Interior Design Visual Presentation: A Guide to Graphics, Models & Presentation Techniques, Second Edition
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • deserves six stars!
  • Just What I've Been Missing
  • For project boards & rendering
  • excellent resource
  • good guide
Interior Design Visual Presentation: A Guide to Graphics, Models & Presentation Techniques, Second Edition
Maureen Mitton
Manufacturer: Wiley
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0471225525

Book Description

The new, updated edition of the successful book on interior design

Interior Design Visual Presentation, Second Edition is fully revised to include the latest material on CAD, digital portfolios, resume preparation, and Web page design. It remains the only comprehensive guide to address the visual design and presentation needs of the interior designer, with coverage of design graphics, models, and presentation techniques in one complete volume.

Approaches to the planning, layout, and design of interior spaces are presented through highly visual, step-by-step instructions, supplemented with more than forty pages of full-color illustrations, exercises at the end of each chapter, and dozens of new projects. With the serious designer in mind, it includes a diverse range of sample work, from student designers as well as well-known design firms such as Ellerbee and Beckett Architects and MS Architects.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars deserves six stars!.......2007-08-17

This book has taught me more than I learned in an entire semester at a FIDER accredited Interior Design program at a local college. Well worth every penny.

5 out of 5 stars Just What I've Been Missing.......2007-03-30

I highly recommend this book to anyone in the business, or aspiring to be. I had an informal education and knew there was something missing about the nuts and bolts of presentation. This book is it! Everything I didn't know that I didn't know.

5 out of 5 stars For project boards & rendering.......2006-04-24

I bought this to help organize my project boards, which it is great for. The bonus is the information on rendering. There was better information here than in the other 2 books I own on color theory and rendering.

5 out of 5 stars excellent resource.......2006-03-24

This book is an excellent resource for the interior design student. It's a book you should get as soon as you start studies. Great reference to compliment classroom lessons. I also recommended it to my Residencial Design teacher. It has basic information that will save you time.Great buy!!

4 out of 5 stars good guide.......2006-03-09

good guide to lots of information. Good reference for any design library. It touches base on resumes, presentation, etc.
The Elements of Color
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Great reference book to have
  • For the Serious...
  • so you decided to learn the truth about colors...
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The Elements of Color
Johannes Itten
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0471289299

Book Description

A useful simplification and condensation of Johannes ltten's major work. The Art of Color, this book covers subjective feeling and objective color principles in detail. It presents the key to understanding color in ltten's color circle and color contrasts.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great reference book to have.......2006-11-04

I purchased this book because I wanted to understand colors, color schemes and theory(ies) better in order to apply to my necklace designs. It's a good book to have in your library, but it won't answer all the questions you may have about some applications. Itten's other books however cover pretty much everything; try The Art of Color, for example, if you'd like learn more about color effects on moods/feelings.

3 out of 5 stars For the Serious..........2006-08-13

It's been difficult to give a balanced critique. On one hand, "Elements of Color" has a wealth of information, but on the other, it takes serious committment to fully understand and comprehensively apply the information Itten presents. There is much valuable data, but it's interspersed with almost stereotypic, outmoded "Teutonic" concepts; e.g. assigning "Blond Types" springtime, bright, vivid colored topics, while "Dark Types" should be assigned "Night, Burial and dark room" topics. There is much valuable, technical information, but it is like digging through hard stone to find the gold; overwrought and culturally centered, judgemental statements are very common ("red expresses intermediate degrees between the infernal and sublime"... what's this?!?!). Other statements seem value-laden, i.e., "sentimental blue", "angelic pink", "blue reigns supreme"... Some excuse may be found in realizing the concepts in this treatise may have been developed before the Post Modernist Age, which accepts cultural and ethnic diversity, that accepts art and the use of color as being open to various interpretations, that color is certainly relative and greatly subjective, that many statements about color are only opinions... and that there is no absolute truth as to what color is "right" or "wrong". Unless the reader is studious and very serious about trying to unearth the information contained in this book, he or she is much better served by studing Albers or others. Too bad there is no editing, no index, and no glossary. What would Itten think of the book, "Chromophobia"? ... Pablo Tellez

5 out of 5 stars so you decided to learn the truth about colors..........2006-07-24

Itten, himself is one of the greatest color theorist of our century, and the masterful mind behind the Bauhaus School.

In this book Itten describes his color theory and the facts of his famous "Color Star", which is one of the most strongest tools for color harmony for designers and alike.

Most color books have samples of color harmonies you choose from when you design, or talk about complementary colors, but cant tell you why u use such combinations or so.

If you have an analytical approach to design, rather than just copying what others do, you will love this book. You will begin to understand the language of colors.

