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The Art of Looking SidewaysBUY FROM AMAZON.COM
Price: $26.37
Usually ships in 24 hours RRP: Buy New: $26.37 You Save: $13.58 (34%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours PRODUCT DETAILSPublisher: Phaidon PressPub. Date: 20th August 2001 Catalog: Book Media: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 534 Ean: 9780714834498 Isbn: 0714834491 ABOUT THIS BOOKUSER REVIEWS
An amazing effort creating an amazing result. One of the most remarkable collection of concepts, ideas and observations. Never fails to nudge the creative mind our of a slump.
The product was shipped the next day and got to me quickly. The book is awesome and was in perfect condition when I got it. Thanks!
the book is big, heavy and has a confusing layout(page numbers refer to spreads, not individual pages) Some pages are printed with black type on darkblue or gray making them almost unreadable (including the index which also has numbers smaller than most eye charts.) There is no index and little way to get back to something you found before without post-its. Yet for all its drawbacks, it's a fascinating compendium of design ideas - ideas in general. Great price for this much imagery. And if one has even a bit of leisure to peruse books for what just might pop out, this would be a good one to have.
This book is a tour de force of creativity and it is suitable for everyone, not just graphic designers. Each page is so thick and rich that you shouldn't browse through it. I highly recommend you limit yourself to 1 page a day so you can absorb and digest what it contains. It is a stunning whack of creativity that you need to take slowly. Over time this book will help you to see and to think in different ways and with significantly more "creativity". If you consider yourself to be a creative person you absolutely, positively, have to get this book. It will change you.
All the scraps of thoughts, quotes, illustrations, art, and scientific insights all blend into a very nice amalgam of a book. I didn't read it from cover to cover, but rather opened up somewhere random and read different pieces. The randomness of all the inspirational thoughts allows for this type of reading - I think it actually makes the book even better. It almost works as the mind itself: getting bits and pieces of information to juggle with really gets your creative juices flowing. A must have, and must-random-read, for everyone in the creative industries and arts sector. Not sure about what other people should do with it. SIMILAR ITEMS: |

Wow ... impossible to describe, yet obviously brilliant
a jumbled mess - but fascinating