Publication date: 2007-04-16
Dewey code: 741.672
RRP: £24.95
Price: £14.14
Review 100 Years of Fashion Illustration / Laurence King Publishing:
Publication date: 2001-06-30
Dewey code: 700
RRP: £24.95
Price: £13.79
Review The Art of Looking Sideways / Phaidon Press Ltd:Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways is an absolutely extraordinary and inexhaustible "guide to visual awareness", a virtually indescribable concoction of anecdotes, quotes, images and bizarre facts that offers a wonderfully twisted vision of the chaos of modern life. Fletcher is a renowned designer and art director and the joy of The Art of Looking Sideways lies in its beautiful design. Loosely arranged in 72 chapters with titles like "Colour", "Noise", "Chance", "Camouflage" and "Handedness", Fletcher's book, which he describes as "a journey without a destination", is "a collection of shards" that captures the sensory overload of a world that simply contains too much information. In one typical section, entitled "Civilization", the reader encounters six Polish flags designed to represent the world, a photograph of an anthropomorphic hand bag, Buzz Aldrin's bootprint on the moon, drawings of Stone Age pebbles, a painting of "Ireland-as seen from Wales" and a dizzying array of quotations and snippets of information, including the wise words of Marcus Aurelius, Stephen Jay and Gandhi's comment, "Western civilization? I think it would be a good idea". Fletcher's mastery of design mixes type, space, fonts, alphabets, colour and layout combined with a "jackdaw" eye for the strange and profound to produce a stunning book that cannot be read, but only experienced. -Jerry Brotton.
Authors
- Darrel Rees
- Nicholas Blechman
Dewey code: 741.6023
RRP: £17.95
Price: £7.64
Review How to Be an Illustrator / Laurence King Publishing:
Publication date: 2005-09-22
Dewey code: 741.6023
RRP: £19.95
Price: £5.78
Review How to Be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul / Princeton Architectural Press:
Publication date: 2004-09-02
Dewey code: 741.6
RRP: £27.50
Price: £13.50
Review 1000 Graphic Elements: Special Details for Distinctive Designs (1,000) / Rockport Publishers Inc.:
Edition: 4th 2008
Publication date: 2007-08-01
Dewey code: 808.06805
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.02
Review Children's Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2008 (Writers' and Artists') (Writers' and Artists') / A & C Black Publishers Ltd:
Authors
- Richard Martin
- Suzy Menkes
- Melanie Rickey
- Angela Buttolph
- Alice Mackrell
Publication date: 2001-04-30
Dewey code: 746
RRP: £6.95
Price: £2.72
Review The Fashion Book / Phaidon Press Ltd:James Abbe, a 1920s fashion photographer, and Zoran, the designer whose simple, monochromatic clothes were extremely popular in the 1970s, anchor the 500 entries in this massive encyclopedia of fashion. Each designer, photographer, model or icon gets a page with a large photo and informative but short caption. This has the wonderful effect of weighting each entry equally, thereby devoting the same amount of space to Charles Revson, creator of the Revlon cosmetics empire and relative makeup newcomer François Nars, pioneering clothing designer Mariano Fortuny and contemporary favourite Tom Ford. Clearly, a good set of eyes edited this book. It's a tall order to choose just one image to define the many facets of a designer, model, or photographer. The choices made here are excellent and often surprising. The indomitable Coco Chanel demonstrates the ease of movement her designs afforded women by briskly swinging her arm out to one side, while Kate Moss is shown at the height of her waifdom, likely the mode in which she will best be remembered. Model Linda Evangelista is pictured with curly locks of hair. It's obvious, too, that the editors employed the haphazard juxtaposition created by the alphabetical organization. Facing entries, no matter how seemingly incongruous, are united by a visual theme to spectacular effect. [+]The ovals made by the either screaming or yawning mouths of Kurt Cobain and his infant daughter are mirrored in a 1937 Jean Cocteau illustration of an Elsa Schiaparelli design. A model in a 1930s outfit by John-Frederics faces a portrait of post-punk design queen Betsey Johnson, whose floral outfit echoes the flowery silhouette behind the model. A troika of Robert Lee Morris bracelets matches the arcs of a bombed-out London building in a 1941 Cecil Beaton photo of a Digby Morton design. The vibrant prints of Emilio Pucci and Lilly Pulitzer fall together naturally. The reams of fabulous images and the inventive design alone make The Fashion Book a treat at any cost, but the low price-to-size ratio (like its cousins The Art Book and The Photography Book) makes it a real bargain.
