Look Inside: Cutaway Illustrations and Visual Storytelling Hardcover – 21 November 2016

Can't rate this. Perhaps my wife bought it thru my account, and i don't know who got it as a gift, i'd guess.

This book is beautifully designed and remarkably comprehensive. It's also really well produced, with several fold out pages that are amazing. One of the best art and design books I have seen in several years. Get it.

'Look inside' is one of those books you can open at any page and be grabbed by what you see. Though the titles says cutaway illustrations this has been interpreted in the widest possible way. There are some of those glossy, slick Photoshop renderings of technology, usually transport or tech products but the authors have gone out of their way to select some excellent examples of unusual graphic cutaways.Perhaps the oddest are from Jason Freeny who creates sculptures of popular children's characters, Mickey Mouse, a gingerbread man, that partially reveal their anatomy. The architectural firm Foster+Partners produce eye catching cutaways of their buildings, a development in Kuala Lumpur intriguingly has photos of real people walking about the complex.The book has a brief eight page historical overview of cutaways with examples of work, for example GH Davis, who for forty years provided art for the Illustrated London News, Frank Soltesz is mentioned but no examples of his magnificent cutaway buildings he did for the Armstrong Cork Company advertising campaign in the 1940s. Five masters of the genre are highlighted with mini portfolios over several pages. Two of these are worth mentioning: Bryan Christie uses see though photos of the human body to illustrate how muscles and bones work, Fernando Baptista paints meticulous cutaways of historical buildings or exploring caves in the natural world, much of his work has appeared in the National Geographic.The book's large size brings out the best in many of the illustrations because most of them are full of detail, there are also three fold-outs at thirty-seven inches wide. The book will obviously interest graphic designers and illustrators who produce information art.

Un libro asombroso! Toda una inspiración. Sin duda merece la pena hacerse con él. Gran maquetación y detalles bien cuidados.

This book is absolutely fascinating and extremely good value. It appeals to every generation and will keep you mesmerised for hours