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Editorial Review:
We're been trawling the web looking for the most interesting and well-designed portfolios--of designers, photographers, artists, illustrators, and motion graphic pros--to profile the creators working behind the scenes. The focus is not so much the work presented, but the way the portfolios are designed. Presentation, elegance, and style are key, and the individuals and studios featured in this guide represent the best the web has to offer. Entries include screenshots, designers' contacts, tools and content used (HTML, Flash, XML, music, video, etc.), awards received, and cost in hours per website for creation and maintenance. With designers hailing from 33 countries, from the United States to Croatia to Japan, this selection of portfolios demonstrates how today's best designers are pushing the limits and experimenting with innovative ways of navigation outside of corporate contexts.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Lovely resource:
I love this book because it inspired me and gave me great ideas for different portfolios.
Just Wrong:
As someone doing web design, I bought this book to look at other designs, and how they were built. If this is what you're looking for, this book isn't for you. This book should be a coffee-table book, but is the wrong size and format even for that. All it contains is pictures of websites, and not at a size to to be considered art. Not helpful. If you want to browse websites, only looking at a picture, you can do that on the web just fine. This book should never have been titled "Web design". It's... more info Great book from a great series:
Great book and a nice compact format. Not a lot of text but visuals are why you would buy this book. Atrocious Grammar, Beautiful Book:
I am a web developer and purchased this book with a few others to sample the current design trends and to find inspiration for new design layouts. Quite simply, this book serves both purposes much more completely than I had anticipated. I picked up the book in a hurry, expecting only to find photos of sites. I was pleasantly surprised to find a bit more: the book provides a caption noting the languages/tools/technologies used to create the site, the names of the programmers (and, by logical deduction,... more info Similar Products:
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