It has been about one week since the publication of Making Ideas Happen by Behance founder/ceo Scott Belsky. The book became an immediate bestseller upon launch, debuting at #15 on Amazon and leading every business and creative category. The book was also included in the Wall Street Journal as a national bestseller in business. Design and business blogs around the web have since had a chance to read the book and weigh in with reviews.

Here is an ongoing collection of some notable reviews:

--->  In Bubble Wrap (800-CEO-READ)

--->  Web Designer Depot

--->  Anita Campbell, Small Business Trends

--->  Design Mafia

--->  Cool Hunting

--->  John Jantsch, Duct Tape Marketing

--->  The Lance Life

--->  Design Droplets

--->  Silicon Valley Watcher

--->  Flavorwire Daily Dose

--->  NetDiver

--->  Sean Womack, Confessions of an Idea Junkie

---> Sacramento Book Review

---> Abundance Blog

---> Sacramento Book Publication

---> Eventualism

---> PluginID

---> Joe Woolworth

---> An Idea Blog

---> Ross Hudgens: Authentic Marketing (Video Review)

---> Tim Schraeder

---> All Business Answers

---> Brad Ruggles

--> Abduzeedo: Abducted By Design

--> Rediscovering the Lovely

--> Relevant Media Solutions

With this book, our team wants to start more discussion around organization, execution, and sound leadership in the creative industries. For this reason, we're pleased to see so many thought leaders chime in.

We were also thrilled to learn that, just a week after launch, Making Ideas Happen is the 3rd bestseller in Apple's iBooks store for the iPad. Clearly, the creative community continues to be early adopters...

CreativeXpert, a podcast focused on design, recently interviewed Scott on all things Behance, including the joys of appreciations, the "creative's compromise," and attraction as the secret to productivity.

Check out the interview here. 

Behance founder Scott Belsky presented "Tips for Making Ideas Happen" at this year's HOW Design Conference in Boston, MA. Over 4000 people attended the conference this year. The session included a selection of tips from Behance's 200+ interviews of creative teams (many of which are profiled on BehanceMag.com) as well as the methodologies developed by the Behance team. We have come across an early blog review of the session as well as a few blogger recaps here and here.

Behance's research on how the most productive creative teams operate is the featured cover story in the June 2008 issue of HOW Design Magazine, one of the biggest design industry magazines in the US.

The story covers a list of the "obstacles" observed by the Behance Team as well as eight tips that all creative teams should consider adopting...