What Designers Read - Blue Clover Studios

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. – Into The Wild

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In a world that is ever-changing, sometimes you have to slow down and pick up a book to become inspired. Designers use a variety of tools they have learned, and the world around them to create new and interesting things.

Below is a selection of books that our Blue Clover designers have chosen that have inspired them in the past. These books range from a French story about a small boy that explores planets for unexpected surprises to a story about a rural family that is on a journey to say goodbye and buries their mother. Whether you are listening to the book, reading on a tablet, or holding a real book reading gives you a chance to slow down and immerse yourself into a different reality.

Studies show that reading stimulates the right side of your brain which can boost creativity and open your mind to new possibilities that you may have not seen before. Stories are known to stick with us because they re-structure us from the normal day to day and create a gap in our normal routine.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.”
– Albert Einstein

Check out some of the books that made the reading list below!

“The only way to learn is to live”

“The only way to learn is to live”
"If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:..."

"If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:..."
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."
“Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.”

“Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.”
"My mother is a fish."

"My mother is a fish."
"Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas."

"Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas."