The second volume by best-selling author Lauren Wager features a fresh new approach to colour combinations with entirely new palettes, organized by season.

What colour is summer? Is it cool and translucent swimming pool aquamarine, dazzling red like watermelon flesh, or the pale pink interior of a seashell? If these colours define summer, what colour is autumn? How about winter? And spring? In Palette Perfect, vol 2, designer, best-selling author and content creator Lauren Wager explores the multiple possibilities of seasonal colour applications, leading the reader through an inspirational presentation of image pairings and colour combinations.

This volume -- both a practical guide and inspirational book for designers, illustrators, architects, and crafters, as well as non-professionals, home decoration and fashion lovers -- provides examples of well-thought-out colour application within the worlds of contemporary art, fashion, interiors, photography and graphic design. It is a carefully gathered collection of colour palettes and stunning images with a touch of the unexpected, utterly successful in its aim.

This book demonstrates the value of observation and how the practice of seeking beauty can lead to fruitful creation and inspiration.

About the Author:

Lauren Wager is a young graphic designer living in Columbus, Ohio. She is the mastermind behind the exquisite blog Colour-Collective (https://www.color-collective.com), in which she gathers beautiful fashion, design, interiors, nature and still-life-related photographs and turns them into colour palettes, in a unique display of talent and aesthetic sensitivity. She works as a freelance web and graphic designer for a variety of media such as Bath and Bodyworks. Her site has been seen on top blogs such as Design*Sponge, Refinery29, Apartment Therapy, Design for Mankind, Smashing Magazine and The Huffington Post. Lauren's blog has also been featured in five issues of Lucky Magazine, and Joy Cho's first book, Blog, Inc.

A new and stunning exploration of colour through the lens of contemporary fashion.

Color consultant and curator Lauren Wager, author of the best-selling Palette Perfect volumes, and colorist, designer and trend forecaster Sophia Naureen Ahmad, team up in this practical and inspirational compendium that examines how colors can be used and combined to achieve specific effects in fashion. We learn what each color means, where the color name comes from and color combinations that go well with each color, as well as different fabrics and decorative elements used in fashion in relation to color. Quick and easy explanations reveal what each color communicates, how it can be combined most effectively, what it is known for and its common uses in fashion.

Vivid photographs bring the descriptions and explanations to life, allowing us to see with our own eyes how colors and fabrics can be combined with others to communicate a palette of different moods, emotions and states. A kind of color dictionary within the world of fashion, this practical guide filled with vital information and suggestive images will undoubtedly serve as a valuable source of inspiration for fashion designers, stylists, fashionistas and anyone else interested in fashion. 

About the Authors:

Lauren Wager is a designer, curator, and color specialist living in Columbus, Ohio with her family. She works on color consulting projects in which she creates palettes and mood boards for various brands and products. Wager is co-owner of Georgie Home, a company that designs home textile products. She is also the creator of Color Collective, an online blog which serves as a color resource for artists and designers. Wager is author of the worldwide bestsellers Color Collective's Palette Perfect and Palette Perfect Vol 2, which have both been translated into several languages. She has done social media collaborations with Pantone, Marine Layer, Everlane, Le Bon Shoppe, Richer Poorer and Crow Works. Wager is a collector - always on the lookout for pretty rocks, stickers, vintage wrapping paper and fabrics. She enjoys coffee, reading, plants, and discovering color palettes in unexpected places.

Sophia Naureen Ahmad specializes in communication through color. She's a colorist, designer and writer with over ten years' experience working with global fashion brands. She has studied art history at the University of Virginia, fashion design at Parsons School of Design and, most recently, color design at Politecnico di MIlano. This book is her second collaboration with Lauren Wager.

Aimed to fashion students and designers, Palette Perfect is both a practical guide and an inspirational book that proposes a reflection on the universe of colour combinations, the moods and atmospheres they evoke and how we associate particular places and emotions with special colours. Each chapter explores a particular mood and describes the corresponding feelings and colour combinations, using as examples exquisite photographs of objects, still lives, landscapes, interiors and fashion. At the end of each chapter, a wide variety of palettes representing the chapter's particular mood or atmosphere is included.

Palette Perfect features hundreds of beautiful, suggestive photographs and illustrations, structured according to 15 different atmospheres and fragmented into colour combinations. The book offers more than 900 colour palettes with RGB and CMYK values, which makes it a very special inspirational source for artists, designers, and for anybody looking for a better understanding of the relationship between colour and emotions.

About the Author:

Lauren Wager is a young graphic designer living in Columbus, Ohio. She is the mastermind behind the exquisite blog Colour-Collective (https://www.color-collective.com), in which she gathers beautiful fashion, design, interiors, nature and still-life-related photographs and turns them into colour palettes, in a unique display of talent and aesthetic sensitivity. She works as a freelance web and graphic designer for a variety of media such as Bath and Bodyworks. Her site has been seen on top blogs such as Design*Sponge, Refinery29, Apartment Therapy, Design for Mankind, Smashing Magazine and The Huffington Post. Lauren's blog has also been featured in five issues of Lucky Magazine, and Joy Cho's first book, Blog, Inc.