A Technique for Producing
Ideas reveals a simple, sensible idea-generation methodology that has stood the test of
time.
First presented to students
in 1939, published in 1965, and now reissued for a new generation of advertising
professionals and others looking to jump-start their creative juices, this powerful guide
details a five-step process for gathering information, stimulating imagination, and
recombining old elements into dramatic new ideas.
A step-by-step technique for
sparking breakthrough creativity in advertising--or any field
Since its publication in
1965, A Technique for Producing Ideas has helped thousands of advertising copywriters
smash through internal barriers to unleash their creativity. Professionals from poets and
painters to scientists and engineers have also used the techniques in this concise,
powerful book to generate exciting ideas on demand, at any time, on any subject. Now let
James Webb Youngs unique insights help you look inside yourself to find that big, elusive
idea--and once and for all lift the veil of mystery from the creative process.
James Webb Young is in the
tradition of some of our greatest thinkers when he describes the workings of the creative
process. The results of many years in advertising have proved to him that the key element
in communications success is the production of relevant and dramatic ideas. He not only
makes this point vividly for us but shows us the road to that goal.
--William Bernbach, Former
Chairman and CEO, Doyle Dane Bernbach Inc
James Webb Young was a
driving force behind the creation of the modern advertising industry, and is one of
advertisings most honored educators and practitioners.
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