So much for color theory and inspiration guides.
Book palette series#
Albers presents a series of dead-simple color exercises that prove in myriad ways Albers’ own premise in dealing with color: “Color deceives continually.” In example after example, you’ll be astounded at how much color perception can be influenced by simple proximity of other hues. Josef Albers’ Interaction of Color stands alone among color theory books: a classic that never fails to surprise with its continued relevance. You’ll see this book dog-eared and battered at your favorite designer’s office – grab one for yourself, too. This book has fast become a classic of its kind, updated periodically (as in this extra-fat new edition). You can’t talk about Mack-Daddy color compendia guides without mentioning Jim Krause’s Complete Color Index. Naturally, many designs feature multiple colors, but if your project has a clearly dominant main color, this book will present you with a world of options to riff creatively from that starting point. It’s a brilliantly simple concept: the book is organized by colors, gathering a juicy bursting rainbow of graphic design samples featuring an innovative or especially clever use of a single color.
Kelvin: Colour Today was published in 2007 by my heros at Gestalten in Berlin – four years later, it’s still a practically unbeatable resource. View an Design TV exclusive, What is COLOURLovers. It’s lightning in a bottle, simply put – capturing the energy and fun of the community site in a useable, handy format. Color Inspirations is another go-to reference with a crowd-sourcing spin: it contains over 3,000 color palettes created by COLOURLover’s vibrant community of palette-makin’ and -sharin’ designers and color fans. Our good buddies at COLOURLovers just released their first book (published by F&W Publications, Print’s mama-site). It’s marvelous to leaf through or read in greater depth – a fantastic reference for any designer tasked with a retro-look project or simply eager to plumb the trends of colors past, since they so often shade into color trends future. Leatrice Eiseman, Pantone’s chief color guru, has just published a gorgeous compendium of color trends spanning the twentieth century (with naturally some sly winks into our own 21st century). Let’s start with the brand-new: PANTONE: The 20th Century in Color.
Book palette full#
So naturally I can’t move an inch without my laptop and a burstingly full backpacks of reference books about color…which got me thinking: how full are your bookshelves with THE best color reads? Here’s your hit list of 7 faves: Color-fans: I’m motoring for the next few weeks in the final push to write my book about color.
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