Mess: The Manual of Accidents and Mistakes
By (Author) Keri Smith
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
27th August 2010
4th November 2010
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
158.1
Paperback
224
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 14mm
240g
Take a walk. Lose your balance. Drop an egg. Then cover this page with something sticky. In Mess, Keri Smith, creator of Wreck This Journal, asks readers to explore what it feels like to throw themselves off balance -- on purpose. Smith dares readers to drop some kind of coloured liquid (ink, tea, coffee) onto a page from a good height (at least five feet); draw in the dark (or with eyes closed); creatively misspell words; paint a picture in a water-based medium (pen, marker, watercolour, etc) and leave it out during a rain or snowstorm; and bury this book, then dig it up. This book is unlike any other you've encountered and will allow you to open yourself up to the possibility of creating something new and unexpected.
Keri Smith is a best-selling author, illustrator, and thinker. Her books include Wreck this Journal, This is Not a Book, How to Be an Explorer of the World, Mess, Finish This Book, The Pocket Scavenger, Everything Is Connected, The Imaginary World of ... as well as Wreck This App, This is Not an App, and the Pocket Scavenger app.