks readers to embrace their fuck-ups, learn from them and celebrate their tawdry glory'.

Paperback: 192 pages

Publisher: Phaidon Press (May 16, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0714871192

ISBN-13: 978-0714871196

Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 0.8 x 7 inches

Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Best Sellers Rank: #51,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #38 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Humor > Business & Professional #108 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Humor > Self-Help & Psychology #250 in Books > Self-Help > Creativity

I really enjoy Erik Kessels artistic and commercial works. This book is a perfect collection about both of them, including another artists with a very interesting and curious production. The reading is very pleasant and you learn a lot with it. I strongly recommend!

I saw this book and the title just spoke to me. It was a great little read, very inspiring for anyone doing creative work.

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