From ever-inventive designer Stefan G. Bucher of You Deserve a Medal and Daily Monster fame comes 344 Questions: The Creative Person's Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment -- a delightful pocket-sized compendium of flowcharts and lists illustrated in Bucher's unmistakable style to help you figure out life's big answers, in the vein of today's inadvertent running theme of self-help-books-that-aren't-really-"self-help"-books.
Besides Bucher's own questions, the tiny but potent handbook features contributions from 36 beloved cross-disciplinary creators, including Brain Pickings favorites Christoph Niemann, Stefan Sagmeister, Marian Bantjes, Doyald Young, and Jakob Trollbäck.
Let's be clear: I want this book to be useful to you. There are many great how-to books and biographies out there, and even more gorgeous collections of current and classic work to awe and inspire. But looking at catalogs of artistic success won't make you a better artist any more than looking at photos of healthy people will cure your cold. You've got to take action! --Stefan G. Bucher
(Sure, this may be somewhat remiss in overlooking the basic mechanism of combinatorial creativity, but it's it's hard to argue with the need to make ideas happen rather than just contemplating them.)