Bareback: A Tomato Project

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Summary: something missing
Review: Bareback doesn't quite start from where Process finished. It's a different, more clean end product. Out go the textured pages and wonderful dirty typography, and in come experiments with light and bare text. There's a lot more to read, and a lot more to discover in this collection of artwork, but it lacks some of the roughness and originality that made Process what it was. There's something missing, some drive missing behind parts of Bareback. Having said that, it's still a worthy purchase if you liked Process and (or) Skyscraper, but don't expect it to have the same affect you got from it's predecessors.

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Summary: Brilliant Design Poetry
Review: For anyone that is a fan of Tomato's work this should get you very excited. This book is similar to Process in that it takes the private work of the guys at Tomato and combines it with company work to create some brilliant poetic imagery. the text is typical of Karl Hyde (see mmm. Skyscraper, I Love You; Underworld, Process) but not for the literal poetry enthusiast. It gets very abstract at points. Don't expect the beautiful grunge of Process and mmm. Skyscraper, I Love You. This book takes the new clean approach that Tomato is currently exploring. A nice break from what people have begun to expect tomato to produce.

Rating:
Summary: Brilliant Design Poetry
Review: For anyone that is a fan of Tomato's work this should get you very excited. This book is similar to Process in that it takes the private work of the guys at Tomato and combines it with company work to create some brilliant poetic imagery. the text is typical of Karl Hyde (see mmm. Skyscraper, I Love You; Underworld, Process) but not for the literal poetry enthusiast. It gets very abstract at points. Don't expect the beautiful grunge of Process and mmm. Skyscraper, I Love You. This book takes the new clean approach that Tomato is currently exploring. A nice break from what people have begun to expect tomato to produce.