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Book Description
Baby Ernie is too big for diapers! He's ready to try out his brand-new potty. It may take a few tries, but soon Ernie learns he can use the potty all by himself!
Customer Reviews:
Cute story!.......2007-09-22
My daughter loves this book and reads it quite frequently. She still hasn't shown much interest in the potty though.
not much there.......2007-09-18
Baby Ernie is cute but this book was too short and simplistic for our 2-year-old. Hardly any text. It didn't offer much information. It's more like a baby's book, and babies don't need to learn about using potties! I've seen MUCH better books out there on potty-training.
Good help!.......2007-09-13
My son is off diaper after reading this book several times. It is one of the help if the kid loves Sesame Street.
Too Big for the Book.......2007-09-10
My very big boy thought he was too big to read the book, at first. Then he started agreeing with what the book was talking about. He has been trying to be a big boy for everything, except the potty. Now with the help of the book and Potty Power...he's got it!
cute.......2007-07-26
Very cute book. I did have to change the words to fit into what we were teaching our little one to call his body's fuctions.
Customer Reviews:
Big Book of Catholic Costomes Activites.......2007-04-06
I thougnt the book was very good, Very glad I bought the book..
A great way to help teach your child Catholic Traditions.......2007-01-19
I love this book. It is very helpful in teaching my child about the Faith, Traditions, and Sacraments of the Catholic Church. The book also is divided into great sections based on the Saints, Sacraments, Feast Days and Holy Days. They also break the book down into months of the year to develope awareness of the events and signifigance of each month. The reading materials and activities are great!
A learning experience for the whole family.......2007-01-12
This was a great book and it gave me a great "plan" to follow in educating my children about the catholic faith and it also provided great ideas on family projects that we could do to celebrate and understand the deeper meaning of many catholic customs and traditions.
Great book for PSR and at home.......2006-08-17
I am planning on using htis book for both home and at PSR (Parish School of Religion) It has great easy ideas to bring more of our religion into our lives.
Great book for education.......2006-03-13
My children enjoy this book and it is helping us to understand the traditions. The children like the activities and art projects as well. This would actually be a good book for the Catholic churches to use in their elementary programs.
Book Description
Don't let the audience snooze through any of your presentations! How do you keep an audience from becoming bored or restless during a presentation? Find out with The Big Book of Presentation Games.
Each game in The Big Book of Presentation Games is fast, fun, creative, and easy-to-read, and easy-to-lead, and costs little or nothing. Categories also include: great session-openers; icebreakers; climate-setting games; practical jokes and tricks; audience brainteasers; motivation activities; memorable closing activities; and much more!
Customer Reviews:
Superb resource book.......2007-05-03
I had this series of books before - loaned them out at work and never got them back (go figure!). Happy to have found them again here.
Even company money could be spent more effectively.......2003-06-17
For any medium to advanced trainer, group leader, or presenter, this book does not raise any new methods of improving audience participation. In fact, the "cheese" factor is enough to choke even the most discriminating mouse.
Having said that, if you're a beginner with little to no background in or exposure to group training, then this book may help give you a little head start to realize how to engage an audience through active participation.
It's only because of the potential to aide a beginner that I rated this a 2. Otherwise, it's sitting with a lone star.
Decent.......2001-07-25
I was expecting more. But it certainly lived up to its title. Maybe my expectations were a little to hight.
I have yet to try any of the examples yet, but I am certainly waiting to try.
It's not that great........2000-01-30
This book wasn't that great. There were VERY few ideas that I would use. I wouldn't recommend buying this book.
Great for any Organizational leader!.......1999-01-25
I used a bunch of ideas from this book for my position in a student organization. A definite must for programs on dry material. It never hurts to have an ace up your sleeve, and this book is it!
Book Description
How do creative people create?Where do they get their ideas?For many, "brainstorm" sessions are a starting point. But huge numbers of creative people go through creative annuals or other books showing large amounts of work by top creative people. (Author David Carter calls this process "solitary brainstorming.") The Big Book of New Design Ideas was created for this specific purpose. Each piece was selected based on its potential to trigger an idea in the mind of the reader. Look at the logo section: you'll see a lot of different techniques there. Suddenly, you see a logo that "triggers" an idea. And that idea may have nothing at all to do with the one you just saw. That's pretty much how this book works. For everybody who uses the works of others to inspire their own ideas, this book is the one that should be on the shelf.
