I bought this book hoping for lots of examples of middle eastern design to inspire quilts -- tiles, fabrics, embroideries, architectural design, etc. That's not what this is (despite the cover art, which is beautiful and suggests such a thing). There are many many examples of typefaces for Arabic which might be useful to some people. The designs for signs, websites, graffiti, and advertising are, to my eye, rather junky, images that I would rather not gaze at for very long. Lots of scribbling, images on top one another (I suppose this is stylish), and cartoon-like art. It wasn't what I was hoping for and I will discard this book in the next trip to Goodwill.