To date, I’ve had to resort to previous editions of the Graphic Standards for most of my information. And I find it odd that a book titled graphic standards does not illustrate what the graphic conventions are. But it LOOKS PRETTY!

As for the CD-Rom, it has to be installed on the computer to use it, and the license agreement allows it to be installed on only one computer.

This outwardly beautiful book is riddled with page after page of What to Think, not information useful toward a creative and practical design. Graphic standards have morphed here into a pompous treatise on Doing the “Right” Thing.

The moralist tone is so irritating that it’s easy to overlook that the organization, in so far as it is deemed to be a reference book, is simply awful.

If you’re looking for graphic standards, I suggest an earlier edition, any edition.

I’m really disappointed to find that my big, beatiful new edition of Architectural Graphic Standards does not contain everything that previous editions did. I was so happy to have my very own copy and now will have to also buy a 10th edition to get everything. Check it out before you buy!