Alan Fletcher, The Art of Looking Sideways Reviews

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Good Points: Dip in & dip out of book, always notice something else you did not see before.

Bad Points: None

General comments: Love this book, a friend lent to me, it's full of everything you need to know about everything and nothing. Every household should have a copy.

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Visual intelligence, an exploration of the workings of the eye, le hand, le brain and the fired imagination. Alan Fletcher, The Art of Looking Sideways a inexhaustible treasure of anecdotes, quotations, images, curious facts and useless information - but then I questioned is it useless? I was stimulated to the point of exhaustion - not since the Lubin experience have I felt like this. The numerous oddities, boffin science, jokes and memories, all concerned with the interplay - but cusping juxtap ...

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Alan Fletcher, The Art of Looking Sideways - I was shopping at Vroman's earlier today looking for a design book. I picked this one up because it had interesting layouts and 533 pages of them (actually double that as he counts one spread as one page). After I got home and started to skim through the book (which I haven't stopped doing for the last 5 hours and I doubt I have read a 10th of it yet) I was amazed at the degree of intelligence, humor, insight, etc., on every page. This book is easily ...