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The organization of letters on a blank sheet -- or screen -- is the most basic challenge facing anyone who practices... more

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  Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students (Design Briefs)

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  • great review
  • Good learning material. I needed it for my class and i like the ease of reading it and the useful amount of knowledge it has. since i am a graphic design major, i found it helpful. Good condition...
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  • ehmm....
  • Required book for my typography course, and to be frank I absolutely hated it. When it comes to typography I'm very pick and this book tries to be organized but unfortunately becomes ADHD, hah.
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  • entertaining
  • A nice book for bathroom reading, but hardly a desk reference or textbook caliber tome. Look for "Design form and Communication" by Rob Carter for a more thorough source on all things type related....
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This vibrant collection of drawings was inspired by the hypnotic appeal of the mandala. An ancient form of meditative... more

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  Mystical Mandala Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Book)

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  • coloring is for all ages
  • i loved this coloring book. As I have finished each one I have hung it up in my workplace. So many women have noticed it and conversations about coloring have started. Almost every woman has...
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  • Mystical Mandalas
  • These are a bit more intricate than my preferred style; however, I use them in creative writing workshops and many are drawn to them. Thanks for offering the diversity of images to appeal to all...
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It?s the natural inconsistencies?the accidental differences between one finished piece and another?that make... more

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  Printing by Hand: A Modern Guide to Printing with Handmade Stamps, Stencils, and Silk Screens

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  • Great Book and Great Projects!
  • This book is an excellent guide for beginners or anyone who already has printmaking experience - there's very helpful charts that guide you through ink / paint mixing for different media, as well...
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Take a deep breath and jump in--doing art with toddlers and twos is fun, rewarding, and a wonderful learning... more

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  First Art : Art Experiences for Toddlers and Twos

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  • Lots of Great Ideas!
  • My daughter got this book from Grandma for her 2nd birthday. She had been attending an art class but we had to quit due to time constraints. This book definitely filled the void. Whenever we are...
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  • Great theory, tougher practice
  • I purchased this book so I could have more fun with my daughter, about a year and a half at the time of this review, and teach her a thing or two about creativity along the way. When I first got...
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A revised and expanded tenth anniversary edition of a best-selling guide designed for parents and teachers of... more

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  Drawing with Children

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  • Art Book/Drawing w/ Children
  • Very inspiring, colorful resource material for kids & their teachers, parents.
    A great find, arrived in great condition & in a timely manner.
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  • Not for a classroom
  • Hi, when I went through this book I was excited with it. It really teaches theory and gives great lessons to develop your skills. If I was using it to teach my own children or just one or two kids...
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  • Don't be fooled by the title
  • The title sounded like what I was looking for, a book to help my grandson to draw. This book don't even begin to show how to draw. It contain alot of filler pictures. It is the first time I regret...
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*Artists of all skill levels will find tips and techniques to help them develop their craft *17 step-by-step... more

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  Drawing for the Absolute Beginner: A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Drawing

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  • Beginning Artist
  • I purchased this art book for my 12 year old granddaughter. She was doing some very nice sketching but did not know any of the techniques that you need for shading, etc. She was thrilled with this...
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Liberate Your Creativity With Acrylic Paints! Acrylic Revolution is your essential, all-in-one guide for acrylic... more

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  Acrylic Revolution: New Tricks & Techniques for Working With the World's Most Versatile Medium

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  • Acrylic Revolution
  • This is not the typical "how to'. Plenty of techniques to inspire your creative bent.
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  • perhaps for scrapbookers... ?
  • this book details techniques that might come in handy for someone trying to use acrylics for crafts like scrapbooking or something, i guess. for me it was truly uninformative. there is literally...
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  • from a MASTER to NOVICES
  • Although there is no doubt that Nancy Reyner knows her medium, I was not at all impressed with this book. I was looking for a "revolution" of some sort, but found the title to misrepresent the...
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For designers working in every medium, layout is arguable the most basic and most important element. Effective layout... more

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  Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop

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  • Posted:Oct-22-2009

  • Big book with TONS of examples
  • The title says it all. This is a BIG book with a TON of examples of different means of applying and using grids. The book also offers methods for going beyond the grid. That is really all I can say...
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  • If I ever get the product!
  • I would LOVE to provide an opinion. If I EVER GET THE PRODUCT. I don't understand what takes so long? I've ordered tires via the internet and get them faster than this. It's been over 4 weeks!
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While design principles remain the same whatever the medium, digital technology can shape their application in a... more

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  Design Fundamentals for New Media

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  • Posted:Mar-18-2008

  • review for book
  • Was not happy with at all, did not even get product because problems before it was supposed to be shipped. Canceled order. Only good thing was I got my refund right away. If you need the product...
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An atelier program between the covers of a book * Serious techniques for the serious art student * Study the work... more

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  Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice

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  • There are a lot of good ideas in this book
  • This author falls into pretentiousness regarding the "traditional" way of drawing. If you can get past that and internalize some of the drawing and composition concepts it will benefit your...
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  • Posted:Aug-07-2007

  • Poor photorealist deception
  • Yet another opportunist example of the terribly rampant photorealism today which has nothing to do with classical art. The authors work and premise is a joke in its attempt to connect later 19th C....
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  • Posted:May-28-2007

  • same old story
  • Technique wise, it might be better to go with Harold Speed's "the science and practice of drawing." The pictures are nice in this book, but a little too many drawings by the author. The flaw with...
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Color: Messages and Meanings, A PANTONE? Color Resource is the follow-up to the PANTONE? Guide to Communicating... more

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  Color: Messages & Meanings: A Pantone Color Resource

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  • Must have
  • This book is interesting.
    if you are starting to become a designer this is an introductory of colors, the meaning of them and how they can be applied.
    
    it is nice to have it as...
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  • Duped?
  • This book is a nice little book, but it is too much like it's predecessor, Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color by the same author. I would not have bought it had I known, I assumed (like a...
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  • Nothing new
  • This book is ideal for people with no prior knowledge about colour. It's extremely basic. Probably suited to self-taught designers or amateur decorators.
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Maybe you?ve noticed. Today?s superheroes and action heroes aren?t as brawny and muscular as they used to be. In... more

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  Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist: How to Draw the New Streamlined Look of...