Customer Reviews:
Big Book Design Ideas.......2007-04-01
A great companion book to Carter's book on color in design. Lots of great ideas and I love the flip book layout which makes it easy to find what you are looking for.
Excellent.......2007-03-29
I am a design teacher - and like to fill my presentations of real-life work that parallels my classes. Excellent source of scanning material, and gives you the exact colors.
Book Description
YOUR WEB SITE IS COSTING YOU MONEY. IT'S ALSO FILLED WITH SIMPLE MISTAKES THAT TURN OFF VISITORS BEFORE THEY HAVE A CHANCE TO BECOME CUSTOMERS.
According to marketing guru Seth Godin, a web site visitor is a lot like a monkey looking for one thing: a banana. If that banana isn't easy to see and easy to get, your visitor is gone with a quick click on the "Back" button.
In this supremely practical, cut-to-the-chase book, Godin identifies what it takes to create web sites that satisfy visitors and keep them coming back for more. And he's at his prickly stickler best using real-life examples to illustrate the essential truths and ridiculous fictions about how a web site should work. Packed with his inimitable wisdom and compelling hands-on applications, The Big Red Fez is a must-have tool for anyone working on the web.
Customer Reviews:
Timeless "oldie".......2007-08-14
Books on websites are usually old before they come out.
Not this one.
Seth has recorded the timeless thinking behind websites. The thinking that will never change and will help you create brilliant stuff.
No other book does this, not this way, not this sharp, short and bold.
It's a short book, but longer isn't needed. You get it at the first pages. The rest is to drill in into your system.
Brilliant book. Brilliant author by the way (check out his video's that roam around on the web and you'll know this book is great).
Very Powerfull.......2007-05-07
If you're looking to do business on the internet this book will prove invaluable, its a manual how to make a internet business succeed, without it so many important factors can be overlooked making the end result i.e. your profits sink to the bottom...a must read for the serious entrepreneur who wants to make serious money on the net.
A Bit Disappointing.......2007-02-12
I was a little disappointed after reading this book. I expected a thorough tutorial on how to make websites better. The book is basically a critique of websites. Also, since I read this in 2007 and the book apparently was written in 2001 the critiqued websites are old. In my experience in this day and age there are few websites that break the rules presented in the book. Maybe everyone read the book and fixed them. For me, the critiques and suggestions were not new information for me. I also purchased Godin's Unleashing the Ideadvirus. I hope it's better.
Missing content.......2006-11-10
This is a little fun thing to read, but it provides too little content in my mind.
The Big Red Herring.......2006-09-17
Let me first say that I'm a huge fan of Seth Godin. That being said, this is not one of Seth's better works. A better title might have been: The Big Red Herring: A few of my web page pet peeves.
Here's how the book breaks down. There are a total of 111 pages. There are 46 mini-critiques which are comprised of one page with a single B&W screenshot of a webpage or email and a facing page explaining what you're looking at. These pages are usually only about 3 - 4 paragraphs (half the page). Of the 46 mini-critiques, 7 are about emails. This leaves 39 mini-critiques about actual websites.
I think that for the money we should have had at least a few of the screenshots in color, particularly the one where Seth tells us that the buttons are the wrong color, but doesn't mention what color they are. We don't know, we're looking at a B&W picture.
There are only about 13 unique insights. So each insight is repeated an average of 3 times. In the book Seth himself says, "Redundancy is often the enemy of a great web experience". Well, ditto for the book experience.
The first web site listed on Seth's recommended site list is [...] You'll find that the only content on the web site is directed toward selling you the book that you're already holding. There are no extra web site critiques or examples. As Seth himself would say, "Where's the banana?"
Customer Reviews:
History proved this guy wrong.......2004-02-12
I wish I could give this book less than one star. The author obviously hates Steve Jobs and chose to include accounts only by others that hated Steve Jobs and convince a publisher that could be the basis for a book.
But... history has proven that Randall Stross' assessment couldn't have been more wrong. He paints Jobs as incompetent and lucky and that time is proving him the failure-loser that he really is. I wonder if Stross is working on a sequel. The book was released in 1993. I found it especially interesting that he delighted in a story of Steve Jobs negotiating with a NeXT customer who tried to paint Jobs as a failure by virtue of his ownership of Pixar where the customer's husband had worked. Jobs had bought Pixar from George Lucas, headed it in a new direction and look where it is now--could there be a more successful company.
