Customer Reviews

Gig Posters Volume I

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Short review:
1) This is an excellent 1st Edition.

2) The author included hard to find and relevant examples that are definitive of the genre

3) Wide breadth of artists, designers, bands, styles, etc. represented

4) The number one reason this is a 5 Star book is that the production values are magnificent, the paper stock is heavy, the prints are beautiful, the typos are nil (I haven't found any), registration is on-key, color is great, binding is durable, jacket is great. This is a value in today's cut and paste culture of mass media. This book presents the content in way that makes you want to open it again and again. This book belongs on top of your coffee table.

Well it is IMHO. Got it yesterday and haven't been able to put it down. Simply put this book is fantastic and I was blown away. I bought it based on these other reviews as I hadn't seen a copy in real life. Glad I took the plunge.

I really like the way it is printed on nice, heavier stock and each page comes with perforations so you can tear out and display selected pieces as posters. It is a larger book (dimension-wise) and this lends itself well to the fact that it IS a poster book. Nothing worse than getting a new book on art posters or design and the like, only to find that the images are smaller than you'd like them to be and you miss out on great detail.

I'm often doing music and gig posters, so for me this is a great little asset for inspiration. It has a little write-up on each of the artists/creative studios with a website for each which is handy and personally always appreciated. I highly recommend this book. There is a wide range of artists and tons of stuff I haven't seen before.

There are something like 700 images and 100 rip out posters. I will now have to get a second copy so I can stick a few around the office and keep one for reference :)

I purchased this for my 16 year old who is way into music. Of all the things I got him for Christmas I think that this was his favorite. He hadn't heard of half the bands in this book which lead him on some great research and he discovered some really cool bands. He has the posters hanging all over his wall.

I can't offer anything new here, but I want to add to the numbers of those singing the praises of this collection of posters. It's worth every penny for a variety of reasons:

1. The layout of the book is that any page you open up, on the right hand side there will be a full page poster. On the back is info about the designer of the poster, plus a few smaller images of the designer's work. The kicker here is that that the pages are all perforated so you display the posters as art in your home. A lot of these posters are out of print or sold out from the designer, so whether or not you chose to keep the posters the size in the book or enlarge them, you now have the chance to display many rare and beautiful posters.

2. It makes a great coffee table book. This is a great conversation starter and most music fans will be delighted to discover this book either at the bookstore or at a friend's house.

3. It showcases what has become a legitimate art form over the past 10 years. These artists have style all their own in the same way that artists working in other mediums do. This book will most likely provide a shot in the arm to a burgeoning art scene.

Whether or not you use this book to decorate your home, or add it to your personal library, it's a fantastic book. I can't wait for Volume 2!

I design gig posters for fun locally and this book is just full of great examples and inspiration. One of the greatest features of it though is that the pages are perforated and you can frame all the large posters in the book. So, once you get tired of using it as a coffee table book, you can use it to decorate.

This book is huge! 11x17 and you can pull out some of the posters. I love that. I can't wait to buy the sequel tp this book.

A must for any music fan. Not only are the posters all very artistic and, dare I say, cool, but there is a wide array of very good bands represented. I've chosen to display the posters on my walls, and dollar for dollar this is one of the best deals on posters I've ever come across. Highly recommended!

This book has gorgeous screen prints by some seriously talented illustrators/designers/artists. I love that I can tear out some posters and hang them on my wall. For the price, this book is freakin phenomenal.

If you are into art, design and music, this is the greatest book. Keep it intact (if you can!) or take advantage of the perforated pages, and tear out those posters and cover your walls with amazing art. REALLY looking forward to Volume 2.

Not only does this have a huge selection of great contemporary poster art, but it reveals a lot about the artists themselves. Highly recommended for anyone's library.