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Title: Interesting but bland
Review: This is an odd sort of book, written by the creator of the CSS Zen Garden, which is a masterwork.The CSS Zen Garden is a place where beauty and craft meet, and sometimes in absolutely brilliant ways; that's the beauty aspect; however, this book is about the craft aspect not beauty, which is disappointing.All of the designs that are described are good examples of the various design subjects being discussed, such as typography or the use of color. But for all that they exemplify craft, they are all also rather bland.Missing from this book are the designs that are beautiful. The most egregious omission is Mozart, which is one of the most visually arresting designs I have ever seen on the whole of the Internet, to say nothing of this site.Other overlooked beautiful designs are Odyssey, Dark Rose, Invitation, C Note, Egyptian Dawn and Mediterranean. The book is much the worse for omitting these designs.
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