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Using simple guidelines, professional color consultant Carole Jackson helps you choose the thirty shades that make you look smashing. COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL will also help you: develop your color personality; learn to perfect your make-up color; discover your clothing personality; use color to solve specific figure problems, and more, including full-color palettes containing the thirty shades for each season--pages... (more)

The Elements of Color

by Johannes Itten

A useful simplification and condensation of Johannes ltten's major work. The Art of Color , this book covers subjective feeling and objective color principles in detail. It presents the key to understanding color in ltten's color circle and color contrasts.

Color: A Natural History of the Palette

by Victoria Finlay

Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors. For example: Cleopatra used saffron—a source of the color yellow—for seduction. Extracted from an Afghan mine, the blue “ultramarine” paint used by Michelangelo was so expensive he couldn’t afford to buy it himself. Since ancient times, carmine red—still found in lipsticks and Cherry Coke today—has come from the blood of insects.

Design Your Self: Rethinking the Way You Live, Love, Work, and Play

Design Your Self: Rethinking the Way You Live, Love, Work, and Play

by Karim Rashid

Celebrated industrial designer Karim Rashid explains how to optimize all areas of life, aesthetic and spiritual, in this colorful, beautifully designed book. Design wonderkind Karim Rashid, whose projects range from the Trump Towers apartments to Lacoste sportswear to the ubiquitous Umbra garbage can, prescribes an organizational and style overhaul in Design Your Life. In short, sharp chapters, he tackles... (more)

Color Design Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design

Color Design Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design

by Noreen Morioka, Terry Lee Stone, Sean Adams

Designers know that color is an extremely vital part of any design project and not a subject to be taken lightly. For better or for worse, it affects moods and elicits reactions. Color Design Workbook invites readers to explore color through the language of professionals. As part of the Workbook series, this book aims to present readers with the fundamentals of graphic design. It supplies tips regarding how to... (more)

Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color

Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color

by Leatrice Eisemann

This authoritative guide presents hundreds of color combinations and color principles needed to create effective designs. Every lesson is demonstrated by example, enabling designers of all specialties and levels of experience to make the best color choices for every type of design.

The Color Star

by Johannes Itten

Consisting of eight stencil-like disks that can be placed over ltten's color wheel to compare cool and warm values, complementary colors, and different hues and intensities, this useful and innovative tool helps designers explore a myriad of harmonious color.

Color Works: The Crafter's Guide to Color

Color Works: The Crafter's Guide to Color

by Deb Menz

Crafters can explore colors with confidence in a variety of mediums with the advice in this book. The principles of color theory are clearly and simply explained and applied to knitting, spinning, weaving, surface design (including stenciling and rubber stamping), hand and machine embroidery, beadwork, and paper collage. Basic color concepts are presented in sections on color description, values, contrasting and... (more)

Patchwork Persuasion: Fascinating Quilts from Traditional Designs

Patchwork Persuasion: Fascinating Quilts from Traditional Designs

by Joen Wolfrom

A volume of quilt designs, comprising eight chapters of instructions and block designs. Joen Wolfrom presents numerous ways to create quit block settings and internal block changes. This is a sequel to "Visual Dance", and is suitable for quiltmakers and instructors alike.

Eye for Color, An

by Olga Gutierrez De La Roza

Developed by the Design Leader for Global Retail Hair at Procter & Gamble, An Eye for Color teaches readers how to develop their color sense. The book presents a unique, easy-to-follow system that the author developed to create effective color patterns, which differentiates it from the standard index-style books on the market that provide color combinations without placing those combinations in context. ... (more)

Color and Creativity (Beginner Art Guides)

Color and Creativity (Beginner Art Guides)

by Gabriel Marti?n i Roig

“Beginner Art Guides” instruct in the fundamentals of art, then present a series of projects for the student to master. Projects are presented in order of difficulty, and are supplemented with practical suggestions, ideas for color experiments, and techniques for creating special effects. The final page of each book presents a capsule biography of a famous artist whose work offers classic examples of the title’s... (more)

Controlled PaintingFrank Covino

Controlled Painting

by Frank Covino

The New Munsell Student Color Set and The Munsell Color System: A Language for Color

The New Munsell Student Color Set and The Munsell Color System: A Language for Color

by Jim Long, Joy Turner Luke

Albert Munsell s system of color notation has been taught for nearly a century, but the applications and uses of the system are constantly changing. Long and Luke s text teaches the importance of a standardized language to communicate color and the factors affecting how we perceive it. The three dimensions of color hue, value, and chroma are also described. There is a brief contextual description of other color... (more)

The Smashing Book

by Jacob Gube,Dmitry Fadeev,Chris Spooner,Darius A Monsef IV,Alessandro Cattaneo,Steven Snell,David Leggett,Andrew Maier,Kayla Knight,Yves Peters,René Schmidt,Vitaly Friedman,Sven Lennartz

The Complete Color Harmony: Expert Color Information for Professional Color Results

The Complete Color Harmony: Expert Color Information for Professional Color Results

by Tina Sutton

The Complete Color Harmony is the newest book in Rockport Publishers? best-selling series including, Color Harmony and Color Harmony 2. This book expands upon the two previous editions for the most comprehensive color reference to date. Along with some basic color theory, the book provides hundreds of one, two, and three-color combinations selected to reflect a range of moods and adjectives. This edition... (more)

The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color

The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color

by Johannes Itten

In this book, the world's foremost color theorist examines two different approaches to understanding the art of color. Subjective feelings and objective color principles are described in detail and clarified by color reproductions.

Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual

by Timothy Samara

The graphic design equivalent to Strunk & White's The Elements of Style This book is simply the most compact and lucid handbook available outlining the basic principles of layout, typography, color usage, and space. Being a creative designer is often about coming up with unique design solutions. Unfortunately, when the basic rules of design are ignored in an effort to be distinctive, design becomes useless.... (more)

Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition

Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Josef Albers

Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers’s unique ideas of color experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150... (more)

Principles of Color Design

by Wucius Wong

A complete revision of what is considered the classic introduction to color for all graphic designers and artists. This book provides a solid foundation for the development of personal color sense, and a practical examination of the myriad effects that can be achieved with color.

More Alive With Color: Personal Colors - Personal Style (Capital Lifestyles) (Capital Lifestyles)

More Alive With Color: Personal Colors - Personal Style (Capital Lifestyles) (Capital Lifestyles)

by Leatrice Eiseman

What is the best thing you can do when you don t have a thing to wear? What's the secret ingredient that can instantly improve the way you look and feel? It's simple--discover your personal colors! America's color guru Leatrice Eiseman will show you how in her fun and practical new book, More Alive with Color! Here Lee will introduce you to her original, easy-to-follow "Color Clock" system-- the quick way to find... (more)

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by Carole Jackson

by Johannes Itten

by Victoria Finlay

by Karim Rashid

by Noreen Morioka, Terry Lee Stone, Sean Adams

by Leatrice Eisemann

by Johannes Itten

by Deb Menz

by Joen Wolfrom

by Olga Gutierrez De La Roza

by Gabriel Marti?n i Roig

by Frank Covino

by Jim Long, Joy Turner Luke

by Jacob Gube,Dmitry Fadeev,Chris Spooner,Darius A Monsef IV,Alessandro Cattaneo,Steven Snell,David Leggett,Andrew Maier,Kayla Knight,Yves Peters,René Schmidt,Vitaly Friedman,Sven Lennartz

by Tina Sutton

by Johannes Itten

by Timothy Samara

by Josef Albers

by Wucius Wong

by Leatrice Eiseman