We are all makers. From brewing our morning coffee to folding a paper aeroplane, we find it satisfying to create something that didn’t exist before. And it isn’t just about the outcome. Making requires us to slow down and become absorbed in the process: an antidote to our fast-paced world.

James Otter is an award-winning wooden surfboard maker with a passion for craftsmanship — and the ocean. In Do Make, he invites us to rediscover the joy of making. By using our hands to transform natural materials into objects of beauty and utility, we reconnect with our creativity, our environment, and back to ourselves. Learn about:

• Preparation: what to make, where and how to get started
• Process: learn to trust it and let go of perfection
• Power: develop confidence in your natural skills and ability

With incredible photography, plenty of encouragement and even a ‘how to’ guide to make your own handplane to take bodysurfing, Do Make reminds us that nothing quite beats the feeling of having made something with our own hands.

Isn’t it time to make your mark on the world?

Dimensions: 120x178cm
ISBN: 978-1-907974-86-1
Pub date: Sept 2020

Do work you love. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? But the reality can be quite different. Whether you're just starting out or ready to head in a new direction, you're going to need some help turning your natural skills into success-seeking missiles of radness.

On hand is Gavin Strange, a creative working by night under the moniker JamFactory and, by day, at Aardman Animations – the Academy Award-winning studio behind Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.

With advice, encouragement and a reminder that life’s too short to not pursue your passion, whatever your age or position - whether you're a recent school leaver, a graduate, a team leader or the actual CEO, Do Fly will inspire you to:

• Change your perspective and revamp your mindset
• Develop creative side projects
• Stay optimistic and resilient
• Discover skills and passions you never knew you had!

Do Fly is your all-in-one guide, ticket and passport to a new destination. Are you ready for take off?

Dimensions: 120x178mm
ISBN: 978-1-907974-26-7

Traumjob- Von der Berufung zum Beruf.

The School of Life

De Botton Alain

Wie finde ich de n richtige n Beruf für mich?
Zu den wichtigsten Voraussetzungen für ein erfülltes Leben gehört, außer einer befriedigenden Partnerschaft, auch eine berufliche Laufbahn, mit der wir uns wohlfühlen, ein Job, den wir gerne tun. Sich selbst gut genug zu kennen, um ganz sicher zu wissen, wofür man seine Energien am besten einsetzen sollte, ist allerdings verdammt schwer. Das Handbuch "Traumjob" zeigt uns einfühlsam und praxisnah, wie wir uns selbst besser verstehen lernen, um so den richtigen Job für uns zu finden. Entdecken Sie Ihre wahren Talente, bevor es zu spät ist.

Wie finde ich einen Beruf, der zu mir passt?
So wichtig wie eine gute Partnerschaft ist es, den Traumberuf zu finden
Entdecken Sie Ihre wahren Talente, bevor es zu spät ist

Einband: gebundene Ausgabe
Seiten: 192
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.04.2018
Sprache: Deutsch
Verlag: Süddeutsche Zeitung
Gewicht: 431g

Company of One

Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business

Paul Jarvis

The only person you need to start and run a highly profitable and sustainable company is you

What if the real key to a richer and more fulfilling career was not to create and scale up a new business, but rather, to be able to work for yourself, determine your own hours and become a (highly profitable) and sustainable company of one? Suppose the better-and smarter-solution is simply to remain small? Company of One is a refreshing new approach centered on staying small and avoiding growth, for any size of business. Not as a freelancer who only gets paid on a per piece basis, and not as an entrepreneurial start-up that wants to scale up as soon as possible, but as a small business that is deliberately committed to staying that way. By staying small, you can have freedom to pursue more meaningful pleasures in life, and avoid the headaches that result from dealing with employees, long meetings, or worrying about expansion. Company of Oneintroduces this unique business strategy and explains how to make it work for you, including how to generate cash flow on an ongoing basis.

Paul Jarvis left the corporate world when he realized that working in a high-pressure, high-profile world was not his idea of success. Instead, he now works for himself out of his home, and lives a much more rewarding and productive life. He no longer has to contend with an environment that constantly demands more productivity, more output and more growth.

In Company of One, Jarvis explains how you can do the same, including planning to set up, determining desired revenues and keeping clients happy, and of course, doing all this on your own.

• Published: 2 June 2020
• ISBN: 9780241470466
• Imprint: Penguin General UK
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 272

The Cost of Free Shipping

Amazon in the Global Economy

Edited by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Ellen Reese

Amazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has become the richest person in history, and one of the few people to profit from a global pandemic. Its dominance has reshaped the global economy itself: we live in the age of 'Amazon Capitalism'.

'One-click' instant consumerism and its immense variety of products has made Amazon a worldwide household name, with over 60% of US households subscribing to Amazon Prime. In turn, these subscribers are surveilled by the corporation. Amazon is also one of the world's largest logistics companies, resulting in weakened unions and lowered labor standards. The company has also become the largest provider of cloud-computing services and home surveillance systems, not to mention the ubiquitous Alexa.

With cutting-edge analyses, this book looks at the many dark facets of the corporation, including automation, surveillance, tech work, workers' struggles, algorithmic challenges, the disruption of local democracy and much more. The Cost of Free Shippingshows how Amazon represents a fundamental shift in global capitalism that we should name, interrogate and be primed to resist.

