Magazine Design that Works focuses on 20 different magazines and what makes them work graphically, and how their look was conceived, designed, and executed. The projects featured range in style and scope, and examine the work of the top designers in the business from all around the world. Providing a virtual 'blueprint' for each project, comparisons of rough draft and final drafts illustrate the process, and the development of familiar magazines are traced over their lifespan.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
Nice imagery, nice thoughts, no technical info:
Briefly looking through this book you can quickly see that it is not a technical design book. It does a very nice job at praising various popular magazines, and it does highlight fundamental design practices within magazine design. It is a good overview book. It is also a good book to see many images of successful magazines without having to hunt down various magazines. However, the problem is the book does not going into the technical process of magazine layout. Magazine layout IS a very... more info
Excellent book:
Very helpful in what's "hot" in magazine design. Covers differnt genres in mag. design. Extensive reasearch and helps generate different design ideas. Only complaint: Took 2 long to recieve. From my order date, it took over a month.
Very inspiring:
I think a person's appreciation of this book depends on their particular field and learning style. I work as a graphic designer for a number of different hobby magazines, and my learning style is that of a sponge - I see something, I soak it up. This book was PERFECT for me. I like to page through it, soak up the ideas, immerse myself in these various styles of good design before embarking on my own projects. I have a number of design collections, but this is the best one I've seen that's magazine specific.... more info
pretty pictures, little info:
I'm just launching a new magazine, so I have alot to learn. I have read some terrific books; this is not one of them. Basically the pictures are nice, but I honestly cannot think of one thing I learned from this book.
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