Have u ever heard of "the Seven Color Contrast", if not then it is time for you to get familiar about it.

This book is an evaluation of Ittens masterpiece "Art of Color". The chapter on subjective experience of color is very limited in this book.

If you are willing to invest more on color matters buy "Art of Color"

If you are happy to stay with the basics then this book is adequate for your purposes.

5 out of 5 stars Color from a master.......2006-07-14

Although witten for artists who mix colors for an effect, this small book has a wealth of information for fiber artists and quilters. How do translucent colors interact with other colors? Illusions in color? Which colors can be used in conjunction with other shades and tints? It is all here in this book. Many illustration,color plates,and well written text.
Very scientific, but easily readable. Good reference book on color.

5 out of 5 stars Essential Reading for the Serious Colorist.......2002-01-26

I have been a professor for 15 years. "The Elements of Color" has been required reading for many of my courses. It is not only enriching as a color theory document, but it helps expand the artist or designers possibility of using, arranging and conceiving color.
Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Understanding Color: A Introduction for Designers
Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers
Linda Holtzschue
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ASIN: 0471715085

Book Description

From theory to practice-enhance your skills in working with color!

Order your copy today!

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Understanding Color: A Introduction for Designers.......2007-04-07

This book is pretty good. It explains the different color wheels, how we see color, value, saturation, harmony, and so much more. It is pretty thorough and easy to read. I recommend this book for anyone needing to understand color theory.

Minetta Minnick
Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great Color Reference book for every kind of designer, or even fashionista.......2007-09-21

This book is a beautiful, beautifully put together quick reference to color! The illustrations, to-the-point text, and the resource of pallets makes it a great starting point or cheat-sheet to using color on designs for the concious mind. It has helped me greatly on basic projects like page layout, websites, and application design. This is a must have quick reference for anyone who cares about color harmony and psychological impact or stimuli of self or one's project/product on one's audience and needs on the fly application of the same. I highly recommended.

5 out of 5 stars A Designers Necessity.......2007-03-10

Let's start by saying that I've been a Graphic and Multimedia Designer for over 10 years now. Like all beginners I used to think that design was all about what ever you liked best.
Well thats worth a good chuckle these days. As an experienced designer will tell you there's a lot more to good design than personal preference.
Matter of fact it's more like a science than anything else. Once you start diving into color theory and color association you begin to realize that there's quite a lot of information to retain and that there's a right and a wrong color for everything.

Well here's your reference guide!

This book has sat on my desk for the 4+ years that I've owned it and has definitely seen better days. The pages are falling out, the cover is beat ta heck and page 63 in particular has been scanned so that I could fold it up and put it in my pocket more times then I can count.

Leatrice keeps her explanations simple and direct and reinforces them with stellar designs of well known products from top notch agencies.
She adds a large section of color palettes in the middle but they've become a bit dated since the release of this book. Some of them are still nice and will at least inspire you to play with some similar colors.

As an added bonus the back of the book has the CMYK values for all of the pantones if you're one of the cave dwellers that dont have a Pantone booklet (shame on you!).

This is not the definitive color theory hand book!
You wont become a master after reading this and there are quite a few design fundamentals that are not included.
But it is a terrific and beautiful reference that you'll find yourself digging through constantly for information and inspiration.

It belongs on your bookshelf.

Nuff said.

5 out of 5 stars Extremely helpful tool.......2007-03-08

Sometimes it's nice to have a resource like this on hand and ready to employ at will...

I've found this book to be very helpful in my recent endeavors.

5 out of 5 stars COLOR!.......2007-01-05

I love this book! I am a visual presentation designer by trade and therefore did have some color theory classes in college, so much of the information given in this book was not foreign to me. However, the way the colour combinations are divided into moods, and the suggestions that go along with them make this book an absolute "must have" for any designer or artist's library!

5 out of 5 stars Psychological Impact of Colors and Color Combinations.......2006-12-08

At the beginning of the book, the author offers a brief overview of psychological and emotional impact of individual colors (red, pink, oranga, yellow, brown, blue, green, purple, white and black), and then follows the section with different color combinations. Color combinations are sorted out according to the impact they would have upon the viewer and what mood would they convey (e.g. serene, earthy, mellow, powerful, spiritual, romantic, sensual, elegant, playful, energetic, etc). The author also suggests products and services where particular colors may be best suited or where some colors are best avoided.

While the psychological and emotional impact of colors is not exhaustive in this book, it is interesting enough to get you intrigues to further look into it elsewhere.
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Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Hands down the best textbook
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Color Workbook (2nd Edition)
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This workbook presents a diverse conceptual overview of color theory coupled with numerous studies and activities to solidify students’ understanding of design and color concepts through hands-on experience. This workbook combines both a formal and content-oriented approach to color with students, allowing them to use it both technically and as an expressive tool.

