Can you imagine finding these three books at almost unused condition costs in total for about $20?
Wow right? Yeah, thats what I thought so too.
It has been a while since I’ve been to Bras Basah Complex. I used to go there some years ago while undertaking digital design course in a distant lifetime. I love this place as it has plentiful of things for people who are interested in books, design, or just looking at stuff. I used to patronise there to print for posters and name-cards designs.
I think its really worth going there. For $2.50 you could print an A3 sized poster and for $10 you could create a stack of 100 cards which are as beautiful as moo cards.
I stopped by this place on the third floor, called ‘Book Point’ where there were loads of treasures that you could find. You do need a little bit of patience as the place was rather large, and will take a while if you have a specific book to find. I was hooked for a couple of hours in the literature segment looking for some books that I wanted to read. There were some books with some scribbles in them, after all, this *was* a second hand bookshop. But most of them were almost pristine.
I still couldn’t find The Metamophorsis by Franz Kafka nor Godel Escher Bach; An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter which Cartcart has recommended me to read. In the meanwhile, I’ll keep trying to find them 🙂
Exploring the rest of the floor, I found myself at ‘Art Friend‘. My gosh, this is a great place for crafts. There were so many tools for art here, I could go crazy. Everything that you could want for art is here, from painting, to pottery, to sewing, to welding to things that I don’t even know of!
I was almost inspired enough to create my own Nimmo and friends plushie. But the only thing is, that they don’t really have exactly what I want to create a decent sized plushie. I think a better place for it would be at the area near the Sultan Mosque where mum, a seamstress, gets her materials for sewing clothes.
And at length, I stopped by the fourth floor to take a peek at the famed graphic-book bookstore, Basheer. I poured for a long time over their beautiful, colourful and artistically designed books. It’s a great place to get ideas by looking at the creativity of other designers.
That was when I find myself stuck reading this book. Design Basics Index by Jim Krause. It has loads of info about composition, concept and component. Although I wasn’t a designer per-se, I thought that this book was a very fascinating read. On a whim, I decided to buy it.
But zomg. This book costs $47! It’s almost as expensive as the $60 computer book that I bought some years ago.
How come graphic and computer books are so expensive?
Anyway, do drop by Bras Basah Complex if you’re anywhere in town. It’s a great place for the creative soul 🙂
eh…i think i have the book by Kafka tat u r looking for….
let me go check my messy bookshelf
Did you go to the $1 used bookshop on the first floor? I find that bookshop to be a booklover’s wet dream. You can sometimes get very good books if you look hard enough. Definitely not to be missed! Imagine! For $20, you could have gotten 20 books!
oooh… sounds like a book-lover’s paradise! shall go visit 🙂
Ghostrider
My bookshelf is getting messy too. I’m such a lazy person … hehehe
Ridj
No I didnt! I didnt know there was a $1 used bookshop! Is it in good condition enough to read though? That is the question 😛
Myztika
You’ll love it, I think 🙂 Treasures await for you there!
Ghostrider
Ooh Ooh! You are so kind! I might take you up on the offer when I’m done with my stack of ‘to read’ books and if I still cant find that book in the library 😀
*hugs*
hey!!!
i have the book!!!!! so i can lend it to you if u want.
bought it a few yrs back and i have not even touched it yet…sigh…..
ahhh..u r welcome
anything, drop me an email lahhhhhhh
Hi Rinaz,
My webmaster has exactly the same ‘Design Basics Index’ book!
But we both agree that he doesn’t have much design sense. Haha!
Ghostrider
Ok! 😀
Miss Loi
Really? But your website looks really really good. I like how it looks like, with the post-it notes, to the images. I love it. 10 thumbs up 😀