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This book is a collection of the fi nest examples of the synergy generated by graphics and the use of color in architecture. The selection of projects demonstrates how graphics and color can reinforce the strength of volumes and spaces. The spatial application of color is clearly explained by the creators of the projects themselves through texts and photographs. This is an essential book for delving deeper into the specifi c uses of color in architecture and its application to different typologies. Work from some of today’s fi nest contemporary architects make this an excellent source of inspiration for lovers of color-focused architecture.

To illustrate how colors influence the message, this essential handbook starts with 10 layouts and applies more than 80 different color combinations to each, resulting in a vast collection of dynamic variations.
Includes an interactive CD that allows users to choose layouts from the book, experiment with colors, and print them for reference. This tool illustrates the powerful role colors play in layout design.

Selecting the right colors for any design project, whether personal or commercial, can make all the difference in whether a project communicates effectively to the designated audience. For most people, choosing the right colors is not an easy process. With this comprehensive collection, anyone can make effective and powerful choices for their design and client.
"Color Harmony: Layout" opens with case studies of 10 featured designs; each study explains what the work was trying to achieve and why the particular palette was chosen. The book then follows with 21 chapters, headed by adjectives such as elegant, professional, or classic, that feature the palettes which best reflect the adjective. The chapters also include 10 designated layout designs in 4 different color combinations from that palette. The result: more than 800 color studies illustrating how varying color combinations can dynamically alter a given design and the message it communicates. "Color Harmony: Layout" is an insightful demonstration of the power of color and its ability to convey a message, as well as a time-saving handbook that all designers will turn to again and again.

Selecting the right color palette for any design project, whether personal or commercial, can make all the difference in getting it right. But choosing the right colors for a logo, and ultimately the identity, is essential because it will define all the collateral materials that will follow. Unfortunately, for most people choosing colors is not an easy process, but with a little bit of science and a color advice, anyone can make a strong choice.

Color Harmony: Logos opens with a discussion on how to choose color(s) for logos and follows with a number of case studies on logos where color is a dominate factor such as those for H & R Block, Kodak, and Coca-Cola.

Then, it takes the 26 adjectives from one of the series' predecessors, Complete Color Harmony, and shows one logo for each adjective in 60 different color combinations. The result: 1,560 logo variations that illustrate how colors are used.

In all, the book is a powerful demonstration of the power of color and its ability to impact a message.

Comes with bonus CD ROM!

Color Harmony:Logos opens wiyg a discussion on how to choose color for logos,
then follows with 26chapters based on common identity artributes. Each chapter xplores over 40 different effective color combinations.
The result-more than 1000logo variations illustrating how color can dynamically alter a given design.
This book is an insightful demonstration of the power of color to alter the context of a message.
It is an essential handbook for any designer who has ever wrestled with  the complex issues of color selection.
Also included with the book is an interactive CD containing a selection of the featured logos.
the CD lets users experiment with color and print the results for reference.
This dynamic tool will provide a better understanding of the critical role color plays logo design.

The use of color, in any artistic disciplnine, is one of the most cmplex paskss, as it not only serves a decorativepurpose; it is also used to convey an intention and certai aesthetic effects. In addition, there are psychological factor, considering that a color, and even shades of a color, can trigger certain feelings and this can have a decisive impact on how a person perceives a space or object.

1000 photos/illustrations

Dealing with every major colour system for both print and Web, "Color Management for Logos" provides readers with a solid understanding of all aspects of logo design. Featuring over 1000 examples of professional logo designs, the book aims to cover both theoretical and practical design considerations. These range from issues of impact and legibility through to emotional responses to colour and technical considerations, making it a comprehensive guide to all aspects of logo design. Case studies and practical guidelines also serve to provide further creative inspiration. Because of its sheer quality and depth, "Color Management for Logos" provides a unique body of information for designers, branding professionals and students alike.

Color Management for Packaging covers both theoretical and practical packaging design considerations. Every aspect of colour for packaging is explored, including issues of standout, impact, legibility, appetite ratings, emotional responses to colour, prepress requirements, technical considerations, and issues of ageing and display. 

