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Summary: A must-have!
Review: My digital photographer instructor loaned me this book. This was my first semester in this field and this book convinced me to add another field to my career. There is not much help on how the pages were done, but anyone with an illustrator or publishing program can duplicate like results. The examples are diverse and inspiring, even for a beginning graphic artist. Since ordering the book, I have taken two more classes in simple graphic layout and this book has been a tremendous help. One thing I learned about graphics is that it is okay to copy other artists' work, unlike in other mediums. So, if you are going to do that, then this book is worth having on hand.
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Summary: Layout? Just pictures with spare comments
Review: The description of this book says 'A graphics design guidebook to the inner workings of great layout design". Decide for yourself if the following representative text (page 86, describing a picture of a tshirt and a menu cover) qualifies:"A table fork and a tuning fork simpley and humorously convey the food and musical offerings at Greene Street, a SoHo cafe." A guidebook? Inner workings? No wonder there are no pictures of the interior of the book. Not a single line about how to create good layouts. Some work by well-known designers is the only saving grace. Shame on the publisher (Rockport).
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Summary: Wonderful Concepts...
Review: This book has many of them. I found it to be much more helpful to me than Rockport's book on Creativity. Many, many ideas that can easily be worked into your designs to make them stronger. Also a sense of humor and cleverness are displayed in several of the projects. There are some cool bindery things here, you just never thought of doing, before now. And you don't have to have a huge design budget to produce some of these kinds of pieces.(Some yes, but several, no). This book was well worth the modest purchase price!
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