Designer's Color Manual: The Complete Guide to Color Theory and Application

by Tom Fraser, Adam Banks

The eye, the camera's lens, and the computer screen all treat color 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 color 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 color in modern graphic design practice, Designer's Color Manual also addresses topics which help designers understand color in a variety of disciplines, looking at historical color systems, color 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 color in almost any project. Heavily illustrated with over 1,000 color images, Designer's Color Manual addresses an area that's been gray for too long in the full-color world of contemporary design.

Genres: Design, Art, Nonfiction, Education

224 pages, Paperback

First published July 8, 2004

Reviews

[lunani · Rating 3 out of 5]

muito bom para estudo de cores por designers e todos aqueles que trabalham com cores.

os primeiros capitulos são bem teóricos mas interessantes para contextualização e também como base de referências.

os capítulos do meio puxam mais pro lado prático de uso das cores (minha parte favorita!). mesmo eu sendo mais da área do design gráfico, foi interessante ver a cor por outros pontos de vista como da arquitetura e na fotografia.

os capítulos finais são altamente técnicos e bem chatinhos, com algumas explicações de funcionamento da cor em hardwares e softwares e tutorias ferramentais que hoje você consegueria facilmente encontrar online.

isso puxa pra outro ponto: pelo livro ser de 2004 (com tradução de 2007), muitas das referências teoricas e práticas acabam por serem datadas.

[Matthew Wielgus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great, not the greatest

[ROSE · Rating 4 out of 5]

Effectivement très complet.
Bonnes illustrations.

[Mina_rrat · Rating 4 out of 5]

It really helped, sure it was not a book with much depth on some topics, but it skimmed everything very well