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The Big Idea Book

The Big Idea Book
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Ideas are like buses, you wait forever and then 500 come along at once. The Big Idea Book is 500 novel, ingenious and downright crazy ideas designed to inspire, amuse and divert. Developed by the team behind the innovative website, Idea–a–Day at www.idea–a–day.com, it covers everything from business to travel, politics to money and everything in between.

Idea–a–Day has a vast network of followers and contributors – some famous, some infamous, some revered, some reviled – who post ideas to be read, enjoyed, used or abused. Seth Godin, Malcolm Maclaren and Wayne Hemmingway are just a few of its fans. In The Big Idea Book all this creative energy is mixed together with unpublished ideas, quotes, cartoons, illustrations and thought–pieces to give creatives and cool office types a visual and intellectual treat guaranteed to kickstart the imagination and creative flair!

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #224727 in Books
  • Published on: 2004-02-06
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 280 pages

Editorial Reviews

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“…His Idea–a–Day website is an outlet for his many brainwaves – from the ingenious to the idiotic…” (Daily Mirror, 20 February 2004)

“… read 500 of the best ideas from people who want to make simple inventions for a nicer world.” (Hot Stars magazine, 16 March 2004)

“Entertaining and inspirational, this book will have you cursing your feeble mind for not conjuring this stuff sooner.” (Guardian, 13 March 2004)

“…celebrates innovation with 500 new ideas.” (Edinburgh Evening News, 19 March 2004)

“Packed with inspirational ways to make your first million…” (EasyJet Magazine, May 04)

Guardian, 13 March 2004
"Entertaining and inspirational, this book will have you cursing your feeble mind for not conjuring this stuff sooner.."

Edinburgh Evening News, 19 March 2004
"...celebrates innovation with 500 new ideas."

Customer Reviews

A good idea5
I come up with lots of ideas. Good ideas. Bad ideas.
Stupid ideas. Won't sit still ideas. Rodent based ideas.
Hundred mile an hour knee-sliding ideas. Some of these ideas
make it into ads, most end up scribbled on post-it notes.
Although one stupid idea I had was actually published in a book
Along with a thousand other stupid ideas.

What a jolly good idea!

Good fun but useless!3
This book is great fun to read and has some fantastic ideas but you won't use any of them, I'd almost stake my life on it.

ideal gift 4 any1 who has everythin Xcept a book of ideas5
If you have yr best ideas on the toilet, or when you wake up in the morning - then hurrah for you! If you don't, then you might want to keep this gorgeous lil, soft backed book, in its hot citrus covers, by yr bed or by the loo. It will do all yr thinking for you!

Or, at least, it will start you off... It's a bit like coco pops for the brain. Just the kind of sugary, vitamin enhanced rush you need in the morning.

The only thing square about it, is its shape. The content is mind bending. S'kinda like science fiction... "Imagine a world where..." "What if...?" It's full of ideas from the very near future. A better world.

You might've seen the editor of this book on This Morning, and on Richard & Judy. I did. And that's why I bought the book. It's not pretentious. And he has bookended the 500 ideas with his-story and a little postscript of his own - which does help to contextualise the contents.

And it's interactive (yeh yeh). Or maybe its shareware. Whatever, if you're so inspired, then you can join the idea-logical cyber community and submit yr own ideas to the website. Everyone to whom I have shown the book, reads an idea and says: I wish I'd thought of that! And then says: I wish I had an idea in that book! It's as infectious as a cold, but you don't need Kleenex.

Oh, and DARKNESS FANS, there's two beautiful ideas by The Mighty The Justin The Hawkins - obviously a man inspired by (and inspired with) great ideas - which means you automatically must buy this book!

Submit yourself to this book.

Then submit your ideas to the website.