Art Architecture Photography Books

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.

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.

Beautifully done. Tons of categories. Extreme Picture book. Is nice enough to be a coffee table book even for those that aren't excited about graphics as much as I am. This is a great book to get some fresh ideas from. Nice reference book for any graphic artist. I loved this book so much that I bought it for one of my clients in the UK so they could have it, too. This would also make a great gift for any type of artist since it covers everything from corporate logos, letterheads, brochures, and even displays. It has much more than that because all the little color boxes on the front of the book are actual sections in this book. This is something that I wanted to have in hardcover.

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.

I ordered this book hoping it'll give me some fresh and new ideas for designing. I am very dissapointed, because what I've got is not more than 330 pages of outdated, temporary designs. Pretty much 330 of its 374 pages are filled with the same of what I call "typical american design from 90-95". So if you look at it that way, this book is way overpriced for 40 good pages.

Because I bought Art of Rebellion 2 first, I was surprised to find that the first edition was much smaller than I expected. It's only about A5 size, soft cover compared to the hardback no.2. Go for two. it's much better.

It was well layed out, had good info, but wasn't that incredible. Stencil Pirates and Street Logos are way better books. Buy those before you buy this one. If you have a little cash to burn then buy this book.

This is the best book on Street Art and individual artists available, hands down. Way too many boks on the subject try and turn it into a gallery exhibit, but c-100 shows the pieces just as they should be: in their natural, urban setting.

With that said, this book is horribly laid out, designed, and edited. I think every page of text has some typo error in it, and the overall design is just very cluttered and hard to follow. The text, especially the artist interviews are often illegible, which is a shame because they have good information. ANd overall, the images are smashed 10-16 a page. i really wish someone would have stepped in and edited it.

As a graphic designer, I love the subject matter and the concept, but I cant stand seeing someting so interesting be so poorly handled.

Buy it to look at the awesome (albeit small-sized) art, just dont try and read the text.

The name of the book reflects the content well, it's not a "graffiti" book. C-100 covers a lot of artists and styles but unfortunately all images are very small (but good and high-quality) and there is no text at all. I think this book should be more than just an image gallery. There is a little survey, which some of the artists included in the book had to fill out, but most of them just make fun of it missing the great opportunity to introduce themselves to the world, well, maybe they just don't need it, it's a street art anyway.

Art of Rebellion is a rad little book. It doesn't set out to be the encyclopedia of Street Art, but is more like a best of the best in terms of the new forms. As an extra bonus, the "bellyband" made out of stickers.

Pictures via camera reflect not only what the photographer sees, but what he thinks about. The most successful reflect an understanding of things as much as their image, and Jerry Thompson's exploration of the relationship between seeing and thinking in Truth And Photography provides a set of fine duotone photos to illustrate essays reflecting on working photography experiences.

For more than thirty years Sam Abell traveled the world on assignment for National Geographic. In Seeing Gardens he has assembled 125 of his most exotic, beautiful, dazzling photographs of gardens ranging from the symmetrical, formal English garden to the haphazard, naturally harmonious rock pools, to a field of spring blossoms, to the floral design of a head scarf. Highly recommended for students of photography, gardening enthusiasts, and anyone who appreciates viewing the world through an artist's lens, Seeing Gardens is a vivid, personally intense, inspiring, visual celebration of the variety, spectrum and beauty of gardens.