Applied Curiosity, a yellow paperback, standing upright on a stack of three copies

Applied Curiosity

436 illustrated pages. Five parts, ten principles, seven stories.

$32.00 Ships September 18

Applied CuriosityAn illustrated invitation by Stephanie + Isaac Budmen

A new book. 436 illustrated pages. Five parts, ten principles, seven stories from a working practice.

Applied Curiosity is about a particular kind of curiosity: the kind that builds something. Not just wondering. Building. Not just asking. Answering with your hands.

The book argues, gently, that the most interesting questions are the ones you can't Google, and that the only way to find out what's on the other side of one is to make something and see. It's for anyone who has ever felt the difference between collecting points and making a thing, and wanted to spend more time on the second.

It's a book to look at as much as to read. We made it that way on purpose.

Pre-order now. Ships September 18, 2026.

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From the book
Watercolor page: opening spreadWatercolor page: two people climbing a ladder while fireworks burst in the night sky behind themDark page: a single white line tangling, looping, and zigzagging its way across a black spreadWatercolor page: Sometimes things break or fail, but that actually reveals the mostWatercolor page: One of the questions we asked was: How could we share and expand a sensory experience?Photograph page: We didn't set out to design furniture that looked like volcanic rock, that was a discovery. Life is not a straight lineWatercolor page: What if students could answer these big, un-googleable questions?Watercolor page: This method is one way we've found to practice Applied Curiosity