howies®

Inside Steve’s Brain
Leander Kahney.
The driving force of Apple. Read why.
 
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Niall Ferguson
Probably the best book about the journey from boom to bust throughout history.
 
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons For Corporate America
Warren E Buffett
Wise words from a man who chose to get rich slowly.
 
Less is more
Goldian Vadenbroeck
How to keep
things simple.
 
Outliers The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell
He might have the craziest hairdresser but one of the most interesting minds.
 
My Grammar and I (or should that be me?)
Caroline Taggart and JA Wines
If someone buys you this, it’s a subtle hint.
 
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Economics and human behavior.                                      

Everything’s an offer: How to do more with less
Robert Poynton
For all those of you that think improv has nothing to teach business.                   

Green to Gold
Daniel C Esty & Andrew S Winston
How to make sustainability a core element of a company’s strategy and profit from it.

The Clean Tech Revolution
Ron Patrick & Clint Wilder
Changing economies from changing energy sources.
 
The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less
Richard Koch
The law of the vital few.

Keeping Chickens: The Essential Guide to Enjoying and Getting the Best from Chickens
Jeremy Hobson & Celia Lewis
Does what it says on the egg box.

About green energy technologies

Wave and Tidal Power
Mark Venables
The current stage of wave and tidal power technology and its potential benefits in the UK.
 
Off the Grid Homes
Lori Ryker
Contemporary architecture projects that look at alternative technologies to generate energy.

About carbon footprints10 Technologies to Save the Planet
Chris Goodall
About the inventors and innovators that are tackling climate change head on.                                                     

Architecture of Change
Kristin Feireiss & Lukas Feireiss
Sustainability and humanity in the built environment.

About surf stuff

Stormrider guide: Europe Continent
Low Pressure Detailed and mapped
out guide to best breaks in Europe.

The Surfboard
Ben Marcus
About the surfboard.
 
The Book of Surfing
Mike Fordham
All you need to know.

About art, design and photography

Polaroid Book
The best images from the Polaroid Collection.

Sustainable
Aaris Sherin
A handbook of materials and applications for graphics.

Over and Over
Mike Perry
Hand-drawn patterns in day-to-day places.

New Photography in Britain
Filippo Maggia
First in a series of books dedicated to emerging photographers around  the world.

Deformer
Ed Templeton
Multi-media scrapbook of his upbringing in suburban Orange County, California.

Copywriting
Successful writing for design, advertising and marketing.

About other stuff and travel

Places to Hide: In England, Scotland & Wales
Dixe Wills
Hiding places in Britain.

Green Places to Stay
Alastair Sawday
A guide to special places that provide green or eco standards.

Organic Places to Stay in the UK
Linda Moss
A great directory of ethical places to stay in the UK.

More Mobile
Jennifer Siegal
About portable architecture.

Glass Love
Andrew Kidman
A beautiful film focusing on the generational link and love of surfing.

Longer
J. Brother
A film that brought the soul back to surf film making.

carbontrust.co.uk
Reducing carbon emissions and helps to develop low carbon technologies.
 
resurgence.org/resources/carbon-
calculator
Work out your carbon emissions with this calculator.
 
ecoescape.org
Online guide to eco-friendly holidays in the UK.
 
britsurf.co.uk
The British Surf Association website.
 
magicseaweed.com
Online directory or everything to do with surfing.
 
sas.org.uk
Surfers Against Sewage website. magcloud.com
Make a zine, upload it to MagCloud and start selling. They print them to order. What royaltee is to t-shirts, MagCloud is to magazines.                    

threetreesdontmakeaforest.org
Group of graphic designers who set up a non-profit company to be the catalyst for the creation of a zero carbon design industry.

lovelyasatree.com  
The website that tells you everything you need to know to be a more environmentally aware graphic designer.

myloveforyou.typepad.com
Great blog for inspiration. Full of beautiful illustrations and other pieces of art.
 
feltron.com  
This guy is the king of information design. Check out the 2008 report.

chrisking.com
The hand-me-down of bike components.

daytum.com
A website allowing
you to input your daily data and output it in beautiful infographics. Check out mine: daytum.com/jonheslop                

muxtape.com
This will be huge.

ihardlyknowher.com
Everyone is fed up with how slow and difficult the user interface is on Flickr. Go look at ihardlyknowher.com/dolectures

boston.com/bigpicture
Where all the best photojournalism is.

allotment.org.uk
Find out how and where.

vimeo.com/takeawayshows
Brilliant vimeo channel of the French music film makers La Blogotheque.

www.polfed.com
Local crime maps.

trustpilot.co.uk
Which retailers are to be trusted and which are to be avoided.

downsizer.net
Online community for those who want to downsize.

appremover.com
Removes all the stuff you thought essential last week.

sketchup.google.com
Make and share 3D models.

snopes.com
Check out if a story is true or not.

debutart.com/artist/alan-kitching
The very talented letterpress designer whose work is on
these two pages.