Product Description

Customer Reviews (5)

Taschen Strikes Again
As a fan of the Taschen books, I picked this one up when designing out a few sites and seeking inspiration.

That's often how I find myself picking up Taschen books- they are great for inspiration!From logos to sites and Japanese prints, Taschen prints quality books to inspire you in what it is that you seek.

This book, in particular, is helpful if you seek a cornucopia of visual ideas/screen shots for website design at your fingertips.Just keep in mind the back-end programming of each site as you look at them, and your website design goal, target audience, and how the design/campaign/branding will be maintained as it is expanded.There are quite a few really nice, inspirational, elegant designs that are simple in here, and some that are a bit older, but is it worth the $10?Definitely.

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

Product Description

Product 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.Amazon.com Review
"The Icon Book" is available in three formats: BookOnly Edition (ISBN: 047159900X); Diskette Only Edition (ISBN:047102497X); Book w/ Diskette Edition (ISBN:0471599018). ... 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

Product Description
Following up on the success of "Web Design: Portfolios", this volume features the internet's best examples of artists, design studios, photographers, designers, and corporations that use Flash to showcase their creations. What once existed only in printed form - brochures, leaflets, catalogs, and other promotional material - is increasingly being featured online via dynamic, animated Flash-powered sites. "Flashfolios" contains a selection of such websites developed exclusively using Flash, demonstrating the sophistication and range of interactive web design today. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Web Design Book purchase
I love this book. A great one to start my collection. The shipping was fast and it arrived in great condition. ... Read more

Product Description

Customer Reviews (2)

A nice little book!
This is a nice little book to keep on your desk. It saves a lot of time for research and is much easier then looking on the web for ideas. Just a flick of a page and a whole new interface awaits you!

Meh... =/
The work included is good... but... I just wish I found this in a discount bin and didn't wait for the pre-order. The others in this series are, from what I own, very useful and one can constantly go back to get ideas, but this book... just seems to fall short. ... Read more

Product Description
King Arthur, probably the most popular of British kings and one whose name is synonymous with courage, chivalry and romanticism. Arthur, King of the Britons, Arthur the medieval legend, Arthur the Celtic warlord, Arthur of the Pre-Raphaelites and Arthur of the movies...would the real King Arthur please stand up? Daniel Mersey explores the many faces, myths and theories surrounding this famous king. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Arthur, King of the Britons
From the cover:King Arthur is probably the most popular king in British history, and a man whose name is synonymous with courage, chivalry and romanticism.But is he just a myth?Arthur, King of the Britons; Arthur, the medieval legend; Arthur, the Celtic warlord; Arthur of the Pre-Raphaelites and the Arthur of the movies . . . would the real King Arthur please stand up?Mersey explores the many theories and myths surrounding this famous icon in his compelling biography. ... Read more

Product Description
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 (7)

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 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. ... Read more

Product Description
This is our selection of contemporary award-winning video campaigns and websites. The YouTube phenomenon is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the presence and importance of video on the web today. Everywhere you surf, videos abound; with increasing bandwidth speeds come more and more possibilities for the moving image to find its place in every nook and cranny of the web, whether to sell products or entertain or both. This book brings together a number of award-winning campaigns and websites produced for top brands worldwide, demonstrating the connection between the worlds of television and internet. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Outdated
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2CNV339RNTNFD This book is published in 2008 so some of the websites have either updated or aren't around anymore. When you visit the websites listed, most of them will be different from what's shown in the book. The text also doesn't provide much insight into the creation of those websites besides a one sentence introduction.

