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This study covers the world outlook for online sports programming across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the country in question (in millions of U.S. dollars), the percent share the country is of the region and of the globe. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a country vis-à-vis others. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each country and across countries, latent demand estimates are created. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved. ... Read more

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This study covers the latent demand outlook for martial arts television programming across the prefectures and cities of Japan. Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across some 1,000 cities in Japan. For each city in question, the percent share the city is of it’s prefecture and of Japan is reported. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city vis-à-vis others. This statistical approach can prove very useful to distribution and/or sales force strategies. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each prefecture and city, latent demand estimates are created for martial arts television programming. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved. ... Read more

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This study covers the latent demand outlook for online sports programming across the prefectures and cities of Japan. Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across some 1,000 cities in Japan. For each city in question, the percent share the city is of it’s prefecture and of Japan is reported. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city vis-à-vis others. This statistical approach can prove very useful to distribution and/or sales force strategies. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each prefecture and city, latent demand estimates are created for online sports programming. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved. ... Read more

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The primary audience for this report is managers involved with the highest levels of the strategic planning process, and consultants who help their clients with this task.The user will not only benefit from the hundreds of hours that went into the methodology and its application, but also from its alternative perspective on strategic planning in Japan.

This report helps executives evaluate strategic investment and entry alternatives in Japan.In order to evaluate Japan, Icon Group International, Inc. draws on a methodology developed by Professor Philip Parker at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.The methodology decomposes a country's strategic potential along two key dimensions: (1) latent demand, and(2) accessibility.A country may have very high latent demand, yet have low accessibility, making it a less attractive market than many smaller potential countries having higher levels of accessibility.

This report provides a strategic profile of Japan along these lines.Throughout the discussion, literally hundreds of statistics on Japan are benchmarked against regional and global averages. The reader can thus quickly understand where Japan fits into the regional and global perspective.The report first investigates the economic fundamentals affecting Japan.These fundamentals are the source for Japan's latent demand.Then, the subsequent chapters detail Japan's accessibility.This evaluation covers a number of entry alternatives, including export strategies, and local direct investment strategies.If a firm decides to have a local presence in Japan, this requires a strategic understanding of local business conditions.The conditions investigated in this report include local marketing (advertising, distribution, pricing issues) and entry strategies (opening an office, joint venturing, etc.), as well as human resources management (labor laws, costs, regulations).Because local presence can increase... ... Read more

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The follow-up to our popular title Web Design: Best Studios, this new installments brings you more examples of the web's most outstanding design work. Working online means working from every place you can imagine. The coolest design studios from over 28 countries are profiled herein, complete with examples of recent work, contact information, list of awards, and client list. If you are a web designer, marketing manager or your work has anything to do with the web, this book is a must-have reference for your daily work. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

great collection of designs
This is one of the best web site example books I've seen in a while. I found many sources of inspiration throughout.

great catalog.
if you're interested in web 2.0 you will enjoy this book. a great resource packed with lots of web design ideas and executions.

On Track With The Other Books by Taschen
While the book is not going to give you any great insight to what makes a site tick, it does exactly what it intends to and that is inspire through lots of screenshots of amazing websites.

Don't listen to other reviewers who say that the book is in the wrong language. It's just written in three languages and sometimes it looks like English is omitted, but it's still there, probably just on the next page.

Another complaint by other reviews has been a lack of Flash sites. Well, if you want Flash sites, buy Taschen's book full of Flash pages. It's as simple as that.

Overall this book is a very nice addition to the ICONS series.

the bible
Great catalog of the best web studios in the world. Very usefull as a benchmarking guide in webdesign area. Could have more examples of work. But you can check this out in the studio's websites. ... Read more

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Good vibrations: the best online music resources

The internet has become a major player in today's music market, especially thanks to online sales from sources such as iTunes; while most web music sales sites boast around 40,000 songs, iTunes offers over 1.3 million—with 25,000 new songs being added each month. From online purchasing to great artist sites like Gorillaz, Lenny Kravitz, and Iggy Pop to recording companies, labels, ringtone sites, online radios, and more, this is the essential guide for researching and enjoying music online. ... Read more

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"The Icon Book" is available in three formats: Book Only Edition (ISBN: 047159900X); Diskette Only Edition (ISBN: 047102497X); Book w/ Diskette Edition (ISBN:0471599018).Book Description
Uses a practical, research-based approach to the design of icons. Icons are used widely but not always used wisely. This book will prescribe an orderly process for designing sets of icons, suggest ideas for ``unpicturable'' concepts, explain how to refine and test icon ideas, demonstrate how to design large sets of related icons, guide the development of icons for the international market. There is an icon glossary which features over 1,500 icons. The book/disk version features the icon glossary in both PC (Windows) and Mac files. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

useful guide book for desining icons
This book is an comprehensive beginner’s guide of designing computer icons, and I recommend this book for anyone who is interested in designing, because the introduced strategies to create icons are so deliberate that we can use them to design other creative works like home pages.

