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Summary: Web / Graphic Designer
Comment: This is a great book for web / graphic designers, helps you to see design in another point of view.
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Summary: A beginner book
Comment: This book was a requirement for one of my design classes and i have to say, this book is really basic!!!!! I would rate it higher if it didnt drop in detail about how to do design after the first chapter. What is also funny, the 1st chapter is the most indepth, longest, and informative chapter, but all the rest are nothing important in a sense. Its like all they do is review the 1st one, lol. If you have any somewhat knowledge about drawing this book would either be a complete waste of your time, or a decent refresher. I would recommend this book if you have a kid that has some knowledge of drawing and just wants to learn more. There are alot of visual aids and little text in this book. I have not scene other items of this writers work, so im not gonna be too harsh, but i was disappointed in the book. Also, using this book for a design class, it was sad, no wonder it was an intro to design course, I just wish they could have used a different book....
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Summary: Why is a 3rd edition inferior to the 2nd?
Comment: Smaller overall size to save money? Why?
The result is overall poor quality, hard to see images, reduced sized graphics and WHY is a portion of refections lessons removed from this edition but present in the 2nd?!? I now have to use a copy machine to enlarge the pages for my college student use the text/lessons.
But don't forget, the 3rd edition now has an exciting new cover...Big deal!
Wake up publishers, give me BACK quality , perhaps in a 4th edition?
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Summary: Smaller Format that previous edition not appreciated
Comment: I suppose the smaller format kept the cost down, but I was disappointed to find that out AFTER I bought them. (That's right, "them". I ordered a dozen for a drawing class I held at my company.)
It still has great content though, and I further suppose that if you never ran into the larger format edition, you may not miss it. Excellent content. Not just another drawing book.
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Summary: I recommend the better 2nd edition instead...
Comment: This new 3rd edition is barely decent, not great. In some ways, it's easily worse than the good 2nd edition(!)...
First off: the most obvious change here is in its *size*: this 3rd edition is about 2/3 as big as the 2nd edition- tiny! I'm talking about the overall physical dimensions: mainly length & width, with depth not being radically changed.
Most of the lettering is the same size as before, although a few pages include microscopic printing. These new physical dimensions are *not* an improvement. This whole book has an uncomfortably crammed look & feel, not unlike a packed elevator ride. "Get me outta this thing!" is my honest reaction here.
Maybe it's because I'm so used to the 2nd edition: I consider it to be the *BEST* version, even though I only rated it as being somewhat above average. The 2nd edition is basically good, and I'm glad I have it, but I still don't think *any* version of Rapid Viz has lived up to its real, full potential. My basic complaint with these books is that the illustrations themselves often look a little too unfinished and sketchy, lacking the true detail & depth that a 5-star book might have. At other times, some drawings actually have *too much* microscopic detail. And in an effort to make an already conceptually clear & concise book even more clear & concise, this new 3rd edition eliminates some drawings & photos along the way(!). Even worse: the photos that *have* been included are reproduced poorly, as if they were printed with a cheap, pre-Internet, black & white inkjet printer. I thought new editions of books were supposed to get better, not worse! I give this thing 1 star because it's a completely unnecessary downgrade- at best.
In short: Yes, this 3rd edition has a fancy, new, computer designed cover, but I easily recommend the better 2nd edition *by far*.
**Copy and paste 1560520558 to search for the better 2nd edition here on Amazon!**
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