As a practicing artist and an art educator, Becky Koenig has possessed a lifelong desire to master color. She created this text to present a wide range of many color theories, rather than a singular viewpoint. The workbook covers the expanding field of electronic color and discusses color in terms of art history and contemporary art. It includes a variety of student activities that have proved successful in the classroom.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Hands down the best textbook.......2005-01-07

I'm currently a Color Theory student at Savannah College of Art & Design, and was required to pick this exspenive book (not even hardcovered), but I didn't mind. This book has turned out to be the most interesting and fascinating piece of material I've read in my life. It deeply explores both the additive (RGB), subtractive pigment (RBY), and subtractive process (CMY) theories without coming off dry at all... written very much for the average person. Even moreso, the big plus is that it sets aside an ample space for discussing the additive theory in regard to computer apps such as Photoshop and Illustrator, great for me, since I'm a Visual Effects major.

Yes, it's a tad exspensive, however you will not be dissapointed!

5 out of 5 stars Remarkable book.......2003-09-29

This was a truly remarkable book, well organized, well laid out. The activities are very creative and informative. It helped me understand the posibilities of color.
Perfect Neutrals: Color You Can Live With
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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  • Excellent Book!!!!
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Perfect Neutrals: Color You Can Live With
Stephanie Hoppen
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Book Description

Use color with confidence!

* Personalized decorating without the stress
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* Hundreds of color photos plus swatches of paint and fabric eliminate guesswork

Think neutrals are beige, cream, taupe, white, and black? Think again. In a new world of color and design, neutrals go beyond these basics to embrace real colors that real people can live with. In Perfect Neutrals, Stephanie Hopper showcases the vast variety of new neutrals--from sage green to soft lilac, from cool silver to whispered gold. With her help, anyone can put these tones together and add accents to create dramatic effects. Rich photographs demonstrate how to balance colors, how layering works with different shades of color, how to add texture with fabric, and more. Case studies feature paint and fabrics that are widely available from such national brands as Restoration Hardware, Benjamin Moore, Farrow & Ball, and other companies. In the past, choosing just the right neutral to suit a room or a mood was hard. Perfect Neutrals makes it easy.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Beautiful Book!.......2007-09-01

This book shows how many muted colors can become beautiful, new neutrals for your decorating. Each section is broken down into color palettes. Easy to flip to hues you are interested in. Colors used in photos (of famous int. designers) don't always agree with paint, fabric and rug swatch examples used in each section. Paint colors are all referenced, but furniture, etc are not.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent Book!!!!.......2007-06-27

I don't know much of decoration and having this book makes me feel like I have the best decoration book I could wish for...full of pictures and great ideas.

5 out of 5 stars CMG chairholder recomended.......2007-05-15

The book is well priced and full of beautiful color photo's showing this neutral concept that is always in style. Nice work on color boards of real materials that you can research. I see this influncing many of us to use more neurtalized colors in our palettes for our homes and places of work. As big user of the Munsel, color theory is alive and well and it shows in this book neutrals will always be in style they are the canvas and background that enhances the higher chroma colors.

This will become a resource book for me.

MS (Industral designer and colorist)

5 out of 5 stars Fair price for a used near-perfect book.......2007-05-14

I was thrilled when I opened the package and discovered that my used copy of Perfect Neutrals was even nicer than I had anticipated! The cover in intact, and like the book, it shows no signs of wear. Prompt delivery, great price, and top quality--I am one happy customer!
Exploring Color
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Perfect book
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  • Awsome art technique book, widely applicable
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Nita Leland
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Perfect book.......2007-07-17

This book is everything I hoped it would be. I am a novice painter, working in acrylics, and wanted some basic info on color theory. This is it. The information is comprehensive yet easy to understand with exercises for the reader to do in any medium. I was so impressed that I bought her Exploring Color Workbook to go with it. This is highly recommended for the artist wanting to expand her color theory expertise.

5 out of 5 stars Wonderful exercises .......2007-05-14

I bought this based on other reviews about it. I don't know doodley about color and have always gone on gut instinct...and I've painted over a lot of ruined canvas and wasted a lot of paint.
This is an excellent little book with a lot of exercises to make it all quite clear. Every page teaches me something - I have so far had quite a few "AHA" moments. I am beginning to understand why sometimes a color works and sometimes it is just a little off...
I recommend this for everyone. Thank you Nita Leland.

