Design the Life You Love: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Meaningful Future, Ayse Birsel

Birsel is the creative director and principal of Birsel + Seck, the New York design studio she founded with her husband, Bibi Seck. Her book is a beautifully designed selfhelp manual filled with words (handprinted by the author) and pictures (doodles, drawings, cartoons and comic strip/ graphic novel panels, vision maps and other creative tools) that is fun to flip through and filled with creative ideas for designing your best life possible. In her introduction, Birsel says the workbook (she prefers, “playbook” to put the emphasis on fun) represents the “intersection of my design process, Deconstruction Reconstruction, and my biggest project, my life.”