Color Collective's Palette Perfect

Author: Lauren Wager
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788415967903
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
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 to special colours. Each chapter explores a particular mood and describes the corresponding feelings and color combinations, using as examples exquisite photographs of objects, still-lives, landscapes, interiors and fashion. Atthe end of each chapter, a wide variety of palettes representing the chapter’s particular mood or atmosphere is included.

Color Collective's Palette Perfect, Vol. 2

Author: Lauren Wager
Publisher: Hoaki
ISBN: 9788417656720
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
The second volume by best-selling author Lauren Wager features a fresh new approach to color combinations with entirely new palettes, organized by season. What color 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 colors define summer, what color 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 color applications, leading the reader through an inspirational presentation of image pairings and color 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 color application within the worlds of contemporary art, fashion, interiors, photography and graphic design. It is a carefully gathered collection of color 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.

The New Southern Style

Author: Alyssa Rosenheck
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1647001757
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 449

Book Description
A vibrantly illustrated exploration of the creative, inclusive, and inspiring movement happening in today’s Southern interior design The American South is a place steeped in history and tradition. We think of sweet tea, thick drawls, and even thicker summer air. It is also a place with a fraught history, complicated social norms, and dated perspectives. Yet among the makers and artists of the South, there is a powerful movement afoot. Alyssa Rosenheck shines a much-needed spotlight on a burgeoning community of people who are taking what’s beloved, inherent, and honored in the South and making it their own. The New Southern Style tours more than 30 homes and includes interviews with the designers, artists, and creative entrepreneurs who are reinventing Southern design and culture. This beautifully illustrated book is sure to inspire the home and soul.

Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color

Author: Leatrice Eiseman
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0811877566
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
Pantone, the worldwide color authority, invites you on a rich visual tour of 100 transformative years. From the Pale Gold (15-0927 TPX) and Almost Mauve (12-2103 TPX) of the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris to the Rust (18-1248 TPX) and Midnight Navy (19-4110 TPX) of the countdown to the Millennium, the 20th century brimmed with color. Longtime Pantone collaborators and color gurus Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker identify more than 200 touchstone works of art, products, d cor, and fashion, and carefully match them with 80 different official PANTONE color palettes to reveal the trends, radical shifts, and resurgences of various hues. This vibrant volume takes the social temperature of our recent history with the panache that is uniquely Pantone.

2000 Colour Combinations

Author: Garth Lewis
Publisher: Anova Books
ISBN: 9781906388126
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
A rich resource for all designers looking for inspiration and guidance on colour combinations. 2000 colour combinations are provided here with their RGB readings (for web designers) and also the CMYK readings (for designers working in print).

The Designer's Guide to Color Combinations

Author: Leslie Cabarga
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440319464
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description
If you're from the "I don't know zip about color - but I know what I like" school of color theory, this book's for you. You won't find color wheels or lectures on color harmony here . . . just 500+ tried-and-true color combinations derived from actual design work - posters, packages, even giftware - created over the past century by designers, artists and color experts. You'll find historical color combinations from the Victorian period, Art Deco era, Far-out Sixties, Rave craze - plus current color combinations, such as limited color, "bad color" and much more. Even if you don't know what you're looking for, you'll know it when you see it here. It's not just what colors you use, but how you use them. That's why the color combinations in this book are arranged in simple, sample layouts rather than pages of out-of-context swatches. Complete with color formulas in CMYK, these layouts show you which colors work for backgrounds, borders, type, outlines, panels and small text, so you can easily adapt them to your designs.

Natural Palettes

Author: Sasha Duerr
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616899298
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 449

Book Description
“The plant-lover’s alternative to the Pantone color guide.”—Julia Sherman, creator of Salad for President Renowned natural dyer, artist, and educator Sasha Duerr envisions a new age of fresh, modern color palettes, drawing from our original source of inspiration and ingredients—the natural world around us. This innovative plant-based color guide includes twenty-five palettes with five hundred natural color swatches, providing a bounty of ideas for sustainable fashion, textiles, fine art, floral design, food, medicine, gardening, interior design, and other creative disciplines. Bring the healing power of forest bathing into your home with a palette of spruce cones, pine needles, and balsam branches. Move past Pantone and embrace the natural balance of a pollinator palette with Hopi sunflower, red poppy, echinacea, and scabiosa. Duerr complements her palettes with illuminating reflections on connections between color and landscape, the healing properties of medicinal plants, the ways food and floral waste can be regenerated to enhance lifestyle experiences, the ecological benefits of using natural colors, and more. You may never view color—or the plants that surround us—the same way again.

Palette Perfect. Design

Author: Sara Caldas
Publisher: Hoaki
ISBN: 9788417412944
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
The second book in the best-selling Palette Perfect series focuses on the inventive use of color in design and illustration, and is both a practical guide and an inspirational book that proposes a reflection on the universe of color combinations, organized by colors and moods associated with the time of day.

The Pocket Complete Color Harmony

Author: Tina Sutton
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
ISBN: 1631599208
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
"Originally published by Rockport Publishers as The Complete Color Harmony, 2004"--Colophon.

Practical Color Combinations

Author: Naomi Kuno
Publisher: Nippan Ips
ISBN: 9784865051414
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
This handy practical color combination book is an easy-to-use, one-stop resource for choosing color schemes and combinations for a variety of uses. From designing packages for sweets or cosmetics, to developing merchandise and using color as a marketing communication tool; from picking colors for graphics/fashion/textiles or looking for color scheme ideas for your arts and crafts, this book is an essential tool for designers, decorators, marketers and advertisers, as well as people interested in color and crafts.