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Summary: No Explanations
Review: If you are looking for creative ideas for your designs, this book was specifically created for you.If you are new to design, this is not the best book for you. Like me, you may not know exactly what to look for in the examples shown. Included are book jackets, catalogs, calendars, posters, and other creative designs that you can look at for ideas. Unfortunately, they are just pictures so the detail does not always come out as you might hope. There are no explanations. With each idea are the client, the art director, and the creative firm. Sometimes, it will list the designer. Unless you know what you are looking at, and can see the different elements of the whole as well as how they interact, then this book will not be very helpful. This book would be a good reference for people with design backgrounds, but not for the beginner.
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Summary: Excellent source of inspiration
Review: No text, just pictures of more then 4000 excellent art work classified in many categories varying from annual reports to packaging. A must have!
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Summary: Excellent Inspiration
Review: The Big Book of Design Ideas is a great resource for any project imaginable! It's got ideas for a variety of projects--from logo, letterhead and package design to CD, book cover, catalog and annual report design--almost any project you can think of. The possibilities are endless! The book is a great compilation of different artistic styles, providing inspiration for almost any type of project conceivable. It's a wonderful resource for anyone interested in design.
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Summary: Eye candy for the graphic designer
Review: The Big Book of Design Ideas is eye candy for the Graphic Designer. This oversized book is packed to the gills with nearly 400 pages of examples of graphic design from around the world and is the perfect book for solo-brainstorming. There is no text in the book at all, other than in the designs themselves and in a short caption under each design that details the designer/design team. The book is organized into 24 sections, each one containing designs from a particular type of print; books, catalogs, menus, Music CDs, letterhead sets and more. Every design is in full color. The reader can easily find a section dealing with what he/she is working on and get inspiration for their design or they can just simply flip through the pages for the shear enjoyment of it. One should not expect to learn graphic design from this book, but then that is not really the purpose of the book to begin with. Once one has a good foundation in the basics of graphic design, this book becomes more valuable as an inspirational tool. The book is a good addition to the library of any one in graphic design.
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Summary: Outstanding...needs six stars!
Review: This book is truly outstanding. It is a must have for you collection as you will go over it again and again. You get great ideas and keep going over and over the book. They have a wonderful selection which range from web pages, books, logo, CD's these just name a few. It shows the wonderful creative work of another but allows you the opportunity to obtain your own creative ideas. This book really is a must have!!
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Summary: Outstanding...needs six stars!
Review: This book is truly outstanding. It is a must have for you collection as you will go over it again and again. You get great ideas and keep going over and over the book. They have a wonderful selection which range from web pages, books, logo, CD's these just name a few. It shows the wonderful creative work of another but allows you the opportunity to obtain your own creative ideas. This book really is a must have!!
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Summary: Book Review
Review: This is a great book for all graphic designers!
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Summary: an excellent reference
Review: This is a must-have for any graphic designer. It is an excellent visual reference, full of inspiration and professionalism. There is a great mix of creativity and originality as well as logos we are familiar with already. If you ever feel stuck for ideas, this is an awesome book to get you out of a designer's block. It is very-well put together, both in design and layout... as well as the book itself. Definitely not a book that is going to fall apart, very sturdy and printed on good paper to really bring out the quality of the art.
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Summary: The "No Design" Design Book
Review: This is what it should be called. It has many images of so-so to excellent design. However, all of the images seem to be thrown around on the pages with no regard to the layout of the page or the sections of the book. The section headers were so faint that you almost missed them. Some of the images were bled off the page in such a way that you could not appreciate what was being illustrated. On other pages the examples were so close to the binding you almost have to rip the book in half to see them. It was hard to find what you were looking for or to focus on the designs themselves as the design of the book itself was so poor. Its OK to have a book with minimal text, but the design should be strong enough to support that.
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