Stoss continually points out the inevitability that NeXT will crash and burn, but again history proves that Stross is probably the world's worst prophet. NeXT was purchased by Apple for around $300 million and Jobs return to run Apple has turned the company from issuing bonds to stay afloat to a thriving, innovative company with almost $5 Billion in the bank--this is failure?
The list of contrived reasons to hate Jobs and prove his failures is the entire basis for the book. It's not interesting when one concludes that it's all made up. I surmise that this guy (Stross) didn't have a grasp on anything related to the story--one can only conclude that this is pure fiction and very poor fiction at that.
Possibly one of the most annoying books I've ever read.......2002-10-30
For a book that claims to be a history, sort of, this has to be the least accurate and most biased history in, well, history. By the end of practically every page I found some point which was bugging me, from being arguable at best, to downright wrong, to obviously omitting important facts at worst.
For instance, Stross spends an entire chapter devoted to a glowing review of Sun Microsystems. This is arguably in order to have some sort of contrast with NeXT. No small part of the chapter is devoted to a description of the new low-cost SparcStation, which he describes in order to provide a counterexample to Job's overpriced machines. He re-iterates this point on several other occasions thoughout the book.
Missing fact #1: the SparcStation cost MORE than the NeXTcube. This vitally important point is not mentioned even once.
Want another example? He continually talks about how NeXT was non-standard and thus doomed, whereas Sun's standards-based machines were much better off that NeXT, or even other non-standard machines like the Apollo. It's so OBVIOUS that you have to be standards based, it's not even worth talking about! I mean duh, who would question that?!
Missing fact #2: all three were originally based on the same hardware (680x0 CPUs) and similar software (Unix versions). If anything it was Sun that went "non-standard" when they switched their CPU and OS.
The whole book is like this. I don't mean in a small way, I mean it in the largest possible way. I disagreed with almost every point he made, whether it be the "realities" of the computer market as he saw it, or practically any technical detail he attempted to describe. Stross seemed to be incapable of understanding any issue, no matter how large, small, technical or non-technical. It left me gasping.
Ignore the technical innaccuracies though, because they appear to be a side-story to the book's "real point". The "real point" seems to be that Jobs is incompetant at everything, egotistical, and mean. The book is filled with little anecdotes and Steve doing this (something stupid) or that (something mean), painting a very nasty picture of a man Stross implies has only a single quality: being in the right place at the right time.
Hey, he might be right, but I'll never know. I was so turned off by the continual negative vibe of this book that after a few chapters in I basically didn't trust a word he said. This isn't a history, or even a "cautionary tale". It's character assasination.
So Long Ross, and thanks for the millions.......2002-05-15
It could be that this author, who has written some very readable and penetrating stuff about Microsoft, ran into a problem when writing about Jobs. Jobs comes across as so negative, confused, and just plain destructive that Stross's book leaves a bad taste in your mouth. But this is still a very worthwhile book, and contains some good lessons, which Ross Perot learned were very expensive lessons:
1. Don't invest in someone just because they're cool, or at least cooler than you. Alpha-Nerd Perot sees a TV special on Steve Jobs, and exclaims how Jobs is "Mr. Excitement" or some such superlative. He promptly plunks down huge money to invest in the "Next" computer, which is portrayed as revolutionary hardware. But no one really knows up front what they're investing in. So what, it makes Ross feel like he can transform some of that hard-scrabble, uptight crew-cutness of his into hip, long hair, do-drugs California investing.
2. Watch the press releases. The big bomb that's hidden in a press release discloses that Next has dropped it's hardware business, and will now be developing innovative software. Which bombed. So Ross went in investing in one thing, and came out investing in something else.
3. Cool people scream a lot when things get uncool. The rest of the book is the typical tantrum about Jobs acting hard-to-manage.
A little dose of reality.......1998-05-04
Stross' sources are impeccable, which isn't all that surprising since he's a historian. Despite the fact that he was prevented from interviewing Steve Jobs, and presumably a number of other higher ups in the NeXT management, the book doesn't really suffer from the absence. Stross appears to have gone through each and every document related to NeXT's finances to compile a staggering testament to the various untruths NeXT, as a corporate entity, appears to have told its customers, the media and everybody else willing to listen. At the same time, it's a scathing critique of Steve Job's attitude, he can only be described as an enfant terrible. Stross goes to great lengths to illustrate his judgement of Jobs as a mean-spirited, perhaps "greatly insane", person with numerous anecdotes.
