Letters to a Young Creator
What it takes to make something great, from people who have done it before
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4.3 • 38 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Letters to a Young Creator is a collection of honest perspectives on what it takes to make something great, written by people who have done it before.
The series features contributions from notable figures across business, design, technology, and the arts, written in response to questions posed by past and present SJA Fellows. The title is a nod to Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet—one of Steve’s favorites—and to Steve’s own practice of exchanging ideas as a path toward clarity.
Our full contributor list features Tadao Ando, Paola Antonelli, Mario Bellini, Larry Brilliant, Anders Byriel, Ed Catmull, Jon M. Chu, Lee Clow, Tim Cook, Brunello Cucinelli, Es Devlin, Pete Docter, Mickey Drexler, Lord Norman Foster, Davis Guggenheim, Jenny Holzer, Bob Iger, Jimmy Iovine, Jony Ive, Rashid Johnson, Alan Kay, David Kelley, Marc Newson, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Ben Okri, Dieter Rams, Alice Rawsthorn, Arthur Rock, Ruth Rogers, Samuel Ross, Cindy Sherman, Mona Simpson, and Anna Deavere Smith, as well as an introduction from Laurene Powell Jobs.
Customer Reviews
Inspirational
Human creators have created different forms of art, technology, culture, and society. The immediate “creators” of young creators are our parents. However, if we trace back, who is the creator of the origin of human, or earth, or the entire universe? Church, scientists, and historians all worked hard to try to come up with an answer.
The specie of human being, as a whole, had made tremendous progress into today, to name ourselves creators made us resemble the religious image of the creator. Letters from various creators who have succeeded in their field of work is both inspirational and educational.
I love the letter of the epilogue, which is a letter from Steve to Steve, the most. I felt the sense of humility and the appreciation to the entire human species. We can only do so much, but combined with the work of others, we can create a community of love, integrity, prosperity.
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well worth the read
This was an excellent collection of thoughts. Some for me, some not. All of them laced with an element of Steve's soul, lovingly brought back into our lives to once again inspire us.