5 out of 5 stars Exploring Color Book.......2007-01-26

This is one of the best books available to artists who want to learn to mix colors without creating mud, to maintain transparency of colors, and to mix grays. The workbood that goes with this book is great for any beginning watercolor artist. I recommend this book with all of my beginning students.

4 out of 5 stars Color up a notch.......2007-01-23

When I read this book I considered myself and intermediate painter. This book cranked me up a notch. It is full of useful, well stated information that inspired me to try new things, and refine what I already knew. It would be useful to new and intermediate painters.

5 out of 5 stars Awsome art technique book, widely applicable.......2006-07-14

Wow! "Exploring Color" lived up to all of the 5-star reviews, and surpassed them all. I've never been able to say that about a book before. This book focuses mainly on the use of color in artwork -- why some color schemes work, and why others fail. Many other topics are covered and related to back to the use of color, such as composition, presentation, design and types of contrast. Example pictures are taken from a wide range of artwork in different mediums by various artists -- simply wonderful! After each description, the author inserts an exercise for the reader, to help you understand and apply the principle presented. These exercises can be done in any medium (watercolor, oil, pastel, cloth, etc.), and far surpass the "paint by number/follow me" exercises in books aimed at nervous beginners.

"Exploring Color " targets intermediate to advanced artists. Beginers should give it a chance, also. Try it, you'll be wowed.
Color: Messages & Meanings: A Pantone Color Resource
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Leatrice... you rock!
  • Excellence, as always, from Leatrice Eiseman
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  • Highly recommended
Color: Messages & Meanings: A Pantone Color Resource
Leatrice Eiseman
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Color: Messages and Meanings, A PANTONE® Color Resource is the follow-up to the PANTONE® Guide to Communicating With Color. This book contains all new material to help you make effective, unique and credible color choices. Based on research and filled with hundreds of color combinations and illustrations, this book presents color expert, Leatrice Eiseman's insights on color and emotion, and addresses how best to integrate these qualities into your work, insuring your intended message is communicated. Experience inspiration through the most effective combinations for communicating moods, ranging from assertive to provocative or intimate, and many other moods. These essential guidelines and illustrations can be applied to so many of your projects... branding, packaging, signage, point-of-purchase, displays, advertising, logos, websites and more. Everything you need to make color work more effectively in your designs, from valuable color information to charts for converting PANTONE solid ink colors to four-color process (CMYK) formulas, is thoughtfully presented. Created for everyone whose color choices are critically important for the success of a project, this book will prove a valuable tool and resource that will enable you to jump-start your imagination, and provide you with the appropriate rationales for making those choices.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Leatrice... you rock!.......2007-09-10

I wasn't sure what to expect from this book having already read "Communicating with color" till the pages started falling out.
I really thought I was in for more of the same and I was right.
HOWEVER!
Leatrice, being the great color expert that she is has updated this book with newer associations and rationale behind the changes.
She could've just called it;
"The Pantone Guide to Communicating With Color Version 2"
But how boring is that?

Most people know that trends change as do ideals and views on the world around us. Because of this our affinities and associations with colors will also change. Sometimes slightly and sometimes dramatically.
Most color books dont really dive into this much, they simply give you some palettes and expect you to keep using them until your clients stop calling.
But with this new book not only does Leatrice give a bit more insight to color associative trends but she also ads a section about practical uses in media and point of sale (I know, I know... she kind of did in the last one too). She throws in some interesting little facts and tidbits as well as a few new color wheels for you to mill over.
Granted there is a lot of the same, you could almost pull a few paragraphs straight from the last book. But as I mentioned this one is just a bit more up to date.

As with the last book this is not a Pro's Guide to color association and theory.
What it is, is a fantastically comprehensive guide and reference with plenty of inspirational examples and palettes for you to paw through when you need a creative kick in the pants.

If your new to color theory and association, dont miss this book.
If your an experienced designer like myself, you probably have "Communicating with Color" and think you dont need this one...
Well you probably dont, but the updated palettes and explanations were worth it for me. Besides, she just makes good lookin books!
I love having this on my desk, it's got appeal like a Com Arts Annual or something!

My only gripe is that I really loved having all the color responses on one page, now they're written in more detail for each color but are found through out the book in their respective sections.
The addition of detail is nice but it would've been handy to have them all located in some kind of quick reference page again.

Oh and one last thing, if you didnt get "Pantone Guide to Communicating With Color", you missed a great book but this is the updated version get this... seriously, get it.

5 out of 5 stars Excellence, as always, from Leatrice Eiseman.......2007-06-03

As always, another helpful book from Leatrice Eiseman. I disagree with the review that says this is more for a student than a professional. As a professional, I have always found Leatrice's combinations to be inspirational and I use the book as a constant reference. You won't go wrong with this book.

