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Cutting Edge Web Design: The Next Generation

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This is an awesome book! I'm a Digital Artist and I was very inspired by the designs featured in this book. It will inspire you! You will look at all your previous work and think their boring! This book is on the cutting edge. The full color pictures are awesome, it's beautifully and it rocks! I recommend it to anyone in the design field! An excellent book to inspire web designers. I love it!

As you can see from the other reviews, you'll either absolutely love this book or absolutely hate it. Count me in the former. Admittedly, the sites depicted are not the most bandwidth-friendly examples of Web design, but that's not the point with Cutting Edge, generally. It isn't to do what's been done in the way it's been done, but explore what can be done and if it works. Breaking barriers down by sheer will -- or heavy graphics everywhere. Maybe this isn't where the Web will or should go, but the beauty of the images can't be denied.

As a designer at a website design firm this book has spent more time off the shelf than on, mainly pictoral we use this great hardback for inspiration on more creative projects, where the skill of some designers will leave you in awe. A must have for serious web designers.

The sites featured are well designed and demonstrate good use of emerging technologies, such as QuickTime VR. The author ties it all together nicely.

This book offers deep views into enchanted, very emotional worlds, that prove how computers and software can be used to create soul-touching art-work. It preserves sites that are worthwile exploring - the book is dedicated to graphically rich sites, which in an average webworld seem to have no place -

A truly fab design reference for the web. One of the best collection of web graphics that I've seen. (Web Designer)

I sincerely expected a lot more. Be aware that, as of 2000, most websites featured in this book either do not exist any longer or have gone under a complete facelift. The CDROM included was quite disappointing: just a directory of the featured sites with a low resolution graphics of their splash page; there is an option to connect to them but the links are mostly outdated. I think the only value of this book is its inspirational content: some of the sites do indeed look great (I wonder about their loading time though) and will inspire some of us to do "a little more". This book was probably great 2 years ago; it has little value nowadays.

Typical of designers from the east and west coasts, function seldom if ever gets in the way of design, design, design. This highly over-rated volume is full of busy, dark, dreary web sites that are evidently created for other "clutter-driven" designers. If you're really looking for some ideas on building an attractive (and functional) web site, you'd better look elsewhere.

Iacocca said, "A man ahead of his times, is broke." Try and go to these incredible sites and discover the failure rate of cutting edge websites. Great designers none-the-less.