Amy Butler’s Blossom caught my eye in a bookstore and I bought it based on the five star reviews. I’m happy with the book, and I collect compilations of other artists’ inspirations, and if you love love love Amy Butler, you’ll love this book.
If you can look at a tote bag and copy it from looking, without a pattern; if you don’t need instructions for making a scarf with fringe, and if you prefer tailored wool suits to unfitted sundresses, you might not find this book quite as inspiring as some reviewers did.
There is a unified look-and-feel to the chapters, even though they are about different people’s work. (Contrast to the variation in the book Fashionable Selby, which plays in the same space.) Not good or bad; simply an “is.”
It is clearly a book designer’s decision to have all text centered, and that is just as clearly a personal peeve of mine. I am older than the target market for this book, and I hate design that makes text harder to read.
