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10) Conran on color
Author
Publisher
Conran Octopus
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Terence Conran shares a lifetime of experience as one of the world's leading designers and retailers to explain how to make the most of this vibrant and dynamic ingredient in your home.
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Explores color's countless manifestations, providing insight into such phenomena as the visible spectrum, light absorption and reflection, how humans see color, how vision evolved, the sky, rainbows, colored gems, animal pigmentation, how animals use color to find mates and to protect themselves, and the use of color in human religion, ritual, design, navigation, communication, and personal identity.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Richly illustrated and interactive in its approach, this book explores the contemporary aesthetics of color. Color and its many meanings are presented in culturally specific terms, encouraging an appreciation of the power color holds over different societies, and shows how to use color in a sophisticated fashion. [From publisher's description]
15) Mix it up!
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Using no special effects other than the reader's imagination, simple directions lead the reader to experiment with mixing and changing colors on the printed page.
16) Bluets
Author
Publisher
Wave Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue, while folding in, and responding to, the divergent voices and preoccupations of such generative figures as Wittgenstein, Sei Shonagon, William Gass and Joan Mitchell. Bluets further confirms Maggie Nelson's place within the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists" --
17) The alchemy of color knitting : the art and technique of mastering exquisite palettes / Gina Wilde
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Explore the building blocks of color theory and meaning.
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