Customer Reviews:
 inspirational May 14, 2007
Katie C (Greater Manchester, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I believe this book is helpful for anyone who is interested in illustration, it gives you a taster of what is produced in the commercial industry today.
I like the fact that there is information on the artists, you can also contact the artists for help, information and techniques. There is also a broad range of styles shown so should appeal to everyone.
The only thing lacking in the book is detailed information on techniques undertook by the illustrators, abit sparse, you would have to contact the illustrator for more info. Otherwise a great inspirational book, would recommend this book for anyone who is studying illustration.
Great reading!!
 Impossibly pretty, but not a strong selection February 22, 2006
István (Budapest, Hungary)
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
I just couldn't leave this in the shop. It's so beautifully produced that all my objections went for nothing. The Gary Baseman cover alone would have done it.
But if we were to go by the book's content, we would find that 80 percent of today's most remarkable in illustration consists of unimaginative, clipart-like vector graphics and over-airbrushed Photoshop clumsiness. Too much of this stuff fits the term 'visual demagogy'.
By the amount of shallow commerciality presented (which very often borders on dilettantish) the book gives an objective account on the general state of things, to be sure. But why be concerned with the artistically irrelevant, when there are so many great talents out there? Greg Clarke, Gary Taxali, Mark Ulriksen, Dan Page, Joe Morse, James Jean, Brad Holland, John Hendrix, Olaf Hajek, Douglas Fraser, Vanessa Dell, Brian Cronin, Daniel Chang and the already mentioned Gary Baseman are among them. Their painfully few pages save an otherwise unsubstantial book.
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