Customer Reviews

The Big Book of Layouts

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4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

As a Parsons School of Design May 2010 graduate, I felt this book was extremely disappointing. I bought The Big Book of Layouts as a gift for a friend who makes layouts for a living and thought it was extremely disappointing. The designs inside are for the most part unoriginal and boring. I was expecting innovative and unique layouts that would be inspiring, but instead I got layouts that look as if they were made on a Microsoft program. Avoid purchasing this book at all costs.

Although it sounded like an interesting book, initially I bought it with high expectations; and it did not disappoint me at all. With bright pictures, crisp graphics, great layout is reassuring: I know I have a reliable source to go back to anytime I feel clueless!

I would recommend this book to anyone stuck in a rut, looking for excitement and challenge.

The art school I go to was always referring to this book, and I saw a friend of mine drool over it while at Barnes and Noble. I think it's definitely worth the cash, and a fantastic reference tool. There's a little bit of older, outdated work in there, but overall the book is great.

Generally when reading reviews you get a handle on the type of book/product you are about to purchase, I found these reviews to be inaccurate. This book is very conservative in the type of work that is shown, It had old stuffy work that was anything but inspiring and definitely not "inspiring" and there was nothing "Cutting edge" what so ever inside. It is the most un-creative book I have ever purchased in my life. It is something that may be worth picking up at a garage sale for a quarter, even then, it would be taking up valuable space on my book shelf.

Most of the layouts and designs look quite impressive. However, there are some examples that should have not made it into this book unless the author was trying to showcase some examples of what not to do. If that's the case, then I totally missed the point.

Though tons of examples, there's not much to go on. I was expecting to see more art driven layouts and examples of what qualifies as a great layout, but instead found boring brochures and posters. Definitely not what I was expecting and not as helpful as I thought it would be.

The big book of layouts was one of many added to my Big Book's collection. These books are great for inspiration if you are a graphic designer or a upcoming designer.

As a 15 years expert of the industry, this book is great, fully packed with nice applicable designs. I recommend it to my students, lots of examples on both fine designs and designs to avoid.

it is a must have.

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A mixed bag of layouts and samples. A few too many are low quality and pixilated images to rate this any higher than 3 stars. Overall not bad and not great.

I really liked the book. Excellent quality and very useful. The only problem is that it was damaged in the shipping. Maybe the way it was packed wasn't strong enough to protect the book...