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Title: Graphic Design Cookbook: Mix & Match Recipes for Faster, Better Layouts by Leonard Koren, R. Wippo Meckler ISBN: 0-8118-3180-9 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.94 (18 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing. Need ideas? Get them somewhere else!
Comment: O.K. I was not expecting an in-depth graphic design book. What I was looking for (and couldn't find) was a source of inspiration. This book supposedly gives you ideas to quickly incorporate them in your design tasks. "Mix & Match"... yeah right! Of course you'll find many useful ideas, but some of the examples shown in the book (most of them as a matter of fact) are either obvious examples of basic design or just repetitive.
If you want a source of inspiration, a place where you really grab an idea from here, a concept from there and beauty and awe from somewhere else, you should buy a design annual. A book with real examples where you can also "mix & match" various ingenious and downright amazing ideas... (or get a Muse!)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Layout Index Reference
Comment: If you know what to expect you will not be disappointed with this book, unlike some of the other reviewers. Graphic Design Cookbook is an extremely useful tool for graphic designers looking for layout ideas. Rather than sorting through dozens of graphic design books to get ideas, this book has sections for every aspect of page layout placement including: page numbers, paragraph placement, titles, and MUCH MORE!!
This book has virtually NO writing or explanations in it. This reference should be used only for visual layout placement ideas, and not for concrete explanations. I use this book whenever I need to make flyers, print ads, or any other print materials. EXTREMELY HELPFUL source and for this cheap cheap price, you can't beat the resourcefulness of this little book.
Another great resource that is very similiar to this book is Jim Krause's "Layout Index."
Rating: 1
Summary: A BIG collection of lay-outs
Comment: The book is almost what the title says: a Cookbook. It is full of sketched 'recepies' of layouts (most of them mediocre), almost no text, organized in categories.
If it really were a Cookbook, you would have some text, explaining a bit more thoroughly what you could do with the idea presented.
It's a book you learn very little from - you are supposed to apply what is presented. The book laid in a very arid manner, being plainly dull at some points. I did not like it at all.
If you're looking for a real Cookbook, get Jim Krause's 'Idea Index'! It not only gives you the ideas, but also has 'suggested serving variations', so you can spice-up the concepts presented.
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Title: Layout Index: Brochure, Web Design, Poster, Flyer, Advertising, Page Layout, Newsletter, Stationery Index by Jim Krause ISBN: 1581801467 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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Title: Idea Index: Graphic Effects and Typographic Treatments by Jim Krause ISBN: 1581800460 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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Title: Color Index: Over 1100 Color Combinations, CMYK and RGB Formulas, for Print and Web Media by Jim Krause ISBN: 1581802366 Publisher: How Design Books Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.99 |
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Title: The Big Book of Design Ideas by David E. Carter ISBN: 068817986X Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams ISBN: 1566091594 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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