This book isn't very useful as it's now outdated. ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Perl, Awk, Sed, Bash, Tcl, Snobol, Icon, Bourne Shell, Text Editor and Corrector, C Shell, Tcsh, Rc, Almquist Shell, Windows Powershell, Rexx, Chomski, Pwb Shell, Unicon, Omnimark, Comit, Perl Shell, Boomerang, Snowball Programming Language, Snostorm, Sort Merge Generator, Text Processing Utility, Ais Balise. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 187. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular amongst programmers. Larry Wall continues to oversee development of the core language, and its upcoming version, Perl 6. Perl borrows features from other programming languages including C, shell scripting (sh), AWK, and sed. The language provides powerful text processing facilities without the arbitrary data length limits of many contemporary Unix tools, facilitating easy manipulation of text files. It is also used for graphics programming, system administration, network programming, applications that require database access and CGI programming on the Web. Perl is nicknamed "the Swiss Army chainsaw of programming languages" due to its flexibility and adaptability. Larry Wall began work on Perl in 1987, while working as a programmer at Unisys, and released version 1.0 to the comp.sources.misc newsgroup on December 18, 1987. The language expanded rapidly over the next few years. Perl 2, released in 1988, featured a better regular expression engine. Perl 3, released in 1989, added support for binary data streams. Originally the only documentation for Perl was a single (increasingly lengthy) man page. In 1991, Pr...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23939 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Ico. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 45. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: ICO file format is an image file format for icons in Microsoft Windows. .ICO files contain one or more small images at multiple sizes and color depths. CUR file format is an almost identical image file format for non-animated cursors in Microsoft Windows. The only differences between these two file formats are their identification bytes and the specification of a hotspot in the cursor file's header. The official IANA-registered MIME type for .ICO files is image/vnd.microsoft.icon. Erroneous labels image/ico, image/icon, text/ico, application/ico and image/x-icon were in use at the time of official registration and assignment of the MIME type. Icons introduced in Windows 1.0 were 32×32 pixels in size and had 16 colors. Support for 256 colors was introduced in Windows 3.0. Win32 introduced support for storing icon images of up to 16.7 million colors (Truecolor) and up to 256x256 pixels in dimensions. Windows 95 also introduced a new Device Independent Bitmap (DIB) engine. However, 256 color was the default icon color depth in Windows 95. It was possible to enable 65535 color (Highcolor) icons by either modifying the Shell Icon BPP value in the registry or by installing the Microsoft Plus! pack for Windows 95. The Shell Icon Size value allows using larger icons in place of 32×32 icons and the Shell Small Icon Size value allows using custom sizes in place of 16×16 icons. Thus, even prior to Windows XP, a single icon file could store images of any size from 1×1 pixel up to 256×256 pixels (including non-square sizes) with 16, 256, 65535, or 16.7 million colors; but the shell could not display very large sized icons. The notification area of the Windows taskbar was limited to 16 color icons by default un...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2110712 ... Read more

Product Description
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 relating to television programming content in China.As the editor of this report, I am drawing on a methodology developed at INSEAD, an international business school (www.insead.edu). For any given industry or sector, including television programming content, the methodology decomposes a country’s strategic potential along four key dimensions: (1) latent demand, (2) micro-accessibility, (3) proxy operating pro-forma financials, and (4) macro-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.With this perspective, this report provides both a micro and a macro strategic profile of television programming content in China. It does so by compiling published information that directly relates to latent demand and accessibility, either at the micro or macro level. The reader new to China can quickly understand where China fits into a firm’s strategic perspective. In Chapter 2, the report investigates latent demand and micro-accessibility for television programming content in China. In Chapters 3 and 4, the report covers proxy operating pro-forma financials and macro-accessibility in China. Macro-accessibility is a general evaluation of investment and business conditions in China. ... Read more

Product Description
This study covers the latent demand outlook for online sports programming across the regions of Greater China, including provinces, autonomous regions (Guangxi, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Xizang - Tibet), municipalities (Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai, and Tianjin), special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau), and Taiwan (all hereafter referred to as “regions”). Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across some 1,100 cities in Greater China. For each major city in question, the percent share the city is of the region and of Greater China is reported. Each major city is defined as an area of “economic population”, as opposed to the demographic population within a legal geographic boundary. For many cities, the economic population is much larger that the population within the city limits; this is especially true for the cities of the Western regions. For the coastal regions, cities which are close to other major cities or which represent, by themselves, a high percent of the regional population, actual city-level population is closer to the economic population (e.g. in Beijing). Based on this “economic” definition of population, comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city’s marketing and distribution value vis-à-vis others. This exercise is quite useful for persons setting up distribution centers or sales force strategies. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each region and city of influence, 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

Product Description
This study covers the latent demand outlook for online sports programming across the states and cities of the United States. Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across some 4,700 cities in the United States. For each city in question, the percent share the city is of it’s state and of the United States 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 state 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

Product Description
This study covers the latent demand outlook for martial arts television programming across the regions of Greater China, including provinces, autonomous regions (Guangxi, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Xizang - Tibet), municipalities (Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai, and Tianjin), special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau), and Taiwan (all hereafter referred to as “regions”). Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across some 1,100 cities in Greater China. For each major city in question, the percent share the city is of the region and of Greater China is reported. Each major city is defined as an area of “economic population”, as opposed to the demographic population within a legal geographic boundary. For many cities, the economic population is much larger that the population within the city limits; this is especially true for the cities of the Western regions. For the coastal regions, cities which are close to other major cities or which represent, by themselves, a high percent of the regional population, actual city-level population is closer to the economic population (e.g. in Beijing). Based on this “economic” definition of population, comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city’s marketing and distribution value vis-à-vis others. This exercise is quite useful for persons setting up distribution centers or sales force strategies. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each region and city of influence, 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

Product Description
This study covers the latent demand outlook for martial arts television programming across the states, union territories and cities of India. Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across over 1,800 cities in India. For each city in question, the percent share the city is of it?s state or union territory and of India as a whole is reported. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city vis-?-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 state or union territory 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