«What if you need someone to draw salad on a plate with a glass of wine next to it? You could go through the above processes, and — after a while — you'd probably find someone to draw or paint it in the style you wanted. Or you could simply pick up «The Big Book of Illustration Ideas 2» flip to the section marked «Food and Still Life», and find pages and pages of illustrators who can draw all kinds of food in all kinds of styles: pencil, crayon, watercolor, collage, and so on, and so on. It's a smorgasbord of illustration ideas. In fact, within these pages are the best illustrators from all over the world, found together in one place along with all their contact information.»

As the use of the Internet increases, so does the influence of electronic media on print design. This showcase celebrates the stylistic melding of these two mediums, presenting designers, students and creative professionals with more than 200 provocative examples. Each design is featured in a large, full-color layout which includes details on the designer, client, purpose, stylistic analysis and specs. Roger Walton is currently Art Director of Duncan Baird Publishers and lectures on design at several major art colleges. He is also the editor of Typographics 1, 2 and 3, Sight for Sound: Design and Music Mixes, Cool Sites and Alphabook: Typeface Design and Application. He lives in London, England.