Color Matching - Hardcover

Shaoqiang, Wang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 841596725X ISBN 13: 9788415967255

Publisher: Promopress, 2015

Synopsis

What is the impact of colour in communication? Colours convey feelings and emotions to everyone and are often associated with specific ideas.

This exciting and inspiring reference book explores the use of colour within the universe of graphic design, offering a fresh and innovative perspective on an issue that is essential for any professional in the field.

Through contributions from more than a hundred renowned designers, Color Matching presents a stunning gallery of examples of the different roles played by colour in graphic design. Be it branding, editorial design or packaging projects, the designers explain how colours and their multiple combinations are employed simultaneously and strategically in order to enhance the power of their message and strengthen the efficacy of graphic language.

With a lavish format and hundreds of illustrations and photographs, Color Matching is the quintessential guide for understanding and mastering the use and combining of colours in the world of graphic design and
communications.

About this title

About the Author

Wang Shaoqiang is a professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, where he is dean of the design, visualization and animation department. He is the founder of Sandu Publishing, whose titles focus on international design, architecture, branding, communication, trends and culture, and the editor of Design 360° magazine and Asia-Pacific Design. He has been invited to lecture at numerous universities, design academies and organizations, and he has also been a jury member for China’s most prestigious design and illustration awards.

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"Few can deny the immense power of colour. It transcends the boundaries of art, design, photography, architecture and fashion. It possesses physical, sensual, spiritual and intellectual qualities. Throughout history, philosophers, scientists, mathematicians and artists from Pythagoras and Aristotle to Newton and Albers have sought to explain its mysteries. We’ve all read their theories. We know what yellow does to our mood. And yet, for all of their systemization and categorization, why a particular shade, or combination of shades, can touch our soul still remains completely and utterly inexplicable." From the foreword by Marta Cutler and Vanessa Eckstein (Blok Design)

Edition details

• Publisher: Promopress
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 841596725X
• ISBN 13: 9788415967255
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240