Download the toolkit
Download the entire Toolkit (v1.1) in one file (190MB PDF)
Please note this is a very large file and may take several minutes to download.
The Toolkit file contains the following components, which can be downloaded individually:
- Introduction booklet v1.1 (40 MB pdf) or as an EPUB (16 MB) or read it online
- Image cards (145 MB pdf) or as JPGs (high-res and low-res) (720 MB zip)
- Concept cards (1.7 MB pdf) or as PNGs: included in 720 MB zip above
- A3 Worksheets (160 kB pdf)
Try out the online New Metaphors generator. Or buy a printed pack.
Playing With The Trouble edition
For the Centre for Unusual Collaborations project Playing With The Trouble, we have added a small set of extra concept cards, and worksheets:
- Supplemental instructions (to follow)
- 5 extra concept cards (172 kB pdf)
- Future(s) of Collaboration A3 worksheets (1.6 MB pdf)
- New Metaphors for Sustainability A3 worksheets (139 kB pdf)
Other downloads
You might also be interested in a conference paper we published about the development of the New Metaphors method, which gives more of the academic background. The paper is based around an earlier prototype of the cards:
Dan Lockton, Devika Singh, Saloni Sabnis, Michelle Chou, Sarah Foley, Alejandro Pantoja (2019). ‘New Metaphors: A Workshop Method for Generating Ideas and Reframing Problems in Design and Beyond’. C&C 2019: ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition. June 2019, San Diego. doi:10.1145/3325480.3326570 (open-access PDF)
If you’d like to use or embed the rather rough-and-ready random “juxtaposer” on the homepage, you are welcome to do so, or create a better one. Before the fascists took over, we had a Twitter bot too.
Please email dan@imaginari.es with questions, comments, ideas, and suggestions. After two initial print runs in 2019–20, one a set of prototypes, and one a crowdfunded edition, the printed cards have been on sale since summer 2021. Sign up to our newsletter to hear about future developments.