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Page Count: 224
Printing Date: July 31, 2004
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The eye, the camera's lens, and the computer screen all treat colour differently. This important addition to the designer's reference library helps resolve the differences among the numerous media that contemporary designers work with every day. Comprehensive in scope, it brings together key elements of colour theory, practice, and application, addressing a wide range of issues specific to graphic design in both print and digital media. Beyond step-by-step techniques for managing colour in modern graphic design practice, Designer's Colour Manual also addresses topics which help designers understand colour in a variety of disciplines, looking at historical colour systems, colour in art, and the psychology of color, among dozens of other topics. Author and designer Tom Fraser also takes other graphics-related practices into account -- interior design, digital rendering, packaging and merchandise design -- aiding the designer in mastering the far-reaching effects of colour in almost any project. Heavily illustrated with over 1,000 colour images, Designer's Colour Manual addresses an area that's been gray for too long in the full-colour world of contemporary design.
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This book is pretty neat. Very detailed--it's thick with plenty of material and it makes a nice reference book. If you're a beginner to colour theory (like me) this book will help you ease into it.
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This book had been recommended for a graphic design class but it was too text based. I found some other books on colour that dealt with the subject more effectively with less a technical/abstract approach. The abstract method of explaining colour scientifically that this author used did not reach me so much. I found myself trying to translate his meanings in my head. Books that explain colour in terms of psychological and emotional effects make a lot more sense to me and quickly get at the impact of colour on an intuitional level...where it actually hits the audience.
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The product was as described and it was fine, but it took over a month to ship, which is ridiculous. The project I needed it for was done and turned in by the time I actually received the book.
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A book dedicated to colors really can't afford making a major mistake as found on page 26 where Cyan is described as the mixture of Red and Blue. Not only in words, but also in a colorful RGB model. (Cyan is a mixture of Green and Blue). I just bought this book to get a clear introduction into (the theory of) colors and this mistake confused me a lot. I thank the Spirit for Wikipedia :).
Anyway, I still recommend this book because it tries to explore allmost every aspect of colors and I like the design !!
Jan Hoogesteijn, Amsterdam Netherlands
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I bought this book because I don't have an arts background, but am starting to expand my efforts in the field of graphic design. This book is laid out in a superb format. Each sub topic spans only a single double page, and there are plenty of pictures and captions to illustrate and reinforce the points raised.
The subject area is broad, and many different aspects of colour are covered ranging from the history and perception of colour to issues such as colour blindness right though to some common Photoshop techniques for colour correction.
As I sat holding this pleasantly heavy book in my hand it occured to me that I felt as if I was being drawn back into my childhood, staring with fascination into those "how things work" encyclopedia-style books with cut-out cross-sections of machines and other interesting tidbits. Do you remember how you could just keep looking at those types of books time and time and again, and just look at the pictures and captions if you wanted to?
This is a book that I feel I could put on my coffee table rather than my reference bookshelf, but that by no means that it is not useful as a reference, at least for me. If you are looking for detailed examination of something specific then you may want to choose a different book, but if you want to get a broad overview and awareness of something we are surrounded by all the time (colour!), then I think this is an excellent choice.
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