Not only is this a great ideas reference book, but it is also a hardworking manual that gives designers the broad colour knowledge with which to create more successful packaging designs. It shows how to work within budgetary constraints, create the right feel for a product, and create packaging designs that work with a number of different colour palettes to accommodate separate product ranges. 

A consolidated resource, Color Management for Packaging arms designers with a thorough understanding of how to communicate with and manage colour in all aspects of packaging design, and offers creative solutions for designing inspiring packaging in line with print and design budgets.

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Selecting the right color palette for any design project, whether personal or commercial, can make all the difference in getting it right. But choosing the right colors for packages in retail environment competing with thousands of other products, it is especially important to hit the right color note. Unfortunately, for most people choosing colors is not an easy process, but with a little bit of science and some color advice, anyone can make a strong choice.

This book will take the 23 adjectives from The Complete Color Harmony and show 10 different packages in a variety of categories in 3 color combinations each for every adjective. The result is 1,035 color/layout variations illustrating how colors are used to great effect in design.

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With this book in one hand and a brush in the other, you can learn how to transform everyday furniture into something special, all for the price of a pot of paint.

Annie Sloan is a paint legend and one of the world's most popular experts in the field of decorative painting. In Colour Recipes for Painted Furniture and more, Annie presents 40 new projects and ideas, showing you the easy way to update tired furniture and transform your home.

Working with her own range of chalk paints, Annie shows how to mix colours and how to achieve certain looks. Whether your taste is for colourful boho chic or restrained Swedish hues, cosy and comforting rustic shades, a modern and contemporary approach or an elegant French look, here you will find a project to suit you.

Start off by mastering the simple art of colourwashing, and work your way up to transfer printing, gilding, stencilling and glazing. There are even instructions for dyeing fabric using paint. As well as painting furniture, the projects range from a staircase painted in a rainbow of colours to stencilled walls, transforming floors with a coat of paint to dyeing linen curtains and even painting a vintage chandelier.

Throughout the book, Annie offers expert tips, techniques, shortcuts and guidance, showing you the easy way to create a stylish home.

About the Author:

Annie Sloan is one of the world’s most respected experts in the field of decorative painting. She runs highly successful workshops from her store in Oxford, and teaches in the US and Europe. Annie has written more than ten books, including the bestselling Quick and Easy Paint Transformations, Creating The French Look, The Painted Garden and Annie Sloan’s Painted Kitchen (all published by CICO Books), and has featured prominently on PBS television and the Homes & Gardens TV channel. She also sells her own highly acclaimed range of chalk paint which is available from almost 300 locations worldwide, including over 200 outlets in the US. The author is based between Oxford, UK and France.

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Taking a practical approach to colour, Colour: A workshop for artists and designers is an invaluable resource for art students and professionals alike. With its sequence of specially designed assignments and in-depth discussions, it effectively bridges the gap between colour theory and practice to inspire confidence and understanding in anyone who works with colour.

This second edition has been carefully reviewed and revised throughout. Presented in a new larger format, it includes much-enhanced sections on key colour principles such as colour perception, visual structure, materials and techniques, psychological experience of colour, and colour composition in digital formats.

Generously illustrated – including all-new, contemporary examples – this book provides a unique set of tools that makes the complex theory of colour accessible and practical.

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Comic Art Now gathers together the medium’s finest exponents from around the world for the first time in a volume that reveals the sheer diversity and rich talent that abounds in this visually thrilling artform.

The book showcases the crème de la crème of contemporary comic book creators, whether they are established professionals or hot new bucks making waves in the industry. From superlative superheroes to heart-stopping horror, the artwork is divided into today’s most popular comic book genres. This collection takes a rare holistic approach, incorporating everything from small, self-published projects, through independent artists’ work, right up to big established names working for Marvel, DC and Dark Horse.

What qualifies them for inclusion is the quality of their work. Comic Art Now is at the razor’s edge of one of the most important, relevant and misunderstood artforms on the planet.