None of this should come as a surprise to anyone who has read about Steve Jobs. We all know he's notorious for pushing people to their limits, the stories of people leaving Jobs' projects in a state of physical and mental fatigue are well known. What comes as a surprise is Jobs' capacity for deceitfullness and disloyalty and his utter disregard for the people working for and with him. Stross marvelously brings out Jobs' ego in all its filthy manifestations. The book is really an intriguing history of Steve Jobs at NeXT, complete with the gory financial details, the stories about mismanagement, Jobs' fetish for perfection in little things he latched on, the hype around NeXT and the failure. Still, the book lacks a sense of the things NeXT let its customer accomplish, from developing the Web (Tim Berners-Lee) and creating Quake, to WebObjects and cryptography (NSA and CIA).
That said, it is probably a good idea to read this book along with, or after reading Steven Levy's Insanely Great. Insanely Great is a more balanced book, Stross at times seems to detest Jobs passionately (which is certainly not surprising), Levy presents a much more considerate view of Jobs. Of course this has to be balanced ! with the fact that Levy is writing about the successful Macintosh project, and Stross is writing about the comparative failure that was NeXT.
What Stross' book could do with is a little more knowledge of NeXT's products (especially the later slabs and cubes) and some sense of the palpable advances NeXT made. There was technology in the NeXT that was not fully realized (Optical media and the DSP for instance), but this was true of the Macintosh as well (who had heard of 3.5" disks). We cannot dismiss NeXT simply on the grounds of the technology being new, untested, and expensive. As a NeXT user, it seems to me that Stross greatly underestimated the conceptual leaps made by NeXT, in designing Interface Builder and tying the software to Object Oriented Programming (OOP), using Display Postscript, the Installer application, the NetInfo server, successfully creating a multi user machine which a single Unix novice user could operate and run. I know people who have owned NeXTs for years and have never used the Unix command prompt.
Stross praises Sun for its strategy of pushing the speed envelope, and parceling out manufacturing, but SunOS and Solaris still have to attain the elegance of NeXT, and there were certainly far fewer software based advances at Sun than at NeXT. Stross has a reasonably firm grasp on the technology, there are no glaring problems with his analysis of some of the more complex pieces of NeXTStep and the NeXT computers, but at times one notices him stepping gingerly around something that is very involved, which is as it should be because the book isn't really about NeXT or technology, it's about Steve Jobs. Still, one wishes Stross would give more credit to NeXT's technology, after all NeXTStep continues to be miles ahead of all other Unix based operating systems in terms of a Desktop/Development platform. One big mistake is Stross' claim that NeXTStep is "closed", that NeXTs were not meant to work with other computers in a networked environment. This really cann! ot be substantiated.
After reading the book, one cringes at the thought of what melodramas Jobs is currently creating at Apple, and one hopes the port of NeXTStep to the PowerPC (Rhapsody) will not be bogged down with the sort of problems that NeXT had. The future for Apple/NeXT seems bright, though there's a lot of catching up to do before Apple can seriously challenge WinTel again. True, the PowerPC architecture is way ahead of Intel, and NeXTStep is far further along the development path than NT, but it's still frightening when one sees Jobs closing the doors to hardware competitors again. One hopes Jobs has learned from his mistakes and that Apple will concentrate on software development (Rhapsody can become a serious challenge to Windows 95/98 if priced appropriately). There's hope for Apple yet, NeXTStep/OpenStep is a great Operating System, it's certainly much better at internetworking than anything Microsoft has to offer (after all the Web was created on a NeXT). All the same, Jobs can still make or break Apple.
Book Description
Break the ice at your next meeting with The Big Book of Business Games!
In this exciting resource book, two of today's acknowledged games masters serve up a cookbook of activities that you can learn to use, guaranteed to generate a lively discussion, or simply give a group a "breather" from the monotony of a boring staff meeting or presentation. Each of the 75 group games and activities here is adapted from the best-selling Games Trainers Play series and shortened to suit the needs of managers and team leaders to use with their departments, staff, or committees.
Customer Reviews:
The Big Book of Business Games: Icebreakers, Creativity Exercises and Meeting Energizers.......2006-11-04
The ideas and activities in this book were varied and somewhat adaptable to a variety of audiences and meetings. I am always looking for fresh ideas to use in my presentations and workshops and this book has become a valuable resource and also sparks new ideas in myself.