Publication date: 2008-06-25
Dewey code: 791.4372
RRP: £25.00
Price: £12.97
Review Art of Wall.E (Art of) / Chronicle Books:
Publication date: 2007-10-15
Dewey code: 760
RRP: £19.95
Price: £11.32
Review Logo / Laurence King Publishing:
Publication date: 2005-01-28
Dewey code: 760
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.50
Review Branding / RotoVision:
Publication date: 2008-03-31
Dewey code: 741.6
RRP: £22.50
Price: £12.66
Review Visual Merchandising: Window and In-Store Displays for Retail / Laurence King Publishing:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-08-10
Dewey code: 006.78
RRP: £22.99
Price: £14.29
Review How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS3, (How to Cheat in): The Art of Design and Animation (How to Cheat in) / Focal Press:
Edition: 6
Publication date: 2008-05-24
Dewey code: 621
RRP: £11.99
Price: £9.33
Review 17th Edition IEE Wiring Regulations: Design & Verification of Electrical Installations: Design and Verification of Electrical Installations / Newnes:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-07-23
Dewey code: 006
RRP: £22.99
Price: £13.04
Review Creative Photoshop: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques, cove: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques, Covering Photoshop CS3 (Digital Workflow) / Focal Press:
Publication date: 2000-01-24
Dewey code: 133.3337
RRP: £13.99
Price: £3.09
Review Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life: How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect, and Happiness / Prentice Hall & IBD:
Edition: 3
Publication date: 2008-02-21
Dewey code: 686.2252
RRP: £23.99
Price: £10.67
Review The Non-Designer's Design Book / Peachpit Press:Subtitled Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice, this book is for anyone who has to design a newsletter, job ad, flyer, business card, memo, report or whatever, but has no idea what separates good design from bad. Except, of course, that the first looks clear, professional, sophisticated and right, and the second is an ugly, unreadable mess. Robin Williams has an easily readable style and manages to communicate sometimes complex and sophisticated concepts simply and directly. She rightly assumes that, though most people can recognise bad design when they see it, they don't know why it's bad and are therefore powerless to fix the same problems in their own work. The bulk of the book is given over to explaining how, by sticking to four basic design principles-contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity-you can eliminate design gremlins from your work. In searching for a memorable and appropriate acronym for this principled approach, Williams admits she was only semi-successful. The second half of the book deals with how to use type. Once again the approach is to explain simply, directly and with illustrated examples how the relationship between typefaces is defined. As a college teacher, Williams can't resist the temptation to dot little quizzes, tests and mini-projects throughout the text. These are mostly good fun and reinforce what you've read, though even if you decide to ignore them they won't spoil your enjoyment of the book. [+]The Non-Designer's Design Book is the kind of book you could read in your lunch break. Its attitude is more "sketch in the margin with a pencil", than "complete the projects on the CD". It would be an ideal primer for anyone starting a design course, as well as those who want to improve the look of their memos. -Ken McMahon.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-01-02
Dewey code: 005.58
RRP: £21.99
Price: £9.20
Review Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter) / New Riders:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2005-09-08
Dewey code: 006.7
RRP: £24.99
Price: £10.99
Review Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability / New Riders:Usability design is one of the most important though often least attractive tasks for a Web developer. In Don't Make Me Think, author Steve Krug lightens up the subject with good humour and excellent to-the-point examples. The title of the book is its chief personal design premise. All of the tips, techniques and examples presented within it revolve around users being able to surf merrily through a well-designed site with minimal cognitive strain. Readers will quickly come to agree with many of the book's assumptions. For example, "We don't read pages-we scan them" and, "We don't figure out how things work-we muddle through". Getting to grips with such hard facts sets the stage for Web design that then produces top-notch sites. Using an attractive mix of full-colour screen shots, cute cartoons and diagrams, and informative sidebars, the book keeps your attention and drives home some crucial points. Much of the content is devoted to proper use of conventions and content layout, and the "before and after" examples are superb. Topics such as the wise use of rollovers and usability testing are covered using a consistently practical approach. [+]This is the type of book you can blow through in a couple evenings. But despite its conciseness, it will give you an expert's ability to judge Web design. You'll never form a first impression of a site in the same way again. -Stephen W Plain.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-12-20
Dewey code: 006.78
RRP: £31.99
Price: £14.85
Review Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website / Prentice Hall:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2007-08-23
Dewey code: 005.7
RRP: £28.99
Price: £13.15
Review Bulletproof Web Design: Improving Flexibility and Protecting Against Worst-Case Scenarios with XHTML and CSS / New Riders:
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100 Years of Fashion Illustration, The Art of Looking Sideways, How to Be an Illustrator, How to Be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul, 1000 Graphic Elements: Special Details for Distinctive Designs (1,000), Children's Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2008 (Writers' and Artists') (Writers' and Artists'), The Fashion Book, Art of Wall.E (Art of), Logo, Branding, Visual Merchandising: Window and In-Store Displays for Retail, How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS3, (How to Cheat in): The Art of Design and Animation (How to Cheat in), 17th Edition IEE Wiring Regulations: Design & Verification of Electrical Installations: Design and Verification of Electrical Installations, Creative Photoshop: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques, cove: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques, Covering Photoshop CS3 (Digital Workflow), Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life: How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect, and Happiness, The Non-Designer's Design Book, Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter), Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Joomla! 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