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The Shape of Ideas Sketchbook
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Format: Notebook / blank book
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This sketchbook is ideal for professional artists, design students, and all who enjoy exploring creativity through drawing and sketching. Its blend of function and inspiration makes it suitable for anyone seeking motivation to capture the world through their unique perspective.
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This handy sketchbook is top-bound (suitable for the left- and right-handed), lies flat, and has an elastic pen holder so that your favourite pen or pencil is always at hand.
The cover design is by Grant Snider, author of the The Shape of Ideas, a collection of comics about the creative process.
Offering empathy, humour, and inspiration to creative types of all kinds, this handsome sketchbook has a few pieces of Snider's art tucked here and there throughout its blank pages.
Whether you are a professional artist or designer, a student pursuing a creative career, or someone who spends their spare moments dedicated to creative pursuits, this sketchbook will motivate you to explore the world and capture pieces of it through your own unique perspective.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781419729195
Publisher: Abrams
Format: Notebook / blank book
Date Published: 04 September 2018
Country: United States
Imprint: Abrams Noterie
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 144
About the Author
Grant Snider is an orthodontist by day and an artist by night. His comics have been featured in the Kansas City Star, the New York Times, and the New York Times Book Review, as well as The Best American Comics in 2013. He lives in Wichita, Kansas, with his wife and three children.
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