Nurbs at work

Hi all,

Welcome to the first REVIEW post on this blog. After all the nurbs put their heads together

(which looked something like this)

We have decided to remove the “We recommend section” and just turn it into the REVIEW section. This is where we are going to actually give our “in depth” opinion on the product or thing we are considering your time’s worth or not.

Let’s begin eh?

This post is totally for the designers… So programmers who are looking more and more into designing. Jump in.

We will be reviewing Robin Williams Design Workshop (2nd edition) book today and we are not talking about eh actor Robin williams. She wrote this design book with the help of John Tollet. Both of them have a long history of good design and awards behind them. Let’s see how this edition fairs up when it comes against with the likes of us!

What this book claims from the get go is that it will teach you design and practical know-how from the two artists (Robin and John).

It does teach this to a large extend. After reading this book, you will have a better concept and idea behind how to be a modern (digital) designer.

The two focus heavily on explaining that contrast on the page is the key to great design, which is true by every word. These two really know what they are talking about. I personally enjoyed reading this book, because it is not structured like the “other” books, it is different and daring with it’s layout design.

Robin Williams Design Workshop (2nd edition) covers the following:

1. logos
2. Business Cards, Letterhead and envelopes
3. Invoices and Forms
4. General advertising
5. Billboards
6. Web Sites
7. Tables of Content layouts
8. Newsletters and Brochures
9. Flyer design
10. Fonts

And aside from these topics it goes in more in depth on some of these subjects.

All in all it covers a great range of topics, but you can see that they want to tell more and the scope of this book does not really allow them to. Which is a shame, because you will have to go out and buy more of this series if you have chosen your design direction.

All in all it is a good book and a fun read. It is pointless to get a book that teaches you tons but does not entertain you or make it fun allong the way. This one scores big on that aspect that it teaches and also engages you to keep reading. Robin Williams Design Workshop (2nd edition) is a book that will not leave our library here at Nurbs at Work.

Score: 8 out of 10