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Web Art: A Collection of Award Winning Website Designers

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The book is a big compilation, presenting the best works in international web design. This book brings great examples from the greatest designers and web design studios as Razorfish, Entropy8, Meta Design, Carlos Segura, Frog Design, among others. Also comes with a great cd-rom, bringing interviews, samples of work, tips and a little "hands-on-training" workshop, explaning how a web design project would normally flow. Beautiful pages, totally illustrated and nice printing! Great to have and to inspire your future works!

although a little dated, this book by Spencer Drate, Thomas Olejar and Sean Mosher-Smith gives a pretty good snapshot of the stae of the web in the late 90's, their are plenty of newer books on web design out there that are not as design heavy but its interesting to look back for nostalgia sake

This book gives you exapmles of web sites, and presents the artists and the firms beyond these wonderful web sites.

I think that the book is a must for the unsatisfied web designer, or web site owner.

It's hard to find a WebArt book in the market. Web Art provides many new inspiration, ideas and examples for professional Web Designer. If you a Web Designer, you should COLLECT this book.

However, there is no teaching tutorial in the book. It just collects all good web page layout.

Note the subtitle: award winning web site DESIGNERS, not designs. This is a compilation of graphics from a short list of web site design firms. No actual web site is presented in its entirety. The fact that these graphics originate from web pages is irrelevant in this book. The book strives to be artsy in itself, splattering a hodge-podge of non-sequitor images across each section prefaced by meaningless musings from a web designer. Even worse, many of the graphics are distorted and difficult to view. This is not a good source of web graphic ideas. Better ideas are available on the Internet for free.

Like most of the websites described in the book, this book isn't very usable because it's trying so hard to be "artistic." The screen shots are blurry and the text and graphics are combined in such a way that it makes it difficult to read.

I could forgive the author if content was good, but it's not. Most of the websites that are described aren't usable in the real world. The use of frames, Flash and poor navigation is the norm throughout. All of which should be avoided when developing a website in most cases.

I bought this book for inspiration and it didn't inspire even one idea. If you're a web designer looking for inspiration, you might consider The Web Design Wow Book or The Big Book of Ideas. I use both books regularly to jump start the creative process.

Best Regards, Bill