You Oughta Be Me: How to Be a Lounge Singer and Live Like One is the hilarious guide to becoming a lounge singer; by none other than Bud E. Luvmdash;lounge singer extraordinaire. Learn how to properly croon into a microphone and how to deal with adoring fans ("dont ever let them touch your hair"). The New York Times raves; "The humor is on target."
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful. I use this book all the time.By BillzBetter than any other book on color combinations. Leslie Cabarga clarifies not only color harmony but color arrangement. I believe his approach to color harmony makes far more sense than color wheels and rainbow illustrations. By taking good examples throughout history. one can get not only a flavor of what works. but can see the color in context. Some combinations repeat themselves. but in different contexts they look different as well. By putting in the CMYK percentages. it is very easy to transfer the colors to a computer for immediate use. For those who are artistically challenged (such as this reviewer). there is a refreshing sense to Cabargas work. He shows very clearly why bad color combinations are such and why good ones that work do in fact work. Each example is provided in a sensible context rather than a stack of colors. and most valuable is Cabargas use of variations of the same color set to illustrate how radically different the same group of colors look in different arrangements. I also liked Cabargas comments about key illustrators and their subject matter--even including expressing doubts about Paul Whiteman being the King of Jazz. Cabarga seems to know his artists and doesnt mind expressing any opinon that comes to mind whether on artists or the state of just about anything. Moreover. his opinions never get in the way of his discussion of color. (Even the opinions are colorful.) Its good to know books are still written by human beings rather than grey committees.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. This belongs on every designers desk.By Bryan B.This book will forever be at my desk. If I ever lost it. I would buy another.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. I cant recommend itBy KwillI greatly admire the work of Leslie Cabarga -- particularly in the book LOGO FONT LETTERING BIBLE. Perhaps because of the aforementioned authorship. I let my guard down in purchasing DESIGNERS GUIDE TO COLOR COMBINATIONS. The same tired layout is depicted hundreds of times in colors sampled from "historic" paintings. Though subject to personal opinion. I find the large majority of such colors are period dated or otherwise unsuitable for current graphic design projects. As with other books of this sort. the Live Color feature in Adobe Illustrator CS3 renders this reference work unnecessary.
