Color Theory & Application (ID 114)

A comprehensive introduction to the art and science of color and its applications

For professionals and students who need to develop and communicate design ideas with clear, attractive, impressive color drawings

Explores the properties and effects of color and makes recommendations for the use of color in different types of environments

Explores color in Western culture from the ancient Greeks until the late twentieth century including color theories, religious connections, the science of vision, and more

An in-depth study of the meaning of color and color psychology

Examines various applications of color in residential and commercial spaces

Presents Albers’s unique ideas of color experimentation, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusions of transparency and reversed grounds

Examines the various ways colors have shaped and continue to shape our social and moral imaginations, approaching the subject color from numerous perspectives: literary, historical, cultural, anthropological, philosophical, art historical, political, and scientific

Details the feelings associated with different colors, how to select colors, and creating color combinations, with a wide variety of sample color schemes