5 out of 5 stars A Great Resource.......2007-05-09

I am a beginner to the world of design and I have found this book to be very useful. It does a great job explaining color theory and provides a number a great color scheme samples. The real world examples provided in the book bridge the gap between theory and application.

3 out of 5 stars A Beginners Guide to Color.......2007-05-08

This book gives very basic information on color theory and great quick-reference color combinations. The title of the book, `Color: Messages & Meanings', is the the book's weakest area. The author's arguments about color messages and meaning are backed only by weak empirical and anecdotal evidence sometimes in disagreement with actual scientific results. A good introduction to color, this book will be useful to high school students, amateurs and hobbyists. It doesn't offer much to professionals.

4 out of 5 stars Highly recommended.......2007-03-13

Great explanations and incredible color combination ideas!!! I'm so glad to have this in my graphic design library.
Contemporary Color
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Steven Bleicher
Manufacturer: Cengage Delmar Learning
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ASIN: 1401837409

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This beautifully produced and lavishly illustrated introduction to contemporary color offers working artists valuable insight into traditional color theory while examining the effective use of color in digital applications and 3D design work. Written by a leading design educator whose work is widely exhibited, Contemporary Color features a balanced examination of theory and its practical application in a technology-driven world. Topics range from color perception, color harmonies, pigments, colorants, and paints to digital color and 3D design. An intriguing discussion of the psychological impact of color and the future of color add a stimulating dimension to the book. Thoughtful contributions on creativity and best practices round out the inclusive coverage.

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5 out of 5 stars Commentary on Contemporary Color.......2007-09-16

I found this to be an ecellent book on the subject of color and it's relationship to the art, graphic, and design world.
I would have loved to have taken the course which uses this book as their study guide art the Art Institute of Tampa, but they only deal with Degree seeking students.
You will find it very relative to the use of color in the Art, Graphic, and Design areas, especailly in the practical use of color in the real world.

Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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  • Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition
  • interaction of color by josef albers
  • Classic approach to color
  • Almost worthless without the original color plates
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Josef Albers
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers’s unique ideas of color experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience.
Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates, Interaction of Color first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten representative color studies chosen by Albers. The paperback has remained in print ever since and is one of the most influential resources on color for countless readers.
This new paperback edition presents a significantly expanded selection of more than thirty color studies alongside Albers’s original unabridged text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusions of transparency and reversed grounds. Now available in a larger format and with enhanced production values, this expanded edition celebrates the unique authority of Albers’s contribution to color theory and brings the artist’s iconic study to an eager new generation of readers.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars For more color plates..............2007-05-03

Previous reviews have bemoaned a lack of color plates. I just wanted to clarify that the 2006 Revised & Expanded edition has many more than the 8 or 10 mentioned by other reviewers. In the version I purchased (2006), the back half, approx., of the book is devoted to color plates that refer back to the chapters where particular principles are discussed. The color plates are on the right leaf, and an explanation of said plate is on the left. In the margin of the left, a reference back to the chapter/section in the book is made so that further reading on each principle is easy to locate. This is perhaps a little more awkward than having the plates sprinkled within the chapter/sections themselves, but for the cost of the book, this is an entirely acceptable method of sharing both written information and visual reinforcement. I counted more than 35 plates in the book.

1 out of 5 stars Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition.......2007-04-07

I found this book boring and hard to follow. I would never recommend this book and only purchased it becuase it was required for a class I was taking. Other people in class really liked this book, but I hated it. I had a hard time getting through it and found it to be as dry as walking through the desert.

Minetta Minnick

5 out of 5 stars interaction of color by josef albers.......2006-08-31

excellent revised/expanded edition of the classic albers theory/anti-theory of color. the classic that most art schools continue to base their color courses on, this edition has more reproductions from the original collectors hand silkscreened edition and is nearly twice the number of pages.

5 out of 5 stars Classic approach to color.......2006-03-22

Albers is a color genius, and although I personally incorporate several color theorists into my decision making in color or color theory practices. Albers has an easy approach to understanding color.

1 out of 5 stars Almost worthless without the original color plates.......2005-02-08

As another reviewer states the original had 150 color plates this version has only 8 in mine. The visual phenomena are so complex that without the plates you can't possibly accurately understand what the book is talking about. Sure you could make you own examples, but if you did, you would NOT be sure, given the complex examples, that you understood what the author was talking about. Instead you will have a false understanding or incomplete understanding that will make you look foolish. The publisher is cashing in on the author's previous great work without really republishing it. This is the lowest I've ever rated a book.

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