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Product Details

  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher (September 25, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0981780555
  • ISBN-13: 978-0981780559
  • Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 0.6 x 11.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,080,969 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Clever
By Sea horse on June 10, 2014
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Clever, witty design, that are provocative and filled with innuendo. Each page makes you marvel at his cleverness. n n
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Big idea graphics
By Robin Benson on December 4, 2011
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You don't see this level of creativity too often which is why I enjoyed this book so much. Noma Bar sort of does the impossible and sums up an almost abstract concept with what seems incredibly simple graphics. They are simple, of course, containing flat colors and easy on the eye graphics but step back and look carefully at what you see and it will become apparent that these are really complex examples of visual literacy.

It's a shame that nowhere in the book are a couple of examples of how Bar creates his remarkable graphics. How long do they take, how many ideas are rejected, is color included in his original roughs? On eight pages at the back of the book there are some thumbnails of his sketchbooks but they look completely unlike his finished designs, in fact a pastiche of colored scribbles, so no help there.

The range of material is impressive though there is a strong leaning towards contemporary world problems and Bar's work is the ideal illustrative material for this because his ideas get to the point where a photograph to say the same thing would be hard to find. His `Global warming' graphic says it all with a silhouette of a fried egg breaking out of a black panel and the yoke is a globe with the land mass a tint of light grey.

My only criticism of the book is that it is too large. Bar's graphics, because of their straightforward presentation, work best at postcard size or smaller and on these pages there is either a lot of surplus page space with a reasonably sized image or large areas of flat colour because the images are so big.

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'Show, don't tell.'
By Grady Harp HALL OF FAMETOP 100 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on September 19, 2009
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Noma Bar has made a career of what he calls 'pain relief' - 'Art directors and editors present Bar with a brief, which he must convert to an illustration, often on a tight deadline'. NEGATIVE SPACE is a beautifully designed book (from Mark Batty Publisher) that without words displays the genius that is Noma Bar. Page after page reveals his ability to make loud statements about all manner of concepts - from race relations, public policy, politics, sex, crime, and national identity to global conversations of crisis, and he accomplishes poignant commentary by the very simple use of negative space.

Viewing Bar's art takes some cerebral input: the images are strong works of art, but the messages they convey are even stronger. There are such images as a skull whose sockets are comprised of spider forms ('The ultimate spider hunter'), a pair of red boxing gloves hanging so that the spaces created between the thumb portion and the hand portion become the body of a muscle man ('Power to the People'), a gun whose trigger is the mouth of a dead head's face 9 ('Gun crime'), and an image of a dog whose features are replaced by female body parts ('Horny dog'). There is so much good humor as well as an equal amount of controversial ideas that the reader will find returning to this book a necessity to remember al the levels of artistic and philosophical information gathered here. This is an outstanding book of art design at its best. Grady Harp, September 09
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Five Stars
By travis on August 18, 2014
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Perfect! This book is absolutely beautiful!
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