Icebreakers Only.......2006-07-09
If I had the opportunity to flip through this book in a bricks-and-mortar bookstore, I wouldn't have bought it. I was looking for ways to communicate business and organizational lessons through the use of games and activities. This book is just a list of icebreaker activities without providing any of the "meat" of the lesson the activity should have delivered. Providing references for those of us seeking said content would have helped to fill that gap.
Many of the activities require visual aids. It would have been nice for the publishers to provide graphics to go along with these---perhaps a registration key for a website to download the visual tools? I would be far more likely to use the activities (and, of course, credit the authors) if the tools were easily accessible and not burdomsome to create.
I have every confidence that the book meets its intended purpose and the authors have done a good job. However, I don't feel that Amazon.com is presenting the book for what it is. I also believe the publishers could have done a better job of supporting this publication to make it truly useful to the purchaser.
In general, if you are completely at a loss for how to get people interacting with one another at a meeting or training session, this is a good "creativity sparker" to get you thinking.
Another "Big Book" that doesn't deliver.......2002-11-22
I took a chance and purchased five selections from the "big book" series. I titled a previous review "The Big Book of Disappointment." Too bad. I ought to have saved it for this publication.
Chapter two of "The Big Book of Business Games" is titled, "How to Use This Book." My suggestion? As kindling or compost. In the book you will find 54 activities. The nine dot problem and the human knot are examples of the many common activities found in countless other books.
You'll also find suggestions for "presentation boosters." One "booster" example: Display two flip charts. On one ask what things were valued about how the meeting was run. On the other ask how future meetings might be improved. As part of the description you are reminded to "tear off the flip charts and return to your office. . .celebrate your success and change something needing improvement." In the book, the previous activity actually merits a two page description.
Applying their exercise to their book, I'd say I valued very little if anything. How might future books be improved? Provide NEW activities or suggest creative variations for the countless recycled exercises. Also, be certain the content is relevant to a business audience. A skilled facilitator will find a way to successfully use most any of the activities in this book. However, a skilled facilitator is also likely to have a number of better selections in her bag of tricks to choose from.
Once again if the price entices you to purchase this book, I'd suggest you keep exploring. You will find a number of resource books available on Amazon.com that are significantly better.
The big Book of Business Games.......2001-11-30
Basically from the contents, it can be said to be a very practical book that any manager can use to liven up meetings and more importantly to get the members of the team to come together.
These exercises can be fun and purposeful for the the users and I think I would really like try out some of the great ideas put forth.I run meetings and workshops for my staff and certainly could use the ideas from the book.
Great for the Price.......2000-02-19
I've used a number of the games in this book and found they've helped me achieve my goals with the team. They stimulated converstaion and team building. One game I found particularly useful was the "Tie that Binds" in visually demonstrating how interdependent we are as a team. I found this book a real bargain and a good book for getting started at using games within meetings to build teams, emphasis concepts, and introduce topics.
Book Description
Did you know that games can be a terrifically effective way to build team spirit, communication, and trust among people who work together day in and day out? Now you can spark morale in any work group by choosing from 70 stimulating games and activities specifically designed for the manager who's looking to raise sagging morale in a department, liven up boring staff meetings, enable team members to collaborate smoothly and effectively, and much more!
Customer Reviews:
Superb resource book.......2007-05-03
I had this series of books before - loaned them out at work and never got them back (go figure!). Happy to have found them again here.
Great book for great ideas.......2007-03-14
Remember when you were in arts and craft classes, this book is like that
Great.......2007-01-12
Excellent quality and turnaround time, received when promised. The games are fun, and not immature for adults!
Patronising rubbish.......2006-11-04
It's strange how so many businesspeople I meet tend to be right-wing, anti-communist and great believers in personal freedom, yet run their businesses like Stalin's Russia. Workers are motivated by a mixture of fear and ambition and any individual opinion that deviates from the party line is seen as a threat.
I'm a manager. All I ask of my staff is that they're honest, work hard and treat everyone with respect. That's it. For my part I give them a clear idea of what I expect and make sure that they have the tools to do the job and receive recognition of their achievements. What I don't do is mess with their heads.
This book is symptomatic of a trend in management culture where it is not enough to ask people to do their jobs well, we now have to re-engineer their souls. The aim of this book is to motivate staff with 'fun' activities in staff training sessions, but the reality is intrusive and patronising. One game invites workers to mention a childhood achievement that they were particularly proud of and then get other members of the team to discuss it. Well, I believe in personal freedom and part of that is not feeling obliged to talk about personal things in a work setting.
