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birdhead  Mary Ellen O'Connor. Freed to Care, Proud to Nurse: 100 Years of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2010. Design is likely in-house. Collected 30 July This new hardcover book is heavy on the images, many of which are pretty neat, and it usually does a good job of showcasing them. However, on the whole the design gives me the feeling of being almost-but-not-quite great. ( read more ) |
birdhead Rowan Bishop & Sue Carruthers. The Vegetarian Adventure Cook Book: Menus from Home and Abroad. Lower Hutt: Mills Publications, 1988. No design info. Collected 30 July. I sat down to trash this design, but I found that it had really grown on me. What I like about it is that it has a really distinct sense of the time it was written, while still being legible, useful, and even attractive twenty years later. (Also, remember when a cookbook cost $20?) Paperback. ( read more ) |
birdhead Michael Haag. Cadogan Guide to Egypt. London: Cadogan Books, 1993. Illustrations by Sophie Morrish. Design by Animage. Cover illustration by Povl Webb, cover design by Ralph King. Collected 28 July Floppy cover, very thin stock but laminated stock - this is a guidebook densely crammed with information and designed to be lugged round with minimum effort and maximum efficiency. Design-wise, where to start with this book? Like Soon I Will Be Invincible, the Cadogan Guide to Egypt is characterised by a holistic design sensibility. Unfortunately - especially since the book itself is great and, I am assured, useful - this design is not so good! I seized on it the moment Elaine brought it out for indexing practice. ( read more ) |
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