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  • Horrible
  • I actually thought it might be fun to learn anatomy in a more simplified manner. I have three of Hart's books. The only book he's done so far that I love is Cartoon Cool: Retro Cartooning. I...
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  • Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist
  • This book called "SIMPLIFIED ANATOMY FOR THE COMIC BOOK ARTIST"
    by Christopher Hart certainly lives up to its title. It really shows
    the most simple way to draw women and men. It shows...
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  • If you know what your doing
  • If you have never drawn comics and are not much of an artist then this book is not for you. Being someone that does not draw very well this book did not help me much. After consulting with someone...
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This book shows the reader how to take timeless storytelling structures and make them immediate, now, for fiction... more

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  20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them

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  • Read this before you write
  • This book should be the first thing you read before you attempt any work of fiction.
    
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  • Somewhat Helpful
  • I bought this book, and it's a good one to refer to for a look at different plots. But I still need more.
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  • Posted:Jan-16-2008

  • Not a bad option but not a great one either
  • This book intrigued me when I saw it on the shelf at Barnes and Noble. I picked it up and have just recently started reading through it.
    
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Packed Full of 15-Minute Creativity Sparking Exercises *Chock-full of useful exercises designed to help readers... more

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  Caffeine for the Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain

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  • im loving it!
  • this is not the type of 'caffeine' that you could reduce.. seriously, it is addictive!
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  • Posted:Mar-30-2009

  • Good ideas, bad presentation
  • I had heard so many good things about this book but was so disappointed when it arrived; the pages were so full of junky type styles and so badly designed that I could hardly bear to look at it...
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  • My only complaint...the many lopsided text passages make reading diificult!
  • My only complaint about this pocket-sized book is the often lopsided arrangements of the text passages, many of which have multiple & varied font sizes on a single page. Worst of all, many of the...
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  Fill Your Oil Paintings With Light & Color

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  • Good book for Plein Air Painting
  • This book helped me launch myself into plein air (painting outdoors) in oils. He recommends a limited palette of colors, and gives lots of encouragement on getting lots of painting done, by...
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  • Not impressed...
  • I purchased this book because of all the great reviews it received. I was not impressed. Everything was way too simplistic. If you're an intermediate or professional painter, you will not learn...
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  • Did I miss the color and light references?
  • Let me preface my review by saying that I am very new to painting. Having tackled a few Bob Ross paintings using the wet on wet technique, I was looking to learn more - so I got this book. I found...
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  The Guerilla Art Kit

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  • Wild and Unique
  • I really didn't know what to expect with this book and so it is a great surprise to me to see that it actually encourages random, yet in a healthy, natural, non-crime sort of way, to do various...
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  • Keri Smith Always Inspires
  • Keri's books are always filled with wisdom, inspiration and tools to help any reader incorporate more creative sparkle into their lives. The Guerilla Art Kit is no exception!
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  • Moñas
  • Se trata de un libro muy básico, en extremo. Si ya estás ligeramente familiarizado con stencils y cosas hechas a mano este libro te sobra. Tengo que pensar como reutilizarlo, una pena que no...
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  Problem Solving for Oil Painters: Recognizing What's Gone Wrong and How to Make It Right

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  • What the doctor ordered
  • A very excellent book for anyone who already read all the dry how-to's and technique-centric books. This is the broad strokes of art teaching that's been missing from my self-studies for many years.
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  • Practical and inspiering
  • For the beginner and intermediate artist, "Problem solving for oil painters" is a must have on the bookshelf. The more experienced artist isn't going to learn anything new from this book, however...
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  • Not that great
  • I wanted a comprehensive book on oil colors this is more about the basics then anything else.
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  Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference for Artists

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  • Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference for Artists
  • I'd most definitely recommend this to anyone who draws characters or people, it's an extremely useful book.
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  • Judith Hamilton "buggin" Janesville, Wisc. USA
  • Endless supply of pictures of facial expressions but no instruction for beginners. Good for more experience artists.
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  • Not a helpful reference
  • I found this book to be useless as a reference for expressions because the expressions the models were making were so, well, useless. It was like they were goofing off in the photo booth at the...
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  Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

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  • A must have
  • For anyone interested in painting landscapes this book is a must. The book was in great condition and delivered quickly
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  • ...Lack of colour
  • The book are only white-black illustrations, and in my opinion it is a great disadvantage. This fact I didn't know before the purchase.
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  • No color in a painting book?
  • It is a good book from an excellent artist. The book would have been more useful if it had colored pictures and lessons in color mixture and schemes.
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  The Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type

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  • Space, Unity, Page Architecture, And Type
  • Not sure where the author came up with book title but it is not accurate at all! Space, unity, page architecture, and type are NOT the elements of graphic design. Anyone who has studied graphic...
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  • Helpful tool for learning a few basics
  • This book reinforces the basics of graphic design. I found it helpful and informative. The book itself has some fun design elements that I found inspirational. I would recommend it to someone...
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  • Good, but boring
  • The book is a good read for those interested in the graphic design industry; however, it makes a very exciting, creative subject matter (to me at least) seem extemely dull. The information is not...
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