Star Wars: The Blueprints Author: Visit Amazon's J. W. Rinzler Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1611097967 | Format: EPUB
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As Yoda might put it: Forceful object, this is. --The New York Times
Wait no more. Star Wars: The Blueprints, an oversized hardcover from Epic Ink, collects the best of the original blueprints created by the UK production art departments during the making of the six movies, taken straight from the Lucasfilm Archives and reproduced in striking high resolution ...The talent of these designers is on display on every page. Each blueprint is presented as an original work of art, and some bear the imperfections of rips and folds present on the original technical drawings ... Star Wars: The Blueprints is much more than a collection of documents. --Star Wars Insider
There has been no shortage of amazing Star Wars coffee table books and great memorabilia over the years, but the new book, Star Wars: The Blueprints, looks like one of the coolest inside looks at the franchise ever. 95% of the content has never been seen outside of the production. --IGN.com
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Review
“As Yoda might put it: Forceful object, this is.”
—The New York Times “Wait no more.
Star Wars: The Blueprints, an oversized hardcover from Epic Ink, collects the best of the original blueprints created by the UK production art departments during the making of the six movies, taken straight from the Lucasfilm Archives and reproduced in striking high resolution ...The talent of these designers is on display on every page. Each blueprint is presented as an original work of art, and some bear the imperfections of rips and folds present on the original technical drawings ...
Star Wars: The Blueprints is much more than a collection of documents. ”
—Star Wars Insider “There has been no shortage of amazing Star Wars coffee table books and great memorabilia over the years, but the new book,
Star Wars: The Blueprints, looks like one of the coolest inside looks at the franchise ever. 95% of the content has never been seen outside of the production.”
—IGN.com See all Editorial Reviews
- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: 47North (April 2, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1611097967
- ISBN-13: 978-1611097962
- Product Dimensions: 14.6 x 12.4 x 1.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 9.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
If you can afford this book, buy it.
Since STARS WARS first came out, it's produced an avalanche of licensed product taller than Jabba the Hut, including sumptuous art books. But this book, in size, towers above them all. A first-class example of book production, from its gorgeous tray case to the oversized book amply illustrated with blueprints and supportive text and photographs, this is the kind of book you'll show off to your friends and neighbors, and leaf through with a look of amazement.
In every possible way -- the oversized format, the printing on coated paper stock, the sturdy sewn signatures, the flawless reproduction, and the handsome tray case that protects the book -- this is a work of art, and for the author, a labor of love.
Limited to 5000 copies, mine was numbered in the 2000's, so based on that, the book is half sold out. (It may be that other vendors got copies with higher numbers, which suggests that readers with Jedi-like wisdom should buy sooner than later.)
At $500, it's admittedly a luxury. You can live without this, but why would your want to? At a time when trade publishers are cheapening books in every possible way, with crappy printing, glue binding, tiny type, printed on paper with the consistently of toilet paper, this book is its own best argument: Books can be, in themselves, works of art.
You don't have to be a STAR WARS fan to appreciative this massive tome. I imagine every mechanical engineer with a taste for fantasy and science fiction will find this book compulsively readable and viewable.
I should add that it comes boxed with an ingenious buffer-like cardboard insert that protects the fragile corners of the tray case from damage.
I skipped the limited Epic Ink edition which I felt to be too large and expensive. The original trilogy studio set blueprint reproductions we had access to during the last decades had been a set of selected Star Wars (ANH) blueprints and those featured in the artbooks of TESB and ROTJ.
This book reveals most impressively that there had been much, much more, and accompanied by many hardly or never before seen photos this is a must-own for the serious Star Wars collector and most definitely one of the top three Star Wars publications I've purchased during the last decade.
The book illustrates nicely the amount of planning and detailing of the various studio sets of which I hadn't been that much aware of previously, and apparently nothing was left to chance or improvisation, even the ice corridors of the Rebel's Echo Base are laid out in detailed side and top views.
And the book contains a few surprises. For the first time we see the enigmatic "Rebel Snowcrawler" (mostly deleted and hard to spot in the footage) from TESB which is identified as "cannon sled" (and was apparently a forerunner of the desert skiffs in ROTJ) and there's even an "in-universe" interior arrangement drawing of Echo Base (seems like "Inside the Worlds of Star Wars" could use a revision), which in general is featured with ALL its sets.
Pages 124 and 125 are rather intriguing as they seem to feature an early design for the Star Destroyers' main bridge consisting of only three windows (compare photo on page 126!).
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