Nice little book, 17 Aug 2005
A very nice collection of contemporary lighting from the well known to some of the newer faces in design.

Nice pictures throughout and compact enough to carry with you as reference where needed. The quotes from the designers about their designs are particularly nice as it gives you a good insight into what the design is all about.

Nice little book, 17 Aug 2005
A very nice collection of contemporary lighting from the well known to some of the newer faces in design.

Nice pictures throughout and compact enough to carry with you as reference where needed. The quotes from the designers about their designs are particularly nice as it gives you a good insight into what the design is all about.

Very good book for novices., 07 Jul 1997
The book begins with an inspirational and somewhat simplistic insight into lighting design. Simply as a study of lighting contrasts. While this is a very important aspect of LD, it is by far one of many concepts a professional must use. The book refers to many technical aspects of lighting without giving any "meat" or more in depth information, which I would have enjoyed. If you are new to LD or are an architect or engineer who has little experience with lighting, it is a very good lauching point. If you are technically knowledgable about lighting and want some inspiration, read chapter 1 and the last chapter on Design for concepts.

Nice little book, 17 Aug 2005
A very nice collection of contemporary lighting from the well known to some of the newer faces in design.

Nice pictures throughout and compact enough to carry with you as reference where needed. The quotes from the designers about their designs are particularly nice as it gives you a good insight into what the design is all about.

Very good book for novices., 07 Jul 1997
The book begins with an inspirational and somewhat simplistic insight into lighting design. Simply as a study of lighting contrasts. While this is a very important aspect of LD, it is by far one of many concepts a professional must use. The book refers to many technical aspects of lighting without giving any "meat" or more in depth information, which I would have enjoyed. If you are new to LD or are an architect or engineer who has little experience with lighting, it is a very good lauching point. If you are technically knowledgable about lighting and want some inspiration, read chapter 1 and the last chapter on Design for concepts.

Lovely to Look at., 07 Aug 2007
This book has wonderful photos, some of them of the same room from different angles. It doesn't, however, have a lot of text so if you are looking for instructions for creating your white room there are other books more suitable. But if you draw your inspiration from looking at pictures you could hardly do any better than buy this one!

Nice little book, 17 Aug 2005
A very nice collection of contemporary lighting from the well known to some of the newer faces in design.

Nice pictures throughout and compact enough to carry with you as reference where needed. The quotes from the designers about their designs are particularly nice as it gives you a good insight into what the design is all about.

Very good book for novices., 07 Jul 1997
The book begins with an inspirational and somewhat simplistic insight into lighting design. Simply as a study of lighting contrasts. While this is a very important aspect of LD, it is by far one of many concepts a professional must use. The book refers to many technical aspects of lighting without giving any "meat" or more in depth information, which I would have enjoyed. If you are new to LD or are an architect or engineer who has little experience with lighting, it is a very good lauching point. If you are technically knowledgable about lighting and want some inspiration, read chapter 1 and the last chapter on Design for concepts.

Lovely to Look at., 07 Aug 2007
This book has wonderful photos, some of them of the same room from different angles. It doesn't, however, have a lot of text so if you are looking for instructions for creating your white room there are other books more suitable. But if you draw your inspiration from looking at pictures you could hardly do any better than buy this one!

Hot Homes, 02 Feb 2007
In summary, a visually exciting and extremely interesting read.
Yes, unlike very many books of this ilk you are guaranteed to read this book more than once. Yes, even the most experienced proffessional will learn something from it. Yes, it cannot fail to stimulate and excite the sences.
If you are at all interested in architecture, design, style, matierials and the bold integration of buildings into a variety of sensitive landscapes you will not be dissapointed when you purchase this book.

The brainchild of art-school graduate Gary Withers, Imagination Monograph encapsulates the essence of a creative professional collective, Imagination, based on pooled skills, the vision to blend them and now an impressively conceived and packaged book to showcase them. Started in 1978, the company's role finally emerged in the early 1990s as "brand experience", whereby they enable clients to express corporate identity through innovative product presentation that bears Imagination's mark but the client's brand.

The book opens with a laudatory essay by design journalist Stephen Bayley, who accords Imagination the title of "Britain's, and by some measures the world's, biggest design agency". Major commercial players such as Ford and BT have shown repeated and justified faith in Imagination to conceive, construct and choreograph launch events and happenings. What Imagination does, and is, remains intentionally elusive, as the key to its success lies in its fluidity. Referred to by one ex-employee as "a little Bauhaus", it rejects pyramid management for a pancake non-hierarchy that thrives on "partnering", whereby it has an established, trusted network of professionals who can be relied on for whatever a project entails. Their stock-in-trade is the stuff of dreams--their presentations and designs consciously impel the jaw to drop and appeal to an audience ideally with an intelligent brain but little previous product knowledge. From the launch of the Tate Modern, exhibitions at the Natural History Museum, the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin (with a top-level bar lit like the head of a pint, naturally) to several pavilions at the Millennium Dome, they have embraced a sense of theatrical presentation rooted in precision and planning. As a result, a series of stills and designs inevitably can't quite do justice to the scale of their achievement, but the inclusion of preliminary sketches and outlines of the thought behind their work, provide tantalising insights into method and a working environment to be equally admired and envied. Perhaps this, Imagination's philosophy ("to get there quicker") and practices, is the most impressive aspect of a book that illuminates the way forward for corporate presentation, in the most holistic, dare one say, Imaginative, fashion. --David Vincent