Issue 2: The Mind

Courier Issue 38

Courier’s annual ‘Work Better + Live Smarter’ issue is jam-packed with loads of stories, case studies, advice, insights and inspiration for carving your own path for the year ahead. 

In this issue:

-Courier’s 21 big questions for 2021

-How to be better: a monthly guide

-The rise of conscious alcohol brands

-Up-and-coming New Delhi designers

-The joy of Japanese gardening tools

-How to manage a distributed team

-The good life at a Costa Rican surf hotel

-Learn how to scenario plan like a pro

-Turning a T-shirt into venture capital

-A portrait of Alisha Ramos

-Lessons from a mobile dog groomer

-The Malaysian home of Kerol Izwan

-Sunny escapes from Austin to Crete

Courier Issue 37

Courier’s annual ‘Get up and go!’ issue is here. Our Oct/Nov 2020 edition features a guide to packing your bags, moving cities and starting something new – including the 14 cities to set up shop, from Honolulu and Mexico City, to Ho Chi Minh, Tbilisi and beyond.

Also in this issue:

-How to adopt a four-day work week

-The rise of natural toothpaste

-Calculating your carbon footprint

-The new business of growing old

-A portrait of Aurora James

-How to catch your biases in action

-Tofu brands, shops and recipes

-The new Covid-friendly office

-Go off grid in a remote cabin

-A modern women’s boxing brand

-Learn about convertible loan notes

-Start a paid email newsletter

-How an e-bike gets made

-100 + small business products to buy

How to Get on With Your Colleagues

A guide to better collaboration

The most difficult aspect of work has nothing to do with profitability or deadlines or competition. It has to do with the immense and beautiful challenges of dealing, on an ongoing basis, with that often amazing but always complicated entity known as the colleague. Our colleagues can be the sources of our greatest joys and triumphs: they compensate for our weaknesses, enlarge our strengths and aggregate our energies. However, working successfully around others is neither intuitive nor simple: it requires us to communicate effectively, to understand our own minds and blind spots, to master our emotions and to see the world from other people’s perspectives. The School of Life has been working with organisations since its foundation, releasing the latent talents of employees and equipping them with the emotional intelligence required to succeed. This book compresses our learning into a series of lessons on workplace psychology. The result is an essential guide to more profitable, harmonious and happier organisations.

Skills Include:

• Part I: The Need to Get On With Others
• Part II: The Challenges
• Part III: Towards Harmony

Offscreen – Issue 23

This book is about disruption. About doing things differently. About having ideas that will change the world. That will at least change your world. It’s also about delivering those ideas.

Do Disrupt is an interactive workbook that will help you create or refine your business idea and take it from concept to market. It will encourage you to define your customer, identify the competition... and then outsmart them. You’ll also find out why you need a chat with your Nan and a tape measure.

Newly updated for 2017, this expanded edition features a new introduction, a brand new chapter on how to create positive change from within a larger organisation, fresh insight on global trends driving disruption, how to generate ideas, boost creativity and define your purpose. 

If you're starting a new business or you're the rebel inside, it's not enough to shake things gently. It's about thinking big. Being innovative. Making a difference. 

Author: Mark Shayler

How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? We're supposed to go to university, forge a career, get wealthier, buy a house - but why is that so hard for most of us to achieve?

Split makes sense of our world by looking at class society - delving into the deep-rooted economic inequalities that shape our lives. From the gig economy, rising debt and the housing crisis that affects the majority of people, to the world of tax havens and unfair inheritance that affect the few…

Now is the time to fight back against the 1%.

The Author: Ben Tippet is an educator, activist, and writer. He is currently doing a PhD at the University of Greenwich, researching the causes of wealth inequality in the UK. He is a researcher for The Transnational Institute and has written for Novara, Stike! and Economy.

Dear Client
This Book Will Teach You How to Get What You Want from Creative People

Bonnie Siegler

In a world where every business, brand, product, and service needs a strong visual identity, it’s critical for clients and creative professionals to work together. And the key to success, as with any relationship, is communication. In Dear Client, award-winning graphic designer Bonnie Siegler offers an invaluable step-by-step guide to how to talk so creatives will listen, and how to listen when creatives talk.

Written as a series of honest, friendly lessons—“Know What You Like,” “Decide Who Will Decide,” “Focus Groups Suck,” “Don’t Say ‘Make It Yellow,’ Say ‘Make It Sunny,’” “Serve Lunch During Lunchtime Meetings”—it shows exactly how to deal with the subjectivity, emotional pitfalls, and occasional chaos of a creative partnership. Here’s how to articulate your visual goals and set a clear, consistent direction. How to give feedback that works and avoid words that inhibit creative thinking. How to be open to something you didn’t imagine. And most of all, how to have fun, save money, and get the results you want.

Courier’s ‘Work Better + Live Smarter’ issue is packed with stories, inspiration and tips for working and living on your own terms, plus a special 16-page step-by-step guide to launching a new business.

 Also in this issue:

 -20 observations and opportunities for 2020
-How to do business in China
-Portrait of an etiquette queen
-Inside the passion economy
-Audio porn heats up
-Making olive oil in Joshua Tree
-Trouva’s shopping spree
-Japan’s DIY chop stick brand
-A facelift for a Parisian shopping district
-Art co-ownership
-Design hotels from Venice to Edinburgh