The main purpose of this book is to discuss how to design icons that are easy to recognize, understand, and remember, including the concept of icons, strategies to design them, making processes, and even a case study. So if you read thorough this book, you can get an overview of designing process of useful icons.

Although this book is for icons, it provides many useful strategies in designing not only icons but also any designing works. One of the most useful strategies is to make an iconic language. This means that it is more efficient and wiser way to prepare common element parts of icons and make complicated icons by combining them, instead of making them from nothing. I think this idea is so useful for many designing works that we can apply those ideas to other works like homepages or posters besides icons.

Another good point of this book is that there are many example icons. Because this is an introductory book and written for beginners of designing, every discussion is accompanied by many recommended or anti examples in order for readers to understand clearly what the author wants to say. There is also a sample icon starter set.

Thus this book is a beginner guide book of creating computer icons and discusses many so useful and fundamental ways of designing them that you can create other decent designing works by applying them. That is why I recommend this book.

useless: basic and often ugly icons (diskette)
I haven't got the book, but just the diskette, which really disappointed me as these "starter icons" are absolutely basic and often ugly.
I found it useless for anyone who already works with icons, Wingdrings are better.

Don't judge this book by the cover!
If you need to do icon design this book is a must! Horton comes from theold school where you have to show the most in only a few pixels - and thereis some very smart thinking here to pick up on. This book is great if youare just starting to learn about interactive design or an old pro lookingfor inspiration.

Excellent reference
This book is laid out nicely, with exercises and thought processes on how to develop effective icons. The author includes examples of icons he has developed for applications in the past, along with his workflow. Forexample, one section lists the name of each icon (Edit, Delete, Addquotation) and then has sketches of 5 different ideas a piece. This bookalso discusses why people associate certain symbols with certain phrases,as well as outlining when to use graying, broken lines, arrows, etc. to addmeaning.

One shipment of this book did not include the disks, I had tocall back and get the disk shipped to me seperately.

Great reference book - but the disk isn't included
This book is a great reference tool for people who have to design toolbar icons.I wouldn't try to design an icon without it.

One note for people who may have seen the book before - only the book is available fromAmazon - not the diskette with the set of starter icons.This leaves youwith pictures of the starter icons in an appendix - which you can try toduplicate by hand in your icon editor of choice. Great reference book,too bad the disk isn't included.It's almost as valuable as the bookitself. ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (6)

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 not web design, it's a vanity site on paper.

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, the number of programmers it took to create), the number of hours that were spent creating the site, and the average number of hours that are spent maintaining the site on a monthly basis.

It is true that most of the designs are created primarily with Flash.If you're looking for layouts to mimic using XHTML and CSS, well, good luck.

Also, as a lifelong member of the Grammar Gestapo, I had quite a few chuckles when reading the introduction (the English introduction, that is--the book is trilingual, with the introduction, titles and captions in English, French and German).

Despite the poor grammar (which is, I'll grant, better than that of most native anglophones), the book delivered much more than I had expected, and I am extremely happy with my purchase.I imagine I'll be carrying this book around with me for at least the next few months, glancing through it whenever I have a free moment on the bus or out at lunch.

The book comes with a durable cover and glossy pages that smell great!

Nice for inspiration
As an amateur photographer, some years back I'd built up a simple site to show my images. It is pretty stale so I wandered the net looking what other photographers were doing. While it is easy to just wander around, it is time consuming for this research aspect.

Looking at the latest web design books at the local bookstore, this one was titled exactly what I had in mind.Fortunately Wiedemann has wandered far and wide to gather this collection.Sitting on the couch, it is easy to thumb through and mark those you may want to see. Clicking on these is like a best-of and the sites are fantastic as far as content and creativity. While not every one will match your preference, there are more than enough that will.

Many of the examples play heavily on Flash programming so it may be a bit much for casual site builders. To me, this book is a nice reference for those who want a site but may not have an idea which direction to pursue. Seeing the layout, this may be beneficial when farming this aspect out. You can say..."I like this feature on this site...can we integrate something like it in ours?" So by picking-chosing various features, one can develop a pretty nice atmosphere for viewers.

You'll easily spend countless hours in fruitless wandering to maybe turn up 2-3 sites in an hour that really grab you. Then try and dig through your history tab frantically hoping to recall one particular site with a feature you liked. This book for the price is a no-brainer...BUY-IT!For me, the overall value in design layout, content, Flash ideas exceeds the price paid in multiples.

The book's production values are first rate too. Well worth $10.

Good, sort of...
I reviewed another one of these books I bought at the same time as this one and it basically is the same review. The very most of the sites featured were done in Flash, which looks real good and inspires design ideas, but is very uninteresting for a web designer like me. These books should be called "Best Flash Portfolios" it would be more realistic. ... Read more