Chairman Mao had his 'Cultural Revolution' and this smacks of the same attitude. It's not enough for people to do as they're told, they now have to have the right attitude and if they're not willing to be team players, they're out. It's like 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'.
Buy this book to find out how emotionally dysfunctional people struggle to motivate teams and get it horribly wrong.
Big book of Lousy Ideas.......2005-10-06
This was a complete waste of money! The ideas were stale and elementary. Do not waste your money or your time flipping through it.
Book Description
A collection of the latest layout designs and ideas for amateur and professional graphic designers.
Organized so as to encourage creativity, serendipitous discovery, and inspiration, THE BIG BOOK OF LAYOUTS includes techniques that can be used to enhance any layout. It provides insights into the elements that make layouts effective. It covers a range of styles, from traditional to cutting edge, that were selected to help designers think more creatively and be more productive.
With more than 750 outstanding layouts featured in a robust visual gallery with detailed descriptive information, this book provides a thorough look at what goes into an effective layout design.
Book Description
The fourth book in David E. Carter's perennially bestselling Big Book of Logos series was the largest yet, and is now available in paperback! The Big Book of Logos 4 shows what's new and compelling in the world of logo design, providing endless inspiration for graphic designers in the critical `idea-generating' phase. This collection showcases effective logo design from around the world; the variety of styles and techniques on display cover the complete creative spectrum.
Customer Reviews:
Inspiration.......2007-07-20
I always enjoy when this book comes out. It is always chock full of logos that encompass many different design styles by some of the leading design firms in the country. After looking through this, I feel the design juices flowing and inspiration comes easy.
quantity, not quality.......2007-07-10
I recently ordered this book for our advertising agency. At a previous job, I had often used the first Big Book of Logos (white background on cover) as a reference for inspiration and looked forward to having a similar resource at this job. I ordered version 4 since I had so thoroughly used version 1 and wanted to see some new logos. Indeed, it turned out to be a big, fat book of logos, very similar to version 1. However, I was disappointed by the lackluster quality of some of the work included. This may be due in part to my eye as a designer improving since I was first dazzled by version 1 freshly out of college, but I think the more likely explanation is that the overall logo quality of version 4 is inferior to version 1. That being said, it's still a great resource to look through to get the juices flowing and to find ideas for different treatments and I will likely continue to reference it often.
Not that strong..........2006-10-29
I was actually really disappointed with this book. With as many good reviews as it got, I was very excited at the prospect of buying it. I (thankfully) went to the store to review it before purchasing. Yes, there are a lot of logos to glean ideas from, but most of the logos presented are weak and really could have been simplified or refined more. Two books of much stronger logos (which I bought instead of this) are Logos: From North to South America by Pedro Guitton, and LogoLounge: 2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers by Bill Gardner and Catharine Fishel.
Logo? Logo!.......2006-03-22
We can all use some inspiration, especially when it comes to logo design. If you are tired of your own doodles and your garbage can is starting to fill up with crumbled paper - look no further - David E. Carter's The Big Book of Logos 4 is the right vehicle to jumpstart your tired grey matter. If you are a designer or even the one who would hire a designer to create your logo, this book is a great source of inspiration. It features hundreds of examples from all walks of life and business, product and service. And since logos in many cases are used for more than just a business card and letterhead, the most interesting thing for me was, that the book is also interspersed with many real life product examples: logos come alive on package designs for energy drinks, soap, snacks, wine, vodka, shrimps, coffee, or you see them end up as billboards for bars, coffee houses and corporations, and we see examples where they cross over to merchandise and websites. It reminds us: know what you design for - logos have to be versatile and have to work for many media. Looking through this book, I'm often fascinated by the smart, effective and often simple solutions a designer has come up with and yet everybody who designs logos knows that we can sometimes be so close but walk in circles to get "It" right. That's when The Big Book of Logos 4 comes in handy. It gives our spent visual juices some greatly needed visual oasis. Get lost, be overwhelmed, by the cheer amount of logos and let them revive your senses. Feel inspired, stimulated and finally motivated. If you are like me, you may be surprised to find yourself think "I can do that!" - and then get that crumbled paper back out of the garbage!
Great Gift.......2006-02-15
I got this book as a Valentine's Gift! And I'm thrilled because I've been wanting it for a while. It has one of my logos published in it! Yeah! (you should buy it!)
Like any other logo book, it provides all sorts of great inspiration for your own creations. It's also quite sturdy and will hold well as a bookend to house all your other design books! :o)
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